Please review the following topics in preparing your article for submission. If you have any questions or if you need assistance, please feel free to contact CA.

      Submitting an Article
      Submission Requirements
      Submission Guidelines
      Formatting the Article
      Citations and References
      Rights and Permission
      Bibliographies
      Acceptable File Types

Submitting an Article

(1) Articles should include the title, abstract, and key words but not the author's name or any other identifying information, and should be formatted as described below.

(2) An e-mail message with the article as an attachment to Contemporary Aesthetics should be sent to editor@contempaesthetics.org. Use "Submission" as the subject in the email address block. The message should include (1) the author’s name, (2) the title of the article, (3) an abstract of no more than 150 words, and (4) any relevant information about the author, including institutional affiliation, mailing and e-mail addresses.

Once you have prepared your paper observing the formatting, attach it to the e-mail message and click "Send." An acknowledgement will be sent indicating that the paper has been received.

Articles for submission must be previously unpublished and in English. Papers should be well-written, and we encourage grace as well as clarity. It is important that papers be copy-edited carefully before submission. Drafts are not acceptable. In submitting work to Contemporary Aesthetics, authors agree to the policies of this journal, including free access and use of the material published in it with, of course, proper acknowledgment of authorship and source. If you have any questions about whether your article is appropriate for CA, send it directly to the editor for a preliminary review.

All articles will be blind-refereed except when invited. The decision of the editorial board is final. Articles accepted for publication will be copyrighted by Contemporary Aesthetics.

Because Contemporary Aesthetics relies on the generosity of scholars who contribute their time to review articles, we ask that authors not submit their work to other journals at the same time. By using computer technology throughout, we expect that the review process will move quickly and that authors will be notified in a reasonable time.

Submission Guidelines                      back to top

Our submission guidelines have been carefully prepared to facilitate the editorial process of publishing articles online. Strict adherence to formatting guidelines (described below) has three purposes. First, simple formatting allows the editors to concentrate on the content of articles submitted. Second, it allows for reliable translation of authors' formatting to the web page. The third consideration is both aesthetic and practical: multiple stylistic formats are ugly and distracting on a web page and interfere with reading. Therefore please observe the formatting instructions carefully.

Formatting the Article                         back to top

Before submitting an article, the article should be formatted according to the following guidelines:

(1) At the beginning of the article, the title, abstract and a list of key words should immediately precede the text. Do not include the author’s name or any other identifying information.

(2) Please use section headings in bold type and number them. Because CA uses no page numbers, numbered sections will permit accurate references in citing the article.

(3) Number notes sequentially in the article using arabic numbers and place the notes at the end of the article.

(4) References should conform to the style displayed in the samples below under Citations and References.

(5) Please submit texts in MS Word, Rich Text Format (RTF – preferred), or WordPerfect. If submitting from a Macintosh computer, please include the three-letter file extension in the file name of your article. PDF files are not acceptable.

(6) Font should be 12 point Arial, Times New Roman, or Helvetica, whether in normal, bold, or italic. Please do not insert line breaks in the text or special spacing for formatting.

Citations and References                     back to top

References in articles submitted to Contemporary Aesthetics should conform to the formats below. For references that do not fit these forms, please follow the Chicago documentation style. There are several online sources for this showing endnote citation and reference list forms. See, for example, http://www.bridgew.edu/library/turabian.htm.

Wolfgang Welsch, Undoing Aesthetics (London: Sage, 1997), pp. 5-7.

Yi-Fu Tuan, "Place: An Experiential Perspective," The Geographical Review, 65, 2 (1975), 148-155; ref. on 151.

T. Coraghessan Boyle, "Greasy Lake," in The Granta Book of the American Short Story, ed. Richard Ford (London: Granta Books, 1993), pp. 555-561; ref.on p. 555.

Citations from CA                     back to top

Citations of articles published in Contemporary Aesthetics should include author, title, volume number, year, and section number (since this online publication does not use the pagination of print formats).

Rights and Permission                     back to top

It is the responsibility of the author to obtain permission for the use of any copyrighted material, including images, sound, and video files. It is preferable to place images directly in the text but, when permission is unobtainable, it is acceptable to include a link to the image directly in the text.


Bibliographies                              back to top

Authors who want to include a bibliography with their article should use the same citation format described above and the bibliography directly after the notes.

Acceptable File Types                     back to top

Naming files: File names should not contain spaces. They may contain letters, numbers, hyphens (-) and underscores (_). No other punctuation is allowed. Files must have the three-letter file extension identifying the file type (i.e. .rtf, .wpd, .doc), whether submitted from a Windows or Macintosh computer.

Examples of unacceptable file names:

     Aesthetics/Form.doc (uses slash)
     Article #2.rtf (uses # sign)
     Article.Aesthetics.wpd (uses period or point)
     Aesthetics and Art (has no file extension)

The following are the only acceptable file types for articles in order of preference:

AppleWorks, Lotus, or other word processor documents must be saved in one of the above formats.