The Art Bulletin
Submitting a Manuscript for Consideration
Manuscripts must be in English. Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than one hundred words, a list of illustrations, photocopies of the illustrations, and a biographical statement of no more than fifty words. The author’s name should appear only on a separate cover sheet. The title of the article, but not the author’s name, should be repeated on the first page of the text.
Please submit the manuscript in triplicate printout, accompanied by a CD containing the digital files. The digital files must be clearly named and must exactly match the printout. The CD must contain no files unrelated to the submission and must use a common word-processing program.
Because the peer-review process is blind, it is essential to remove all instances where you are identified as author, including in notes.
The cover sheet, with the author’s name, mailing and email addresses, and telephone and fax number(s), should also include a brief biographical statement of no more than fifty words, ending with the author’s institutional affiliation and address in brackets (e.g., [Department of Art and Art History, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Tex. 78712, jones@address.edu] or [536 Webster St., South Bend, Ind. 46619]) and email address.
Photographs, scans, and/or transparencies of all images (with caption information) should be in hand when a manuscript is submitted for consideration. If the manuscript is accepted, the author will need to supply all original photographs promptly. It is the author’s responsibility to obtain permissions and to pay all reproduction fees. The documents granting permission should be kept by the author, and copies sent with the photographs.
Checklist
The submission package should include:
- The manuscript in triplicate, all elements of which must be double-spaced (including notes and numbered captions)
- Photocopies of the illustrations, in triplicate, with ID or figure numbers
- A cover sheet with author’s name, a fifty-word biographical statement, and total number of words (including all text and notes)
- A one-hundred-word abstract of the article
- A clearly labeled CD containing digital files of the manuscript, captions, abstract, and biographical statement, in a common word-processing program such as Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, or rich text format (.rtf), if possible
