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Author Guidelines

Proposals
The editors welcome the opportunity to discuss preliminary proposals with potential contributors by email.

Composition
Submissions should be in English (either US or British spelling) and follow the The Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed.) for punctuation, citation styles, and other matters apart from spelling. Submissions will be accepted in two categories: research articles of 5,000 to 7,000 words and shorter articles reflecting poster session or lightning presentations, or new tools or services of 2000-4000 words. Both may include images and multimedia content.

Submissions must include the following:

  • an abstract 300-500 words
  • up to 7 keywords (for use within the journal only, so don't include "TEI" as a keyword)
  • a biographical statement of no more than 100 words about the author(s), including job title(s), affiliation(s), and email address

Submissions should use the author-date system of documentation, examples of which are given in the online “quick guide” and which is explained in detail in chapter 15 of the Chicago Manual of Style. That is, cite sources using the form "(Smith 1998)" in the text (no footnote), and at the end of the article, list the work by Smith published in 1998, along with other works cited.  This list should only include works cited: not a full bibliography of related publications.  Only use footnotes for parenthetical commentary.

Authors whose native language is not English are strongly encouraged to have their manuscripts edited by someone familiar with English-language scholarly journals before submitting.

Stylesheet

To supplement the Chicago Manual of Style, authors are encouraged to follow the Stylesheet for TEI Guidelines Usages and the notes below:

  1. "markup" as a noun or adjective, "mark up" as a verb, but a "marked-up document"
  2. "TEI Guidelines", not "TEI guidelines" or "Guidelines of the TEI"
  3. "TEI Board" (not "TEI board")
  4. "TEI Council" (not "TEI council")
  5. Use Chicago's simple rule for hyphenation at the beginning of a sentence or title (only capitalize the first word unless the second is a proper noun): "Death-defying" but "All-American"
  6. For terminological differences between American and British English that might be confusing, give both.  First give the one corresponding to the spelling used in the article and then give the other in parentheses.  Ex: "full stop (period)") for an author using British spelling, "period (full stop)" for an author using American spelling.
  7. For an em dash—one that indicates a break in a sentence like this—either use the em dash character on your word processor instead of two hyphens. Leave no space on either side of the dash. For the long dash in bibliographies, use three consecutive em dashes.
  8. Commas: When a conjunction joins the last two elements in a series of three or more, a comma—known as the serial or series comma or the Oxford comma—should appear before the conjunction. Chicago strongly recommends this widely practiced usage, blessed by Fowler and other authorities, since it prevents ambiguity. If the last element consists of a pair joined by and, the pair should still be preceded by a serial comma. Example: She took a photograph of her parents, the president, and the vice president.
  9. Figures: In text, the word figure is typically not italicized, lowercased, and spelled out except in parenthetical references (“fig. 10”).
  10. Tables: In text, the word table is typically not italicized and lowercased, even when referring to a particular table in the article.
  11. Use "Title Case" instead of "Sentence case" for English titles and subtitles. Write other titles as is practice in that language.
  12. In references, do not include access dates for URLs unless the date of publication or revision is unknown.

Submission
Articles must be submitted using the journal's online submission system. First-time submitters must create a user account in order to submit an article.

If your article includes diagrams that could not be encoded in TEI and rendered in HTML (such as screenshots, diagrams, complicated tables), include images in a lossless format (such as a raster/bitmap file at least 1,024 pixels wide, or a vector format) as supplementary files in the submission system in addition to the file for the article.  If submitting the article in a word-processor format, embed low-resolution versions of images at the appropriate places in the text.

The system will require authors to certify that the submission is the original work of the author(s) and to be prepared to grant copyright in the article to the TEI Consortium—while retaining the right to redistribute and make derivative works—using the author agreement (which is accessible using your user account). The journal will license articles under a Creative Commons Attribution-No Derivs 3.0 Unported License.

Once an article is accepted, the author may be offered an opportunity to revise the article. Editors reserve the right to edit submissions for appropriate length and style, and contributors will have the opportunity to review revisions. Markup and styling in submissions will be retained in the published version at the discretion of the editors.

 

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 Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in a word-processor file format (OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, etc.) or in an XML format.

  3. If the submission includes diagrams that could be encoded in TEI and rendered in HTML (such as screenshots, diagrams, complicated tables), bitmap images (such as TIFF files) have been uploaded as supplemented files.  If submitting the article in a word-processor format, this document includes embedded low-resolution versions of images at the appropriate places in the text.

  4. The text uses the Chicago author-date system for all references.  Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  5. The submission document (not just OJS metadata) includes:
    • an abstract 300-500 words
    • up to 7 keywords
    • a biographical statement of no more than 100 words about the author(s), including job title(s), affiliation(s), and email address
 

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ISSN: 2162-5603