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Author Guidelines

Style Guidelines

Style and spelling should follow the Chicago Manual of Style. Please double-check all dates, titles, spellings of names, etc. mentioned in your article. Citations should take the form of endnotes. If a bibliography is also included, shortened citations should be used in the endnotes.

Images

The use of images and other illustrative material is encouraged. Authors must ascertain they have permission to use the images in their articles which will be made available online initially by subscription and later as open access.  Sample letters for requesting permission are available.  Images can be embedded within the document at the appropriate places. If the article is accepted, high-resolution version of the images will be required.

Supplementary Material

The online version of the journal can accomodate all sorts of supplementary material which will be provided as links accompanying the article.  Material could include bibliographies too extensive to include in the article itself, additional images, checklists, audio files, video, spreadsheets, etc.  Rights and permissions for supplementary material must also be cleared by the author.

Author Biography

After an article is accepted, the author will be asked for a short (1-2 sentence) biography for inclusion at the end of the article.  Please include institutional affiliation, if relevant, and an indication of your activity within the art or academic fields. Web site links may be included if they provide further context to your work.

In order to facilitate the double-blind peer review process, please do not include an author's bio in the initial article submission.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in the Comments for the Editor box).
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  3. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. (High-resolution versions of the images wil be required after an article has been accepted.)
  4. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines found in the About the Journal page.
  6. Copyright permission has been secured (when necessary) for images or other copyrighted materials.  Please consult with the editor if you are unsure whether or not copyright permission is required.
  7. The instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  8. A note has been added in the Comments for the Editor box alerting the editor to any potential conflicts of interest for the review of the article.  E.g., a submitter in a close personal relationship with an editor or potential reviewer should declare that person's name;  a student should declare where they are in school so their own advisors are not asked to review their article. The editor will use this information to recuse anyone with a conflict of interest from being involved in the publication decision.
 

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