Acceptance of a contribution for publication in the Journal implies formal transfer of copyright including electronic rights in that contribution to the Warburg Institute for publication in the Journal or any reprint thereof. The Editors will normally grant permission to an author, author¡¯s agent or executors, for a contribution to be reprinted elsewhere after its appearance in the Journal.
Authors are not paid but will receive 23 or 24 offprints free of charge, or in the case of joint authors 12 offprints each free of charge (as specified by contract), and may order an additional quantity at their own expense. Any offprints promised in return for favours granted or in lieu of copyright fees must come out of the author¡¯s own allowance.
Authors of Articles but not of Notes will receive a complimentary copy of the volume. All authors are entitled to purchase at a reduced rate copies of the issue of the Journal in which their work appears.
Submissions which are accepted for publication should be put into Journal house style and supplied in electronic format. It is the author¡¯s responsibility to provide suitable illustrations for publication (see below), to obtain permission to reproduce them and, if necessary, to pay any copyright fees. The exact provenance of each illustration, with acknowledgement of the right of reproduction, must be provided.
Although photocopied illustrations are preferred in the first instance, once an Article or Note has been accepted for publication, reproduction-quality images are essential. Each illustration should be clearly marked with its plate number on the reverse, using a soft pencil: do not type or write heavily as the marks will show through.
¡ª Where photographic prints have to be obtained from libraries and archives, it is advisable to order them in good time as there is often a lengthy waiting period.
¡ª All illustrations will be returned after the Journal has been published. Authors who will have no further need of them, however, may like to consider donating their photographs to either the Warburg or the Courtauld Institute, both of which have extensive photographic collections.
Images with tonal variety, to be reproduced as greyscale:
This category describes the vast majority of Journal illustrations. Good-quality black-and-white photographs (glossy finish), made directly from the work to be reproduced, are preferred. Colour photographs may be used if necessary but the results, when printed finally in black and white, are less good. Exceptionally, photographs of printed reproductions, such as those found in modern books, may be used if there is absolutely no alternative (and providing the author has obtained copyright permission), but generally these give quite poor results.
Authors are asked not to supply greyscale images in digital form. Prior to lithographic printing, each photograph will be digitised professionally in accordance with precise technical specifications, some of which must be calculated for the final dimensions of the image as reproduced in the Journal.
Line art:
This category describes line drawings done by hand, and line diagrams produced digitally. Firstly, please ensure that the lines are thick enough to show up clearly when printed lithographically at the final output size. Desktop printers are unreliable in this respect, because they usually have a minimum dot dimension (and therefore a minimum line width, which can be misleading). In the case of drawings we prefer to work from the original, or a clear photograph of it, and not a photocopy (since these are always slightly fuzzy). Line art which was generated digitally should normally be supplied as a .tif /.tiff file with a resolution of 1200spi. The dimensions should correspond with the diagram¡¯s anticipated publication size. You may wish to refer to a past copy of the Journal as a guide.
Copyright:
When requesting permission to reproduce photographs as illustrations for an article, it is generally worth stressing that the Journal is a purely academic, non-profit-making scholarly periodical and that authors are not paid for their contributions. Some copyright holders may reduce or waive their usual fee in this circumstance; but it may be necessary to request specifically that they will do so. Note too that where the photograph was supplied by an archive or museum, they will normally ask for a printed offprint when the article is published (although others, e.g. the British Library, already receive copies of each volume). Other information which is often required by copyright holders: ISSN 0075-4390; print run 1500; the Journal is published in English only, but has subscribers worldwide.