GUIDELINES
The editors welcome submissions of essays, reviews, review essays, translations, short prose, poems, and visual art.
All material should be submitted to Jane Desmarais at volupte@gold.ac.uk. Please include your name and contact address in your email message, but keep your actual submission anonymous to allow for blind peer review.
Preparing Text for Submission
Articles should be about 6-7,000 words in length, including endnotes, and book reviews should be no more than 2000 words. All textual material must be in Microsoft Word format and follow the MHRA Style Guide downloadable free of charge here.
Book reviews should include the following head information, Author/editor, title, place of publication, publisher, date, page expanses and ISBN. For example: Kostas Boyiopoulos, The Decadent Image: The Poetry of Wilde, Symons, and Dowson, Edinburgh Critical Studies in Victorian Culture (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015), pp. xii + 219. ISBN 9780748690923.
Preparing Illustrations and Visual Material
While there are no fixed criteria for submitting creative work, visual art should be supplied as high-resolution digital files (of at least 300 dpi). Contributors are responsible for clearing copyright and/or cost implications with living artists or with artists who have died in the last 70 years. See the Government Guidelines on Intellectual Property which provides useful information on copyright and intellectual property in the UK.
Permissions Request Form
If you need to request permission to reproduce material in your article, you should consult the copyright holder. Most institutions will provide their own request forms for image or text permissions via their website. However, if no such form is available you may use the Volupté Permissions Request Form (Word).
Peer Review Forms
Peer Review Guidelines and Form: Word / PDF
Errata and Corrigenda
All content of published articles in Volupté are subject to the editorial review process, organized by and under the auspices of the editorial team. Should authors wish to add to their article after acceptance, they must submit a request the Editor-in-Chief and the new content will be reviewed.
If the new material is additional to the accepted article, it must be submitted for peer review as a new manuscript, referring back to the original;
If the new material should replace, correct, or clarify the original content of the accepted article, the editor may consider the publication of an erratum or a corrigendum. This will appear as a page titled ‘Corrections and Clarifications’ at the end of the relevant issue.
Erratum
An erratum refers to a correction of errors introduced to the article by the publisher. All publisher-introduced changes are highlighted to the author at the proof stage and any errors are ideally identified by the author and corrected by the publisher before final publication. Authors who notice an error should contact the editorial team at volupte@gold.ac.uk
Corrigendum
A corrigendum refers to a change to their article that the author wishes to publish at any time after acceptance. Authors should contact the editorial team at volupte@gold.ac.uk, who will determine the impact of the change and decide on the appropriate course of action.
Letters to the Editor
Letters to the Editor should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief, Jane Desmarais, and sent by email to volupte@gold.ac.uk. Please note that authors have the right to reply.
