Portfolio CFP/Submission guidelines May 2010

The following is a call for submissions for the first issue of the on-line journal, Portfolio: an ejournal for emerging research in visual culture. The journal would be open to PGRs and recently graduated PGRs and open to all forms of media to take full advantage of the possibilities of a web-based format. All submissions will be subjected to double blind peer review, with additional oversight provided by a steering committee of senior academics and practitioners.

Practicing Visual Culture: make it, use it, save it. January,
2010 Designed objects, as pivotal indicators of cultural values, are both created and transformed through the process of production. Design as a practice of process allows us to reassess objects and their role in culture. It enables us to consider the variety of ways in which theirmeanings are assigned and re-assigned, the cultural values embedded within them. This inaugural issue of Portfolio: an e-journal for emerging research in visual culture is soliciting submissions that focus on the various stages andmeanings found in the practice of creation and use. In our study of the visual, how do we re-interpret genres, movements, periods and how can we assess what an object’s value historically and currently? What are the economic and environmental concerns which come into play? Debates on authorship, materiality, reproduction and representation and the meaning assigned to both the object and our understanding of the process are welcomed.

Deadline: July 15, 2010

Send to: portfolioejournal@googlemail.com

Submission guidelines:

Article length: 3000-5000 words

Book/exhibition/conference reviews: 500-1000 words

Author bio: 3 sentences

Abstract: 150 words

Keywords: Maximum of 6

Format: typed, double spaced, A4/letter sized, additional copy on disk

Acknowledgement: for permission, quotation, copyright, etc submitted with final draft

Legal stuff:

• The submission must not be considered for publication elsewhere,excluding
  thesis/dissertation


• Publishers have worldwide and on-line copyright of the published submission


• It is the author’s responsibility to obtain worldwide and online
  permission for images/quote from copyright issues and provide written
  documentation of permission


• There is no payment for translation, redrawing, drawing or mounting services
  provided

Spelling and Punctuation: both US and British English spelling and punctuation are acceptable as long as the style remains consistent throughout.

Style:

Title page: author details, abstract, acknowledgements, keywords, reader correspondence address

Main Article: no author identification, properly formatted, ‘Main Article’ in
header

Font: size 12, Times New Roman Ref system & examples: we use the Harvard Referencing System. http://www.tvu.ac.uk/lrs/guides/harvard.html

Keywords: up to 6 keywords must be listed

Manuscript

Sent to: portfolioejournal@googlemail.com

Margins: 1”/2.54 cm margins all around, numbered pages

Artwork/illustrations: include text for captions, title, copyright, numbered

Quotations: large quotations inset, short textual quotes with single quotemarks, permission for those over 400 words, or 10 percent of submission

Language: English, foreign text translated into English

References

References: are to be cited in the body of the text in parentheses. As follows:(Smith, 2000: 52). Only cite books/articles quoted from or primary reference listed alphabetically and chronologically for each author

Footnotes: not accepted, see above referencing

Endnotes: consecutively numbered

Images: color photography preferred, high resolution xxx files, 300 pi for photos, artwork 600 dpi or higher 1200 b&w drawings

Filmography: used for film and video, use one key production reference (production company, major distributor or releasing studio—authors may choose one key reference). separate heading under references

Film: Robin Hood. 2010. Dir. Ridley Scott. Universal Studios

TV: Outnumbered (2007 – present) BBC One

Websites: Websites should include both the full address and the date of downloading or printing. Please use the date on which you referred to it.

Tables: Separate, at end, captioned and numbered.

Criteria for evaluation: To ensure anonymity and transparency throughout the process all submissions are double blind peer reviewed. Any questions will be submitted to appropriate Advisory Board members. Editor will acknowledge receipt of manuscript.

Portfolio: emerging research in visual culture

Portfolio: emerging research in visual culture is an on-line journal supported by the AHRC Beyond Texts scheme and developed by postgraduates from Northumbria and Sunderland Universities. Portfolio is a unique on-line, peer-reviewed publication that it is a multimedia and interactive project, initiated by Northumbria University and will be jointly administered. We welcome other postgraduates as editors and peer-reviewers.

The creation of Portfolio recognizes the need PGRs have for skills development and exposure to the editing and publishing worlds. As well it is tapping into the interdisciplinary world of visual culture allowing for cross-fermentation of ideas from historians to practitioners. As the name of the funding scheme, Beyond Text, suggests alternate forms of media will be viable – video, performance, sound, etc . The possibilities of working on-line broadens academic studies, and we hope that Portfolio will be a leader in not only supporting PGRs and early researchers, but in new ways of practicing and disseminating research.

Our first issue will be launched in Autumn 2010. If you are interested in being involved as an editor, peer reviewer, or joining our growing professional advisory board please contact us at portfolioejournal@googlemail.com

CFP will be announced shortly

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