For Authors
General enquiries
Please contact the editor-in-chief, Mike Duggan
Email: michael.duggan@kcl.ac.uk
Code of Ethics
Livingmaps Review strives to uphold ethical standards during all stages of publication, from accepting articles, through the editorial process and after publication. We expect the same standards to be upheld by our authors and our editorial team. In particular we seek to:
Publish work that is free from harm to others, both now and in the future.
Publish work that is free from plagiarism and any known copyright infringement.
Respect freedom of expression and thought, except in cases where the work is not deemed to be free from harm by the editorial team.
Take responsibility for the work published by us and address any ethical issues that arise during the editorial process and after publication.
Give editorial independence for each section editor.
Authors agree that:
All submissions must be written and submitted by the author(s).
All submissions must not have been published elsewhere and authors must agree not to republish their submissions elsewhere after publication without prior permission.
Where material of any kind, from sources other than the author is used, it must be clearly cited in the text.
Authors must seek permission from the rights holder of any material used should the editorial team advise them to do so, for example if it is deemed to breach ‘fair use’ copyright law.
Any data used in a submission should have the permission of the data owner / provider.
If any funding contributed to the development of the submission, this must be noted by the author.
Authors should adhere to the ethical standards of their field or discipline and be willing to respond to any feedback or questions from the editors about how they have upheld these standards.
Following publications, authors are responsible for contacting the editors if they discover previously unknown unethical practices or errors that led to the development of the submission.
How to submit
To submit an article for consideration, please submit your work (as an MS Word Document via email) directly to the editor that oversees the section you want to contribute to. For information and enquires about the scope of each section, please read the following or contact the section editors.
Selection policy
Submissions will be accepted or rejected based upon their quality and fit within each of the journal sections. Articles that are accepted will go through a hands-on editorial process before they are published. Please be prepared to work with section editors.
Unfortunately we are not able to provide payment for the articles submitted at this time.
We aim to publish two issues a year, in Spring and Autumn.
Sections
Please consider the scope of each section before submitting your work.
Navigations
10,000 words max for articles, essays and interventions exploring theoretical or practical aspects of critical cartography.
Editor: Mike Duggan
Email: michael.duggan@livingmaps.org.uk
Waypoints
5000 words max on work in progress, including research and reports on mapping projects.
Editor: Barbara Brayshay
Email: barbara.brayshay@gmail.com
Mapworks
1,500 words max plus images. This gallery section will reproduce a range of maps, both historical and contemporary, especially maps produced by artists, through participatory mapping projects and innovative technical methods. Each map will be accompanied by a short interpretive commentary or dialogue.
Editor: Debbie Kent
Email: dejakay@gmail.com
Lines of Desire
3000 words max. Short fiction, poetry and autobiography on cartographic themes. Interviews with leading theorists and practitioners. Annotated performance walks and photo-documentation of self made paths in town and country.
Editors: Clare Qualman and Blake Morris
Email: c.qualmann@uel.ac.uk, blake@walkexchange.org
Reviews
5000 words max. Essay reviews of books, exhibitions and events.
Editor: Mike Duggan
Email: michael.duggan@livingmaps.org.uk
Style Guide
Our readers include artists, academics, activists, campaigners and individuals with an informed but non-specialist interest in cartography. Please submit articles with an accessible writing style and avoid unnecessary technical language. The following should be followed where possible.
House Style
Headings
The full title of the piece should appear at the top of the first page. Capitalise first words and main words only. For example: ‘Getting Directions from a New Map of the World’. Keep article titles as short as possible (suggested maximum 20 words)
Subheadings
Introduce subheadings capitalised as above. Please do not use more than three levels of subheading unless absolutely necessary and please do not add subhead numbering. If in doubt add an explanatory note in square brackets for clarity.
Line breaks
Separate headings (or subheadings) from subsequent text using just one hard return.
Spelling
English rather than American spelling conventions should be used, e.g. colour not color, programme not program, unless they are used in direct quotes. We can on occasions take pieces written wholly in American English. Non-English words should be italicised, e.g. frisson and force majeure. All published works (books, newspapers, journals, radio and television programmes) mentioned in the text should appear in italics.
Please spell-check your piece before submitting it.
Punctuation
Full stops to indicate truncation should be avoided (use Mrs not Mrs. PhD not Ph.D. eds not eds.).
Hyphens should be used to connect compounded words like ‘up-to-date’ and to join numbers or dates in a range; for example the years 1945–1995, or pages pp 23–25.
En-dashes are used to indicate a strong interruption from the rest of the sentence text (unless the interruption comes at the end of the sentence). For example: “Reading my story of their lives – a story to which they had contributed from the start – was, as far as I can tell, mostly a positive experience.”
Italics, rather than inverted quote marks, should be used to indicate emphasis. ‘Scare quotes’ (the use of quotation marks by the author to add emphasis) should be avoided.
Avoid the Oxford (or serial) comma, which is a comma used before a conjunction (such as 'and' or 'or') at the end of a list.
For ellipses, use three dots with a space on either side ... even if a sentence ends or starts with one. Put ellipses within square brackets [ … ] when they indicate content has been that omitted from a quotation.
Numbers, figures and tables
Numbers and ages less than 100 should be written in full e.g. sixty-eight. Numbers 100 and over should be in figures, for example 2711. The percentage sign (%) should only be used in tables, otherwise use ‘per cent’.
Use figures with percentages only when a decimal point is required (e.g. 7.4 per cent).
Insert a comma for thousands and tens of thousands, e.g. 1,000 and 10,000.
Dates. For decades use 1930s (not nineteen thirties), for centuries use ‘nineteenth century’ not ’19th century’. When quoting spoken word use thirties not ’30s.
Set all dates out as follows: 5 November 1997.
For date ranges use full dates, for example 1945–1995, not 1945–95.
Abbreviations and contradictions
Wherever possible please avoid using abbreviations except in notes. Instances should generally be written in full ('for example', 'for instance' rather than e.g. or i.e. as should 'and'.
Abbreviations should end with full points, for example p.m., ed., vol., no., etc.
For single initials of people use a point, for example R. A. Butler, Edward W. Said.
Do not use full points for names of organisations and acronyms, e.g. BBC, SWP, HMSO, USA.
Contractions
Omit full point of contractions which end in the last letter of word, e.g. Dr, Mr, Mrs, St, edn, eds, Ltd; and after metric units, e.g. cm, m, km, kg .
The World Wars should appear as First World War and Second World War not as World War One/Two or WW1/WW2). Full wording forms should be used: do not (not don’t), will not (not won’t), except in quoted speech.
Capitals
Keep capitalisation to a minimum, thus CD-Rom not CD-ROM and Internet not INTERNET.
Use lower case for government, church, volume. Compass points should be lower case and hyphenated within combined (north-east); north should not be capitalised unless used in a proper noun (north London but North Carolina). Political parties should be capitalised (e.g. Fascist and Communist should only be used if referring to a specific political party).
Quotes and quotation marks
The use of longer direct quotations is welcomed. Quotations must be referenced. If quotes are less than two sentences long they should be included in text using single quote marks. Quotations longer than two lines should be indented.
References
Please use the Chicago end note referencing system, not the (author, date) system. For more information on this system please visit: https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Open Access Policy
This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. Every article is available to view online and download for free.
Copyright Notice
When an article is accepted for publication authors will be notified of acceptance by email, and at this point they will be able to deposit the pre-published version on their personal website, their university department website, or their institution’s research repository.
When posting or re-using the published article, please acknowlegde [sic] publication in Livingmaps Review and inlcude [sic] a link to it when possible.
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