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Registration and login are required to submit items online and to check the status of current submissions. Manuscripts may be emailed directly to the journal's editorial office only when attempts to use the www.designandculture.org website submissions system have proven unsuccessful.

 

Author Guidelines

WORD COUNTS
Article length will vary according to format and content. Principal essays should be approximately 4,000-5,000 words in length including notes and references. Interviews should not generally exceed 4,000 words in length including notes and references. Shorter essays (roughly 3,000 words) may touch on various publishing points, including new and emerging trends in design, samples of design criticism, seminal design writings revisited, etc. Exhibition and book reviews are normally 700 to 1,000 words in length. The Publishers will require an electronic as well as a hard copy of any contributions. But Design and Culture encourages contributors to submit initial manuscripts to the designandculture.org site. These manuscripts should be in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format. Manuscripts may be emailed directly to to editor@designandculture.org only when attempts to use the www.designandculture.org website submissions system have proven unsuccessful.

MANUSCRIPTS
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically to: designandculture.org. Authors must register on the site and include in their profile a three sentence biography (under "bio statement"). Manuscripts will be acknowledged by the editor and entered into the review process discussed below. Submission of a manuscript to the journal will be taken to imply that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication, and that if accepted for publication, it will not be published elsewhere, in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the editor and publisher. It is a condition of acceptance by the editor of a manuscript for publication that the publishers automatically acquire the copyright of the published article throughout the world. Design and Culture does not pay authors for their manuscripts nor does it provide retyping, drawing, or mounting of illustrations.

STYLE
U.S. spelling and mechanicals are to be used. Authors are advised to consult The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition) as a guideline for style. Webster's Dictionary is our arbiter of spelling. We encourage the use of major subheadings and, where appropriate, second-level subheadings. Do not place the author's name on any page of the manuscript.

MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION
Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced (including quotations, notes, and references cited), with at least one-inch margins, using a typeface no smaller than l2pts. Manuscripts may be submitted electronically. Any necessary artwork must be submitted with the manuscript.


PEER REVIEW
Design and Culture is a peer reviewed journal. To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. Authors should check to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:


  1. they have deleted their names from the text, with "Author" and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors' name, article title, etc.

  2. With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.

  3. They include a three sentence biographical statement on their www.designandculture.org registration profile.



FOOTNOTES
Footnotes appear as "Notes" at the end of articles. Authors are advised to include footnote material in the text whenever possible. Notes are to be numbered consecutively throughout the paper and are to be typed
double-spaced at the end of the text. (Do not use any footnoting or end-noting programs which your software may offer as this text becomes irretrievably lost at the typesetting stage.)

REFERENCES
The list of references should be limited to, and inclusive of, those publications actually cited in the text.

Titles and publication information appear as "References" at the end of the article and should be listed alphabetically by author and chronologically for each author. Names of journals and publications should appear in full. Film and video information appears as "Filmography". References cited should be typed double-spaced on a separate page. References not presented in the style required will be returned to the author for revision.

TABLES
All tabular material should be part of a separately numbered series of "Tables." Each table must be typed on a separate page and identified by a short descriptive title. Footnotes for tables appear at the bottom of the table. Notations on manuscripts should indicate approximately where tables are to appear.

FIGURES
All illustrative material (drawings, maps, diagrams, and photographs) should be designated "Figures." They must be submitted in a form suitable for publication without redrawing. The publishers encourage color photographs. Figures may be submitted in the body of manuscripts or separately (and uploaded as “supplementary files” on the designandculture.org site).

The publisher requests that images accompanying texts approved for publication be submitted in one of two formats: as 8 x 10 inch photographs or as scanned files (300 dpi or above) via the designandculture.org website. All figures should be clearly numbered on the back and numbered consecutively. All captions should be typed double-spaced on a separate page in the text document. Marginal notations on manuscripts should indicate approximately where figures are to appear. While the editors and publishers will use ordinary care in protecting all figures submitted, they cannot assume responsibility for their loss or damage. Authors are discouraged from submitting rare or non-replaceable materials. It is the author's responsibility to secure written copyright clearance on all photographs and drawings that are not in the public domain. Copyright should be obtained for worldwide rights and on-line publishing.

CRITERIA FOR EVALUATION
Design and Culture is a refereed journal. Manuscripts will be accepted only after review by anonymous reviewers deemed competent to make professional judgments concerning the quality of the manuscript. Upon request, authors will receive reviewers' evaluations.

REPRINTS FOR AUTHORS
Twenty-five reprints of authors' articles will be provided to the first named author free of charge. Additional reprints may be purchased upon request.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are asked 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 Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. When available, the URLs to access references online are provided, including those for open access versions of the reference. The URLs are ready to click (e.g., http://pkp.sfu.ca).
  4. The text is double-spaced; uses 12-point text; 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.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines above.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal (contributions other than reviews and criticism), the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Peer Review have been followed.
 

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