CfP: Animation Studies

Following on from the successful annual Society for Animation Studies conference held in
Edinburgh two weeks ago, I would like to announce the latest call for papers for
Animation Studies.

Society for Animation Studies members are invited to submit conference papers from
conferences they participated in, especially SAS conferences past and present in the
growing subject area of animation studies.   Non-members are welcome to submit papers,
but must join the society before an accepted paper can be published.  (Membership
details available at animationstudies.org

All papers are subject to peer review and presentation; acceptance of a paper at a
conference is not a guarantee of publication. If a paper is accepted for a conference
but not presented it can still be considered, subject to agreement by the editorial
board.

Papers will be blind refereed where possible and comments collated and returned to the
author by the editor.

The journal editions run on an annual basis with papers accepted throughout the year but
the volume closed on calendar year end. In order to simplify the refereeing and
submission, papers will be accepted at deadlines throughout the year. We invite authors
to submit papers in spring and late summer/early autumn.

We strongly encourage the submission of past papers in order to establish a useful
archive of work which members can access. We also encourage the submission of links to
other publications or bibliographic citations where conference papers have been
published elsewhere.

Papers are not limited to word length, though it is expected that the paper will not
exceed that of the presentation, or a reasonable approximation of it. Authors may edit
their conference presentations, but the text must provide a reasonable representation of
the material presented at the conference.

Images are welcomed but authors must seek permissions to reproduce them in the journal.
Rights owners must be identified in the caption, in the manner specified by the rights
owner in a release form signed by that individual. Articles are published under Creative
Commons regulations, which allows the author to retain copyright but allows free
distribution of the work for educational purposes. Creative Commons is in line with
progressive online publishing practices.

The Harvard Referencing system will be used. All papers should be submitted in Microsoft
Word document files (.doc) or Rich Text Format (.rtf). Please submit images in low
resolution, web-ready formats.

Email your essay, including a cover page stating your name, your institutional
affiliation (now and at the time of the paper presentation), the name of the paper, the
conference at which it was published, the date of presentation (or conference dates),
four to seven keywords pertaining to the article, a one- to two-sentence blurb, and any
significant information related to the editing of the paper. Please also provide contact
information suitable for publication with the paper.

Deadline for papers is Thursday 19th August. Submit all proposals to Dr Nichola Dobson,
Editor at journal AT animationstudies.org or
nichola_dobson AT yahoo.co.uk 

http://animationstudies.org

http://journal.animationstudies.org