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Author Guidelines

Work submitted to New Scholar should conform to Modern Language Association (MLA) Style.  Prospective contributors are advised to consult the latest edition of the MLA Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing before submitting work.

New Scholar accepts the following submissions, all of which are subject to single-blind peer review: scholarly articles (which may contain a creative component with exegesis), review articles, short commentaries, short technical or research notes, technical or research reports, audio essays, audio-visual essays and visual essays. New Scholar also accepts reviews.

Scholarly articles, review articles, technical or research reports submitted to New Scholar should be 4000-6000 words (or equivalent for creative pieces).  Short commentaries and short technical or research notes should be 800-1500 words and reviews should be 1000-1500 words. Audio essays should be submitted as an MP3 file and should be no longer than 20 minutes in duration. Audio-visual essays should be submitted as an MP4 file and should be no longer than 20 minutes in duration. Visual essays should be submitted in PDF format and should be 10-15 pages long. Individual creative interpretation of audio/visual submission categories is welcomed, but submissions should be scholarly in tenor.

Submissions to New Scholar should be accompanied by an abstract of 200-300 words and a short biographical note of less than 100 words. Where appropriate, papers should include a list of Works Cited. Reviews should include full publication, production or exhibition details, as well as ISBN (where appropriate) and RRP.

Images included in submissions must be in .tif or .eps format and should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi.

New Scholar uses single quotation marks.

Spelling should conform to a recognised national dictionary, and contributors are required to indicate which spelling their work employs.

New Scholar welcomes submissions in languages other than English, providing that an English translation of the work is submitted simultaneously for consideration.

NB: To submit your work, make sure that you are registered with this journal as an 'Author'. Log in, then go to USER HOME>NEW SUBMISSION (to the right of 'Author') and follow the step-by-step guide.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission is unpublished and not currently under consideration for any other publication.
2.  The submission conforms to the Style Guide

3. Written permission for copyright protected material included in articles has been secured prior to submission. A copy of such permission will be submitted with the article as a supplementary file.

4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); employs single quotation marks; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.

5. The submission is accompanied by an abstract of 200-300 words and a short biographical note of less than 100 words.

6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication, with the work 30 days after publication 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.


2. 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.


3. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) after the submission process.

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