The instructions below are specifically directed at authors that wish to submit a manuscript to the Journal of Victorian Culture. For general information, please visit the Publish With Us section of our website.

Journal of Victorian Culture interprets the notions of ‘Victorian' and ‘Culture' very broadly, and solicits articles dealing with any aspect of the long nineteenth century and its legacies, focusing on Britain and all other parts of the world where culture can be studied in a Victorian context. JVC is addressed to scholars working within the various disciplines that have traditionally constituted Victorian studies; it also confronts issues about and raises questions across disciplinary boundaries. The editorial board welcomes articles that adopt an interdisciplinary approach to their subject matter. However, the board also encourages articles which, while focusing on one sub-discipline, reflect on the implications of their argument for other Victorian studies constituencies. All manuscripts should be written in a style accessible across disciplines. Authors should keep in mind this question: how is this research of interest to other Victorianists?

JVC adheres to a strict peer review policy. All submissions considered for publication will receive an internal and an external reader's report. Except for names and any other matter specifically identified as confidential, referees' comments will be returned to authors.

The Journal of Victorian Culture considers all manuscripts on the strict condition that they have been submitted only to Journal of Victorian Culture, that they have not been published already, nor are they under consideration for publication or in press elsewhere. Authors who fail to adhere to this condition will be charged with all costs which Journal of Victorian Culture incurs and their papers will not be published.

Contributions to Journal of Victorian Culture must report original research and will be subjected to review by referees at the discretion of the Editorial Office.

Manuscript Preparation

1. General guidelines

• Papers are accepted only in English. All manuscripts should be double-spaced and follow the MHRA Style Guide. Authors should use English as opposed to American spellings, and single rather than double quotation marks except for quotations within quotations. Referencing should be via endnotes, with parenthetical documentation only for frequent references to a text or texts under study.
  The word length should be in the region of 7000-8000, including endnotes. In exceptional cases, the Journalwill consider longer essays but only if the material and analysis merit additional length. Two word counts should be stated; one excluding endnotes, the other including endnotes.
• Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgments; appendixes (as appropriate); references; table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).
• Abstracts of 250 words are required for all papers submitted. The abstract should deal with the substance, approach and main argument of the piece.
• Section headings should be concise and numbered sequentially, using a decimal system for subsections.
• All the authors of a paper should include their full names, affiliations, postal addresses, telephone and fax numbers and email addresses on the cover page of the manuscript. One author should be identified as the Corresponding Author.
• Please supply a short biographical note for each author.
• For all manuscripts non-discriminatory language is mandatory. Sexist or racist terms should not be used.
• When using a word which is or is asserted to be a proprietary term or trade mark, authors must use the symbol ® or TM.

2. Style guidelines

Link to MHRA Guidlines

JVC encourages contributors to indicate whenever they use digital resources and to give the url for cited resources. If urls are lengthy or have been generated on the fly (for instance, as the result of a search) the url of the homepage should be given instead. Contributors should beware the often subtle differences between the name of a project, company or organization, the title of their published outcome or resource, and their respective urls. There are pointers to referencing in MHRA Style Guide but note:

Full reference to an article in an online journal:

• Caroline Arscott, ‘Mutability and Deformity: Models of the Body and the Art of Edward Burne-Jones', 19: Interdisciplinary Studies in the Long Nineteenth Century (October 2008) <http://www.19.bbk.ac.uk/issue7/papers/arscott_burnejones.pdf> [accessed 4 December 2008].

Full reference to an electronic resource:

• Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition <www.ncse.ac.uk> [accessed 4 December 2008].

Full reference to a website:

• ‘Journal for Victorian Culture', Edinburgh University Press <http://www.eupjournals.com/journal/jvc> [accessed 4 December 2008].

Full reference to an item in an online database:

• ‘The Condition of the Poor', Pall Mall Gazette, Monday, 11 May 1885, 11, in 19^th Century British Library Newspapers [accessed 4 December 2008].
• ‘News of the Week', Leader, 1 (1850), 1, in Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition <www.ncse.ac.uk> [accessed 4 December 2008].

Full reference to a blog:

• Bruce Rosen, ‘Penny Dreadfuls', Victorian History: An idiosyncratic selection of short bits about elements of Victorian history <http://www.vichist.blogspot.com/> [accessed 4 December 2008].

3. Figures

• It is in the author's interest to provide the highest quality figure format possible. Please be sure that all imported scanned material is scanned at the appropriate resolution: 1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour.
• Figures must be saved separate to text. Please do not embed figures in the paper file.
• Files should be saved as one of the following formats: TIFF (tagged image file format), PostScript or EPS (encapsulated PostScript), and should contain all the necessary font information and the source file of the application (e.g. CorelDraw/Mac, CorelDraw/PC).
• All figures must be numbered in the order in which they appear in the paper (e.g. figure 1, figure 2). In multi-part figures, each part should be labelled (e.g. figure 1(a), figure 1(b)).
• Figure captions must be saved separately, as part of the file containing the complete text of the paper, and numbered correspondingly.
• The filename for a graphic should be descriptive of the graphic, e.g. Figure1, Figure2a.

4. Reproduction of copyright material

Contributors are required to secure permission for the reproduction of any figure, table or extensive extract (more than fifty words) from the text of a source that is copyrighted or owned by a party other than Taylor & Francis or the contributor. This applies to direct reproduction as well as ‘derivative reproduction', where the contributor has created a new figure or table that derives substantially from a copyrighted source. Authors are themselves responsible for the payment of any permission fees required by the copyright owner. Copies of permission letters should be sent with the manuscript upon submission to the Editor(s).

• Copyright permission letter template

5. Supplementary online material

Authors are welcome to submit animations, movie files, sound files or any additional information for online publication.

• Information about supplementary online material

Manuscript Submission

Papers for consideration should be sent as follows:

North American Contributions: Prof Joseph Bristow, University of California, Los Angeles jvc@humnet.ucla.edu

Rest of World Contributions: Dr Helen Rogers, Liverpool John Moores University h.rogers@ljmu.ac.uk

Articles should be submitted in electronic form as an email attachment; the preferred format is MS Word.

Copyright and authors' rights

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at:

 http://www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Exceptions are made for Government employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.

Reprints

Corresponding authors will receive free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Reprints of articles published in this journal can be purchased through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk.

Page charges

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