TEXT Journal - Notes for Contributors

Length

Articles should normally be a maximum of 4,000 words in length; reviews of books or exhibitions a maximum of 1,000 words. Longer submissions will be assessed on their own merits.

Approach

Articles should fit into the description of the aims of the Society, as described in the constitution.

Presentation

1. Manuscripts should be sent to one of the editors by 1 March. Contributions will be returned only if postage is pre-paid. The decision of the Editorial Sub-Committee regarding acceptance is final.
2. Articles should be word-processed using Microsoft Word for Windows/Works for Windows, or typed on one side of A4 paper, double spaced with wide margins, and numbered consecutively. Articles on disc or CD should be accompanied by a paper copy of all text which includes bold, italics and underlining.All That Glistens is not Gold
   Frances Pritchard. Curator(Textiles) The Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester
3. The title page of articles should indicate the title, author’s name, address and telephone number, and institution where relevant. Book review articles should be headed: title, name of author, publisher, date, number of pages, number of illustrations, ISBN number and price. Exhibition reviews should be headed: title, dates and location, and should, if applicable, reflect the retrospective nature of the exhibition at time of publication.
4. English spelling conventions should be followed in the text and foreign language quotations should be given in translation in the main text. (The original text may be given in an accompanying end note.)
5. Titles of books, exhibitions and periodicals, technical terms and phrases in a foreign language should be italicised. If italicisation is not possible these items should be underlined.
6. Short quotations should be enclosed within single inverted commas; quotations of more than two lines should be indented, without quotation marks, and single spaced. Double quotation marks should be used to signify “one might say”.
7. First paragraph should not be indented; subsequent paragraphs should be indented but without a space left between paragraphs. Leave one space only after full stops, semi colons, etc.
8. End note references should be designated by superior figures (superscript) placed after publication. End notes should be numbered consecutively, and typed in double-spacing following the text.
9. Bibliographic information should correspond to the following examples: for books, D Roche, The Culture of Clothing, Cambridge University Press, 1994; for journal articles, M French ‘Co-ordinating Manufacturing and Marketing: the Role of the Selling Agent in US Textiles’, Textile History, (Vol.25, No.2, Autumn 1994), pp.227-242. In end notes, the full bibliographic reference should be given on the first occasion on which the source is referenced, and should be followed by the relevant page number. On subsequent occasions, an abbreviated form of the title should appear accompanied by the relevant page number, for example, Roche, The Culture of Clothing, p.21 or French, ‘Co-ordinating Manufacturing and Marketing…’, p.241.
10. High quality images should be provided only when the article is accepted for publication. These must be clearly labelled. Photocopies or digital versions of illustrations should be included with the initial submission. High resolution digital images can be submitted on CD, or electronically, but must be at least 300 dpi at a minimum size of 10 x 10 cm.
11. A separate sheet of figures and captions should accompany illustrations. Measurements should be given in metric form. Illustrations should be referenced as (Fig) in the text.
12. The author is responsible for copyright clearance and reproduction fees and should provide the editors with written evidence of copyright clearance; acknowledgement of sources must be given where appropriate.