General Remarks
CURIOUS THINGS offers the possibility to submit articles for peer review, visual essays and shorter texts, e.g. book or exhibition reviews, without peer review. All should submit to the guidelines below, yet for the visual essays it is possible to deviate from these for design purposes, but please contact us in this case.
Our contact information can be found at the bottom of this paper.
Length of Article
Your article should be a maximum of 24,000 characters, including text for illustrations, appendices, and in-text references but excluding an abstract of 1200 characters (in English) and bibliography.
If you wish to submit an article greater than 24,000 characters, please contact us via email.
Spelling
UK English, as given in the Oxford English Dictionary, is preferred, but US English is accepted, as long as either is followed consistently throughout the paper.
As a standard, the more commonly known place names or historical names in English should be used, rather than native ones.
- Rome, rather than Roma etc.
- Zenobia, rather than Bat-Zabbai etc.
However, exceptions can be made in cases where native terms are appropriate.
Text
Use Times New Roman as the standard font for your article text in 12 points.
The text should be black.
Spacing is 1,5 lines.
All text and titles should be on the left margin in single columns.
No punctuation, other than question marks and exclamation marks, should occur at the end of titles, subtitles, or subheadings.
All pages should be numbered in the lower centre.
We suggest you use headers.
Numbers up to ten should be written out in letters (one, two, etc.). Numbers above ten can be written in Arabic numerals (11, 12, 13, etc.).
Ordinal numbers should be typed as 1st, 2nd, 3rd etc.
Please use BCE, CE rather than BC, AD.
Foreign words should be in Italics excl. common abbreviations e.g., i.e. etc.
Quotations
Long quotations (more than forty words of prose or more than two lines of verse) should be entered as a separate paragraph with a line shift before and after the quotation. This is without quotation marks and not in italics. E.g.:
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua. Ut enim ad minim veniam, quis nostrud exercitation ullamco laboris nisi ut aliquip ex ea commodo consequat. Duis aute irure dolor in reprehenderit in voluptate velit esse cillum dolore eu fugiat nulla pariatur. Excepteur sint occaecat cupidatat non proident, sunt in culpa qui officia deserunt mollit anim id est laborum.
Short quotations should be included in the running text with ‘single quotation marks’. If you need to use quotation marks within a quote use “double quotation marks”. E.g.: ‘And then they said “I always thought it was here and not there”.’
If quotations are in other languages than English, please provide translations either right under the quote or in the footnotes. Either shall be followed consistently. If a quote is given in translation please cite the source of translation.
Abbreviations
Avoid op. cit., ibid., idem, eadem; loc. cit., supra, infra.
The abbreviation of number and note should be distinct. Number = no. and Note = n.
The following abbreviations should be noted: circa as c. not ca., b. (birth/born), d. (died), r. (ruled), fl. (flourished).
Figures and Tables
A list of illustrations should be included after the bibliography. The list should include figure captions with credits to the owners of the illustrations.
Make sure to indicate the copyright for the images and make sure that you have cleared access for both online and print reproduction of any images. It is the responsibility of the individual authors to have this in order.
Please indicate where illustrations should be inserted and number the figures/tables. We cannot guarantee the exact placement.
Text captions should be relevant to the paper, yet are not confined to only describing the contents of the image.
Submitting contents
The contents of the article should be submitted in the following ways:
- The text should be sent as PDF (incl. illustrations for reference) and text files (preferably word).
- Figures, tables, graphs etc. should be sent as separate files in tiff or jpg.
- Illustrations should be uploaded separately and their file names should reflect on their titles in the text.
Data
Data should be managed to ensure transparency and the option of reproducibility in the future.
It should be made available through open access.
This entails a plan for storage and access to the data.
It is also advised to create a distinct DOI-link for the data.
We suggest using the free repository Zenodo for this. Link: https://zenodo.org/uploads/new.
An example is if your article treats data from object recordings. In this case you can upload this data through Zenodo which will create a DOI-link for the data that you can then link in your article.
Reference Style and Bibliography
We ask that you use the APA author-Date Style in the text, and make sure the bibliography, placed at the end of the paper, reflects the sources you have cited in your paper. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum.
E.g. book: Jackson, L. M. (2019). The psychology of prejudice: From attitudes to social action (2nd ed.). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000168-000
E.g. article: Grady, J. S., Her, M., Moreno, G., Perez, C., & Yelinek, J. (2019). Emotions in storybooks: A comparison of storybooks that represent ethnic and racial groups in the United States. Psychology of Popular Media Culture, 8(3), 207–217. https://doi.org/10.1037/ppm0000185
E.g. chapter in edited book: Aron, L., Botella, M., & Lubart, T. (2019). Culinary arts: Talent and their development. In R. F. Subotnik, P. Olszewski-Kubilius, & F. C. Worrell (Eds.), The psychology of high performance: Developing human potential into domain-specific talent (pp. 345–359). American Psychological Association. https://doi.org/10.1037/0000120-016
If in doubt, please consult https://apastyle.apa.org/
If footnotes are needed, please place the reference to the footnote in the main text at the end of a sentence, after a full stop or other punctuation.1
Separate author names by ‘and’. If there are more than two authors use et. al. But all authors should be listed in the bibliography.
When quoting or paraphrasing an author whose name appears in the text, the in-text reference should go immediately after the author’s name, and the author’s name should not be repeated.
E.g. Howlett (1999, 73) has argued that the site must have fallen out of use by this time.
Use italics on the title of a periodical article or book chapter when the title is used in the text.
E.g. Sherman’s (2019) article The Art of Giving Feedback addressed how nurses can give effective feedback.
References to more than one source should be separated with a semicolon.
We encourage the use of programs such as Zotero or Endnote.
If possible, mention the DOI of digital sources.
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Anonymity
Please make sure all personal inforamtion in the document has been made anonymized.
A guide can be found here
Rights
We ask that you write your article exclusively for CURIOUS THINGS.
By submitting to CURIOUS THINGS, you agree to the following copyright notice: Articles published in CT are licensed under Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Authors retain copyright to their articles and give CT the right to the first publication. The authors retain copyright to earlier versions of the articles, such as the submitted and the accepted manuscript.
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