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Author Guidelines

From time to time Craft Australia calls for papers to be submitted for peer-reviewing. The call for papers supports the aims and objectives of Craft Australia and encourages research to increase dialogue and discussion about craft and design.

Papers submitted are to address the theme of the call for papers and those received by the closing date will be sent to two peer-reviewers that are acknowledged in the field relevant to the topic. The process uses a double-blind, review process where contributors and peer-reviewers remain anonymous throughout the review process.

Contributors are asked to ensure their identities are not revealed in any way within their paper and that the paper is not submitted to other publications during the review process with Craft Australia.

If a favourable review, and at the discretion of Craft Australia, the paper will be published in the Centre's e-journal.

The following guidelines have been developed to assist contributors when submitting a paper for peer-reviewing.

For the current call for papers see announcements

 

Style Manual for Authors

Text

Copy to be provided as a 'Word document', headings Arial 13 point, body font 12 point Calibri or Verdana, 1.5 line spacing and emailed to editor [at] craftaustralia.com.au Please do not submit as PDF or HTML. It is expected that papers have been thoroughly proofread before being submitted for review. However, if corrections to spelling and grammar are required please note that the paper will be returned for revision.

Abbreviations

  • Full stops to follow abbreviations. For example, e.g., vol.
  • Full stops not to follow honorific. For example, Mr, Dr
  • Full stops not to be included in acronyms. For example ACDC
  • First reference to an acronym should state name in full followed by the acronym in brackets, e.g.: Australian Craft and Design Centres (ACDC)

Date format

Date format to read '15 September 2008'

Numbers

One to ten in words, 11 and over in numerals e.g.: 100; 1,000; 10,000
Spans of years
e.g.: 2001-02

Quotes

If a quote is less than approximately 30 words please place with the text. e.g.: The General Manager stated, 'that until recently the program was supported by government.'

If a quote is longer than this, please indent out of the text. e.g.:

Until recently the program was supported by government agencies. The General Manager says,

'Australia has had a strong tradition of international export assistance. Being an isolated continent with the world's key markets stretching way beyond both major oceans, export is a necessity. Since 1991 the Australia Council for the Arts has supported an international craft export program.'

Quote marks

Please use single quotes, only use double quote for a quote within a quote.

e.g.: 'The program provided international exposure and market opportunities "for over 100 Australian practitioners, curators, speakers and writers" during 2008,' she said.

Referencing system

The Harvard System of Referencing is used and the Harvard System of Referencing Guide can be accessed online.

Notes

All material relating to notes cited in the text to be included in a 'Notes' section and should be noted by the use of a subscript number '1'. 'Notes' section should be positioned at the end of the article, followed by Illustrations and then a Bibliography section.

Illustrations

  1. Craft Australia advocates on behalf of and promotes craft and design to a national and international audience. To maintain the sector's level of excellence Craft Australia strives to use high quality images, and, therefore, images submitted for online publication must be of a professional standard. Craft Australia reserves the right to edit images to maintain quality, as required.
  2. With regard to copyright, Craft Australia understands you warrant that the author is the owner of all copyright in the academic paper or has obtained all necessary permissions to permit its publication and use of images.
  3. With regard to copyright, Craft Australia understands you warrant that the author is the owner of all copyright in the academic paper and has obtained all necessary permissions to permit its publication and use of images.
  4. Images submitted for publication require captions and credits to appear with the image and are to be listed in the following format:
    • Figure 13: 2002, Adeela Suleman, Salma, Sitara and Sisters - Motorcycle Workshop (detail), (Mixed media) Courtesy of Adeela Suleman, p.17.

Bibliography

The Bibliography should be positioned at the end of the paper, after the 'Illustration' section.

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. Submission of papers
    The length of the paper should be approximately 4,000 to 6,000 words, unless otherwise agreed, and is to follow the Craft Australia Research Centre Style manual for authors.
  2. Cover sheet
    A Cover Sheet is to be attached to the submission and is to include:
    • The theme as set out in the Call for papers
    • Title of the paper
    • Author's full name, as required for publishing
    • Author's biography (approximately 30 words)
    • Email contact details
    • Abstract (approximately 200 words)
    A concise statement of the intention, results and conclusions of the paper
    • 6 keywords in order of importance.

    The paper is to be headed with a title only (no author) and emailed with the Cover Sheet to: editor [at] craftaustralia.org.au

  3. Revision of submissions
    Authors submitting revised papers are to indicate how they have addressed the recommendations. Your summary will be sent with the revised paper to the editorial panel.
  4. Publication of paper
    All authors whose papers are accepted for publication will be sent a publishing agreement for signature. Publication cannot proceed without the signed agreement. All accepted papers will be published in craft + design enquiry e-journal and will include:
    • Author's name
    • Author's biography (as included on Cover Sheet)
    • Title of paper
    • Abstract (as included on Cover Sheet)
    • List of contents (as required)
    • The full paper will be published as a PDF document
    From time to time Craft Australia may select papers to be printed in a hard-copy format.
 

Copyright Notice

By submitting an article, research paper or review for publication the author/s warrant that the work is original; has not been previously published; the author has copyright permissions for the use of images included in the article; and the work does not contain any libelous material.

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.5 that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  2. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

 

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