Submission Guidelines

Curator: The Museum Journal is a refereed quarterly journal. Submitted manuscripts will undergo blind peer review. Anonymous critiques are forwarded to the author. Revision is frequently required before an article is accepted for publication. Forum contributions, technical notes, and reviews are not peer reviewed but will be edited.

Manuscripts submitted to Curator should not be under consideration by any other publishers, nor may the manuscripts have been previously published elsewhere. If a manuscript is based on a lecture, reading, or talk, specific details should accompany the submission.

We request manuscripts be submitted via e-mail to Managing Editor, curatorjournal@earthlink.net. The file should be saved in Rich Text Format (RTF), without additional document formatting, sent as an attachment to your e-mail message. Please provide mailing addresses (including street address, telephone, fax, and e-mail) as well as title and institutional affiliation for each author.

Manuscript preparation, styles, and format:

• Preferred length of the article is 5000 - 6000 words.
• Headers and footers in the manuscript file should be limited to page numbers only. Number every page sequentially from 1 through the last page.
• Use 1-inch margins on all sides.
• Do not right justify your margins, left justify only.
• Do not change font sizes or styles in various parts of the manuscript. Stick to one font throughout.
• Please do not use the automatic numbering or bullet list utilities in your word processing program. Put the numbers or bullets in by hand. The automatic utilities do not survive the transfer to composition.
• Any images, tables, figures, or other graphics that accompany the manuscript should be saved separately, one graphic each, as individual additional files, and sent as attachments to your e-mail message.
• Digital images should be saved as EPS files or TIFF files at 300 dpi with a final image size of approximately 5 inches.
• Short captions should be included for each figure or table, along with appropriate credits. It is the authors' responsibility to obtain necessary permission for use of copyrighted material.
• Please do not embed graphic elements, images, or figures in the main body of the text. Simply indicate their approximate placement in the text (i.e., "place Figure 1 about here").
• Photographic images that are purely illustrative (not essential to understanding the text) are welcome and encouraged, but it is not necessary that they accompany the initial submission. Please hold these until notice of the manuscript's acceptance is sent.
• Please hold these until notice of the manuscript's acceptance is sent.
• Please use "A" headers as necessary to indicate the sections of your manuscript. To further aid the reader and to make the manuscript's organization apparent, each section can be further divided into subsections by "B" subheads and "C" subheads as necessary. Please refer to the journal for styles of the headers and for examples of how they are used to hierarchically organize the manuscript.
• Endnotes are preferred to footnotes. Please place all endnotes at the end of the article after the references and before any appendices.
• We may request hard copies and computer diskettes of manuscripts that are accepted for publication at the time that notice of acceptance is sent.
• In writing for Curator, authors should define technical terms, avoid jargon, and support general statements with details or references. References, endnotes, and appendices should follow the body of the article.
• An abstract of no more than 150 words must accompany the manuscript.
• Please follow the standards in the Chicago Manual of Style
  (Scientific/author date) for references and citations. Some examples of which follow here:

  Falk, J. H., and L. D. Dierking. 1992. The Museum Experience. Washington, D. C.: Whalesback Books.

  Kreinberg, N. 1989. The practice of equity. Peabody Journal of Education 66 (2): 127-146.

  August, P.V. 1979. Distress calls in Artibeus jamaicensis: Ecology and evolutionary implications. In Vertebrate Ecology in the Northern Neotropics, ed. J. F. Eisenberg, Washington, D. C.: Smithsonian Institution Press.

• Examples of the format for text citations include:
  "...young girls in the museum environment (Cone and Kendall 1978)."
  "... were supported by the later studies of Rosenfeld (1980)."

Please direct questions, correspondence, and submissions to:
Managing Editor, Curator: The Museum Journal
4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200
Lanham, MD 20706
curatorjournal@earthlink.net