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All written submissions should be sent to imaginat@ualberta.ca and copied to mrln@yorku.ca and bbellamy@ualberta.ca. Please include a separate sheet with short biographical and contact information. Artists wishing to publish with the journal should first contact the editors at the email address above. All written contributions are subject to anonymous peer-review. If you are interested in writing a review or think-piece for elicitations, please contact the reviews editor at laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca

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Les soumissions doivent être envoyées à imaginat@ualberta.ca, mrln@yorku.ca, et bbellamy@ualberta.ca dans un format permettant l’évaluation à l’aveugle par les pairs. Joindre un document séparé contenant une courte notice bio-bliographique et vos coordonnées. Les artistes intéressés à contribuer ou publier dans Imaginations sont priés de prendre d’abord contact avec le comité éditorial à l’adresse courriel ci-dessus. Toutes les contributions écrites seront soumises à un processus d’évaluation double par les pairs. Les personnes intéressées à proposer des comptes rendus critiques sont priées de s’adresser à Laura Bisailloin : laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca

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Publishing in Imaginations provides contributors great visibility and the potential to contribute to an interdisciplinary visual cultural studies community. Imaginations purchases digital object identifiers (DOIs) for all articles, and is indexed by major international databases including Academic Search Elite, part of the EBSCO Discovery Service. We further invest in Altmetrics tracking technologies to better support contributing authors and artists by providing data on reach and impact. As a courtesy we ask authors to link to our journal (when possible) and to inform us about citation instances. We are happy to share our Altmetrics with contributors.

Currently, Imaginations publishes themed issues and also accepts general submissions on an ongoing basis in any language.

Imaginations invites articles that discuss the historical inheritances of 20th century discourses on and between images as they are in dialogue with and articulated in 21st century cultural contexts.  Potential contributions should innovatively reflect on the image. General submissions might include the following: new technologies, interactions between text and image, text as image, image and the self, dynamic and static images, omnipresence of screens (big and small), thinkers of the image, image across the disciplines and forms of thought (visuality, medicine, science, urban studies, political studies, gender studies, queer studies, etc.).

Interested artists, authors, and guest-editors may contact Editor-in-Chief Markus Reisenleitner: mrln@yorku.ca.

Contributions

Imaginations invites several types of contributions on an ongoing basis as part of guest edited collections or individual submissions.

  1. Research articles (3000-6000 words with a minimum of 3 quality images);
  2. Feature artist contribution with accompanying interview (contents of online installation of feature artist’s work vary and are negotiable)
  3. Comparative book review (1500-3000 words with a minimum of 2 quality images);
  4. Elicitations Reviews of art shows, performance pieces, installations, political events, and scholarly books—with visual cultural content (500 words with a minimum of 1 image, taken by the author if necessary).

Interested artists, authors, and guest-editors may contact Editor-in-Chief Markus Reisenleitner: mrln@yorku.ca.

Anyone interested in publishing with Elicitations may contact Reviews Editor Laura Bisaillon: laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca

Please review the parameters of our copyright and license agreement before submitting to Imaginations or repurposing any of its material.

Author Guidelines

Imaginations is committed to fostering the development of productive and inventive conversation between visual/artistic communities and academic/scholarly communities, and to bringing new topics of discussion to the academic stage.

Articles published with Imaginations must integrate high quality images with outstanding academic writing. Images may include original or published artworks, photographs, video clips, or any other visual content that is digitally embeddable.  Identifying and obtaining the relevant permissions for images used in Imaginations articles is the responsibility of the author.

The managing editorial team prefers the inclusion of original photographic and fine art over reproductions such as screen shots. Although screen shots certainly have their place, Imaginations aims to create aesthetic balance and intrigue in each of its issues, and hopes to develop lines of inquiry that go beyond the already established traditions and methods of visual art criticism.

Embedding visual material directly into the articles benefits authors, as they can then avoid lengthy descriptions of works central to their arguments, and may focus instead on  more concise and relevant analysis. We encourage all authors and artists wishing to publish with Imaginations to take risks with their writing and/or artworks, and to stretch the limits of traditional publishing.

We encourage our authors to obtain ORCIDs in order to enhance and promote their online visibility. ORCID is a open-source community-based organization that provides unique electronic researcher identification codes to researchers across disciplines, sectors, and borders. If you have not already registered yourself for an ORCID, we strongly recommend that you do so at orcid.org. As scholarly research and writing is increasingly going online, digital identifiers such as ORCIDs can serve both to increase the author’s online visibility and to help publishers gather article-level metrics, which are essential to grant applications and future funding opportunities.

For questions of style and formatting, please see our Author Submission Guidelines.

Review Process

All artistic works and academic articles published by Imaginations are first vetted by the managing editorial board. Once submissions are preliminarily accepted, they undergo an anonymous peer-review process prior to publication. Elicitations reviews are assessed by the Reviews Editor.

What is Elicitations?

On a rolling basis, Elicitations publishes reviews and reflections on current events and publications in visual culture communities. All reviews published with Elicitations are subject to the same copyright and licensing agreements that apply to Imaginations.

Anyone interested in publishing with Elicitations may contact Elicitations Editor Laura Bisaillon: laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca.

Être publié dans Imaginations offre à nos collaborateurs une grande visibilité et l’opportunité de développer un réseau interdisciplinaire d’études visuelles et culturelles. Imaginations obtient des Digital Object Identifier (DOI) pour tous les articles publiés et est répertoriée dans des bases de données internationales d’importance telles que Academic Search Elite et EBSCO Discovery Service, en partie. De plus, nous avons investi dans des moyens technologiques de comptage Altmetrics afin de soutenir nos artistes et auteurs le mieux possible en leur fournissant des données sur l’impact et la diffusion de leurs articles. Nous demandons aux auteurs quand l’opportunité se présente, de bien vouloir mettre notre revue en lien et de nous informer de toutes citations. Nous nous faisons un plaisir de partager nos Altmetrics avec  nos collaborateurs.

Actuellement, Imaginations publie des éditions thématiques et accepte des soumissions dans toutes les langues.

Imaginations est à la recherche d’articles proposant une réflexion sur la manière dont l’histoire a laissé son empreinte sur les discours dédiés à l’image, et plus spécifiquement sur les discours ancrés dans le XXe siècle. Nous nous intéressons également à la manière dont les images ont été pensées et produites, en interrelation les unes avec les autres, dans le temps et en lien avec les contextes culturels du XXIe siècle. Les propositions de contribution devront faire montre d’une réflexion innovatrice sur le sujet. Sont bienvenues toutes propositions portant sur, mais  pas limité à :l’intégration des nouvelles technologies, les interactions entre texte et image, le texte en tant qu’image, les liens entre image, identité et représentations, les images dynamiques et statiques, l’omniprésence de l’écran (« petit écran » et « grand écran »), les penseurs de l’image, l’image à travers les disciplines et les courants de pensée (visualité, médecine, sciences, études de l’urbanité, sciences politiques, études des genres, études queer, etc.).

Les auteurs, artistes et éditeurs intéressés peuvent contacter notre rédacteur en chef, Markus Reisenleitner: mrln@yorku.ca.

Appel de communications permanent

Imaginations sollicite  la soumission de plusieurs types de travaux tout au long de l’année:

1. Articles scientifiques (3000-6000 mots comportant au moins 3  images de qualité);
2. Œuvres d’un artiste en vedette, accompagnées d’une entrevue. (le contenu de l’installation en ligne de l’artiste peut varier et est négociable);
3. Critique littéraire comparative (1500-3000 mots accompagnés d’au moins 2 images de qualité);
4. Critiques d’expositions d’art, de performances artistiques, d’installations, d’évènements politiques et de livres savants comportant un contenu visuel (500 mots contenant au moins une image prise par l’auteur si besoin).

Si vous souhaitez soumettre une critique littéraire comparative examinée par des pairs, veuillez contacter la rédactrice en chef d’Imaginations, Markus Reisenleitner: mrln@yorku.ca.

Si vous souhaitez soumettre la courte critique  d’un évènement ou d’une publication, veuillez contacter l’éditrice d’Elicitations, Laura Bisaillon: laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca

Lignes directrices pour auteurs

Imaginations est dévouée au développement de conversations productives et inventives entre les communautés d’art visuel et les communautés universitaires et à l’introduction de nouveaux sujets sur la scène universitaire.

Les articles publiés  dans Imaginations doivent comporter  images de grande qualité et exceptionnelle écriture universitaire. Les images peuvent être des œuvres d’art inédites ou publiées, des photos, des clips vidéo ou tout autre matériel visuel pouvant être intégrer électroniquement. Fournir une identification et obtenir les autorisations nécessaires pour les images utilisées dans les articles publiés dans Imaginations est la responsabilité de l’auteur.

Le comité éditorial favorise l’inclusion des œuvres et photos  originales plutôt que des reproductions comme les captures d’écrans. Bien que les captures d’écrans aient leur utilité, Imaginations souhaite créer équilibre  esthétique et intrigue dans chacune de ses publications et espère développer de nouvelles avenues de recherche allant au-delà des traditions et méthodes de critiques d’art visuel en place.

Intégrer le matériel visuel directement aux articles est un bénéfice pour l’auteur, leur évitant de longues descriptions des œuvres centrales à leurs arguments et leur permettant de se concentrer sur une analyse plus concise et pertinente. Nous encourageons tous les auteurs et artistes désirant être publiés dans Imaginations à prendre des risques avec leurs écrits/œuvres et à repousser les limites traditionnelles du monde de l’édition.

Nous encourageons nos auteurs à obtenir un compte ORCID afin d’améliorer et de développer leur visibilité en ligne. ORCID est une organisation communautaire d’accès libre à l’information qui offre des codes d’identification numérique uniques à des chercheurs dans tous les domaines, secteurs et de par le monde. Si vous ne possédez pas déjà de compte ORCID, nous vous conseillons vivement de vous en procurer un sur orcid.org. Alors que la recherche et les écrits universitaires se multiplient en ligne, des services d’identification numérique tels que ORCID servent à développer la visibilité des auteurs en ligne et aident les éditeurs à collecter des statistiques indispensables aux demandes de subventions et autres opportunités de financement.

Pour toutes questions de style et de format, consultez notre guide stylistique.

Processus de révision

Toutes les œuvres artistiques et les articles universitaires publiés dans Imaginations sont d’abord examinés minutieusement par le comité éditorial. Les travaux acceptés après cette sélection préliminaire sont soumis à une révision par des pairs en anonyme avant leur publication. Les critiques publiées dans Elicitations sont revues par l’éditeur en charge des critiques.

Qu’est-ce que Elicitations?

Elicitations publie en continu des critiques et des réflexions sur des évènements courants et des publications des communautés de culture visuelle. Toutes les critiques publiées dans Elicitations sont sujettes aux mêmes accords d’exploitation et de licence que les articles publiés dans Imaginations. Les critiques publiées dans Elicitations ne reçoivent pas de DOI mais sont soumises à un comptage Altmetrics.

Toute personne souhaitant être publiée dans Elicitations est invitée à contacter le rédacteur d’Elicitations Laura Bisaillon: laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca.

A clean manuscript is crucial for a timely and smooth production process. The following guidelines are meant to minimize friction and unnecessary formatting issues.

Submission

Articles can be submitted in any current word processor format. If you plan to use an unusual word processor (e.g. Mellel), please contact the editors.

Citation style

Imaginations follow MLA 9 Style, unless otherwise noted in this document. Superb guidelines can be found at https://owl.purdue.edu/.

Abstract

Abstracts should contain no more than 100 words and should be included in both French and English. Please indicate if you will require translation.

Keywords

Please submit 3-5 keywords for your article.

When selecting these, consider the following:

  • Choose specific terms that are not too broad
  • Consider using phrases that that comprise several words
  • Try to use different words than those in your title and consider generally accepted alternative words instead
  • Ensure that you include the methodology or framework if your submission adheres to a recognizable approach or technique
  • Use the official form of each key term
  • Select and terms you would use if you were searching for a paper on a similar subject and test them by conducting said search

Title

  • Capitalize all of the major words in the title (e.g., Epistemology of the Closet).
  • Please include a French translation of your title.
  • Subtitles should be separated from the main title by a colon.

Formatting

Please be aware that for a clean manuscript, it is irrelevant what your text looks like in your word processor.

Almost all formatting you put in will need to be eliminated during the typesetting process, so any additional formatting you put into the text only creates additional work for the production.

Specifically, please do not format your text by applying font formatting to your body text, except for italics, superscript, and bold characters. Alternatively, you can indicate italics by using enclosing *asterisks*, superscript by enclosing caret ^superscript^, and bold by using double enclosing **asterisks**.

Paragraph styles should be limited to the following:

  • Heading 1 for the title of the article
  • Heading 2 for subtitles
  • Heading 3 for Sub-subtitles (if absolutely necessary)
  • Caption for image captions
  • Blockquote for indented longer quotations (please use double quotation marks in addition to the indent. N.B.: This is a deviation from the MLA standard.)

No paragraph style formatting should be applied to your body text. (Note: In MS Word for Macintosh you can quickly check for such formatting by opening the Styles Pane and checking “Show direct formatting” at the bottom of the pane).

Please avoid formatting with whitespaces. Specifically, there should be no tabs at the beginning of paragraphs. Periods, question marks, or exclamation points should never be followed by double spaces. As a matter of fact, double or more spaces, tabs, or a combination thereof, should be stripped from your text before you submit it. Similarly, there should be no double returns. There should never be a space before the end of a paragraph or before a line break. (All these problems can be quickly checked by using “Show/Hide hidden characters” and eliminated by a quick search/replace before you submit your manuscript.) Tabs should only be used for tables and avoided in any other context.

Ellipses are indicated by the ellipsis character enclosed in brackets […]. Please do not use three periods, or periods separated by spaces. (Note: The ellipsis character can be typed by holding down alt and typing ; on the Macintosh, or by holding down Alt and pressing 0150 on the number pad in Windows. (You can also set autocorrect in your word processor to do the substitution).

Please use long hyphens—without spaces on either side—in your text. Alternatively, you can use triple dashes (XXX—XXX).

Tables should be formatted with either tabs or your text editor’s table function. As always, please do not use spaces for formatting.

Filename

Author(s): When submitting your revised file, please submit only one document that contains the components of the work in this order: 1) abstract (English/French); 2) Title (English/French; 3) Author Name | Affiliation; 4) main text; 5) reference list (if applicable); 6) image notes; 7) end notes.

The file containing the revised manuscript should be named as follows: <imaginations_volume#_issue#_article#-lastname.filetype> for instance <imaginations_2_1_2–smith.docx>

Footnotes and Endnotes

You can use either footnotes or endnotes, but please do not use both.

Follow these guidelines:

  • Enter notes using the automatic footnote/endnote function in your word processor.
  • Note numbers should begin with 1 and follow consecutively throughout.
  • In the text, note numbers are superscripted. Where multiple notes are attached to the same sentence, separate the notes with a comma: 1, 2
  • Note numbers appear after punctuation, as here.1
  • There is no space between the text and the note number.
  • Each note shall end with a period.

Use of Italics

Employ italics for: titles of books, reports, names of journals/periodicals, terms not in English (with the exception of commonly used terms such as “et cetera” or “ad hoc”), emphasis.

Use of Punctuation

  • Always use the Oxford (serial) comma. For example: red, white, and blue.
  • The first word of quotations that follow a colon should be capitalized: “Like this, for example.”
  • Use a comma after phrases that are introduced with an adverb. For example, “Surprisingly, they had not considered this alternative.”
  • Avoid use of “Scare quotes.” When they are used, they are to be encased in double-quotation marks; when scare quotes are employed within quoted material, they are to be encased in single quotation marks. For example, “It is not customary to use the term ‘awesome’ in such a context.”
  • Place any semi-colon, colon, question mark, or exclamation mark outside of quotation marks (e.g., Chris said my idea was “fantastic”!) unless that punctuation is part of quoted material (In the e-mail, Chris said it was “a great idea!”).
  • Place any period or comma inside of quotation marks (exception: in case of in-text citation, the period will be located at the end of the sentence).
  • Ellipses will be indicated by the ellipsis character enclosed in brackets (“[…]”) and shall be used to indicate omissions in a quotation.
  • Square brackets shall be used to indicate authorial amendments to quoted material.
  • Use ‘em’ dashes and close the space around them—like so.
  • The semi-colon may be used to: join closely related or oppositional independent clauses; or, to join items in a list.

Use of Abbreviations

  • Use “e.g.,” “etc.,” and “i.e.,” only in text that is in parentheses. In running text, spell these out “for example,” “etcetera,” and “that is”
  • For abbreviations of locations in notes and reference lists use the two-letter postal style (i.e., use AB not Alb or Alberta).
  • However, in running text, spell out the full name of a country, city or state unless used as an adjective (e.g., “In the United States” but “U.K. nationalism”).
  • Write out in full upon first use any abbreviations or acronyms (e.g., the Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)).

Spelling

Imaginations uses Canadian spellings (e.g., flavour; analyze; grey); in direct quotations do not change American, British etc. spelling to Canadian spelling.

For possessive names ending in “s” use ’s except in cases of well-known authors or figures (i.e., Weiss’s vs. Dickens’).

Use of Languages Other than English or French

The language of the article should be English or French. As this is an interdisciplinary journal, please try to keep discipline-specific jargon to a minimum.

Quotations of more than three words in languages other than English or French must be cited within the body of the text in translation and, if the translation is your own or if it is relevant to the analysis, in the original language in an endnote. Indicate in an initial endnote if the translations are yours.

At first mention of a non-English or non-French source title in the text, please use the original title followed by the standard translation in parentheses, or your own translation should no English/French translation exist. All subsequent references use original title.

Dates

Write dates of birth and death as follows: 1225-1274 (write all digits of the year and separate with a hyphen).

Write inclusive dates of publication: 1973-1976 (do not truncate closing dates).

Note that the part of speech determines the different ways the century must be written:

  • 21st century (n.); 21st-century (adj.)
  • 17th century (n.); 17th-century (adj.)
  • mid-18th century (n.); mid-18th-century (adj.)

Decades are not to be abbreviated. Write 1960s, not 50s, 50’s or 1950’s unless it appears as such in quoted material.

Numbers

Spell out whole numbers one through ten as well as numbers located at the beginning of a sentence. For example: seven, 79, 250 million, 1.6 billion.

In-Text Citations

The first time an author is cited in running text, refer to them by first and last name.

Include page numbers for any and all quoted material.

Decide whether you will summarize, paraphrase, or directly quote the material—each of which require citation.

As a friendly reminder, when developing your article or review, keep track of the necessary bibliographic information. Doing so helps expedite the evaluation and publication of your article.

In-Text Citation: Quotes of four lines and less (of your essay text) can be incorporated into a sentence within the main essay text. The essential information is the author’s last name and the page reference for the quoted material. The title of the referenced text is optional, but recommended. Here are some examples of MLA in-text citation.

  • In their book They Say, I Say, Graff and Birkenstein declare: “since quotations do not speak for themselves, you need to build a frame around them in which you do that speaking for them” (41).
  • Graff and Birkenstein remark that “since quotations do not speak for themselves, you need to build a frame around them in which you do that speaking for them” (41).
  • In They Say, I Say, a quotation sandwich is explained: “since quotations do not speak for themselves, you need to build a frame around them in which you do that speaking for them” (Graff and Birkenstein 41).
  • On page 41, Graff and Birkenstein say, “since quotations do not speak for themselves, you need to build a frame around them in which you do that speaking for them.”

Block Quotation: If the quoted text takes over more than four lines in your essay, then you will need to use a block quote.

Poetry: When quoting a passage of poetry of fewer than four lines, use a slash (/) to indicate line breaks in the verse.

References

Cross-check your reference list with your in-text citations. Ensure that anything listed in the reference list is in fact cited in the text and that anything cited in the text is listed in the reference list.

The “Works Cited” list is an alphabetical catalogue of the works referenced (summarized, quoted, or paraphrased) in your paper, essay, article, or review.

The article’s in-text citation corresponds to the article’s Works Cited List.

In-text citation format is as follows: “Quote or paraphrase” (Author Page).

In the following samples, note that the author and page information is essential, as the author’s last name serves as the link to more information about the source in the “Works Cited” list. Consider the following examples:

  • According to Ruta Sepetys, “Those who survived spent ten to fifteen years in Siberia” (340).
  • In Between Shades of Gray, the survivors are said to have “spent ten to fifteen years in Siberia” (Sepetys 340).
  • As for a duration, “Those who survived spent ten to fifteen years in Siberia” (Sepetys 340).

In the “Works Cited” list, under the name Sepetys, the following information can be located:

  • Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray. Puffin, 2011.

Placement of Works Cited List: Place the list at the end of the paper. The list begins on a new page, continuing the numbering of the essay. The title, Works Cited, is centered. Double-space between the title and the first entry.

Begin each entry at the left margin; however, if an entry is more than one line, then use hanging indentation format (indent each subsequent line or lines a half an inch from the left margin). Double-space the entire list, both between and within entries. Continue the list on as many pages as necessary.

Arrangement: Arrange entries in alphabetical order.

Online References: For Imaginations (due to its multi-media format), the inclusion of links in the Works Cited list (for online references) is recommended, especially if a DOI link can be provided.

Images

For submission: Images should appear in text in their appropriate locations.

Please keep in text images at a small size i.e., 500kb for submission.

If your article is accepted: You will be expected to provide higher resolution electronic versions of the in text images (including video or sound) in a separate file. For accepted articles images need to be TIFF (preferred) or JPEG with at least 300dpi resolution for colour/greyscale/black and white.

Videos must be MPEG4 format and include screen shots (as per above) for use in Print and PDF versions of the article.

Audio must be MP3 format (128 KBPS or higher).
Image captions should be added to each image. The caption text should be below the image and preceded by “Figure X”, and the caption should be given the paragraph style Caption.

Please include a section entitled “Image Notes” at the end of your document (following Notes and Works Cited) with all references/sources or title information for images, audio-clips, films clips used.

Be sure that all images, videos, and any other material used correspond to Canadian “fair dealing” and the University of Alberta “fair dealing” policy (see below for more copyright information).

Copyright Information

Use of Third Party Material: All third-party content in any submission to Imaginations must conform to the Fair Dealing exception in the Canadian Copyright or you must provide copies of your copyright permission.

Publication License Agreement: Upon acceptance of your article, after it has undergone a double-blind peer-review process, you will receive a contract to license the publication of your work under a Creative Commons 4.0 Attribution License (BY-NC-ND): https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.

All third-party material used in your article must be conform to the Canadian Fair exception in the Canadian Copyright Act or you must provide copies of copyright re-printing permissions—if these were not already provided as per the journal’s protocol, at the time of submission.

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