Author Guidelines

Articles submitted must be original and may not be published elsewhere in the same form. All submissions are first assessed by the editorial team, and should they proceed beyond this stage, they would be assessed in a blind peer-review process. Any major editorial issues will be discussed with the author. The editors may make minor grammatical, spelling, and punctuation changes without discussion with the author. Articles should be submitted as a Microsoft Word file. The author’s name and contact details must not appear on the manuscript. Articles should be accompanied by separate Word files including:

A cover sheet with the author’s name and a short biographical statement, including the author’s institutional affiliation and their contact details.

A 150-word abstract of the article.
An illustrations list (images’ captions).
A Word file containing all illustrations and their captions.

General guidelines:

All article submissions must be in Microsoft Word, 12-point Times New Roman font, double space, and employ italics for titles mentioned inside the text.
Any images and figures should be properly titled, dated, and acknowledged. Include full caption information, whenever available and appropriate, in this order: Figure number: Author, Formal Title (in italics), date, medium or support, dimensions. Name of collection, City of collection, and courtesy information. Captions or indications of where the images would be placed should be marked within the body of the piece.
The article should adhere to the Chicago Style bibliographic requirements. Further information is available from The Chicago Manual of Style.
Articles would be between 5000-7500 words in length. Book reviews should be 1000-1500 words including notes.
Formations encourages the use of images, but it is the responsibility of the author both to provide the high-resolution images (300 dpi) and to secure permission to reproduce them. For the initial submission, copyrights are not necessary, but these would need to be obtained upon acceptance. Since the publication is digital and open-access, we would also accept references to open-access images in the article in the form of hyperlinks.

For further detail on style specifications, which may be valuable as you prepare your submission, please consult our Complete Formating Guide.

Review process:

The editorial team would confirm the submission has been received for review.
After a time period of two months, the editorial team would inform the author whether the article has been accepted for peer-review or not.
The article would go through a double-blind peer-review for evaluation. Feedback from the peer review process will always be provided to the author.

Please ensure that your submission adheres to these guidelines, as articles that do not adhere will not be considered for publication.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish in this journal retain copyright and are required to grant a licence to the journal to allow distribution and reuse, as described in the following agreement.

Author’s grant of rights (Licence to publish)

The author grants to Formations: Journal of Art History & Visual Culture, the following:

An irrevocable non-exclusive right to reproduce, republish, transmit, distribute, and otherwise use the Work in electronic and print editions of the Journal and in derivative works throughout the world, in all languages, and in all media now known or later developed.
An irrevocable non-exclusive right to create and store electronic archival copies of the Work, including the right to deposit the Work in open access digital repositories.
An irrevocable non-exclusive right to license others to reproduce, republish, transmit, and distribute the Work in both print and electronic form under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial [BY-NC] Licence

Author’s retained rights

The Journal supports Open Access to scholarly work and applies the Creative Commons licence to ensure access and free use for the widest possible audience. This agreement means that copyright in the Work remains with the Author and the Author retains the right to reuse the article. Provided proper attribution is given and the use is non-commercial, authors are encouraged to use the article in the following ways:

to deposit the published version in institutional repositories or on a personal website
to republish in a thesis or book
to present the article at a meeting or conference
to use all or part of the article for lecture or classroom purposes.

Third party content

Where possible, third-party content has been cleared for use under the Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial [BY-NC] Licence. In some cases, content is included in Works that is available under a different licence, or with All Rights Reserved. If in doubt, users should ask for permissions prior to re-using any third-party content contained in Formations: Journal of Art History & Visual Culture.