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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.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The submission file has been anonymized for double-blind peer review.
  • The submission file is in PDF format.
  • Should the contribution be accepted to the journal, the file should be submitted in Open Office, Microsoft Word, Pages, or RTF file format, and include all metadata, tables, references, and figure captions.
  • Should the contribution be accepted to the journal, all figures will be provided with the revised manuscript with all permissions cleared and in high resolution (see Intellect Image Guide). Late image files might not be accepted.

Author Guidelines

Article Submission Categories

Full Research Papers

(4000-6000 words)
Full papers may describe completed research projects, including research question(s), methods, outcomes, and findings. They should include original research and/or work of developmental nature which proposes new concepts, ideas or methods that are clearly presented, argued and evidenced.


Position Papers

(2000-3000 words)
Position papers may put forward and debate a position on a particular (current) issue (e.g. new technology, material, theoretical, social or educational issue). Position papers should include an original argument that is clearly presented and evidenced.


Craft and Industry Reports

(2000-3000 words)
Reports of investigative practice in the craft industry should present advances in and for the field, including new collaborations, technological developments, processes, methods, ideas etc. by craft practitioners and industry.


Portraits

(1500-2000 words)
Features the work of an individual (craftsperson, artist, designer, maker, researcher) within the field whose creative work stands out for its developmental/research qualities and contribution to the crafts.


Exhibition Reviews

(1000-2000 words)
Features scholarly reviews of exhibitions that are of particular developmental/research significance for the field due to the quality of the work or the curation.


Publication Reviews

(1000-2000 words)
Features reviews of publications in print and new media that are of particular developmental/research significance for the field.


Conference Reviews

(1000-2000 words)
Features reviews of any relevant conferences/symposia/etc. in the field.


Remarkable Images

(200 words)
We invite the submission of images of outstanding quality for their beauty, complexity, simplicity, challenging nature, novelty, humour, humanity, etc. that are representative of contemporary craft developments and research.


Calendar of Events

We invite notifications of important and relevant forthcoming craft exhibitions and craft related conferences/research events.

To prepare your submission, please refer to the following sections of the Author Guidelines:

  • Submission and Review process
  • Style Guide
  • Article Submission Categories
  • Copyright Notice

Submission and Review Process

Submission Procedures

Articles submitted to Craft Research should be original and not under consideration by any other publication. If earlier versions of a submitted manuscript have been published elsewhere previously, such as in a workshop or symposium, the authors must inform the editors at the time of submission of this and they must demonstrate that the manuscript has undergone substantial revision.

You must submit two versions of your article:

1. The full version of your article as word document (.doc) containing the full text and all metadata as described under ‘metadata’, including:

  • Article Title (normally no more than 10 words)
  • Author’s Name.
  • Abstract
  • Keywords 
  • Article submission category (see submission categories below)
  • Full text, with all subsections
  • References
  • Author’s biography of 50-100 words
  • ORCID number
  • Author’s postal and email address
  • List of illustrations

Illustrations/images must be submitted as separate image files of at least 300 dpi.

2. An anonymized version of your article as a pdf. In this version, images should be included where they should appear in the text, and all references to the author(s) should be removed, including: name, affiliation, address, biography and any literary reference that refer to the author(s)’s work should be removed.

Review Process

Craft Research is a refereed journal.

Initial Manuscript Evaluation

The Editors first evaluate all manuscripts. In exceptional circumstances, a manuscript may be accepted at this stage. Papers which are rejected at this stage may be insufficiently original, have serious methodological flaws, have poor grammar or English language, or are outside the aims and scope of the journal. Those papers that meet the minimum criteria are passed on to at least two experts for review. Authors of manuscripts rejected at this stage will be informed normally within 6 weeks of the submission deadline for the next issue.

Peer Review Process

This journal employs double-blind reviewing, where both the referee and the author(s) remain strictly anonymous throughout the process. Referees are chosen individually according to their expertise to suit each submission. Referees are asked to evaluate manuscripts according to:

  • Relevance and originality
  • Quality (e.g. are papers methodologically and ethically sound?)
  • Clarity (e.g. are results clearly presented and supporting the conclusions?)

Normally a manuscript will be reviewed within 12 weeks of the submission deadline for the next issue. Should the referees' reports contradict one another or a report be delayed, a further expert opinion may be sought. Editors and/or referees may request more than one revision of a manuscript.

Editors’ Decision

The editors make the final decision about the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript based on the recommendation of the referees and will be sent to the author along with any recommendations made by the referees. The editors’ decision is final.

Journal Style

Metadata

Contributors must check that each of the following have been supplied correctly as part of the contribution:

  • Article Title (normally no more than 10 words)
  • Author’s Name.
  • Abstract of 200-300 words (this will appear on Intellect’s website)
  • Keywords (six to eight, listed one per line, in lower case. 
  • Submission category: please state the category under which you are submitting your paper, e.g. full research paper, position, paper, craft & industry report, etc.
  • Bibliography – entitled ‘References’.
  • Author’s postal and email address (the postal address does not have to be included in the final article, but is needed for correspondence purposes)
  • List of illustrations – a list of all captions in the order of appearance in the text. Each caption should state: Name of maker. (date). Title of piece. (c) Copyright Holder. (Photographer, if different to copyright holder).

Language

The journal follows standard British English. Please use ‘ize’ endings instead of ‘ise’.

Length of Articles

Articles must not exceed the maximum word count for the type of contribution selected, excluding notes, references, author biography, keywords and abstract.

Presentation/House Style

All articles should be written in Word. The font should be Times New Roman, 12 point, single spacing. The title of your article should be in bold at the beginning of the file, but not enclosed in quote marks. Bold is also used for headings and subheadings (which should also be in Times New Roman, 12 point) in the article. Italics may be used (sparingly) to indicate key concepts.

Any matters concerning the format and presentation of articles not covered by the above notes should be addressed to the editor.

Illustrations

We welcome images illustrating an article. All images need a resolution of at least 300 dpi. All images should be supplied independently of the article, not embedded into the text itself. The files should be clearly labelled and an indication given as to where they should be placed in the text. Reproduction will normally be in black-and-white. Images sent in as e-mail attachments should accordingly be in greyscale.

The image should always be accompanied by a suitable caption (the omission of a caption is only acceptable if you feel that the impact of the image would be reduced by the provision of written context). The following is the agreed style for captions:

Figure 1: Artist, Title of Artwork, Year. Medium. Dimensions. Location. Copyright holder information.

Please note the colon after the number and the terminating full point, even if the caption is not a full sentence.  Copyright clearance should be indicated by the contributor and is always the responsibility of the contributor.

Notes

Notes may be used for comments and additional information only. In general, if something is worth saying, it is worth saying in the text itself. A note will divert the reader’s attention away from your argument. If you think a note is necessary, make it as brief and to the point as possible. Use Word’s note-making facility, and ensure that your notes are endnotes, not footnotes. Place note calls outside the punctuation, so after the comma or the full stop. The note call must be in superscripted Arabic (1, 2, 3).

Opinion

The views expressed in Craft Research are those of the authors, and do not necessarily coincide with those of the editors or the editorial or advisory boards.

Permissions/Copyright/Liability

Copyright clearance should be indicated by the contributor and is always the responsibility of the contributor. Unless a specific agreement has been made, accepted articles become the copyright of the journal. The contributor publishing agreement should be completed and sent to the editors to accompany every submission.

Quotations

Direct quotations:

Intellect’s style for quotations embedded into a paragraph is single quote marks, with double quote marks for a second quotation contained within the first. All long quotations (i.e. over 40 words long) should be ‘displayed’– i.e. set into a separate indented paragraph with an additional one-line space above and below, and without quote marks at the beginning or end. Please note that for quotations within the text, the punctuation should follow the bracketed reference. For a displayed quotation the bracketed reference appears after the full stop. All omissions in a quotation are indicated thus: [...] Note that there are no spaces between the suspension points.

When italics are used for emphasis within quotations, please ensure that you indicate whether the emphasis is from the original text or whether you are adding it to make a point.

Indirect Quotations:

For an indirect quotation the bracketed reference appears before the full stop.

References

All references in the text should be according to the Harvard system, e.g. (Bordwell 1989: 9). The default term used for the list of full references at the end of the contribution is ‘References’.

Please note in particular:

  • ‘Anon.’ for items for which you do not have an author (because all items must be referenced with an author within the text).
  • A blank line is entered between references.
  • Year date of publication in brackets.
  • Commas, not full stops, between parts of each reference.
  • Absence of ‘in’ after the title of a chapter if the reference relates to an article in a journal or newspaper.
  • Name of translator of a book within brackets after title and preceded by ‘trans.’, not ‘transl.’ or ‘translated by’.
  • Absence of ‘no.’ for the journal number, a colon between journal volume and number.
  • ‘pp.’ before page extents.

The following samples indicate conventions for the most common types of reference:

Anon. (1957), Narrative in Early Renaissance Art, Oxford: Books Press.

Bashforth, K. (2016), ‘The rules for socialising with work colleagues’, Harper’s Bazaar, July, http://www.harpersbazaar.co.uk/people-parties/bazaar-at-work/news/a37383/how-to-socialise-effectively-at-work/. Accessed 15 July 2016.

‘Blood of My Blood’ (2016), J. Bender (dir.), Game of Thrones, Season 6 Episode 6 (29 May, USA: HBO).

Bowie, D. (2016), ‘Blackstar’, Blackstar, sleeve notes, New York: Colombia Records.

Brown, J. (2005), ‘Evaluating surveys of transparent governance’, 6th Global Forum on Reinventing Government: Towards Participatory and Transparent Governance, Seoul, Republic of Korea, 24–27 May.

Denis, C. (1987), Chocolat, France: Les Films du Paradoxe.

Derrida, J. (2002), ‘The university without condition’, in P. Kamuf (ed.), Without Alibi, Stanford: Stanford University Press, pp. 202–37.

Gibson, R., Nixon, P. and Ward, S. (eds) (2003), Political Parties and the Internet: Net Gain?, London: Routledge.

Gliesmann, N. (2015), Denkwerkstatt Museum (‘Think workshop museum’), Norderstedt: Books on Demand.

Overdiek, A. (2016), ‘Fashion designers and their business partners: Juggling creativity and commerce’, International Journal of Fashion Studies, 4:1, pp. 27–46.

Richmond, J. (2005), ‘Customer expectations in the world of electronic banking: a case study of the Bank of Britain’, Ph.D. thesis, Chelmsford: Anglia Ruskin University.

Roussel, R. ([1914] 1996), Locus Solus, Paris: Gallimard.

Stroöter-Bender, J. (1995), L’Art contemporain dans les pays du ‘Tiers Monde’ (trans. O. Barlet), Paris: L’Harmattan.

UNDESA (United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs) (2005), Report on Reinventing Government, New York: United Nations.

Woolley, E. and Muncey, T. (forthcoming), ‘Demons or diamonds: a study to ascertain the range of attitudes present in health professionals to children with conduct disorder’, Journal of Adolescent Psychiatric Nursing.

Zhang, Z. (2004), Shi mian mai fu (House of Flying Daggers), China: Beijing New Picture Film Co.

Personal Communications

Unless an informal conversation, interviews can be cited in text and included in the references. In the references, the name of interviewer/interviewee, type of communication, location, day and month should be included [if available], as in the following examples:

Björgvinsson, Evan (2009), telephone interview with A. Høg Hansen, 23 January.

Branson, Richard (2014), in-person interview with J. Doe, Birmingham City University, 4 July.

Website References

Website references are similar to other references.

There is no need to decipher any place of publication or a specific publisher, but the reference must have an author, and the author must be referenced Harvard-style within the text. Unlike paper references, however, web pages can change, so there needs to be a date of access as well as the full web reference. Website or blog titles should be in roman font. In the list of references at the end of your article, the item should read something like this:

Kermode, Mark (2017), 'Audience appreciation', Kermode Uncut, 17 November, http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/markkermode/entries/61bec71c-916d-4a13-a782-79c3afb3c2b9. Accessed 20 November 2017.

Translations

If readers are unlikely to understand the title of a non-English-language work in your text (and references), the title in the original language may be accompanied by an English translation by the author, especially if its sense is not implied by the surrounding text. This applies to all types of work (journal article, book, film etc.).

Unofficial translations (e.g. those by the author) should be placed in quotation marks with parentheses, in roman type with an initial capital on the first word of title and subtitle (see Gliesmann in References). After the first mention in text, the original title should be used alone.

The official titles of published translations are set in italics inside parentheses (see Zhang in References). After the first mention in text, the English title should be used alone.

Disclaimer

The guidance on this page is by no means comprehensive: it must be read in conjunction with the Intellect Style Guide. The Intellect Style Guide is obtainable from http://www.intellectbooks.com/journals, or on request from the editor of this journal.

Copyright Notice

Publishing Agreement

If the contribution to the Journal is accepted, The Author will be asked to sign an Intellect Publishing Agreement. A summary of this agreement is below.

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