Submissions

Author Guidelines

Submission of articles:

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically by e-mail attachment to the editor (mt@iva.dk). The preferred text file format is Word for PC.

Requirements
Signs only accepts submissions that have never before been published in their current form. However, Signs will accept submissions that have been circulated in unpublished formats such as on websites and as lectures. Signs will also consider published papers that have been translated into English or modified substantially since their original publication. For all papers that have been published in a previous form, please include a copy and full citation of the previously published paper with the submission. All submissions must be in English. Signs asks that authors refrain from submitting their paper to other publications while it is being considered by Signs, and/or withdraw their submission from other journals upon its acceptance by Signs.

The first page of the manuscript should contain the title of the paper, an abstract of 50-100 words and 4-5 keywords. Each page of the manuscript should be consecutively numbered, including pages of notes, references and captions. The title of the paper, the author's name and full affiliation address (including e-mail) are to be supplied on a separate page to ensure anonymous reviews.

Articles should preferably not exceed 10,000 words including notes and references. Divide up the text into sections with instructive headings, starting with Introduction and closing with Conclusion. Unsolicited book reviews are welcome, but suitability should be discussed before with the editor; they must contain complete bibliographic details including number of pages and ISBN

Quotations. Use no quotation marks.

Notes should be numbered consecutively and placed at the end of the text as endnotes, not as footnotes.

References
References are cited in texts by giving the name of the author(s) and year of publication (in parentheses) e.g. as mentioned by Hoffmeyer (2006), or has been argued (Hoffmeyer 2006, p. 135-138)
All citations in the text must be listed fully in a Reference section at the end of the manuscript, by alphabetical order of authors, with complete bibliographical details. Journal and book titles must be given in full and italicized. The Reference list should be presented as follows:

Books
Eco, Umberto (1976). A Theory of Semiotics. Bloomington : Indiana University Press.
Chapter in book:
Black, Max (1979). More about metaphor. In Metaphor and Thought, Andrew Ortony (ed.), 19-43. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Journal article:
Petrelli, Susan (1986). On the materiality of signs. Semiotica 62, 223-245.

Conference Paper:
Huang, S.-C. (2006). A semiotic view of information: semiotics as a foundation of LIS research in information behaviour. Proceedings 69th annual meeting of the american society for information science and technology (ASIST), 43.

WWW:
Horowitz, M. C., (ed.).The Dictionary of the History of Ideas. Retrieved 21.11, 2005, from http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/DicHist/dict.html

Figures and illustrations should be selected carefully and numbered consecutively. For accepted papers, high resolution graphic files (600 dpi) or camera ready copies on plain paper are required. Note that electronic publication requires figures to be not too detailed and not too large. Provide an instructive caption to each figure at the approximate location in the manuscript, and refer to all figures explicitly in the text.
Any questions about submission procedures should be directed to: cpx896@iva.ku.dk