Publications
PREPARING AN ACCEPTED MANUSCRIPT FOR PUBLICATION
These manuscript preparation guidelines apply to The Art Bulletin, Art Journal, and Art Journal Open. For caa.reviews submissions guidelines, click here.
STYLE
For general questions of style, refer to The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition. For spelling, refer to Merriam-Webster Online. Authors are encouraged to consult CAA’s house style guide, but some general guidance for preparing your documents follows.
TITLE
The title of the article may be no longer than eighty-five characters, including the subtitle.
TEXT
All text materials must be submitted as Microsoft Word files. The document’s language setting should be English—US. Double-space all copy: abstract, manuscript, block quotations, author’s biographical statement, notes, captions, and bibliography. Use 12-point Times New Roman font for all elements and align text left. Always format notes as endnotes within the document, not footnotes. Use italic type for words to be set in italics. You may use boldface type for section subheaders, but otherwise do not use boldface or other sizes or styles of font. Number all pages, and do not break words (hyphenate) at ends of lines.
ENDNOTES
Notes should be numbered consecutively and submitted as endnotes, not footnotes. Endnote reference numbers in the text should use superscript figures placed after punctuation.
All references to publications and the like in notes should appear in full form (including place of publication and publisher) only once. Subsequent appearances should use a shortened form: surname of author, short title, page reference. Do not use op. cit.; however, CAA still uses “ibid” to refer to a single work cited in the note immediately preceding.
QUOTATIONS
The author must ensure that quotations are absolutely accurate and carefully transcribed. Unless governed by fair use, authors must obtain permission to quote published material.
An ellipsis (three spaced dots) indicates words dropped within a sentence. A period and three spaced dots indicate a deletion between sentences.
Brackets in quoted material indicate author’s interpolation; in inscriptions they indicate letters lost through damage. Parentheses indicate letters omitted as the result of abbreviation in inscriptions.
“Emphasis added” indicates your italicization in quoted matter.
Foreign-language quotations in both text and notes should be translated into English, unless the significance of the quotation will be lost. The original text may be included in a note if it is unpublished, difficult to access, or of philological relevance to the article.
If you are responsible for some of the translations, add at the head of the notes: “Unless otherwise indicated, translations are mine.”
The author alone will be responsible for proofreading non-English script passages.
QUOTATIONS IN NON-ROMAN SCRIPT
Long passages in non-Roman script (from texts in Arabic, Chinese, Cyrillic, Greek, Hebrew, Japanese, and other languages) represent real challenges for typesetters, designers, and printers. Such passages should appear in English translation in the body of the essay. Selected passages of philological interest, or from unpublished or inaccessible sources, may be included in related endnotes, either in the original language or in a standard transliteration system, with English translation in parentheses (if not already translated in the text). If you are using a standard transliteration system, please state this in the first unnumbered note. For example: “Russian transliterations follow the Library of Congress system” or “I have used the Pinyin romanization system.”
The author alone will be responsible for proofreading non-Roman script passages.
IMAGES
Indicate in figure references and on the picture list “S,” “M,” or “L” for each image, to guide the designer on the relative size and prominence of each reproduction.
For guidelines on image formats, fair use in scholarly publishing, clearing rights and permissions, and image-rental contracts, please review "Clearing Permissions for Images" in the author acceptance packet provided by the managing editor or editor-in-chief.
As part of the captions list, prepare alternative text/image descriptions (short texts describing artwork for partially sighted or blind readers). Each caption should be followed by a short, 15–30 word description.
CAPTIONS
Please see the CAA Publications Style Guide for guidance on caption format.
EXPENSES
It is the author’s responsibility to pay any costs incurred for the article, including photography and permissions expenses.
