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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
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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.

The submitting author further guarantees that any attachments submitted including any sound
files are legally and ethically suitable for open access and indemnifies the editors and editorial
board against any subsequent legal action or dispute based on any aspect of copyright or ethical
consent in any of their submitted material. The submitting author also confirms that any

 fieldwork data used in the publication or additional audio files has been obtained using rigorous
ethical consent from other participants in their research. 

This also extends to fieldwork where we expect that individual contributing authors adhere to
the best practice in ethical fieldwork, a useful example of which can be found at the Society for
Ethnomusicology’s website, SEM Position Statement on Ethics in Fieldwork.

The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except
 with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the
appropriate points, rather than at the end.

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 The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author
Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. 

If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, please ensure your files are suitably
 anonymised as described in submission information.

Author Guidelines

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS:

A submitted manuscript will only be considered for publication if it is submitted via the
journal’s online submission system.

Manuscripts must be prepared according to the Instructions for Authors, and using the
submission guidance below.

Manuscripts must be submitted in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format.

A manuscript cannot be considered if it has been published in English - or is under

consideration for publication - elsewhere.

TYPES OF MANUSCRIPT

Articles must be of no more than 8,000 words (including title, abstract, and reference list), and
should present and discuss the findings of substantial and original research, not published in
English elsewhere. These are peer-reviewed journal articles.

Policy and briefing short papers must be of no more than 2,000 words (including title, abstract,
and reference list), and should provide brief commentary on a specific, topical development in the
field of cultural policy as it relates to traditional arts practice, or national updates on innovative or
notable practices in traditional arts from around the world. These are not peer-reviewed, but are
reviewed by the editor.

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Editorials take the form of short opinion pieces, and are authored by a member of the Editorial
team, to introduce or summarise a particular area of discussion relevant to the Journal’s focus and
scope. These must be no more than 2,000 words (including title, abstract, and reference list). These
are not peer-reviewed articles.

All manuscripts should be submitted in English: both British and American spelling conventions
are acceptable, so long as the author uses either one of these conventions consistently.

The IJTA is a Gold Open Access Journal and as such fulfills all necessary open access requirements
for bodies such as the UK Research Councils. Any published paper in this journal will satisfy the
open access requirement of any scholarly association, and indeed this commitment to open access
is one of the founding motivations of the journal itself. We ask therefore that authors ideally use
the published version of their paper as the version of record for any institutional open access
compliance. We will not prevent authors publishing pre-print copies of their paper in their own
institutional repository but only at the point of ‘formal acceptance’, which is generally after the
manuscript has undergone review and any and all recommended editorial changes have been
completed to the satisfaction of the journal editors. It is worth noting however, that because the
journal qualifies as a Gold Open Access Journal, that no further action would be needed by
indvidual authors in order to satisfy national research funding organisations once the paper has
been published.

REFERENCE STYLE

Submissions to the Journal must use the Harvard referencing system. This includes the application
of in-text citations and a full bibliographical reference list at the end of the article. All - and only -
items cited in the text should be referenced in full in the references list. The simultaneous, in-text
citation of multiple items should be arranged by date (oldest first) and then alphabetically if there
is more than one reference for a particular year. In-text citations should consist of the author’s last
name, year of publication and page(s); the latter two elements will always appear in parentheses:

Bohlman (2004, p. 25)  | (Bohlman, 2004, p. 25)

Keil and Feld (1994, p. 54) | (Keil and Feld, 1994, p. 54)

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Where there are more than two authors:

Valentine et al. (2009) | (Valentine et al., 2009)

Where authors of multiple cited works share a last name:

(Cook, J.C., 1999) as opposed to (Cook, N., 1999)

Where multiple publications by a single author in a single year are cited:

(PRS for Music Foundation, 2011a) as opposed to (PRS for Music Foundation, 2011b) [these are then
listed with a/b indentifiers - assigned alphabetically by title - in the references list]

The references in the reference list should then be formatted in the following way:

Article in Scholarly Print Journal:

Author's surname, forename. (Year of publication) Title of the article. Title of the Journal,

Volume/Part, firstpage-lastpage.

Article in Electronic Journal:

Author's surname, forename. (Year of publication) Title of Article. Title of the Journal [online],
Volume/part, <URL> [accessed day/month/year].

Article in Newspaper:

Author’s surname, forename. (Year of publication) Title of the Article. Newspaper, day/month/year,
p. page.

Book:

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Author's surname, forename. (Year of publication) Title of publication (Edition or Series statement,
if required). Place of publication: publisher.

Book Chapter:

Author's surname, forename. (Year of publication) Title of chapter. In: Editor's Initial. Surname
(ed.) Title of book. Edition statement. Place of publication: Publisher. pp. Page numbers.

Dissertation:

Author's name. (Year of publication) Title. Type and level of award. Awarding body.

Website:

Author/editor's name, or [W.A]. (Year of publication) Title [online]. Place of publication: Publisher
<URL> [accessed day/month/year].

Where appropriate, articles should also include a discography. This should be located after the
reference list, and references should be formatted as follows:

Composer/artist surname, Initial. (Year) Title of work. Performers names [if different from
composer/artist]. Format. Record company. Catalogue no.

SOUND FILES

Sound files can be submitted as part of the submission process, these must be submitted as
attachments and must be in a commonly used compressed audio format such as mp3 and must not
be excessively large (e.g. >100MB). Reference each sound recording from the text as Audio
Example 1, Audio Example 2, etc.

TABLES AND FIGURES

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These should be inserted into the manuscript at the time of preparation, and should be of
manageable file size. They should also be of appropriate size to be viewed in both on-screen and
printed form. Tables and figures should be given clear, descriptive titles, and should be referred to
in the body of text.

ANONYMISING FILES FOR SUBMISSION

To anonymise your files for submission, please ensure that the text has had the authors' names
removed. If you or another author is cited, please use the substitute in place of your name"Author"
and year are used in the bibliography and footnotes, instead of author's name, paper title, etc.
Please also ensure that your or any other authors' names have been removed from the document's
properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu. To anonymize your manuscript for
double blind peer review, follow these instructions.

Ensure there is no author information in the metadata of any of the files submitted (e.g., in Word
see: http://bit.ly/201IdX7; in Adobe see: Adobe advice on anoymizing pdfs). Remove identifying
names in the acknowledgments, grant funding details, or any other author-related information.
Similarly, do the same for the properties of sound files you are submitting and consider whether
there might be identifying audio in the files you are submitting. Check the figures for appearance
of any author names.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work
simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share
the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this
journal.

Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive
distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional
repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this
journal.

Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories
or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive
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exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open
Access).

PUBLICATION ETHICS AND MALPRACTICE STATEMENT

The International Journal for Traditional Arts is self-published by the Editors. The Editors are
committed to upholding the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics' Code of Conduct for
Publishers. Plagiarism, fraudulent publication or any other form of misconduct will not be
tolerated. All submissions will be screened for plagiarism before being sent to reviewers. Should
unethical behaviour come to the attention of the Editors, an investigation will be initiated, and all
appropriate steps will be taken to rectify the situation (including, where necessary, the publication
of clarifications, corrections retractions, and/or apologies).

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