Submissions

Author Guidelines

Preparing your work
• All submissions should be in English. We use British English spellings.
• Research articles are a maximum of 10,000 words, including notes and appendices.
• All research articles should include an abstract of up to 100 words and five keywords of your choice. Please add this to Metadata section when you upload your submission.
• Fonts: the text should use either Arial or Georgia, in 12-point size.
• Alignment: paragraph text should be justified.
• Margins: use the standard margins for an A4 page in Word or OpenOffice.
• Page numbers: these should be displayed on the bottom right of the page.
• The title and sub-headings should be clear and concise. Sub-headings should be aligned to the left-hand margin
• Paragraphs should be separated by a space. We don’t use indentation.

Some conventions we use
• Use single quotation marks for quotes.
• Quotes over 40 words in length should be set out from the body of the text by being indented 1 cm from the left margin; quotation marks should not be used for indented quotes
• Use a single (not a double) space after a full stop, and after all other punctuation marks. Do not put a space in front of a question mark, or in front of any other closing punctuation mark
• Avoid full stops when using abbreviations. UNESCO, UK, Mrs and Dr are preferred.
• Use italics for the titles of books, plays, films etc.
• Avoid the use of ‘he’ when he or she is meant, wherever possible, either through the use of ‘they’ or by repeating the noun
• Numbers of 10 and under should spelt out as words. Insert a comma for thousands and tens of thousands (e.g. 10,000 and 100,000). Numerals should be used for measurements and percentages (but spell out ‘per cent’); the percentage sign (%) should only be used in tables and figures
• Dates should be presented as follows: 1 January 2003. Centuries should be spelt out, e.g. eighteenth century (not ‘18th century’).

Creating an Author Account
You will need an Author account to submit an article. Please email technical support to set up an account.

References
We use an Author-Date style referencing style.

Cite only what needs to be cited: excessive citations will be removed during copyediting.

Your article should end with a list of all references cited in the main text. This should be arranged alphabetically by author surname.

Non-roman scripts
Titles of works in languages that do not use Roman characters should appear as follows: transliteration of author’s name, title of work in original characters, English translation of title [square brackets], English translation of place of publication and publisher [square brackets].

Example:
LI, Chuankui (2009) 周明镇院士传略 [A Story of the Fellow of Chinese Academy of Sciences – Zhou Mingzhen] in GAO Xing and ZHANG Yi eds, 探幽考古的岁月:中科院古脊椎所80周年所庆纪念文集 [Collected Papers for the Eighty Years Anniversary of the IVPP, The Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing: China Ocean Press].

Keeping your work anonymous
Do not include your name, email or affiliation in the main text. Please add these details to the Metadata section when you start your submission (do not upload them as a separate Word file).

Images, illustrations and tables
If you are re-using images created by someone else, you are responsible for obtaining the relevant permissions from copyright holders.

Images should be submitted as separate .jpg files, minimum resolution 300 dpi. Indicate in the main text where the images should be inserted.

Give your files meaningful names e.g. author-surname-Fig1.jpg.
Unless they are very large, tables can be submitted as part of the main text.

Captions should be submitted in a separate Word file: do not add captions to the image.

Peer Review Policy
Human Figurations follows a double-anonymised review policy for article submissions. The names of the authors are not known by the reviewers, and the names of the reviewers are not known by the authors. We aim to commission a minimum of 2 reviewers for each article.

To maintain anonymity, please ensure that your name, email and affiliation has been removed from the main text. All author information should be added to the Metadata section during the submission process; do not upload it as a supplementary file.

Libel
While we welcome works that engage critically with debates and issues in our field, we will not publish articles that contain defamatory or libellous statements about individuals.

Plagiarism
Our open access policies recognize the rights of authors to their original work. To protect all authors, however, we also hold to strict guidelines regarding plagiarism and work that has been published elsewhere in any form. We shall not publish such work, and we will not publish future work by violators. Following COPE guidelines, we may also contact authors’ supervisors or institutions.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)
Human Figurations does not charge article submission or processing fees. Submitting and publishing an article is free for authors.