Journal Details
New Writing
The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing
Published By: Routledge
Volume Number: 7
Frequency: 3 issues per year
Print ISSN: 1479-0726
Online ISSN: 1943-3107
Instructions for Authors
All papers for New Writing must be submitted via the journal's online submission and peer review site, which can be found at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mm-new
- Articles should be between 2000 and 5000 words. They should be accompanied by an abstract of not more than 200 words, and six keywords for indexing purposes.
- Creative work should be no longer than 5000 words.
- All papers for the New Writing must be submitted via the journal's online submission and peer review site, which can be found at http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/mm-new
- If you have already refereed or submitted a paper for this journal, it is likely that you will already have an account. If not, you will need to create a user account before submitting your paper.
- Papers should be submitted as one file with, where possible, all tables and figures in the correct place in the text. More details on how to submit figures and tables that can not be incorporated in the text can be found on our website.
- Footnotes should be avoided. Essential notes should be numbered in the text and grouped together at the end of the article. Diagrams and Figures, if they are considered essential, should be clearly related to the section of the text to which they refer. The original diagrams and figures should be submitted with the top copy.
- References should be set out in alphabetical order of the author's name in a list at the end of the article. They should be given in standard form, as in the following examples:
Cummins, J. (1993) Bilingualism and second language learning. Annual Review of Applied Linguistics 13, 51-70.
Cummins, J. (2000) Putting language proficiency in its place: Responding to critiques of the conversational/ academic language distinction. In J. Cenoz and U. Jessner (eds) English in Europe: The Acquisition of a Third Language (pp. 54-83). Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
McDonough, J. and McDonough, S. (2001) Composing in a foreign language: An insider-outsider perspective. Language awareness 10 (4), 233-247. Muggler, F. and Lynch, J. (eds) (1996) Pacific Languages in Education. Suva: Institute of Pacific Studies. - References in the text of an article should be by the author's name and year of publication, as in these examples: Jones (1999) in a paper on …; Jones (1998c: 22) states that …; Evidence is given by Smith et al. (2000) …; Further exploration of this aspect may be found in many sources (e.g. Brown & Green, 2001; Hackson, 1999; White, 2000a).
- Once the refereeing procedures are completed, authors should supply a word-processor file (on disc, CD-ROM or by e-mail attachment) containing the final version of their manuscript. Files should be saved in the author's normal word-processor format, together with a note of the name of the word-processor used. Tables and Fugures (TIFF or EPS format preferred) should be saved in separate files from the rest of the manuscript.
- The author of an article accepted for publication will receive page proofs for correction, if there is sufficient time to do so. This stage must not be used as an opportunity to revise the paper, because alterations are extremely costly; extensive changes will be charged to the author and will probably result in the articles being delayed to a later issue. Speedy return of corrected proofs is important.
