Contributing to Print Quarterly
If you want to contribute to Print Quarterly, please please e-mail your article, Note, or review to the Editor at dlandau@printquarterly.co.uk
Please remember to attach to your text photocopies of the images you would like to illustrate your contribution.
To help with the format and content, here are some guidelines.
NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS ABOUT PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs should be black and white, of a professional standard, and taken directly from the object and not from a book or any other reproduction. Digital images should be supplied at a minimum of 300 dpi, which can be converted to CYMK from RGB files.
Authors should obtain photographs and permission to reproduce them in Print Quarterly from the museum or collector. Authors should make clear to the owner at this stage that Print Quarterly is a scholarly magazine run by a charity, and it cannot therefore pay reproduction fees. Only in exceptional cases does Print Quarterly refund authors for the cost of obtaining photographs.
Photographs should be black and white positives; transparencies can be used, although the quality of the reproduction will suffer. No labels should ever be attached to the back of photographs, nor should paper clips be used. Each photograph should be numbered on its back, but authors should be careful not to offset ink from the back of one photograph to the front of another (a common occurrence!)
Illustrations for an article should be listed on a separate sheet accompanying the photographs. The following information must be provided by the author and typed double‑spaced:
1. Name of printmaker, or of artist if not a print.
2. Title (in italics).
3. Year, if known.
4. Medium, described in full.
5. Measurements in millimetres, height before width, to the platemark in the case of intaglio prints, to the edges of the image otherwise; if either is unknown, please specify that the measurements are of the sheet.
6. Collection, giving the full credit line as required by the owner.
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NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS ON STYLE AND PRESENTATION
The length of an article should not exceed 6,000 words (including footnotes), and it should require not more than fifteen illustrations; the length of a Shorter Notice (including footnotes) may range between 600 and 1,500 words; that of a Note (for which footnotes are not permitted) about 150‑250 words; Reviews are usually up to 1,500 words long.
The text should be typed on A4 paper (one side of the paper only), and double-spaced. Footnotes should be typed (double‑spaced) on a separate page. The typescript should contain no sub‑headings. Inscriptions, words in foreign languages, titles of works of art, books and periodicals should be underlined, but unpublished theses should not. Long quotations should be indented.
Dates should be given in the form: 17 March 1513. In references to centuries the ordinal should be spelled out. In numeral references to decades an 's' without an apostrophe should be used.
Footnotes and references
Notes will be printed as footnotes, not end‑notes. Their length and number should be limited as much as possible.
Word order, punctuation, capitalization, and abbreviations in references should be written as in the following examples:
3. P.Hughes, 'Patronage and Pedagogy: The British Institution in the Early Nineteenth Century', Art History, VIII, 1967, pp. 65‑78.
4. D.Girtin, Marcantonio Raimondi, exhibition catalogue, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, 4 April ‑ 17 June 1982, pp. 314‑17.
5. A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance, edited by J.R. Hale, London 1981, p.214.
6. M.Smith, Constable, Cambridge, MA 1984, pp. 239‑42.
'Edited by', 'revised by' and 'translated by' should be written in full and should follow the title. Where there are more than three editors or authors, the name of the first of these should be given, followed by et al.
Print Quarterly Publications Registered Charity No. 1007928
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