SUBMISSION OF MANUSCRIPTS
Paideusis-JICS publishes articles/essays, short notes, letters and comments, as well as literature and electronic fingerprints of visual arts. It also reviews relevant www sites and printed books/journals. Material is published primarily in English. Contributions in other languages are also accepted, but they should be submitted only after having consulted the editors: this will help keeping a balanced structure of the journal.
Please take into account that Paideusis-JICS is an open journal, aiming at a large mutual interdisciplinary and cross-cultural dialogue.
Submissions which in the opinion of the editors are discriminatory will be rejected.
Manuscripts of articles and essays are expected to relate to the topic announced in the "Call for papers" for the corresponding issue of the journal. An interdisciplinary approach is strongly encouraged. Articles should have a maximum length of 12000 words and should be accompanied by a short abstract in English (less than 300 words). They are evaluated using double blind peer review.
For book/journal/web site reviews, available space is established flexibly upon consultations with the author. Please contact the editors, stating in your proposal the kind of material to be reviewed and the intended paper length.
Letters should not exceed 5000 words. Comments are dedicated mainly to previously published material and must be limited to 1000 words.
Electronic submission is the preferred method of submission. Manuscripts should be prepared in one of the following formats: Word, Rich Text Format (.rtf) or plain text format (ASCII). The message of the e-mail used to attach the manuscript should specify the operating system and the program (in each case, the type and version) used to write the manuscript and create the figures.
Authors do not need to concern themselves with formatting and the layout of the text. Under no circumstances should there be spacing (formatting by using the space key) or line spacing commands, font changes (other than italics as specified below), headers, footers, page numbering, margin changes, centering commands, or any special characters meant to change the format/layout of the text. Please do not use hyphenating. The use of abbreviations should be kept to a minimum; a list of abbreviations should be added at the end of the article.
Good quality photographs, drawings and figures sent via e-mail are acceptable in a variety of formats. Please contact the editors in connection with the number and the type of files to be submitted. Do not imbed figures in the text files. A list of figure captions (including the specification of the corresponding filenames for each figure/image) must accompany any material comprising figures.
Manuscripts should include on their front page: title, abstract, up to five key words, author(s) names (first name, last name) and affiliations, addresses (including e-mail), and (in the case of multiple authors) the name of the person to which correspondence from the editors should be sent.
Citations in text may be done either by bracketed numbers (i.e. [1] or [2-5]) or by mentioning the names and the year: (Johnson, 1996) or (Jack and Jill, 1918). Do not use any initials or the sign “&”. For works with more than two authors, cite the first author followed by “et al.”: (Herbert et al., 1997). Page numbers may be specified immediately after the year (Johnson, 1996:139-145). In all cases, references should be arranged at the end of the article in alphabetical order. They will comprise: author’s name(s) and initials, year (in parentheses), title, journal name (unabridged), volume, number, pages (from - to). Example:
Terick Y., Tote J. (1990), How to specify references, Scientist's Guide, 5, 1, 123-148;
Jong W., Kobur N. (1975), Trying to follow, in: Collis G. and Ybrett O. (eds.), Obeying rules, Bequeford, Bequeford University Press, 162-165.
For citation of electronic sources, the ISO (International Standard Organization) standard appears to be the most complete in its requirements. The standard is also supported by the Chicago Manual of Style. DIS 690-2 (subject to further modification) recommends that the following citation elements be included in bibliographic references to electronic documents: Primary responsibility, Title, Type of medium (e.g. online; CD-ROM), Subordinate responsibility, Edition, Issue designation (for serials), Place of publication, Publisher, Date of publication, Date of update/revision, Date of citation, Series, Notes (physical description; accompanying material; system requirements; frequency of publication; language; other notes), Availability and access (e.g. URL), Other availability information, Standard number (e.g. ISBN, ISSN).
All manuscripts, corrections, editing concerns, and notices relevant to the journal should be submitted by e-mail.