Submissions

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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is formatted according to CU's instructions for authors.
  • The manuscript has been anonymized for the double-blind review process.
  • NOTE! Due to a high volume of submissions, articles which fail to comply with the submission requirements will not be considered.

Author Guidelines

Culture Unbound welcomes contributions in the form of original, unpublished and well-written articles. All research articles undergo a double-blind peer review process.

As we are receiving a large volume of manuscripts, we are increasingly strict in evaluating all submissions in relations to our aims and scope. This means that manuscripts should:

  • make an interdisciplinary or trans-disciplinary contribution
  • explore cultural perspectives, issues or phenomena and contribute significantly to scholarly discussions in one or (and preferably) more fields or disciplines
  • go beyond the case explored (if case studies)

We are also interested in work that presents innovative or experimental theoretical or methodological approaches. We also welcome work that further contributes to topics already published in Culture Unbound.

Articles should comprise no more than 9 000 words (including notes and references). An abstract of no more than 300 words should be submitted, as well as 5-8 keywords. In addition, a short author presentation (approx. 50 words) should be submitted, including affiliation, research interests and e-mail address.

Manuscripts should be in MS Word or RTF format, set in standard font with minimal formatting. Manuscripts should be suitable for double blind peer review (i.e. without direct references that make the author identifiable).

The text should be clearly organised, avoiding jargon as well as racist or sexist language. Use either UK or US spellings consistently.

There must be a coherent hierarchy of at most three levels of headings and subheading. Quotations exceeding 40 words are to be set in separate, indented paragraphs.

Notes should be kept at a minimum and have the form of numbered endnotes (1, 2, 3…) before the list of references.

References should be placed within parentheses in the body text. They should follow Harvard style, i.e. references are cited in the text by author, date and pages (e.g. ‘(Haraway 1991: 176)’) with a full alphabetical listing at the end of the manuscript.

Illustrations, including pictures, tables and diagrams, should be submitted separately, preferably in jpg or tif format. They should be numbered consecutively, with short descriptive captions including source information, and with a clear indication in the text of where they are to be inserted. (Cf. copyright issues above).

Please consult our comprehensive Instruction for authors (pdf) before submission.

Copyright Notice

Copyright for all manuscripts rests with the author(s). The editors reserve the right to edit manuscripts. Contributors are responsible for acquiring all permissions from the copyright owners for the use of quotations, illustrations, tables, etc. Each author must, before final publication fill, in a publishing agreement provided by LiU E-Press.

Since 2021 Culture Unbound uses a Creative Commons: Attribution license for new articles, which allows users to distribute the work and to reform or build upon it without the author's permission. Full reference to the author must be given. For older articles please see each article landing page.

Privacy Statement

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This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.  

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