Submissions

Author Guidelines

Authors are invited to make a submission to this journal. All submissions will be assessed by an editor to determine whether they meet the aims and scope of this journal. Those considered to be a good fit will be sent for peer review before determining whether they will be accepted or rejected.

Before making a submission, authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish any material included with the submission, such as photos, documents and datasets. All authors identified on the submission must consent to be identified as an author. Where appropriate, research should be approved by an appropriate ethics committee in accordance with the legal requirements of the study's country.

An editor may desk reject a submission if it does not meet minimum standards of quality. Before submitting, please ensure that the study design and research argument are structured and articulated properly. The title should be concise and the abstract should be able to stand on its own. This will increase the likelihood of reviewers agreeing to review the paper. When you're satisfied that your submission meets this standard, please follow the checklist below to prepare your submission.

Authors must submit original, unpublished articles.

Note: The same authors cannot publish articles in the Main Theme and the Beyond Main Theme sections for two issues in a row.

All the manuscripts should be accompanied by author’s name, affiliation, e-mail address, and a short biography (up to 150 words per author). Articles are submitted in English.

Manuscripts should be written in .doc or .docx format, in Times New Roman font, font size 12 with 1.5 line spacing.

Original scholarly paper intended for sections The Main Theme and Beyond the Main Theme should include a short abstract (100–200 words), 5–10 keywords, as well as the summary (500 words). Keywords must be chosen appropriately in order to be relevant to the subject and content of the paper.

Regarding the citations, authors should use the author-date system with the separate bibliography, following the guidelines given in the Chicago Manual of Style (The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2017). Please note that the list of references (bibliography) given at the end of the article must only include works that are cited in the text.

Book, conference, and festival reviews should bring to attention relevant and valuable contributions or events that are in the interest scope of our Journal. Reviews must contain a dose of critical appraisal instead of being written merely as summary. The title of the book review should include necessary information regarding the volume, as in the following example:

• William Myers, Bio Art – Altered Realities. London: Thames and Hudson, 2015, 256 pp., ISBN 9780500239322
• Margins, Futures and Tasks of Aesthetics, Conference of the IAA, Helsinki, Finland, July 5–7, 2018.
• Sonemus Fest, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, April 16–21, 2018.

Manuscripts can be equipped with photos, illustrations, drawings, and tables.

These should be of good quality (resolution higher than 300 dpi), in .jpg or .tiff formats, and submitted as files separate from the text. All visual materials must have permission for publishing from the author, photographer or the respected owner of the rights.

Word count:

• Original scholarly papers (Main Theme and Beyond the Main Theme sections) – 4000-8000 words
• Book, conference, and festival reviews – 1000-1500 words
• Interviews – 1000-2000 words

Other remarks:

Em dash is used in years, page numbers or as a continuation of sentence: 112–35. 2000–2006. En dash is used in compound nouns: art-making.

Double opening (“) and double closing (”) quotation marks and regular font are used in citing. Single opening and closing quotation marks (‘’) are used in citing words, syntagms or sentences of existing citation (cit.cit). If one or more parts of a sentence is under quotation marks order of punctuation marks is: ”¹,

If whole sentence is under quotation marks order of punctuation marks is: ”.²

Italic is used in: 1) work titles (books, compositions, paintings, sculptures, etchings, installations, photography); when citing translated and original work title in brackets: “The Hand of Fate” (Die Glückliche Hand); 2) emphasizing specific word, concept, syntagm, or sentence: heterotopy; 3) using words from foreign language; 4) using figures of speech and stylistic devices: silence of consciousness. For conveyed meaning or releasing a concept from essentialism or tradition please use single opening and closing quota­tion marks: ‘being in the world’.