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March 31, 2007

Notes for Contributors

Contributors:
To streamline the editing process, we ask contributors to adhere to style guidelines (see PDF file here). We also supply a Word (.doc) template (here - also contains the style guide): by pasting your document into this template the risk of inadvertently introducing typographical anomalies in the final article is reduced. (Of course, we send all authors PDF proofs for approval before printing).

Prospective Contributors.
We are often contacted by authors asking 'do you accept contributions for Collapse?'. There is no real answer to this question... Each volume of Collapse (so far) has tended to grow of its own accord, picking up contributors along the way. We do not wish to discourage you from sending unsolicited contributions - indeed we welcome them - but since we work unpaid and do not employ staff we may not have time to reply in detail to all communications. Also each volume of Collapse is assembled very much through a crafting process in which we include pieces which promise to fit together to form an intriguing whole. We would obviously not want to turn away material of quality, but this conception of each volume as a heterogeneous-but-coherent whole is very important. Also, we tend to choose not to publish work which would readily be accepted in other, more mainstream (academic) journals. Themes for volumes are generally given on the website at least three or four months in advance, but there are usually several other possible volumes in the pipeline.

In short, we can't promise anything, but why not give it a try ... email your texts, images, or other(?) to office@urbanomic.com.