Guidelines for Article Manuscript Presentation

1. General information
The editors' overriding objective is to publish articles that shed new light on the visual culture of the nineteenth century. (Please see Vision Statement for details.)

Articles should be written in a clear and engaging style accessible to a range of interested readers. Submissions in languages other than English are welcome, as long as they are accompanied by an abstract written in English, 250-300 words long. (Please see Translations for details.)

2. How and when to submit an initial manuscript
Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide appears twice a year, in spring and fall. Articles for the spring issue are due by August 15 of the previous year; for the fall issue by March 15 of the same year.

All manuscripts must be clearly marked with the author's name, postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and e-mail address. The manuscript should be accompanied by black-and-white photocopies of the proposed illustrations, and also by an abstract of 250-300 words. All text must be completed at the time of submission, and must be submitted in by e-mail as well as in two hard (paper) copies and a CD. Whenever possible, the CD's format should be Microsoft Word. These materials are to be sent to the Managing Editor at the following address:

Petra ten-Doesschate Chu
Department of Art and Music
Seton Hall University
South Orange, New Jersey 07079
USA
pchu[at]19thc-artworldwide.org

3. Manuscript Review
Submitted articles will be reviewed as quickly as possible by the Managing Editor and the Executive Editor and one or two peer reviewers. If the article is accepted, the author will receive comments and suggestions for changes (if any). If not accepted, the manuscript copies and diskette will not be returned to the author. In all cases, the editors will inform the author of the article's status within two months of receipt. NCAW’s acceptance rate is 40-50% of all manuscripts submitted.

4. Final manuscripts
Once the author has received comments and suggestions for changes, s/he is expected to make those changes and to copy-edit the work in accordance with the Style Sheet provided here. To be included in the journal, final manuscripts must reach the Managing Editor eight weeks before the month of publication (for February 2003, for example, the deadline was November 15, 2002). Only two hard copies and one diskette need to be returned at this stage. The author should also provide a condensed biography of 3-4 lines, indicating her/his institutional affiliation and 2-3 achievements of note. Authors are also asked to supply a list of 5 to 7 "keywords" by which their articles could be searched in the journal's archive. For example, an article about Ingres's portrait of Madame Moitessier (1856) might be searchable with France, painting, portraiture, costume, and Ingres. Once their articles are accepted, authors will be asked to provide a one-sentence summary of their articles which can be posted on the site's table of contents.

Once this final manuscript has been formally accepted, no further changes can be made.

5. Illustrations
When it is submitted, the final article must be accompanied by all of its illustrations (ready to publish), in the form of color transparencies, color slides, color glossy photographs, or black-and-white glossy photographs. Scanned images are preferred and can be mailed to the journal's executive editor.

All images should be clearly marked with their orientation, as well as the author's name and a figure number keyed to the text. A correspondingly numbered list of captions must accompany the images. Captions generally provide the artist's name, title of the work, date, medium, measurements, and the work's whereabouts, in addition to any special wording required by the museum/collector that has provided the reproduction.