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INFORMATION FOR AUTHORS

Manuscript Submission

Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts online via The Library Quarterly Editorial Manager system at http://lq.edmgr.com. Detailed instructions are available below. If you do not have access to the Web, please send one hard copy of your manuscript and a CD-R containing all relevant electronic files to the editorial office.

Statement of Policy

Editorial correspondence should be directed to professors John Carlo Bertot and Paul Jaeger, Co-editors, The Library Quarterly, College of Information Studies, University of Maryland, 4105 Hornbake Building, South Wing, College Park, MD 20742. Telephone: 301-405-3267; Fax: 301-314-9145; E-mail: jbertot@umd.edu or pjaeger@umd.edu; Web sites: http://www.journals.uchicago.edu/LQ/ and http://www.purl.org/net/lq).

The Library Quarterly welcomes sole submissions of original, unpublished research and discussion articles. Prospective authors must submit via The Library Quarterly Editorial Manager system their manuscript and a letter stating that their manuscript is a sole submission to The Library Quarterly and that authorizes The Library Quarterly to send out a blind, text-protected version of their manuscript for review. Selected referees are specialists in the subjects with which they deal. Manuscript length should not exceed 35 pages; manuscript length with notes and figures should not exceed 50 pages.

From its inception in January 1931, The Library Quarterly has been dedicated to the publication of scholarship and reports of research. Discussion of problems and issues and solid descriptive articles may also accepted if they are firmly based on evidence and data rather than conjecture or unsupported personal opinion. Descriptions of purely local, institutional, or operational experiments or projects are acceptable only if they lend themselves to generalization.

Contributors to The Library Quarterly have included practitioners, educators, and students, from library and information science and other fields. The Library Quarterly has reported the findings of many doctoral studies, and even occasional special student projects, and welcomes the submission of manuscripts by graduate students as well as by already established authorities.

The subjects that are considered within the scope of The Library Quarterly range widely over aspects of library and information science and related fields. The following topic areas represent a partial list of subjects within the journal's scope: bibliographic control, bibliometrics, book and library history, censorship and intellectual freedom, children's literature and services, human computer interaction, indexing and classification research, information retrieval, information industry, cognitive processes and information-seeking behavior, librarianship and related information professions, libraries and information centers, management and information policy, measurement and evaluation, preservation, publishing and printing, rare books and manuscripts, reference and public services, scholarly and scientific communication, and sociology of knowledge.

All manuscripts are double-blind refereed before acceptance.

Formatting Electronic Files

Please adhere to the requirements below when submitting a new or revised manuscript via Editorial Manager. The system relies on automated processing to create a PDF file from your submission. If you do not follow these instructions, your submission cannot be processed and will not be received by the journal office.

Acceptable Formats

• Microsoft Word (.doc)(any recent version)
• WordPerfect (.wpd)
• Rich Text Format (.rtf)

File Contents

Word documents should be submitted as a single file. Authors should submit figures as separate files, in TIFF (.tif) or EPS (.eps) (not GIF [.gif] or JPEG [.jpg]) format.

Please note that authors of accepted manuscripts may be required to submit high-resolution hard copies of all figures during production, as not all digital art files are usable.

In addition to the main manuscript file, submit your cover letter as a separate file in the same format as your main file. If you used any revision or editorial tracking tools in your word-processing program, be sure the final version of your manuscript does not contain tracked changes.

File Compression and Archives

If you have more than two files to upload into the system (e.g., manuscript, figures, and cover letter), we recommend you combine these files into an archive, so you upload only a single file when submitting the manuscript. Applications for Mac OS (such as StuffIt) and Windows (such as WinZip) support the formats listed below.

The following archive formats may be used:

• Zip (e.g., "archive.zip")
• Unix tar (e.g., "archive.tar" or compressed with a gzip as "archive.tar.gz" or "archive.tgz")

If you cannot create archives in these formats, you may still compress individual files to shorten upload time:

• Unix compress (e.g., "ms.tex.Z")
• gzip (e.g., "ms.tex.gz")

Revised and Final Versions of Manuscripts

If you are submitting a revised manuscript, please include your responses to the reviewers comments as part of the cover letter file. When submitting a revised manuscript with figures, include all figures, even if they have not changed since the previous version. The final version of your manuscript must be submitted in Word (doc.), Rich Text (.rtf), or LaTeX (.tex) format, because your keystrokes will be used in publication; a PDF does not contain usable character data and is thus not adequate. For both revised and final versions of manuscripts, please observe the same formatting instructions outlined above.

General Specifications

The Library Quarterly is edited according to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (2003). All manuscripts must be double spaced (text, references, footnotes, figure legends, tables, etc.). Allow right- and left-hand margins of at least 1½ inches each. Number pages in the upper right-hand corner, beginning with the title page. Indent paragraphs. No right justification, headers, or footers.

The first page of the manuscript should have the name of the author, affiliation, and address. The second page of the manuscript should have only the title of the article. The third page should consist of an abstract of 100–150 words. No references or footnotes should be cited in the abstract. The text of the article should start on the fourth page.

The references follow the text and should be typed on a separate page or pages (all double spaced). References should be numbered consecutively in the order in which they are cited in the text and should correspond to the numbers in the text, which are in brackets (do not start numbers anew on each page of text). Each citation should be typed in full and only once. Subsequent mentioning of a reference in the text should make use of the same reference number. (Do not use "ibid.," "op. cit.," or "loc. cit.") Each journal citation should give inclusive pages of the reference. Citation to a single page or pages within the text should indicate those pages with the reference number. For example, [13, p. 6] or [7, pp. 18-19] or [1-3]. Examples of style for references are as follows:

Journal Article

Authors names (inverted); article title (in quotes); journal title in full (italics); volume number; month and year of publication (in parentheses); page numbers of entire article.

1. Maack, Mary Niles. "No Philosophy Carries So Much Conviction as the Personal Life: Mary Wright Plummer as an Independent Woman." Library Quarterly 70 (January 2000): 1–46.

Book

Authors' names (inverted); book title (italics); city of publication; publisher; year.

2. Richardson, John V. Knowledge-Based Systems for General Reference Work: Applications, Problems, and Progress. San Diego: Academic Press, 1995.

Chapter in an Edited Book

3. Getz, Malcolm. "Electronic Publishing in Academia: An Economic Perspective." In Technology and Scholarly Communication, edited by Richard Ekman and Richard E. Quandt. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999.

Dissertation or Thesis

4. Malone, Cheryl K. "Accommodating Access: 'Colored' Carnegie Libraries, 1905–1925." PhD diss., University of Texas at Austin, 1995.

Footnotes are not necessary if used only to refer to a work cited. In this case, the reference number should be placed in the text in brackets. Example: ". . . in that study [1, pp. 8–14]." Footnotes are necessary only for further explanation of something within the text. A footnote may be included giving acknowledgments or information on grants received by the author, and this should be marked as footnote 1 (append a superscript 1 to the article title). A footnote giving the author's address must be included (append a superscript 1 or 2, as appropriate, to the author's name).

Each table should be double spaced and be on a separate page following the footnotes. Each table should be numbered, and tables must be cited in order in the text.

Each photograph or illustration (figure) should be on a separate sheet of paper (originals or glossy photographs, no photocopies) and should follow the tabular material. Legends for the illustrations should be typed in order on a new page. All illustrations should be cited in order in the text, as figure 1, figure 2, etc.

Authors are encouraged to include content-related visuals (images such as photographs or illustrations) with their manuscript. Images from library archives or other rights holders, however, must be accompanied by a letter that gives permission and authorization (from the copyright holder to the University of Chicago Press) to reprint the image(s) in our journal. For details on format needs, please contact The Library Quarterly journal office.

Online Submission Instructions

Please have the following items readily available before beginning the online submission process:

• Manuscript in an acceptable format as described above
• Cover letter as a separate file
• Information from title page (to be typed into the peer review database): title, short title, list of authors and affiliations, and contact information for the corresponding author
• Abstract of the manuscript (to be copied and pasted into a field in Editorial Manager)

Go to The Library Quarterly Editorial Manager system at http://lq.edmgr.com to submit your manuscript. If you do not have access to the Web, please send one hard copy of your manuscript and a CD-R containing all relevant electronic files to the editorial office. It is no longer necessary to submit a hard copy in addition to an electronic submission.