Architectural Theory Review is a double-blind peer-reviewed scholarly journal. The Editors welcome submissions in response to the themes outlined in the journal's recurrent calls for papers. Please check the website, or the most recent issue of the journal, for current calls.

Papers will usually be solicited through a call for papers for a specific Special Issue, which will be advertised periodically. Papers in response to a special issue should be clearly marked as such. There will be no open issues of the journal, although the Editors will consider paper submissions that relate to the journal's general area of architectural theory for the reduced ‘open' section of the journal. Please note that the scope for publishing open papers is limited. The Editors will consider unsolicited scholarly essays, Letters to the Editor, book reviews, and other types of submission as negotiated. Special Issue Proposals
Proposals for themed issues in line with the journal's editorial aims and scope will also be considered. These should include a draft call for papers (up to 500 words) and a proposed guest editor, with biography. Those wishing to propose a special issue should consult the editorial statement on the website under the heading ‘Aims and Scope'. Inquiries can be made to:

The Editors, Architectural Theory Review

Faculty of Architecture, Design and Planning

The University of Sydney, NSW 2006 AUSTRALIA

Email: atr@sydney.edu.au

Papers should be submitted in electronic form with standard margins in a common font, set at 12 point throughout. Papers should not include columns. Authors must delete all extraneous styles (other than body text or endnote text) prior to submission. All text, including endnotes, must conform to the Chicago Style Manual, 15th ed., and to additional style instructions published by the Editors. The Editors are not obliged to submit papers that fail to conform to the style requirements to refereeing.

 

Paper submissions should be 5000-7000 words (for the body of the paper) with a maximum full text length of 8500 words (including endnotes), unless there are special circumstances. Pages should be numbered, and the title, abstract, key words and word count (full text, body of text, and endnotes) should be included on the first page. If the paper is to be considered for a special issue then this should be noted at the beginning. If the paper is to be considered for the reduced ‘open' section of the journal this should also be noted.

 

The paper's title should clearly indicate its content. Articles should include an informative abstract of 100-125 words, incorporating relevant keywords to aid in online searching. The final wording of the abstract as published shall be decided by the Editors, who reserve the right to edit for clarity and coherence.

In the first instance papers should be submitted without any identifying marks, including the author/s name/s at the front of the essay, reference to the author/s in acknowledgements, reference to the author/s' own previously published texts, reference to the author in figure captions, or any other reference to the author/s. Where relevant authors are advised to specify that an identifying reference has been removed temporarily for the anonymous review process. 

 

In the first endnote citation, books should follow this pattern:

In subsequent endnote citations, books should follow this shortened pattern:

Smith, The Theory of Architecture, 21.

First endnote citation:

Subsequent endnote citations:

Brown, ‘Urban Design Revisited', 110.

First endnote citation:

Subsequent endnote citations:

Smith, ‘The Urban Malaise', 73.

The exact number and nature of illustrations can be negotiated with the Editors, but as a general guide ATR expects to publish five or fewer figures with most papers. Figures will be reproduced in colour for the online version but will be printed in black and white for the hard copy of the journal. Scanned images should be in TIFF format at 300 DPI, submitted in the dimensions the author wishes them to appear. In submitting the manuscript through ScholarOne, figures should be uploaded separately, not embedded in the Word file. All illustrations must be given a figure number in the text as well as an indication where the illustration should be placed. A list of captions must be provided. Information on the copyright status of a reproduction is placed within parentheses at the end of the caption data. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to publish each of their illustrations and these should be gained as soon as the paper is accepted. ATR expects authors to have begun the process of making inquiries to the copyright holder prior to submission.

Editors may discuss papers with authors prior to submission, however no communication prior to the Editors' final decision constitutes a contract, implicit or explicit, to publish the paper. Neither does it constitute a contract to submit the paper to refereeing.

All papers published in Architectural Theory Review are blind refereed by at least two independent experts, who advise the Editors as to the suitability for publication of the paper under consideration. On the advice of these referees, the Editors will determine a paper's suitability for publication in Architectural Theory Review. They will agree on one of the following decisions:

      (i) to accept the paper with minor amendments, or with no amendments;

      (ii) to accept the paper, pending final approval by the Editors on the basis of a request for major amendments;

      (iii) to decline the paper, encouraging resubmission for further refereeing;

In the case of (iii), Editors may determine either to send a re-submitted paper for refereeing to either the same or different referees, or to reach a decision based on their own reading of the paper in conjunction with original referees' reports. The second reading will determine if the paper has sufficiently addressed the concerns of original referees such that it can pass directly into production. Editors may encourage resubmission for the same issue of Architectural Theory Review for which the paper was originally submitted, though are not obliged to do so.

 

When referees offer different opinions of a paper, the Editors are free to determine whether or not these can be reconciled, and may or may not choose to approach additional referees. Anonymous written referee reports will be returned to authors.

 

Editors may return a paper to authors without forwarding the paper to referees if it fails to meet basic academic standards and/or Architectural Theory Review's editorial direction. Editors may decline to submit a paper to refereeing for several reasons. For example, the paper may be incomplete (unedited, without notes, or in outline form), substantially too long or too short, outside the field of architectural theory as defined by the editors, or more suitable to another journal. Editors have discretionary rights in this respect.

Following production editing, papers will be copy-edited by an external reader appointed by the Editors. The Editors will introduce the Author to the Text Editor, whence correspondence on the detailed revision of the text will be taken up between these two. Authors must be available for clarifying phrasing or facts in the period prior to production.

 

All Editors' decisions are final and not open to correspondence.

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