GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Material prepared for publication in the IJCT should conform to the following guidelines:

1. Manuscripts must be typed or printed double-spaced on letter-size paper (8 1/2 x 11" or DIN A4), text and notes separately (unless one can easily insert footnotes with a word-processing program), with a maximum of 30 lines per page and a left-hand margin of not less than 1 1/2" = ca. 4 cm. The length of manuscripts for articles or review articles must not exceed 10,000 words without previous agreement with the editors. Pages should be numbered. As for style, the basic rule is consistency within each article, review, or note with the following elements uniform throughout: quotations in other languages than that of the contribution itself must be given in quotation marks and italicized or underlined with a wavy line for italicization in print; bibliographic information on each item cited must be given complete only once, either at first mention in the notes or in a final bibliography indicating author’s name (and given name[s] in full or abbreviation), full title and subtitle without the use of abbreviations (italicized for books and monographs, in quotation marks for articles), series or journal title and volume number as applicable (only journal titles to be italicized), place and year of publication of books (mention of publisher desirable but not mandatory), only volume number and year of publication for articles, numbers of first and last pages of articles. Repeat citations must be given in a clear, consistent abbreviated form (preferably author’s last name, key word of title, and page number[s] only). Authors' names should not be given in capital letters.

Submissions may be sent as e-mail attachments (see below, #3, for formats). Documents containing special fonts (such as Greek) will, however, need to be submitted in hardcopy as well.

IJCT can accept submissions in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish. In addition to articles we welcome research reports, short notes (up to 3000 words), review articles and book reviews of relevant works in a “history of reception” perspective, and brief (up to 500 words) entries for the “News of the Field” section. Articles should include a 10-12 line abstract in English.

2. Figures (photographs and line-drawings) must be in a camera-ready form with, where appropriate, professional stencil or dry-transfer lettering. IJCT can also accept photo-quality electronic images on CD. Authors should provide captions and a separate list of illustrations including copyright information. Obtaining permission to reproduce in image in the IJCT is the responsibility of the author.

3. Authors of articles, etc. accepted for publication will be required to send the editors an electronic version of the text of their contribution (via CD or e-mail), preferably in a format readable by Microsoft Word for Macintosh (.doc) or in Rich Text Format (.rtf).

4. Full names and institutional and private addresses of authors should appear on a separate cover-page only so that copies of the manuscript may be sent anonymously without the cover page to outside readers.

5. Submission of a manuscript to the IJCT implies that the work has not also been submitted elsewhere or previously published neither in the original language nor in translation.

When a manuscript is accepted for publication, the author is sent a standard publication agreement that includes a transfer of copyright to the publisher.

Authors of articles receive through the editors 20 offprints of the article and one copy of the relevant issue of the IJCT free of charge.