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Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it represents original work not previously published, that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere and that, if accepted for publication, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of editor and publisher. It is a condition of acceptance by the editor of a typescript for publication that the publisher automatically acquires the copyright of the typescript throughout the world. It will also be assumed that the author has obtained all necessary permissions to include in the paper items such as quotations, musical examples, images, tables, etc. Permissions should be paid for prior to submission.

From January 2008 (vol. 18, no. 1) Contemporary Theatre Review will follow the MHRA Style Guide. This involves footnotes as opposed to endnotes and no bibliography. Full referencing should therefore take place in the footnotes. A style guide is available for download from the following address: www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml

Some General Notes on Presentation and Referencing of Articles and Documents

1. Articles as well as production notes, interviews, manifestos or designs collected in the 'Documents' section should adhere to the style guide.
2. Please ensure that the styles you use are consistent. Avoid using bold type and ensure the document is presented in double spaced format.
3. Please indent all new paragraphs.
4. UK or US spellings are acceptable as long as the contributor is consistent.
5. Spacing needs to be consistent throughout. Single spacing after all punctuation. Initials should be spaced. A. P. Read not A.P. Read. Please ensure that you leave a space after the following contractions: ed., pp., p., vol.,
6. For quotations use single inverted commas.
7. Always provide material in the language of source first. Then provide a translation. eg
   
   Integrated quotes: 'Quotation, quotation, quotation'^note (Translation, translation, translation).
   Extracted quotes:
   
   Quotation, quotation, quotation.^note
   (Translation, translation, translation.)
8. Please use the MHRA footnotes style for references (as with the following examples).
   Tim Etchells, Certain Fragments: Contemporary Performance and Forced Entertainment (London: Routledge, 1999), pp. 66-67.
   Elin Diamond, '(In)Visible Bodies in Churchill's Theater', in Making a Spectacle: Feminist Essays on Contemporary Women's Theatre, ed. by Lynda Hart (Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press, 1989), pp. 259-81 (p. 262).
   Patrice Pavis, Theatre at the Crossroads of Culture, trans. by Loren Kruger (London and New York: Routledge, 1992), p. 226.
   Philippa Wehle, 'Rich Maxwell: Dramatizing the Mundane', TheatreForum, 18 (Winter/Spring 2001), 74-79 (p. 77).
   Caridad Svich, 'Visions of Migration: Internal Diasporas', Performance Research, 6 (Spring 2001), 12-23 (p. 13).
   Michael Billington, 'A Tempest For Our Time', Guardian, 12 September 1998, p. 15.
   Denis Agnew, 'Contexts and Concepts of a Scottish National Theatre' (unpublished doctoral thesis, Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, 2000), p. 12.
   Lourdes Orozco, 'Els Joglars: quarenta anys de vida', Journal of Catalan Studies, (2004), http://www.uoc.edu/jocs/7/articles/orozco/index.html [accessed 6 July 2007] (para. 3 of 23).
   
   On second references cite the author's surname and a short form of the title.
9. Please provide captions for all photographs or illustrated material. Captions should not be listed on the back of the photograph but rather on a separate sheet. Captions should be laid out as follows: Figure 1: The flamenco zapateado in La pantera imperial. Photo: Josep Aznar, courtesy of the Companyia Carles Santos. [name of the electronic document of the photo]
10. For dates use the style 2 February 1999.
    For years use 1985-86, not 1985-6 or 1985-1986.
    Use 1960s not sixties or '60s.
11. Use italics for titles of publications, books, journals, films, plays, TV or Radio Programmes, titles of paintings or sculptures, long poems, and foreign words.
12. All articles should be accompanied by a 250 word abstract. All documents should be accompanied by a 200 word abstract. This should accompany all submitted articles and documents.

We urge prospective contributors to familiarise themselves with the MHRA guidelines.
For details on the following information, see the relevant pages of the MHRA Style Guide listed below:

• Capitals, see p. 4.
• Quotation marks, see p. 6.
• Spelling, see pp. 12-16. Please note CTR accepts American spellings if the author is consistent.
• Abbreviations, see pp. 17-19.
• Punctuation, see pp. 20-22.
• The use of italics, see pp. 28-29.
• Numbers and dates, see pp. 30-32.
• Quotations, see pp. 34-38.
• Footnotes, see p. 39.
• Referencing, see pp. 41-52. Please note CTR does not feature bibliographies.
• Captions and illustrations, see p. 8.

Guidelines for prospective Guest Editors of special editions of Contemporary Theatre Review.

CTR aims to publish at least one special issue each year and welcomes proposals from Guest Editors. The editors see special issues as a useful means of focusing on a topic of particular interest or importance in contemporary theatre-making. Proposals will often arise from a conference that has proved unusually successful, but should not be limited to the papers offered at the conference. The editors encourage different ways of sourcing material, such as symposia (contributions may be grouped together as a 'Forum on…'), interviews with professionals and practitioners, etc. It is good practice to offer an open call for submissions whatever other means of soliciting contributions are used.

Potential Guest Editor(s) should familiarise themselves with the journal, its mission and its style. They should note that there are now four distinct sections - critical articles; 'documents'; 'backpages'; book reviews - and they should indicate how they would plan to divide up material between these different sections. (NB in some cases, it will be inappropriate for the Guest Editor(s) to deal with 'backpages' and with book reviews, and the regular editors of these sections will compile them as normal.)

Anyone wishing to guest-edit a special issue should submit a proposal. This will be similar to the proposal that one might make to a publisher for a book of essays, and should organise its contents under certain headings: it should articulate the significance and coherence of the topic, potential or agreed contributors, discuss the range of the material envisaged for inclusion, explaining how it fits with existing scholarship in the area, offer ideas for the organisation of the issue, identify the intended readership. They should also look for opportunities to include photographs and other illustrations wherever possible.

Once the proposal has been agreed between Guest Editor(s) and the editors of CTR, it will be important to stick closely to agreed deadlines and to ensure that all contributors follow the style of the journal (see 'contributors' guidelines'). The journal now uses MHRA guidelines which are available for download at http://www.mhra.org.uk/Publications/Books/StyleGuide/download.shtml If contributors fail to adhere to the guidelines the article will be returned for appropriate completion and may delay publication. It is the responsibility of the Guest Editor(s) to keep their prospective contributors informed of the deadlines and of the journal style. A 'lead editor' will be identified from the CTR team, and arrangements for refereeing will be agreed between this person and the Guest Editor(s). CTR regards the peer-refereeing process as a vital part of scholarly publishing in this area. Normally, the whole issue will be sent to one referee, with each individual article also being sent to a different referee. The normal expectation is for these reports to come back within a month of the article being sent out. Once referee reports have been received, it will be the Guest Editor's responsibility to combine them, to send agreed feedback to the contributors, and to discuss with contributors any rewriting of their article.