Book Submission Guidelines

File Types

Text files

  • Please do not send article copy pasted into the body of an email.
  • Preferred formats include Word documents, rich text, text files (.doc, .docx, .rtf, .txt) or equivalent.
  • No PDF files.
  • Email attachments, Dropbox links or a similar delivery method ok.

Text formatting (preferred)

  • Times New Roman 12 pt, ragged right, line spacing 1.5.
  • No formatted spacing above or below paragraphs. Use line breaks to separate.
  • Use first-line indentation settings instead of tab spacing.
  • No hyperlinked text; URLs should be pasted as unlinked text where necessary.

Images

  • Submitted images must be included as separate files (i.e., not embedded in the text file).
  • A selection of portrait and landscape orientations preferred for print.
  • All images — including all photographs, graphs, illustrations, and tables submitted as images — must be high-resolution .png or .jpg files.
  • Images should be your own original work, or you must have written permission from the copyright holder to reproduce.
  • Please include caption information with each image — names, locations, subject matter, name of photographer etc.

From first submission, 6 weeks to initial copy editing, and then 6 weeks for layout and production.

There is an average of 300 words per page.

Submission of a chapter of the book

Only original work not published.