Guidelines
on manuscript presentation for contributors to
The British Art Journal
1] All
articles must be
submitted in a form that can be printed on A4 paper, double
line spaced, preferably by email attachment, in Word.
Please ensure that authorship of the article (with a
mailing address) is clearly stated on the first page.
Illustrations
may be
sent by email in
the first instance (in
compressed form) or by post on disk, or in printed-out or
photocopied form.
For
purposes of publication after
acceptance of an article, illustrations ought, ideally, be
supplied in high resolution digital images on disk, but can
also be supplied in transparency or b/w print. NOTE: their
acquisition and the payment of fees where applicable for
reproduction
are the responsibility of the
contributor,
but the Journal
may be
informally consulted where excessive reproduction fees
might be charged. Please note that the National Gallery,
London, and Victoria & Albert Museum, London, have
decided (in a way… ) to waive fees for reproduction
in scholarly publications such as The
British Art Journal, while
the British Museum Prints & Drawings online database
will normally supply images free.
Colour and black-and-white are equally acceptable.
Copy should
be e-mailed to:
editor@britishartjournal.co.uk
2]
Please
try to keep to the suggested
length of the
article (if agreed), and send it to us by the deadline date
set. If there are any problems, please contact the
editorial department immediately.
3]
All
manuscripts must be clearly marked with the author’s
name, address, email address, phone number, and a word
count.
4]
Please
keep to our house style when writing captions.
Captions should
be written with the information in the following order and
style:
[Plate]
Number
in bold [keyed in to text]; title of work in italics;
artist; artist’s dates in brackets; date of work
[full point]. Medium and support and measurements (height,
width, and depth, if applicable, in that order), using
metric measurement, usually centimetres, unless especially
large [full point]. Collection and location of collection
[NO POINT]
example:
1
Captain
Coram by
William Hogarth (1697-1764), 1740. Oil on canvas, 26 x 20
cm. Foundling Museum, London
or:
2
State
barge of Frederick, Prince of Wales,
designed by William Kent (1685-1748), completed 1732.
Length 19m. National Maritime Museum, Greenwich
5]
Titles of works
are predominantly lower case, except in the case of
biblical scenes, eg, The
Rest on the Flight into Egypt;
The
Expulsion from the Temple. For
works with titles in foreign languages, the commonly
accepted translation into English can be used, but it will
remain a matter of taste.
6]
All
original illustrations, when supplied, should be marked on
the back with plate number, a brief caption and the name of
the author of the article.
Where
any doubt might exist about the
orientation of
images, such as with
transparencies, and in
the case of abstract paintings, the
front and top must be
labelled,
or a
photo/photocopy of the work should be included to indicate
the correct orientation.
Plate
references should
be keyed into the text, within brackets, using Arabic
numerals thus: (Pl 2) (no point).
7]
Illustrations should
be included with the material for publication and
permission obtained to reproduce them should be obtained by
the author.
Where colour
transparencies are
used, large size ektachromes (at
least 5 x
8”) are preferable to 35mm slides. As with all
illustrations, transparencies should be clearly labelled
with the name of the author of the article and the article
title, together with the figure number.
Each photograph/
transparency should have a different number: do not use
numbers and letters to indicate different views or versions
of an object.
8]
Write
numbers in digits after ten (11, 12… eg, 20 years
old) save at end of sentence and where confusion is
possible (eg, after a footnote reference).
9]
A
translation must be supplied (in the form of a footnote)
for all quotations in foreign languages.
10]
In
exhibition reviews, all
past and present dates and venues of the exhibition, if
touring, should be included at the end of the text,
together with names of corporate sponsors and the
publication details of the catalogue (author/editors,
publisher, place of publication, ISBN and price).
11]
Book reviews should
give details of the full title of the book, the author,
publisher, place of publication, date of publication,
number of pages and illustrations, ISBN, and price.
12]
Articles
should be complete at the time of submission. Limited
corrections can be made at galley stage, but excessive
corrections at this point should be avoided.
Footnotes
When
using an automated word-processing footnote
system,
please also insert the numbers separately both in the text
and before each footnote, in
order to ensure their correct transfer into our typesetting
application. Notes should appear at the end of the article
submitted rather than at the foot of each page. When using
auto format please use normal Arabic, 1, 2, 3, etc.,
and
NOT i, ii,
iii, etc.
Footnote numbers in the text are inserted after punctuation
at the end of the sentence, outside brackets. or at the end
of the clause within the sentence, eg:
1854 was to be the artist’s most productive year,
justifying what Hunt himself called his ‘oriental
mania’.5
Where
footnotes contain references to a book, the following
format should be followed:
Author/Editor, Title,
number of volumes, place of publication, year of
publication, volume no., page nos., catalogue number (as
applicable but in this order), eg:
Lynn F
Jacobs, Early
Netherlandish Carved Altarpieces, 1380-1550: Medieval
Tastes and Mass Marketing,
Cambridge, 1998, p50. [note no point, no space, after p for
page].
or, in
the case of a series or multi-volume work:
Anne Garrould, ed, Henry
Moore: The Complete Drawings, 6
vols, London, 1994-96, V, 1994, p83, no. AG 23.46.
Note:
No points, no space, after ‘p’ for page or
‘pp’, no points after initials of authors, in
fact,
the fewer points the better (eg, ed,
ie), save where confusion is possible (always
‘no.’ for number; ‘fig.’ for
figure, and ‘cat.’ for catalogue).
If the publication cited is a periodical article, the
following style should be followed:
Thomas McGrath, ‘Federico Barocci and the history of
pastelli in central Italy’, Apollo,
vol CXLVIII, no. 441 (November 1998), pp3-9.
Page numbers should be elided repeating the tens, eg,
pp256-58, except in the case of figures less than ten, in
which case the hundreds should be repeated, eg,
‘pp303-308’.
If the publication is an exhibition catalogue, please
observe the following format:
Author/Editor, Title,
exh cat, venue of exhibition [or first venue if more than
one], p00, cat. 00.
If, however, the reference is to an exhibition and not to
its catalogue, please use single quotation marks:
‘Van Dyck’, Royal Academy, London, 1999.
For lots in sale catalogues, please include the name and
location of the auction house, the title of the sale, the
date, and the lot number (the latter in brackets).
Other abbreviations in footnotes:
‘MS’/’MSS’ for manuscript
references, eg, ‘British Museum Harley MSS
2917’; ‘inv no.’ (inventory no.),
‘acc no.’ (accession no.); ‘exh
cat’ (exhibition catalogue); ‘fol’
(folio) and ‘fols’ (but
nb not
‘ff.’);
‘v’ and ‘r’ (following the folio
no., recto and verso), ‘c’
(circa) but no space eg, c1760;
‘nd’ (no date)
References
to footnotes
n/nn
followed by the number (no space, no points, eg, n103/nn23,
587).
Repeated
citations of books or periodical articles
Following
the initial citation, the author’s/editor’s
surname only is used, followed by ‘op cit’, any
volume reference and the age numbers. ‘Ibid’ is
used to refer to the immediately preceding reference;
‘idem’ is used if the author only is the same
as in the preceding reference.
Other
usages
Formatting
Avoid
double spaces between words.
Avoid returns to make line endings (check your
application).
There are single spaces after footnote numbers and full
points but not after c
for
circa
(eg,
Fig. 1, c1822,
etc.) but no points in measurements (eg, 25.5 cm), or
between initials (eg, JMW Turner) – no points.
There are no spaces before or after hyphens in names or
dates, eg, Sir Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833-98). Remember
to use ‘en’ dashes here.
Tabs
Please
do not include any tabs in the document format.
Inverted
commas/quotation marks
Quotes
within the text should be in single inverted commas, and
quotes within quotes in double inverted commas.
Quotes
Please
transcribe quotes as faithfully as possible, retaining the
capitalization, punctuation and spelling of the original.
Where mistakes appear in the original,
‘[sic]’
may be used.