Submissions

Author Guidelines

General requirements

When submitting, state GENERAL ISSUE or SPECIAL ISSUE in Comments to the Editor. For a special issue, also give its title.

Original articles should normally be 5,000–8,000 words, including notes and bibliography. Longer or shorter contributions may be considered, including book reviews, interviews and artistic work in text, image, video or audio. For questions about submissions, contact journal@philosophyandtechnology.network.

Use The Chicago Manual of Style, 18th edition, with the notes and bibliography system, subject to the house rules below. Do not use the author–date system. These guidelines take precedence where a house rule differs from Chicago. The Chicago notes and bibliography quick guide provides further examples. The Word manuscript template (British English and Chicago 18) provides the manuscript layout and sample automatic footnotes. Follow these guidelines when preparing your submission.

Use British English spelling and grammar, unless an issue specifies otherwise. Preserve the original spelling of quotations, proper names and cited titles. Technophany uses double quotation marks and Chicago-style placement of commas and full stops, as set out below.

Include an abstract of approximately 150 words as a single paragraph without bold or italic formatting, followed by five to eight keywords. Supply a biography of approximately 50 words separately from the anonymised manuscript, through the submission metadata or a separate author-information file. Include the biography in the final manuscript only when requested by the editors.

The manuscript submitted for peer review must be anonymous. Remove names, affiliations, acknowledgements that identify the author, author biographies and identifying document metadata. Retain citations needed for the argument and avoid unnecessarily identifying self-references. Authors are responsible for obtaining any permissions required to reproduce copyrighted material.

Citations, footnotes and bibliography

• Use your word processor’s automatic footnote or endnote function. Do not type note numbers or create notes as ordinary text. Notes should be numbered consecutively and kept as brief as the argument permits.
• Note markers: place superscript note numbers after punctuation, including closing quotation marks and parentheses, but before an em dash. Use one note number at a given point in the text; combine references at that point into a single note.
• Specialist locators: retain Roman numerals for preliminary pages and established volume, section and paragraph references. Use § for a single numbered section and §§ for several sections where appropriate to the source. Preserve the locator system of the edition consulted.
• Discursive notes: footnotes may contain commentary and more than one citation. Separate successive citations with semicolons, and preserve the distinction between the author’s commentary and quoted material.
• Give a full citation on first reference to a source, even when a bibliography is included. Give the specific page or page range for a quotation or particular passage. Where a source has no fixed pages, use an appropriate chapter, section, paragraph or timestamp when needed; do not invent page numbers.
• For subsequent references, use the author’s surname, a shortened title and the relevant page or other locator. End the note with a full stop. Do not use ibid., idem or op. cit. in place of a shortened reference.
• Distinguish editions and translations. Include the translator and edition consulted where relevant. Do not silently substitute a different edition’s publication details or pagination.
• In notes, name both authors of a two-author work. For three or more authors, name the first author followed by “et al.” In bibliography entries, list all authors up to six; for more than six, list the first three followed by “et al.” Preserve the source’s author order.
• Include an alphabetised Bibliography at the end. Invert the first author’s name where that name normally uses given-name–surname order; do not invert names that conventionally place the family name first. Repeat authors’ names in successive entries rather than replacing them with a dash.
• Bibliography layout and order: use the heading “Bibliography” and a hanging indent for each entry. Arrange entries alphabetically by author; arrange works by the same author alphabetically by title, ignoring an initial “A”, “An” or “The”. Repeat the author’s name in every entry.
• For ordinary modern books, give the publisher and year; a publication city is not required in Chicago 18. Retain additional identifying details where needed for historical, rare or unusual editions. A chapter’s full page range is not required in its bibliography entry; a journal article’s full page range is required where available.
• For online sources, use a DOI in the form https://doi.org/… when available; otherwise give a stable URL. Include publication or revision dates where available. For an undated web page, give the access date. Do not include a full stop as part of a hyperlink’s destination.

Manuscript formatting

• Page layout: use A4 paper, margins of 2.54 cm (1 inch), a 12-point standard font, preferably Times New Roman, and page numbers centred at the foot of the page.
• Spacing: double-space the main text, notes and bibliography. Block quotations may be single-spaced. This is a manuscript-preparation requirement, not a model for the typeset article.
• Serial comma: use the serial comma before the final “and” or “or” in a list of three or more items.
• Quotation marks: use double quotation marks (“…”) for quotations and single quotation marks (‘…’) for a quotation within a quotation. Place commas and full stops inside the closing quotation mark. Place colons and semicolons outside. Place question marks and exclamation marks inside only when they belong to the quoted material; otherwise place them outside. For example: She calls it “a technical object.” He writes, “The term ‘technical’ needs qualification.”
• Block quotations: set quotations of more than four manuscript lines as indented, single-spaced blocks without surrounding quotation marks. Keep their wording and source spelling intact and provide a citation.
• Titles: italicise titles of books, journals, artworks, films and albums. Put titles of articles, chapters, essays, poems, songs, short stories and exhibitions in double quotation marks. For English titles in citations, use Chicago headline-style capitalisation; retain the appropriate conventions for other languages. Preserve the wording and spelling of cited titles.
• Numbers: spell out one through ninety-nine in ordinary prose and use numerals for 100 and above. Use numerals where required for dates, page and note references, measurements, percentages, statistical data and other technical contexts. Maintain consistency within a comparison or series.
• Dates and centuries: write dates as 6 February 2005; decades as 1960s, without an apostrophe; and centuries as the twentieth century or twentieth-century architecture.
• Dashes: use an en dash (–), without surrounding spaces, for ranges, such as 1969–70 and 241–51. Use an em dash (—), without surrounding spaces, for a break in thought or an explanatory insertion—like this. A hyphen (-), an en dash (–) and an em dash (—) are distinct; do not use a double hyphen as the final form of a dash.
• Page ranges: follow Chicago’s inclusive-number conventions, for example 24–34, 101–8, 153–54, 241–51 and 813–22. Retain full Roman numerals in ranges. Do not shorten identifiers, DOI strings or numbers that are not ranges.

Tables, figures and other media

Place tables and figures in the manuscript near their first discussion, with consecutive numbers, captions and source credits. Include a list of captions and credits at the end of the file. Supply editable tables in Word or RTF and upload image files separately as well as including them in the manuscript.

Supply raster images as JPG, PNG or TIFF at 300 dpi at their intended reproduction size; EPS files should have fonts embedded. If the source cannot meet these requirements, consult the editors rather than enlarging a low-resolution image artificially. Provide any required reproduction permissions and credit lines.

Supply video as high-resolution MP4 and audio as MP3 or OGG. Artistic contributions may be hosted on the journal website or its designated media platforms.

Citation examples

The examples below distinguish a full note, a shortened note and a bibliography entry. The page numbers are illustrative: cite the page or other locator actually used in the edition consulted. Shortened titles must still identify the source unambiguously. The examples apply Technophany’s British date format and quotation-punctuation rules.

Book

Full note: Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (Viking Press, 1958), 128.

Shortened note: Kerouac, Dharma Bums, 128.

Bibliography: Kerouac, Jack. The Dharma Bums. Viking Press, 1958.

Book with two authors

Full note: Scott Lash and John Urry, Economies of Signs & Space (Sage Publications, 1994), 241–51.

Shortened note: Lash and Urry, Economies of Signs & Space, 241–51.

Bibliography: Lash, Scott, and John Urry. Economies of Signs & Space. Sage Publications, 1994.

Chapter in an edited book

Full note: Muriel Harris, “Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers,” in A Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One, ed. Ben Rafoth (Heinemann, 2000), 24–34.

Shortened note: Harris, “Talk to Me,” 24–34.

Bibliography: Harris, Muriel. “Talk to Me: Engaging Reluctant Writers.” In A Tutor’s Guide: Helping Writers One to One, edited by Ben Rafoth. Heinemann, 2000.

Translated book

Full note: Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution, trans. Arthur Mitchell (Modern Library, 1944), 153–54.

Shortened note: Bergson, Creative Evolution, 153–54.

Bibliography: Bergson, Henri. Creative Evolution. Translated by Arthur Mitchell. Modern Library, 1944.

Journal article with a DOI

Full note: Kirsi Peltonen et al., “Parental Violence and Adolescent Mental Health,” European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 19, no. 11 (2010): 813–22, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-010-0130-8.

Shortened note: Peltonen et al., “Parental Violence,” 813–22.

Bibliography: Peltonen, Kirsi, Noora Ellonen, Helmer B. Larsen, and Karin Helweg-Larsen. “Parental Violence and Adolescent Mental Health.” European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry 19, no. 11 (2010): 813–22. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-010-0130-8.

Web page

Full note: Richard Kimberly Heck, “About the Philosophical Gourmet Report,” last modified 5 August 2016, http://rgheck.frege.org/philosophy/aboutpgr.php.

Shortened note: Heck, “About the Philosophical Gourmet Report.”

Bibliography: Heck, Richard Kimberly. “About the Philosophical Gourmet Report.” Last modified 5 August 2016. http://rgheck.frege.org/philosophy/aboutpgr.php.

Book consulted online

Full note: Donald Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events, 2nd ed. (Clarendon Press, 2001), https://bibliotecamathom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/essays-on-actions-and-events.pdf.

Shortened note: Davidson, Essays on Actions and Events, followed by the relevant page number.

Bibliography: Davidson, Donald. Essays on Actions and Events. 2nd ed. Clarendon Press, 2001. https://bibliotecamathom.files.wordpress.com/2012/10/essays-on-actions-and-events.pdf.

For a quotation or a particular passage, insert the relevant page number before the URL in the full note. Include the edition designation where applicable.

Online news item without a named author

Full note: “Illinois Governor Wants to ‘Fumigate’ State’s Government,” CNN, 30 January 2009, http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/illinois.governor.quinn/.

Shortened note: “Illinois Governor Wants to ‘Fumigate.’”

Bibliography: “Illinois Governor Wants to ‘Fumigate’ State’s Government.” CNN, 30 January 2009. http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/30/illinois.governor.quinn/.

Film

Full note: Joe Versus the Volcano, directed by John Patrick Shanley (1990; Warner Home Video, 2002), DVD.

Shortened note: Joe Versus the Volcano, followed by a timestamp where relevant.

Bibliography: Shanley, John Patrick, director. Joe Versus the Volcano. 1990. Warner Home Video, 2002. DVD.

Online video

Full note: Alejandra Ortega, “Grammar: Active and Passive Voice,” Purdue OWL, 1 February 2019, video, 4:22, http://youtu.be/GEP-8lFTKKg.

Shortened note: Ortega, “Grammar,” followed by a timestamp where relevant.

Bibliography: Ortega, Alejandra. “Grammar: Active and Passive Voice.” Purdue OWL, 1 February 2019. Video, 4:22. http://youtu.be/GEP-8lFTKKg.

Music recording

Full note: Bob Dylan, “Workingman’s Blues #2,” recorded February 2006, track 3 on Modern Times, Columbia, compact disc.

Shortened note: Dylan, “Workingman’s Blues #2.”

Bibliography: Dylan, Bob. “Workingman’s Blues #2.” Recorded February 2006. Track 3 on Modern Times. Columbia, compact disc.

Artwork

Full note: Caspar David Friedrich, Der Mönch am Meer, 1808–10, oil on canvas, 110 × 171.5 cm, Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin, https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/KwEv_TMiJhn5kA.

Shortened note: Friedrich, Der Mönch am Meer.

Bibliography: Friedrich, Caspar David. Der Mönch am Meer. 1808–10. Oil on canvas, 110 × 171.5 cm. Alte Nationalgalerie, Berlin. https://artsandculture.google.com/asset/KwEv_TMiJhn5kA.

Include a museum accession number where available.

Personal communication

Note: Patricia Burns, email message to author, 15 December 2017.

Personal communications are normally cited in the text or a note and omitted from the bibliography. Include them only where relevant and respect any confidentiality or permission requirements.

Published or broadcast interview

Full note: Natasha Trethewey, “Dissection and Other Kinds of Love,” interview by Lindsey Alexander, Sycamore Review, no. 24 (2012): 35.

Shortened note: Trethewey, “Dissection,” 35.

Bibliography: Trethewey, Natasha. “Dissection and Other Kinds of Love.” Interview by Lindsey Alexander. Sycamore Review, no. 24 (2012): 31–45.

For a broadcast interview, give the programme, broadcaster, date and URL or other locating information instead of journal details.