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Author Guidelines

The flow of a typical peer-reviewed piece, from initial submission to publication:

  1. An author submits an article to the journal, or is contacted by an editor to write an article.
  2. The article is forwarded by electronic mail to the editorial management.
  3. The editorial management initiates the peer review process by forwarding the article to Dancecult’s editors and reviewers by electronic mail.
  4. Comments on the article are submitted to the editorial management, who then assign one of three evaluations to the article:
    • a. accept with minor revisions
    • b. revise and resubmit according to guidelines (conditional acceptance)
    • c. rejected
  5. Following outcome a or b, a revised paper is reviewed and accepted for publication.
  6. The article is edited for formatting and journalistic conventions and a proof copy is provided to the author.
  7. The accepted proof is published in the designated issue of Dancecult
Please note: editorial management checks submission against basic protocols for section requirements and scholarly work (e.g. word length, the inclusion of references, and basic grammar) and assesses the relevance of the subject area to the journal. It is within the editors rights to reject submissions that do not conform to basic protocols and requirements. That is, such submissions will not be subject to peer review.

Reference Format

Please download and follow the Dancecult style guidelines.



 

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. 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). Online or printed publication of conference proceedings is considered prior publication.
  2. I have read the Author Guidelines, which specify the typical flow of an article submitted to Dancecult.
  3. My article is in either the Microsoft Word (.doc) or the .RTF document file format, with single-spaced, 12-point text. It must use italics, rather than underlining (except with URLs), and all illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points. All notes must be endnotes numbered "1, 2, 3", not footnotes.
  4. The article conforms to the latest version of the Dancecult style guidelines.
  5. Where available, URLs for the references (including audio recording links to discogs.com and film links to imdb.org) have been provided.
  6. The word-length and content adheres to the journal's section guidelines (e.g. feature articles must be between 5000-8000 words, and must include an 150 word abstract, and From the Floor articles must be between 1500-3000 words in length).
  7. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
  8. If including images or diagrams, please submit them in a separate .zip archive in addition to including them in the original document. Dancecult accepts .jpg, .png, and .tif format images. To ensure the best quality, originals for the print edition should be at least 1350 pixels (4.5" at 300 DPI) in the longest dimension, and images for the html/web edition should be 480 pixels wide.
 

Copyright Notice

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-Share Alike License 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. Such derivate works or subsequent publications must happen no less than one calendar year after the initial publication date in Dancecult.

  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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