GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO WOMAN’S ART JOURNAL
EDITORIAL POLICIES: WAJ,
a semiannual periodical published in May and November, is intended to
appeal to everyone interested in women’s art heritage and contemporary
issues as they relate to women. Articles on individual women should
focus on the subject’s life as well as her work and should include
comments about how matters of gender affected her life and work. WAJ is supported primarily by subscription sales. Authors are urged to subscribe to WAJ
and to ask their institutions and colleagues to do the same. No
material previously published in the English language will be accepted
for publication. If an article has been published previously in another
language, that information must be supplied. Requests to reproduce
articles for classroom use are fulfilled unless the author indicates
otherwise.
MANUSCRIPTS: All
manuscripts must be in MSWord and sent by email to the address below.
Articles are considered for publication in the order in which they are
received. Manuscripts should have endnotes where appropriate, no
bibliographies. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, including
quotations and endnotes.
Articles:
Authors may discuss images of women, feminist interpretations of art
history, feminist theory, feminist critical analysis of contemporary
art and issues, etc. Authors may examine the lives and works of
women in all areas of the visual arts, either contemporary or from the
remote or recent past. Manuscripts should be about 5000 words,
including endnotes, in the specified format. Contributors receive five
copies of the issue in which their article appears.
Reviews: WAJ
encourages honest criticism. Unless otherwise specified by the Book
Editor, Reviews should be about 1500 words for a single book, 2000 for
two books reviewed together, and 2500 words for three books. Please use
the specified format. Reviewers receive 2 copies of the issue in which
their review appears.
ENDNOTE STYLE: Follow The Chicago Manual of Style,
16th edition, chapters 14 and 15, for numerous specific examples of
print and online/web citations. Print examples: Whitney Chadwick and
Tirza True Latimer, The Modern Woman Revisited: Paris Between the Wars
(New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2003), 4-5, 46-50,
127-45. Elizabeth S. Cohen, "The Trials of Artemisia Gentileschi: A
Rape as History," in Sixteenth Century Journal 31 (2000): 47-75. For subsequent references, use short title, e.g., Chadwick and Latimer, The Modern Woman Revisited,
6. Cohen, "The Trials of Artemisia Gentileschi," 61.
Use “ibid.” for citation immediately following original. Do not use
“op. cit.” or “ff.”
Page citations in Reviews:
Include page number references to the book under review in parentheses
within the sentence. For example, use this form either following “a
quotation” (23), or wherever else a page citation in the book under
review is needed (12). For reviews of multiple books on a similar
topic, use author’s name or short identifying title plus page number
(Clark, 133).
PHOTOGRAPHIC MATERIALS:
Visual materials must be submitted with the manuscript in digital
format or scanned. Digital and electronic files are preferable, and
upon acceptance of their article, authors are requested to obtain high
resolution digital images as reproductions. Details of reproduction
rights will be discussed with the editors. Please contact the editors
to request image requirements. Captions should include: figure number, artist’s name, title of work (date), medium, size in inches. Photo credit and/or other credits. Regarding permissions to publish, "Fair Use" applies to images in WAJ:
1. WAJ is a scholarly journal with a print run under 1400
2. Images are discussed in the article or review, reproduced at 1/4 page max
3. As part of a scholarly text for a limited readership, there is
no "profit" to be made on the images.
4. Most images are reproduced in black and white within the article. Some appear in color as a folio.
We do not want our authors to pay for reproduction rights, and we have
a lawyer who is prepared to defend any challenges to "fair use"
practice.
Editors Joan Marter and Margaret Barlow waj@womansartjournal.org
Book Review Editor Ute
Tellini
utellini@womansartjournal.org
Website
http://womansartjournal.org
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