Author Guidelines

Home Cultures Submissions

• Articles should be approximately 5,000 to 8,000 words, (but not exceeding 8,000 words in length unless by prior agreement please).
• They must include a three-sentence biography of the author(s) and an abstract.
• Interviews should not exceed 15 pages and do not require an author biography.
• Exhibition and book reviews are normally 500 to 1,000 words in length but review articles can be between 1,000-2,000 words.
• The Publishers will require a disk as well as a hard copy of any contributions.

• Manuscripts should be submitted to:
  Martina Grünewald, Editorial Administrator, Home Cultures, Department of Design History and Theory,
  University of Applied Arts Vienna, Oskar Kokoschka-Platz 2, 1010 Vienna, Austria or to
  homecultures@ucl.ac.uk
• Manuscripts will be acknowledged and entered into the review process discussed below.
• Manuscripts without illustrations will not be returned unless the author provides a self-addressed stamped envelope.
• Submission of a manuscript to the journal will be taken to imply that it is not being considered elsewhere, in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the editor and publisher. It is a condition of acceptance by the editor of a manuscript for publication that the publishers automatically acquire the copyright of the published article throughout the world. Home Cultures does not pay authors for their manuscripts nor does it provide retyping, drawing, or mounting of illustrations.

• US spelling and mechanicals are to be used. Authors are advised to consult The Chicago Manual of Style (15th Edition) as a guideline for style. Webster's Dictionary is our arbiter of spelling. We encourage the use of major subheadings and, where appropriate, second-level subheadings.
• Manuscripts submitted for consideration as an article must contain:
  - a title page with the full title of the article, the author(s) name and address,
  - a three-sentence biography for each author.
• Do not place the author's name on any other page of the manuscript.

• Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced (including quotations, notes and references cited), on one side only, with at least one-inch margins on standard paper using a typeface no smaller than 12pts.
• The original manuscript and a copy of the text on disk (please ensure it is clearly marked with the wordprocessing programme that has been used) must be submitted, along with original photographs (to be returned).
• Authors should retain a copy for their records.
• Any necessary artwork must be submitted with the manuscript.

• Footnotes appear as 'Notes' at the end of articles.
• Authors are advised to include footnote material in the text whenever possible.
• Notes are to be numbered consecutively throughout the paper and are to be typed double-spaced at the end of the text.
• (Please do not use any footnoting or end-noting programs which your software may offer as this text becomes irretrievably lost at the typesetting stage.)

• The list of references should be limited to, and inclusive of, those publications actually cited in the text.
• References are to be cited in the body of the text in parentheses with author's last name, the year of original publication, and page number - e.g., (Rouch 1958: 45).
• Titles and publication information appear as 'References' at the end of the article and should be listed alphabetically by author and chronologically for each author.
• Names of journals and publications should appear in full. Film and video information appear as 'Filmography'.
• References cited should be typed double-spaced on a separate page.
• References not presented in the style required will be returned to the author for revision.