Submission Guidelines
Advice to Contributors
1) The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art is an international, scholarly, refereed journal of art history and visual culture. It is the journal of the Art Association of Australia and New Zealand (AAANZ), and is jointly published by the AAANZ and the Institute of Modern Art (IMA), Brisbane. Its readership consists of members of the AAANZ, academics, arts writers, artists, students, and museum professionals.
2) The Journal presents themed and open issues. Details of upcoming issues may be found here. Submissions not related to specified themes may be held over until an open issue. While calls for papers are intermittently issued, the Board also considers unsolicited proposals (which may be abstracts or completed papers).
3) Contributions and proposals must be sent as an email attachment to the Editorial Assistant (anzjournal@ima.org.au). For those wishing to send additional hardcopies, please address them to: Editorial Assistant, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Institute of Modern Art, PO Box 2176, Fortitude Valley BC, QLD 4006, Australia.
4) Articles should be suitable for a scholarly refereed journal. Please refer to the Submission Guidelines and Style Guidelines below for style and formatting. Articles may be rejected if they do not meet these guidelines.
5) Articles must be original works not previously published nor currently being considered elsewhere for publication. They must be the sole work of the author(s) and not involve third parties with a claim to copyright.
6) Submissions considered suitable by the Editorial Board will be sent to two referees for blind review. Sending the article for review does not equate to a contract to publish. As is standard with peer-reviewed journals, publication will depend upon the referees' assessment, the author's willingness and ability to address the concerns (if any) raised by the editors and referees within specified deadlines, and the availability of space in the Journal. The Editorial Board reserves the right to make the final decision regarding the paper's publication.
7) The Journal is committed to publishing exhibition and book reviews of significant contributions to the field. Please contact the Editorial Assistant in the first instance. Standard single-book/exhibition reviews should be 1000–1500 words. Submissions for longer survey review essays are also invited in special circumstances. These may include discussion of recent theoretical developments or an overview of publications in a particular disciplinary area. Books for review should be sent to 'Reviews Editors, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art, Institute of Modern Art, PO Box 2176, Fortitude Valley BC, QLD 4006, Australia'.
Submission Guidelines
1) Contributors are asked to submit articles of 5000–7000 words, excluding endnotes. The Editorial Board may, in special circumstances, allow for longer essays to be published.
2) An abstract of no more than 200 words must be submitted with the article. It should outline the argument, explain how it addresses a research issue or problem, and indicate the outcome or consequence of this approach.
3) For the purposes of anonymous refereeing, any identifying features should be omitted from the article (including in the body of the text, headers/footers, document properties, etc.). The author's name, contact details, and professional profile should be sent as a separate attachment.
4) Articles must be double-spaced throughout, excluding endnotes and block quotations.
5) On receipt of the article a formal acknowledgment will be forwarded to the author. Please note that as articles are sent to two referees for peer review, some time will elapse before the Board notifies you of acceptance or otherwise of your article. Additionally, if reviewers identify significant points for correction or improvement, authors will be asked to consider these before re-submitting their article. Due to the rigorous standards of a peer-reviewed journal, authors should note that seeing an article through to publication can often be a lengthy process. Strict adherence to the deadlines specified at each stage of this process will speed this process.
6) At the submission stage, authors should supply as many illustrations as they see necessary for the assessment and peer reviewing of their article. These may be sent as low-resolution jpegs. Upon final acceptance, authors are expected to supply publication-quality images (the Journal does not publish illustrations scanned from books), and are responsible for all copyright permissions and payments for illustrations. Authors should only proceed with copyright payments when they have written confirmation of acceptance of their article for publication. The Editorial Board reserves the right to decide on the final images for each text, guided by considerations of cost, design, and space.
7) We permit writers to place their essays in on-line academic institutional repositories twelve months after they have been published in the Journal. They must be the edited versions as published and we must be acknowledged. However, negotiating any related rights, such as for photo-permissions, is entirely the writer's responsibility. If the articles are from issues from 2008 or later, the IMA can provide the articles either as word documents or illustrated in pdf form. For material from earlier issues, writers will have to scan their articles from their own hard copies.
Our Process
Paper submitted
Editorial Board accepts/rejects paper for peer-review; author notified
Paper sent to two referees, who accept or reject paper; author notified
If accepted, authors are often asked to make revisions on the basis of reviewers' feedback
Revised paper sent to Editorial Board, who accept/reject it
If necessary, authors are asked to make further revisions if it is judged that they have not addressed the problems identified by reviewers
Editorial Assistant edits and proofreads final version of paper; author works with Editorial Assistant to get publication-quality images and copyright permissions
Author sent final proof to approve
Paper printed
Style Guidelines
1) Spelling: All contributions should follow Australian-English spelling, e.g., –ise, not –ize; –our, not –or.
2) Italics: Italicise titles of artworks, books, and periodicals, and foreign-language phrases and technical terms. This does not include direct quotations of sentence length or longer in a foreign language, foreign titles preceding proper names, place names, building names, and gallery names, or words anglicised by usage (e.g., versus, de facto).
3) Capitalisation: Headline-style or 'maximal' capitalisation for headings, sub-headings, and titles of articles and works.
4) Dates: Spell out in full, in lower case, the names of centuries, e.g., 'eighteenth century'. Where the term is used descriptively, a hyphen should be inserted, e.g., 'in the eighteenth-century manner'. Dates should be presented in this form: 6 November 1970.
5) Punctuation: Use only one space after full-stops, commas, semi-colons, and colons. Follow the serial comma rule (e.g., apples, oranges, and lemons). Use em-dashes for asides, and en-dashes for inclusive dates (e.g., 1964–9).
6) Quotations: Use single quotation marks, except for quotes within quotes, which should be in double quotation marks. Punctuation is to follow quotation marks unless part of the quote itself. Quotations of up to thirty words should be contained in the text and enclosed in quotation marks. Longer unbroken quotations should not be enclosed in quotation marks, but should be set out separately with a one-line space from preceding and following texts. All quotations titles, names, and dates should be double-checked for accuracy.
7) Full caption details should accompany each illustration including: artist's name, title, date, medium, dimensions (in centimetres), collection, and photo credit where applicable, e.g., Mark Rothko Untitled 1968, mixed media on canvas, 233.7 x 175.3cm, Private collection.
8) Notes should be given as endnotes. They should begin on a new page following the text and may be headed by an unnumbered acknowledgement note. Do not include a bibliography. We follow Chicago Manual of Style (with some slight amendments), and guidelines follow:
Books
Format: Name, Title (Place: Publisher, year), page number.
One author
1. Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999), 65.
Two authors
6. Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 104–7.
Four or more authors
13. Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 262.
Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author
4. Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), 91–2.
Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author
16. Yves Bonnefoy, New and Selected Poems, ed. John Naughton and Anthony Rudolf (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1995), 22.
Chapter or other part of a book
Format: Name, 'Title of chapter', in Title of Book, ed. Name (Place: Publisher, year), page number.
5. Andrew Wiese, '“The House I Live In”: Race, Class, and African American Suburban Dreams in the Postwar United States', in The New Suburban History, ed. Kevin M. Kruse and Thomas J. Sugrue (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2006), 101–2.
Chapter of an edited volume originally published elsewhere (as in primary sources)
8. Quintus Tullius Cicero, 'Handbook on Canvassing for the Consulship', in Rome: Late Republic and Principate, ed. Walter Emil Kaegi Jr. and Peter White, vol. 2 of University of Chicago Readings in Western Civilization, ed. John Boyer and Julius Kirshner (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986), 35.
Preface, foreword, introduction, or similar part of a book
17. James Rieger, introduction to Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), xx–xxi.
Book published electronically
If a book is available in more than one format, you should cite the version you consulted, but you may also list the other formats, as in the example below.
2. Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner, eds., The Founders' Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987), http://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/.
Journal article
Format: Name, 'Title of article', Journal Title vol, no. (year), page number.
Article in a print journal
8. John Maynard Smith, 'The Origin of Altruism', Nature 393, no. 1 (1998), 639.
Article in an online journal
33. Mark A. Hlatky et al., 'Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial', Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (2002), http://jama.ama-assn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10108.html#aainfo.
Popular magazine article
Format: Name, 'Article title', Magazine Title, day month year, page number.
29. Steve Martin, 'Sports-Interview Shocker', New Yorker, 6 May 2002, 84.
Newspaper article
10. William S. Niederkorn, 'A Scholar Recants on His “Shakespeare” Discovery', New York Times, 20 June 2002, Arts section, 23 (or if online then include the web address).
Book review
1. James Gorman, 'Endangered Species', review of The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times Book Review, 2 June 2002, 16.
Thesis or dissertation
22. M. Amundin, 'Click Repetition Rate Patterns in Communicative Sounds from the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena' (PhD diss., Stockholm University, 1991), 22–29, 35.
Paper presented at a meeting or conference
13. Brian Doyle, 'Howling Like Dogs: Metaphorical Language in Psalm 59' (paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, Berlin, Germany, 19–22 June 2002).
Website
11. Evanston Public Library Board of Trustees, 'Evanston Public Library Strategic Plan, 2000–2010: A Decade of Outreach', Evanston Public Library, http://www.epl.org/library/strategic-plan-00.html.
Weblog entry or comment
8. Peter Pearson, comment on 'The New American Dilemma: Illegal Immigration', The Becker-Posner Blog, comment posted 6 March 2006, http://www.becker-posner-blog.com/archives/2006/03/the_new_america.html#c080052.
E-mail message
2. John Doe, e-mail message to author, 31 October 2005.