As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
Your article, prepared and formatted as directed above.
An abstract of 150 words.
A cover page with full contact information.
Permission for use of copyrighted material, including poems, artwork, or long citations.
High resolution digital files for images or artwork.
The article has not been previously published and is not under review with another publication.
The author is a currently enrolled graduate student in a post-secondary institution.
Your submission includes a list of keywords for your article.
Author Guidelines
Articles
Article submissions should be between 3,500–6,000 words, including footnotes and bibliography. For style and spelling conventions use the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd ed., and the Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed. Citations should be in the humanities style (numbered footnotes) as set forth in Chicago.
Creative work
Original literary or artistic work will be considered. Submissions of short fiction or creative non-fiction, including personal essay, memoir, and creative cultural criticism, should be 1,000–3,500 words long. Poetry submissions should include three to six poems.
Photographers or artists are invited to submit three to eight images related to this theme. The images should be such that could reproduce well in a small format. Colour images will be considered, though the number of coloured pages we can include is limited. Send images in a high-resolution digital format and include a 300–600 word artist’s statement that speaks to the images submitted. Please do not send the original artwork.
Reviews and interviews
Review essays may be from 1250-3000 words in length and book reviews should be between 500 and 1000 words.
Abstract and keywords
Please provide a 150 word abstract with your submission and a list of keywords for indexing purposes.
Document preparation
Please prepare your document as follows:
Use MSWord or RTF format
Text should be double spaced, using a 12-point font
For spelling, use Canadian Oxford Dictionary, 2nd ed.
Citations should be in the humanities style (numbered footnotes) as set forth in Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed.
Provide a bibliography at the end of your article
Italicize titles (no underline)
Use double quotation marks for all quotations and special terms (no single quote marks except for "quotes within quotes")
Minimal formatting only (no running heads, footers, etc.)
Number your pages at the bottom centre of the page
use one space only (not two) after periods and and colons
Provide captions for all figures, tables and images
Provide URLs for references, where available
Permissions
Do not submit materials for which you do not have copyright permission. Permissions are likely to be required for artwork, photos, poems, and citations over 100 words. If you are planning to include such material, you must obtain permission from the copyright holder and enclose a copy of this permission with your submission.
Cover page
Please attach a cover page with title of the work, your name, affiliation and full contact information. To facilitate our process of anonymous reading, the author’s name should only appear on the cover sheet, not on the submission. For more information, read about Ensuring a Blind Review.
Submission Instructions
Please e-mail your submission to illumine [at] uvic.ca.
Eligibility
Prospective contributors should be currently enrolled graduate students at a post-secondary educational institution. Please do not send submissions that have been previously published, or submissions that are under consideration for publication elsewhere.
Copyright Notice
Authors contributing to ILLUMINEagree to release their articles under the
Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International
license. This licence allows anyone to share their work (copy, distribute, transmit) and to adapt it for non-commercial purposes provided that appropriate attribution is given, and that in the event of reuse or distribution, the terms of this license are made clear.
Authors retain copyright of their work and grant the journal right of first publication.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
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