Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
- Images, figures and tables have been uploaded on the OJS form, including a document with captions.
- A separate document with the author's information has been uploaded following the author's guidelines: https://www.inmaterialdesign.com/INM/2
Author Guidelines
IMPORTANT:
INMATERIAL accepts the submission of original articles written in English, Spanish or Catalan.
Any article that does not comply with the requirements defined here for its presentation will be discarded before blind peer review.
1. All authors must register here in order to submit their proposals through the journal's platform. Please make sure that you receive the automatic confirmation e-mails.
2. Anonymization: All contributions must be anonymous. The names of the author/s should not appear either within the text or in self-citations or the metadata of the files.
3. Data: A separate document (.doc or .odt) will be sent with the author’s full name, ORCID iD, a brief academic résumé, institution where employed and reporting hierarchy, national and international networks they are a member of, e-mail address and social networks profiles (of the author and related institutions).
4. Category of the papers and extension: The papers to be taken into account in the journal must be written in English, Spanish or Catalan, be unedited and fall within one of the following categories:
-Original research papers Includes articles that discuss unpublished research. Minimum number of words: 6,000. Maximum number of words: 8,000. Peer-reviewed.
-Literature review It includes contributions that account for the state of the art of a theme. Minimum number of words: 3,000. Maximum number of words: 5,000. Peer-reviewed.
- Projects It consists of a critical/reflexive review of outstanding artistic/design projects. Those projects that arise from some novel methodological approaches are especially welcome. Minimum number of words: 2,500. Maximum number of words: 4,000. There is no limitation on images or other graphic elements but the editors can propose a reduction of those for technical issues. Other kinds of archive and audiovisual formats can be added through links to other websites as far as the contribution includes descriptions and frames or screenshots or other types of documentation that allow their comprehensibility in the printed format of the journal or in case the links break in the future. Peer-reviewed.
- Book reviews Minimum number of words: 2,500. Maximum number of words: 3,000.
5. All papers must have the following parts in their structure:
• Title: It must describe the content in a clear, precise way, to allow the reader to identify the matter easily. The title shall be provided both in Spanish (when possible) as well as in English.
• Abstract: This part aims to guide the reader in identifying the basic content of the paper in a swift, exact manner, and to determine the relevance of its content. It is recommendable not to exceed 250 words. The abstract shall be provided both in Spanish (when possible) as well as in English.
• Keywords: the author must provide 5 keywords at the end of the abstract, written in Spanish and English.
• Bibliographic referencing: Referencing must be in Harvard Citation Style, available on the following link: https://library.aru.ac.uk/referencing/files/Harvard_referencing_201920.pdf
6. The texts must be edited in .doc or .odt format, without conversion to PDF or other formats, in DIN A4 size, with 3 cm. Margins, on both sides, and with pages numbered consecutively in the bottom right margin (folio). Arial 12-point font must be used, with a line-spacing of 1.5, full justification and without indentation.
7. Images such as illustrations, photographs, figures, diagrams or schemes must preferably be supplied in .jpg or .tiff format with a minimum resolution of 300 ppi (pixels per inch) or the maximum resolution possible; and tables and graphs in .xls or .ods format. Those resources shall be supplied in files classified as appropriate and in separate folders; each must also be identified consecutively (for example: figure 1, figure 2, figure 3…; image 1, image 2, image 3…; table 1, table 2, table 3…; etc., as appropriate).
They must also be located within the text of the original document (so the magazine designer has a specific reference and may place them correctly when performing the page editing for publication) and they must be identified with the relevant consecutive image caption and author or source credit.
For images or other resources that are not produced by the author submitting the work, the relevant credit must be given and the original source cited. Thus, the author/s is/are bound to cite the original source in all graphic documentation, whatever its kind. The journal declines all liability that may arise from breach of intellectual or commercial property rights.
8. The papers received shall be sent for evaluation by national and/or international reviewers (Double-Blind Peer Review).
9. The papers sent shall not be returned, so the authors must make sure they keep a copy.
10. The Publishing Committee is responsible for selecting the articles worth publication, and it reserves the right not to accept work that does not comply with the above instructions for publication.
11. The author/s whose paper is approved by the Committee for publication must perform the corrections the reviewer suggests within a term of 20 days.
12. Publication of the papers in the journal makes them subject to intellectual property rights under the heading:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
13. Submission checklist. As part of the sending process, the author/s is/are required to check that their submission fulfils all the requisites set forth in the above guidelines. Submissions that do not fulfil the required criteria shall be returned to the author/s or not be accepted.
14. Privacy declaration. The names and e-mail addresses included in the journal shall be used solely for the purposes declared by this journal and shall not be available for any other purpose, or to any other person.
Copyright Notice
Publication of the papers in the journal makes them subject to intellectual property rights under the heading:https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/
The author keeps the moral rights of authorship as well as the publishing, use and reuse rights of his/her work as long as Inmaterial is always referred to as the publishing source.
