Blog Submissions
Submitting to the INTER-Scene is very straightforward. Please email your draft submission to [email protected] with the format “BLOG – [Title] – [Name]”. If it is your first time publishing with us, please send a short (~100 words) author biography accompanying your submission.
We will contact you acknowledging receipt of your submission. We endeavour to let you know whether we will publish your submission (with any suggested revisions/additions) within two weeks.
The editorial board reserves the right to minorly copy-edit the accepted submission for clarity, accuracy and style. This will not infringe in any way on the substance of the submission and the author will be able to review the final draft before publication.
Should your piece be accepted for publication, a link will be emailed to you with a permalink to your uploaded work with full credits to the author given. Furthermore, we will endeavour to promote its publication through our network, social media channels, and conferences.
The INTER-Scene accepts a much wider range of submissions than written manuscripts and review essays. Among others, we accept the following submissions:
Articles/Essays/Think pieces
Interviews/Transcriptions
Conference reports
Exhibition reviews
Poetry (or a cluster of poems)
Short fiction / speculative theory
Gallery of photographs / Multimedia film: We will link to the main page where your file/s are uploaded (Vimeo, Instagram, or another appropriate hosting site) and publish your written reflections or introductions to the piece/s.
Should you have an idea that is outside of these parameters, feel free to send us an email to discuss if it is something we would be interested in. This idea can be a draft or yet uncompleted piece – we’re interested in those too!
The INTER-Scene accepts completed submissions up to 2,500 words in length with no minimum requirement. If you have a piece over this quota which you believe fits with INTER-‘s ethos, please contact us as we may be able to suggest submitting in two parts or elongating to 5,000 words for submission to the biannual journal.
Please note that whilst a bibliography is not required for blog pieces, references are mandatory and must follow the most recent Chicago in-text citation style. Please see our referencing guide below for more information.
The INTER-Scene is open-access and embraces a Creative Commons licence. Publishing with us therefore does not prevent you from publishing your piece elsewhere. Copyright in the work remains with the author, and the author retains the right to reuse their piece so long as they cite where it was originally published.
Please make sure to attach any images you wish to use, and for those that are not in the public domain, their necessary permission agreements. Supply a list of figures and/or tables, including a caption for each, accompanied by a source line and such acknowledgments as are required. If you are unable to submit images in this format, please contact the editorial board.
The INTER-Scene allows authors the chance to communicate any considerations that may be relevant to the evaluation of the submission. This may be explaining the rationale behind certain omissions or non-engagements, or flagging anything which may surprise the internal reviewer. The note should not, however, be used to add substance to the argument which is not included in the main body of the text. Notes of this kind will not be taken into consideration. This note must not exceed 250 words and may be attached as a supplemental file to the submission email.
Journal Submissions
In the first round, authors submit an abstract of their article between 250-400 words with six keywords that describe the content of the manuscript. Authors should mention whether the abstract is for an article already written or to be drafted.
In the abstract, please detail what argument you plan to put forward, how it relates to relevant literature, why the argument is important or needs to be made, and how you plan to do that. You may attach a short bibliography for reference if you like (this is only suggestive; you do not need to be exhaustive or use all the sources in the final submission).
The abstract is subject to internal review by the editorial board. Two weeks after the abstract submission window closes, successful authors will be commissioned for the draft of their proposed article, typically between 5000-8000 words. Authors are generally given three months to complete this draft, though extensions can be given. Please note: the acceptance of a proposal abstract does not guarantee publication.
If for any reason during this time you will not be able to complete the draft, please let us know at the earliest opportunity.
After the second round of submissions is closed, the draft article is passed to peer-reviewers. When sending us completed drafts, please eliminate all references or cover pages that would identify you to facilitate anonymous peer review. Consequently, please do not use the first person in connection with references to your own published work and use a title that would not be available to potential peer reviewers online. In view of this, titles can be amended post-review and returned to a title of your original choice.
Peer-reviewers have one month to submit their recommendation to both INTER- and the author. In the event that major/minor revisions are necessary to the draft, authors have two weeks to complete these changes and finalise their draft.
This final draft will be passed back to the original peer-reviewer and confirmed whether it is ready to publish. The author will be notified of this decision; if all is done in a timely way then publication in the intended issue will result. If for any reason the process was significantly delayed, publication may be postponed for the following issue.
On publication a link will be emailed to you with a permalink to your uploaded work with full credits to the author given. Furthermore, we will endeavour to promote its publication through our network, social media channels, and conferences.
The biannual journal accepts written manuscripts and review essays. We may sometimes solicit shorter reviews of newly published texts.
We accept submissions between 5,000 and 8,000 words in length: this is inclusive of any notes and appendices. References and a bibliography are mandatory and are not included within the word count.
These must follow the most recent Chicago in-text citation referencing style. Please see our referencing guide below for more information.
INTER- is an open-access journal and embraces a Creative Commons licence.
Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:
Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work’s authorship and initial publication in this journal.
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.
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.
It is the author’s responsibility to obtain print and online permission to quote material from third-party sources and to cover any costs incurred in securing these rights. The editorial board should be alerted at the earliest opportunity as to any difficulty in securing these third-party rights.
After publication with INTER-, you have the nonexclusive right to republish your article in any work of which you are the sole author, provided only that you credit the original publication. Please feel free to reach out to us for any queries regarding copyright of your published work.
Please make sure to attach any images you wish to use, and for those that are not in the public domain, their necessary permission agreements. Supply a list of figures and/or tables, including a caption for each, accompanied by a source line and such acknowledgments as are required. If you are unable to submit images in this format, please contact the editorial board.
INTER- allows authors the chance to communicate any considerations that may be relevant to the evaluation of the completed manuscript. This may be explaining the rationale behind certain omissions or non-engagements, or flagging anything which may surprise the peer reviewer. The note should not, however, be used to add substance to the argument which is not included in the main body of the text. Notes of this kind will not be forwarded to the reviewer. This note must not exceed 250 words and may be attached as a supplemental file to the submission email, titled “Author’s Note for Reviewers”.
General
All submissions must adhere to INTER-’s General Style Guide. It is the responsibility of the author to ensure that the rules set out within the Style Guide, and any others communicated to the author by the editorial board, are adhered to meticulously throughout each submission.
Document Type:
Please submit your file as a Word document (.doc or .docx); it will be converted to a PDF before being sent for peer review (please do not “lock” your file).
Spelling:
INTER- uses English spelling conventions (i.e., analyse not analyze, colour not color, and centre not center). Please set your document to “English (UK).”
Formatting:
The body of the text should be double-spaced, including quotations, using Arial font in 12-point size.
Alignment:
Left-align all pages (do not justify) and use 2.54-centimetre / 1-inch margins on top and bottom, as well as right and left.
Page Numbers:
Include page numbers for all submissions to the biannual journal. Place page numbers on each page in the top right corner of each page and use Arial font in 12-point size.
Block Quotations:
A prose quotation of five or more lines, or more than 100 words, should be blocked.
Chicago Manual of Style recommends blocking two or more lines of poetry.
A blocked quotation does not get enclosed in quotation marks.
A blocked quotation must always begin a new line.
Block quotations should be free of external quotation marks and indented 1.27 centimetres / half an inch, flush-left.
Quotations in Languages Other than English:
Please use these guidelines when quoting and citing non-English texts and their translations. These guidelines are designed to give readers access to the source in its original language, while also ensuring that INTER- articles are immediately accessible to an Anglophone audience.
All quotations should appear in the body of the article in English. Where essential to the argument, single words or short phrases in the original language may appear in the body of the article.
If you quote a published English translation, the footnote should include references to both that translation and the relevant passage in the original-language edition.
If there is no published English translation, please reproduce the quotation in its original language in the footnote and identify the translator, for example “Translation mine.”
Subheadings:
Subheadings should be used for longer papers and should not be numbered.
Abbreviated Terms:
Abbreviated terms should be given in full on first use, with the abbreviated form in brackets; after that the abbreviation of the term may be utilised.
Hyphens:
Hyphens should be spaced en dashes (for – example).
Dates:
They should be written out as 1940s and 16 January 1974.
Titles:
Titles mentioned in the text, notes, or bibliography should be capitalised “headline-style,” which means that the first word of titles and subtitles, and any important words thereafter, should be capitalised.
Titles in the text as well as in notes and bibliographies are marked with quotation marks or italics based on the type of work in question.
Book and periodical titles (titles of larger works) should be italicised.
Article and chapter titles (titles of shorter works) should be enclosed in double quotation marks.
Italics:
Words in another language other than English, not in common parlance, should be italicised.
In the case of italics within a quote, please add the words “emphasis added” or “author’s emphasis” to indicate whether a change to the original work has taken place.
Quotations:
Use double quotation marks throughout, and single quotation marks for quotes within quotes.
The INTER- group, in collaboration with the Graduate Research Board, will host conferences or symposiums according to demand and funding. Budget can be allocated for travel expenses in certain situations, though presentations may also be delivered virtually through Microsoft Teams subject to requirements. After the review process, you may be invited to present your manuscript as part of one of our conferences. If you are interested in speaking at one of our conferences, feel free to communicate this to us in your submission email.
INTER- accepts and sometimes solicits book reviews to accompany bi-annual journal publications, or to serve a general readership in the INTER-Scene blog. These reviews should range from between 500-1000 words, though this can be extended in some circumstances.
Book reviews should both summarise and analyse the argument. Good reviews will praise the merits of the text, engage with it on its own terms, and identify where the research or argument breaks new ground in existing literatures. Analysis will point out gaps in the literature, or draw connections to existing work in illuminating ways.
Authors should adhere to the above style guide when preparing book review essays for submission. Authors are expected to submit a draft within six months after their proposal is accepted.
If you would like to get in touch with the editorial board to pitch a book review, or would like to apply to regularly contribute book reviews for our publication, please email [email protected].
If you are a student looking to submit a piece of work, such as a dissertation, please bear the following in mind.
If your piece has been submitted as coursework, it will have to be changed substantially before it can be published so that it can be granted a DOI. Substantial changes do not involve altering the argument, but rather the wording and structure to the point where it would not constitute a double submission. This guideline would only apply to journal submissions, since blog submissions are not granted DOIs.
If your piece has not yet been, but will be submitted as coursework, the version you submit to your university will also need to be substantially different from the one published on the journal. Otherwise, it would constitute a double submission and would be noted as (self-)plagiarism through the submission system of your university. This guideline would apply to both journal and blog submissions.
Please submit all content to [email protected] with the subject of your email reading: JOURNAL/BLOG – [Title] – [Name]. Make sure to include your name, email address, and if applicable, current institution and status in the body of the email. This information will be removed before being passed on to peer reviewers in the case of the journal.
INTER- accepts submissions from students and academics, so please send them in. We embrace a non-hierarchical and egalitarian publishing environment and encourage student publication. We believe student and postgraduate papers should be read alongside the work of established academics to represent multiple perspectives and positions in an “intellectual commons” of knowledge-sharing.