Submit

Sub­mis­sions should be sent to imaginat@ualberta.ca, copied to mrln@yorku.ca and bbellamy@ualberta.ca, and pre­pared for blind­ed review. Please include a sep­a­rate sheet with short bio­graph­i­cal and con­tact infor­ma­tion. Artists wish­ing to pub­lish in the jour­nal should first con­tact the edi­tors at the above-not­ed email address­es. Writ­ten con­tri­bu­tions will be anony­mous­ly peer-review. Are you inter­est­ed in con­tribut­ing to Elic­i­ta­tions? Please con­tact the lead reviews edi­tor, Lau­ra Bisail­lon (laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca). Sub­mis­sions to this part of the jour­nal are reviewed internally.

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Faire par­venir votre soumis­sion à imaginat@ualberta.ca et en copie à mrln@yorku.ca et bbellamy@ualberta.ca dans un for­mat per­me­t­tant l'évaluation à l'aveugle par les pairs. Join­dre un doc­u­ment séparé con­tenant une courte notice biographique et vos coor­don­nées. Les artistes intéressés à con­tribuer ou pub­li­er dans Imag­i­na­tions sont priés de pren­dre d'abord con­tact avec le comité édi­to­r­i­al aux adress­es cour­riel ci-dessus. Toutes les con­tri­bu­tions seront soumis­es à un proces­sus d'évaluation dou­ble par les pairs. Souhaitez-vous con­tribuer à Elic­i­ta­tions ? Veuillez con­tac­ter la rédac­trice en chef des comptes ren­dus, Lau­ra Bisail­lon (laura.bisaillon@utoronto.ca). Les soumis­sions à cette par­tie du jour­nal sont exam­inées en interne.

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Note : Le con­tenu ci-dessous est en cours de tra­duc­tion et est, pour l'instant, disponible qu'en anglais (décem­bre 2022).

Submitting a clean manuscript

A clean man­u­script is cru­cial for a time­ly and smooth pro­duc­tion process. The fol­low­ing guide­lines are meant to help authors under­stand how to sub­mit a clean manuscript.

Work can be sub­mit­ted in any cur­rent word proces­sor for­mat. If you plan to use an unusu­al word proces­sor (e.g., Mel­lel), please con­tact the editors.

Citation style

Imag­i­na­tions fol­low MLA 9 Style, unless oth­er­wise not­ed here­in. Par­tic­u­lar­ly valu­able guide­lines can be found at https://​owl​.pur​due​.edu/.

Abstract

Abstracts should con­tain no more than 100 words and should be includ­ed in both French and Eng­lish. Please indi­cate if you will require your work to be translated.

Keywords

Please sub­mit 3-5 key­words for your article.

When select­ing these, con­sid­er the fol­low­ing:

• Choose spe­cif­ic terms that are not too broad
• Con­sid­er using phras­es that that com­prise sev­er­al words
• Try to use dif­fer­ent words than those in your title and con­sid­er gen­er­al­ly accept­ed alter­na­tive words instead
• Ensure that you include the method­ol­o­gy or frame­work if your sub­mis­sion adheres to a rec­og­niz­able approach or technique
• Use the offi­cial form of each key term
• Select and terms you would use if you were search­ing for a paper on a sim­i­lar sub­ject and test them by con­duct­ing said search

Title

• Cap­i­tal­ize all of the major words in the title (e.g., Epis­te­mol­o­gy of the Clos­et).
• Please include a French trans­la­tion of your title.
• Sub­ti­tles should be sep­a­rat­ed from the main title by a colon.

Formatting

Please be aware that for a clean man­u­script, it is irrel­e­vant what your text looks like in your word processor.

Almost all for­mat­ting you put in will need to be elim­i­nat­ed dur­ing the type­set­ting process, so any addi­tion­al for­mat­ting you put into the text only cre­ates addi­tion­al work for the production.

Specif­i­cal­ly, please do not for­mat your text by apply­ing font for­mat­ting to your body text, except for ital­ics, ^{super­script}, and bold char­ac­ters. Alter­na­tive­ly, you can indi­cate ital­ics by using enclos­ing *aster­isks*, super­script by enclos­ing caret ^{^super­script^}, and bold by using dou­ble enclos­ing **aster­isks**.

Para­graph styles should be lim­it­ed to the fol­low­ing:

• Head­ing 1 for the title of the article
• Head­ing 2 for subtitles
• Head­ing 3 for Sub-sub­ti­tles (if absolute­ly necessary)
• Cap­tion for image captions
• Block­quote for indent­ed longer quo­ta­tions (please use dou­ble quo­ta­tion marks in addi­tion to the indent. N.B.: This is a devi­a­tion from the MLA standard.)

No para­graph style for­mat­ting should be applied to your body text. (Note: In MS Word for Mac­in­tosh you can quick­ly check for such for­mat­ting by open­ing the Styles Pane and check­ing “Show direct for­mat­ting” at the bot­tom of the pane).

Please avoid for­mat­ting with white­spaces. Specif­i­cal­ly, there should be no tabs at the begin­ning of para­graphs. Peri­ods, ques­tion marks, or excla­ma­tion points should nev­er be fol­lowed by dou­ble spaces. As a mat­ter of fact, dou­ble or more spaces, tabs, or a com­bi­na­tion there­of, should be stripped from your text before you sub­mit it. Sim­i­lar­ly, there should be no dou­ble returns. There should nev­er be a space before the end of a para­graph or before a line break. (All these prob­lems can be quick­ly checked by using “Show/Hide hid­den char­ac­ters” and elim­i­nat­ed by a quick search/replace before you sub­mit your man­u­script.) Tabs should only be used for tables and avoid­ed in any oth­er context.

Ellipses are indi­cat­ed by the ellip­sis char­ac­ter enclosed in brack­ets […]. Please do not use three peri­ods, or peri­ods sep­a­rat­ed by spaces. (Note: The ellip­sis char­ac­ter can be typed by hold­ing down alt and typ­ing ; on the Mac­in­tosh, or by hold­ing down Alt and press­ing 0150 on the num­ber pad in Win­dows. (You can also set auto­cor­rect in your word proces­sor to do the substitution).

Please use long hyphens—without spaces on either side—in your text. Alter­na­tive­ly, you can use triple dash­es (XXX---XXX).

Tables should be for­mat­ted with either tabs or your text editor’s table func­tion. As always, please do not use spaces for formatting.

Filename

Author(s): When sub­mit­ting your revised file, please sub­mit only one doc­u­ment that con­tains the com­po­nents of the work in this order: 1) abstract (English/French); 2) Title (English/French; 3) Author Name | Affil­i­a­tion; 4) main text; 5) ref­er­ence list (if applic­a­ble); 6) image notes; 7) end notes.

The file con­tain­ing the revised man­u­script should be named as fol­lows: <imaginations_volume#_issue#_article#-lastname.filetype> for instance <imaginations_2_1_2–smith.docx>

Footnotes and Endnotes

You can use either foot­notes or end­notes, but please do not use both.

Fol­low these guide­lines:

• Enter notes using the auto­mat­ic footnote/endnote func­tion in your word processor.
• Note num­bers should begin with 1 and fol­low con­sec­u­tive­ly throughout.
• In the text, note num­bers are super­script­ed. Where mul­ti­ple notes are attached to the same sen­tence, sep­a­rate the notes with a com­ma: ^{1, 2}
• Note num­bers appear after punc­tu­a­tion, as here.¹
• There is no space between the text and the note number.
• Each note shall end with a period.

Italics

Employ ital­ics for: titles of books, reports, names of journals/periodicals, terms not in Eng­lish (with the excep­tion of com­mon­ly used terms such as “et cetera” or “ad hoc”), emphasis.

Punctuation

• Always use the Oxford (ser­i­al) com­ma. For exam­ple: red, white, and blue.
• The first word of quo­ta­tions that fol­low a colon should be cap­i­tal­ized: “Like this, for example.”
• Use a com­ma after phras­es that are intro­duced with an adverb. For exam­ple, “Sur­pris­ing­ly, they had not con­sid­ered this alternative.”
• Avoid use of “Scare quotes.” When they are used, they are to be encased in dou­ble-quo­ta­tion marks; when scare quotes are employed with­in quot­ed mate­r­i­al, they are to be encased in sin­gle quo­ta­tion marks. For exam­ple, “It is not cus­tom­ary to use the term ‘awe­some’ in such a context.”
• Place any semi-colon, colon, ques­tion mark, or excla­ma­tion mark out­side of quo­ta­tion marks (e.g., Chris said my idea was “fan­tas­tic”!) unless that punc­tu­a­tion is part of quot­ed mate­r­i­al (In the e-mail, Chris said it was “a great idea!”).
• Place any peri­od or com­ma inside of quo­ta­tion marks (excep­tion: in case of in-text cita­tion, the peri­od will be locat­ed at the end of the sentence).
• Ellipses will be indi­cat­ed by the ellip­sis char­ac­ter enclosed in brack­ets (“[…]”) and shall be used to indi­cate omis­sions in a quotation.
• Square brack­ets shall be used to indi­cate autho­r­i­al amend­ments to quot­ed material.
• Use ‘em’ dash­es and close the space around them—like so.
• The semi-colon may be used to: join close­ly relat­ed or oppo­si­tion­al inde­pen­dent claus­es; or, to join items in a list.

Abbreviations

• Use “e.g.,” “etc.,” and “i.e.,” only in text that is in paren­the­ses. In run­ning text, spell these out “for exam­ple,” “etcetera,” and “that is”
• For abbre­vi­a­tions of loca­tions in notes and ref­er­ence lists use the two-let­ter postal style (i.e., use AB not Alb or Alberta).
• How­ev­er, in run­ning text, spell out the full name of a coun­try, city or state unless used as an adjec­tive (e.g., “In the Unit­ed States” but “U.K. nationalism”).
• Write out in full upon first use any abbre­vi­a­tions or acronyms (e.g., the Con­seil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire (CERN)).

Spelling

Imag­i­na­tions uses Cana­di­an spellings (e.g., flavour; ana­lyze; grey); in direct quo­ta­tions do not change Amer­i­can, British etc. spelling to Cana­di­an spelling.

For pos­ses­sive names end­ing in “s” use ’s except in cas­es of well-known authors or fig­ures (i.e., Weiss’s vs. Dickens’).

Languages Other than English or French

The lan­guage of the arti­cle should be Eng­lish or French. As this is an inter­dis­ci­pli­nary jour­nal, please try to keep dis­ci­pline-spe­cif­ic jar­gon to a minimum.

Quo­ta­tions of more than three words in lan­guages oth­er than Eng­lish or French must be cit­ed with­in the body of the text in trans­la­tion and, if the trans­la­tion is your own or if it is rel­e­vant to the analy­sis, in the orig­i­nal lan­guage in an end­note. Indi­cate in an ini­tial end­note if the trans­la­tions are yours.

At first men­tion of a non-Eng­lish or non-French source title in the text, please use the orig­i­nal title fol­lowed by the stan­dard trans­la­tion in paren­the­ses, or your own trans­la­tion should no Eng­lish or French trans­la­tion exist. All sub­se­quent ref­er­ences use orig­i­nal title.

Dates

Write dates of birth and death as fol­lows: 1225-1274 (write all dig­its of the year and sep­a­rate with a hyphen).

Write inclu­sive dates of pub­li­ca­tion: 1973-1976 (do not trun­cate clos­ing dates).

Note that the part of speech deter­mines the dif­fer­ent ways the cen­tu­ry must be writ­ten:

• 21st cen­tu­ry (n.); 21st-cen­tu­ry (adj.)
• 17th cen­tu­ry (n.); 17th-cen­tu­ry (adj.)
• mid-18th cen­tu­ry (n.); mid-18th-cen­tu­ry (adj.)

Decades are not to be abbre­vi­at­ed. Write 1960s, not 50s, 50’s or 1950’s unless it appears as such in quot­ed material.

Numbers

Spell out whole num­bers one through ten as well as num­bers locat­ed at the begin­ning of a sen­tence. For exam­ple: sev­en, 79, 250 mil­lion, 1.6 billion.

In-Text Citations

The first time an author is cit­ed in run­ning text, refer to them by first and last name.

Include page num­bers for any and all quot­ed material.

Decide whether you will sum­ma­rize, para­phrase, or direct­ly quote the material—each of which require citation.

As a friend­ly reminder, when devel­op­ing your arti­cle or review, keep track of the nec­es­sary bib­li­o­graph­ic infor­ma­tion. Doing so helps expe­dite the eval­u­a­tion and pub­li­ca­tion of your article.

In-Text Cita­tion: Quotes of four lines and less (of your essay text) can be incor­po­rat­ed into a sen­tence with­in the main essay text. The essen­tial infor­ma­tion is the author’s last name and the page ref­er­ence for the quot­ed mate­r­i­al. The title of the ref­er­enced text is option­al, but rec­om­mend­ed. Here are some exam­ples of MLA in-text citation.

• In their book They Say, I Say, Graff and Birken­stein declare: “since quo­ta­tions do not speak for them­selves, you need to build a frame around them in which you do that speak­ing for them” (41).
• Graff and Birken­stein remark that “since quo­ta­tions do not speak for them­selves, you need to build a frame around them in which you do that speak­ing for them” (41).
• In They Say, I Say, a quo­ta­tion sand­wich is explained: “since quo­ta­tions do not speak for them­selves, you need to build a frame around them in which you do that speak­ing for them” (Graff and Birken­stein 41).
• On page 41, Graff and Birken­stein say, “since quo­ta­tions do not speak for them­selves, you need to build a frame around them in which you do that speak­ing for them.”

Block Quo­ta­tion: If the quot­ed text takes over more than four lines in your essay, then you will need to use a block quote.

Poet­ry: When quot­ing a pas­sage of poet­ry of few­er than four lines, use a slash (/) to indi­cate line breaks in the verse.

References

Cross-check your ref­er­ence list with your in-text cita­tions. Ensure that any­thing list­ed in the ref­er­ence list is in fact cit­ed in the text and that any­thing cit­ed in the text is list­ed in the ref­er­ence list.

The “Works Cit­ed” list is an alpha­bet­i­cal cat­a­logue of the works ref­er­enced (sum­ma­rized, quot­ed, or para­phrased) in your paper, essay, arti­cle, or review.

The article’s in-text cita­tion cor­re­sponds to the article’s Works Cit­ed List.

In-text cita­tion for­mat is as fol­lows: “Quote or para­phrase” (Author Page).

In the fol­low­ing sam­ples, note that the author and page infor­ma­tion is essen­tial, as the author’s last name serves as the link to more infor­ma­tion about the source in the “Works Cit­ed” list. Con­sid­er the fol­low­ing examples:

• Accord­ing to Ruta Sepetys, “Those who sur­vived spent ten to fif­teen years in Siberia” (340).
• In Between Shades of Gray, the sur­vivors are said to have “spent ten to fif­teen years in Siberia” (Sepetys 340).
• As for a dura­tion, “Those who sur­vived spent ten to fif­teen years in Siberia” (Sepetys 340).

In the “Works Cit­ed” list, under the name Sepetys, the fol­low­ing infor­ma­tion can be located:

• Sepetys, Ruta. Between Shades of Gray. Puf­fin, 2011.

Place­ment of Works Cit­ed List: Place the list at the end of the paper. The list begins on a new page, con­tin­u­ing the num­ber­ing of the essay. The title, Works Cit­ed, is cen­tered. Dou­ble-space between the title and the first entry.

Begin each entry at the left mar­gin; how­ev­er, if an entry is more than one line, then use hang­ing inden­ta­tion for­mat (indent each sub­se­quent line or lines a half an inch from the left mar­gin). Dou­ble-space the entire list, both between and with­in entries. Con­tin­ue the list on as many pages as necessary.

Arrange­ment: Arrange entries in alpha­bet­i­cal order.

Online Ref­er­ences: For Imag­i­na­tions (due to its mul­ti-media for­mat), the inclu­sion of links in the Works Cit­ed list (for online ref­er­ences) is rec­om­mend­ed, espe­cial­ly if a DOI link can be provided.

Images

For sub­mis­sion: Images should appear in text in their appro­pri­ate locations.

Please keep in text images at a small size i.e., 500kb for submission.

If your arti­cle is accept­ed: You will be expect­ed to pro­vide high­er res­o­lu­tion elec­tron­ic ver­sions of the in text images (includ­ing video or sound) in a sep­a­rate file. For accept­ed arti­cles images need to be TIFF (pre­ferred) or JPEG with at least 300dpi res­o­lu­tion for colour/greyscale/black and white.

Videos must be MPEG4 for­mat and include screen shots (as per above) for use in Print and PDF ver­sions of the article.

Audio must be MP3 for­mat (128 KBPS or higher).

Image cap­tions should be added to each image. The cap­tion text should be below the image and pre­ced­ed by “Fig­ure X”, and the cap­tion should be giv­en the para­graph style Cap­tion.

Please include a sec­tion enti­tled “Image Notes” at the end of your doc­u­ment (fol­low­ing Notes and Works Cit­ed) with all references/sources or title infor­ma­tion for images, audio-clips, films clips used.

Be sure that all images, videos, and any oth­er mate­r­i­al used cor­re­spond to Cana­di­an “fair deal­ing” and the Uni­ver­si­ty of Alber­ta “fair deal­ing” pol­i­cy (see below for more copy­right information).

Copyright Information

Use of Third Par­ty Mate­r­i­al: All third-par­ty con­tent in any sub­mis­sion to Imag­i­na­tions must con­form to the Fair Deal­ing excep­tion in the Cana­di­an Copy­right or you must pro­vide copies of your copy­right permission.

Pub­li­ca­tion License Agree­ment: Upon accep­tance of your arti­cle, after it has under­gone a dou­ble-blind peer-review process, you will receive a con­tract to license the pub­li­ca­tion of your work under a Cre­ative Com­mons 4.0 Attri­bu­tion License (BY-NC-ND): https://​cre​ativecom​mons​.org/​l​i​c​e​n​s​e​s​/​b​y​-​n​c​-​n​d​/​4​.0/.

All third-par­ty mate­r­i­al used in your arti­cle must be con­form to the Cana­di­an Fair excep­tion in the Cana­di­an Copy­right Act or you must pro­vide copies of copy­right re-print­ing permissions—if these were not already pro­vid­ed as per the journal’s pro­to­col, at the time of submission.

Valuable links

• How to Sim­pli­fy Word Doc­u­ment For­mat­ting With Styles
• How to apply a head­ing style in Word 2016 for Windows
• How to apply a head­ing style in Word for Mac
• Cus­tomize styles in Word 2016 for Windows
• Cus­tomize styles in Word for Mac
• How to use out­lin­ing in Word 2016 for Windows
• How to use out­lin­ing in Word for Mac