This document provides guidance for authors of articles in the 2007 Caidan KWHS Symposium Proceedings. It addresses the basic issues of what to write about and how to submit the resulting article for publication.
A principal focus of this document is the actual preparation of articles for submission.
The KWHS proceedings are intended to provide a forum for the presentation of material of interest to SCA heralds and scribes. This includes discussions of armory, onomastics, the practice of heraldry, scribal arts (calligraphy, and illumination, and document preparation), and sigillography. Articles may discuss practice within the period of study of the SCA, or practice within the SCA itself.
Authors are responsible for ensuring that they are the originators of the work they submit, or have the permission of the actual copyright holder (e.g. for illustrations) to submit the material for publication.
The KWHS Symposium will publish the Proceedings in print and electronic form, and will own the copyright for the proceedings as a compilation. It is intended to make the Proceedings available for sale to non-participants after the symposium. The original copyright holders will retain copyright ownership of the material in isolation.
Authors are requested to provide short biographical summaries SCA and modern) for inclusion with their articles.
Articles should be written in a style suitable for publication in a scholarly publication, including citation of sources where appropriate. The proceedings will not enforce any particular style guide, but recommends the Chicago Manual of Style as a reference.
The proceedings will be edited for consistency of format, including bibliography and citation. Authors are requested to conform to the production guidelines given below as much as possible to assist in this production. Time permitting, the production staff will be happy to assist authors with issues relating to the physical production of articles.
Submissions for the proceedings should be sent to the proceedings editor, Bruce Draconarius of Mistholme, at proceedings@kwhss.org.
The actual proceedings will be produced using LaTeX. If you can produce your article in this format, it will be appreciated by the production staff, who will be less likely to introduce errors in the editorial process.
A copy of the document specification, which is strongly based on the LaTeX “article” document class, is available here. Documentation of the style file is available here. Note that as of this writing (2007-01-02 20:03:41), both of these are works in progress.
For questions on the document specification or production formats, contact Eirikr Sigurdharson at proceedings@kwhss.org.
The production staff will attempt to translate formatting in your manuscript appropriately. If you are not working in the native production format (see above), we would prefer that
Other than in production format, the symposium staff can accept electronic documents as plain ASCII text (preferred), Open Office Writer, HTML, or Microsoft Word/RTF format. It is possible that other formats can be handled, please contact the staff to discuss other alternatives.
Electronic submission of documents is greatly preferred to the submission of paper manuscripts, as we will have to maually keyboard paper submissions. Please type the submission, if at all possible. Type on one side of the page, and doublespace the manuscript.
Last update: 2006-12-29 21:21:39