Author Guidelines

Submitting text

• Submit files in Word.
• Files can be e-mailed or sent via Wetransfer.
• Single-spaced, no paragraph indentations.
• Single space after full stop.
• Serial commas (e.g. one, two, and three).
• Use Times New Roman, 12 pts for text and Arial, 9 pts in illustration captions.
• Spelling should conform to American practice (-ize, not -izs) and follow the Webster’s English Dictionary. If you wish to use British spellings, please agree to this in advance with your editor and follow the Oxford English Dictionary.
• Submit text with as little ‘formatting’ as possible. If you want a word to be italicized, italicize it in the manuscript. If you want a word to be bolded, set it in bold in the manuscript. The same goes for small capitals and other special formatting. Other than that, refrain from using layout.
• Artwork titles should be italicized and in the original language (English translation in parentheses, along with year of production).
• Quotations longer than one sentence should be separated from the text.
• Do not use Harvard style in-text referencing.
• Be consistent when using references:
  • quotations within a sentence include the comma or final punctuation mark, e.g. Gerritsen said that “this was the best way.”(15)
  • quotations within a sentence do not include the semicolon or colon, e.g. Muslim actors have become the focus of a “double over-visibilization”:
• Only Chicago Manual of Style endnotes are allowed (Times New Roman, 10 pts). They may be submitted in the standard Word format as part of the text. Keep their number and length limited.
• Submit endnotes using Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9…), single-spaced.
• Endnote referencing as follows: Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism, 10–15. For texts by multiple authors: Zijlmans and van Damme, World Art Studies: Exploring Concepts and Approaches, 6.
• Only use abbreviations when it is strictly necessary.
• Only numbers under 20 should be written out as words (so, nineteen but 345). You may depart from this rule when numerals or numbers form the main part of the text.
• Be consistent in spelling and transcribing foreign names (for instance, either ‘Dostoyevsky’ or ‘Dostoevskii’, but not both).
• Use extra lines of space only when absolutely necessary.
• Use double quotation marks (“ ”) and inside that quotation grouping, use singles (‘ ’) when needed.
• Add headings where relevant, making a clear distinction between heading levels.
• Subtitles/section headings in bold.
• Submit tables, diagrams, and figures in separate attached files. These should be numbered consecutively; indicate in the text where exactly you want the tables etc. to be inserted and incorporate in the main text on a separate line: ‘Table #’ and the desired caption text.
• Submit figures and diagrams separately in their original format and not as a Word file.
• Tables should be submitted as an Excel file. Use Arial, 8 pts for texts and use a standard layout.
• Please include a short bio (in italics) of no more than 150 words at the end of your text immediately before the References section.

Submitting visual materials

• Submit all images (named Fig 1, Fig 2, etc.) as separate attachments. Indicate their appropriate location in the text and incorporate, on a separate line: ‘Fig. #’ and the desired caption text.
• Only digital images are accepted. Digital images must have at least 300 dpi (dots per inch). Files with the formats TIF, EPS, and JPG are suitable; PDF files will not be accepted. The production coordinator will determine the quality of the digital images.
• Large digital files cannot be sent by e-mail but must be sent by Wetransfer. Stedelijk Museum e-mail server allows a maximum of 10 MB per e-mail/attachment.

Using links

• Offer alternative paths through your article. However, remember that articles can be published in Printing on Demand and they need to be suitable for paper version as well as for digital version.
• Files are linked together in various ways. We may also add links to your article once it has been submitted to us.
• If you would like to include video clips in your article, please provide us with an embed code and the particular location where the clip should appear.

ORCID

• Authors are required to provide an ORCID number together with their submission.