Drawing by Bob Fink, (c)www.greenwych.ca 1997                       

 

 

   

 
 
 
submission
 
· All submissions must address a musically relevant issue and achieve a synergy between epistemologically distant disciplines.
· Submissions may be purely empirical, purely theoretical, or a mixture of the two.
· All submissions must have at least two authors that represent at least two of the following three groups (see interdisciplinarity):
                    · humanities
                    · sciences
                    · practically oriented disciplines
·  The text should be accessible to a multidisciplinary audience, and specialist jargon should be either defined or avoided.
 
Authors are asked to choose whether to reveal or conceal their identity.
· In open submissions, the reviewers have full access to the identity and affiliation of the authors.
· In anonymous submissions, the authors’ identities are concealed from the reviewers and the authors are responsible for ensuring that their submissions do not reveal their identity.
 
Manuscripts should be submitted as a single pdf file that includes all text, figures, tables and other information and is numbered from start to finish. The format should conform to our template document ( word or pdf ). Each new submission should be accompanied by a statement of Authorship, Conflict of Interest, and Copyright. When a manuscript is accepted for publication, acceptance is generally conditional on adequate revision in accordance with reviewers' comments. All subsequent communication between the first author and action editor should be electronic (email with attachments).
 
All submissions are reviewed by experts in the submission's two main disciplines (review form).
 
The revised manuscript should be accompanied by a cover letter that responds to every comment by every reviewer in the following format:
· The reviewer's comment, copied verbatim from the text of the review.
· A linking sentence, e.g. "This comment has been addressed in the revised manuscript as follows."
· One or more extracts from the revised text of the article that make it clear that the authors have responded constructively to the reviewer's comment (again, copied verbatim).
 
When this guideline is followed, it is unnecessary to refer to page and line numbers in the old or new texts or in the reviews. A reviewer's comment may be ignored only if the authors can convince the reviewers and action editor that the comment was erroneous, inappropriate, or irrelevant.
 
The cover letter should also document any further substantive changes that may have been made to the text since the original submission (i.e., changes that do not follow from the reviews) in the following format:
· The reason for the change
· The corresponding new text
 
Responsibility for accepting or rejecting such additional changes lies with the action editor.
 
The final manuscript should be submitted in both text processor format (e.g. Microsoft Word) and pdf. No paper copy is required.
 
Book reviews
JIMS publishes reviews of books that address some aspect of music and involve an interaction between humanities and sciences or between research and musical practice. Authors of such books are invited to contact to book review editor.
   
 
                                                                                     

 

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