1.    Initial Manuscript Submission

Submit your article as an email attachment to the Editor-in-Chief (kettering[at]jhna.org) of JNHA, who will forward it to the appropriate Associate Editor.  In the body of your email message, provide the author’s name, email address, home and institutional addresses, telephone and fax numbers, and a short biographical statement (no more than 50 words).  In order to ensure blind readings from the reviewers, the author’s name should not appear on the title page, abstract, or elsewhere in the manuscript, including in the endnotes.  Please send one illustrated hard (paper) copy of the article and a CD (formatted in Microsoft Word) as well to:

Alison M. Kettering
Department of Art and Art History
Carleton College
1 N. College St.
Northfield MN 55057

The manuscript must be double-spaced (including endnotes), and submitted in a standard word-processing program, preferably Microsoft Word.   PC and MAC versions are both acceptable.  It should begin with an approximately 100-word abstract.  The text and notes must conform to the styles given in the Chicago Manual of Style (15th or subsequent editions, available on line www.chicagomanualofstyle.org – Citation Quick Guide).  Provide a list of illustration captions.  Illustrations should be submitted as individual jpegs; if their number is large, they should be submitted in a zip-file.  The maximum length of articles will be 7500-10,000 words.

Although JHNA publishes articles only in English, the editorial board will try to have Dutch, German, and French language submissions vetted to determine whether the article should be read by a peer reviewer.  Authors of accepted articles are responsible for their translation into English.  The editors will provide authors with letters that they can use to apply for translation funds in their home countries.  JHNA will also try to provide modest subventions.  In any event, translators are requested to follow all guidelines provided here.

2.    Submission of Accepted Manuscripts

Once the article is accepted and all requested revisions have been made, the author will send the final text to the Editor-in-Chief in the form of e-mail attachments, one hard copy, and a CD.  In this version, the author’s name and institution should appear immediately beneath the title on the first page.  The author will be sent a Publication Agreement in response.

Please follow the submission requirements carefully:

Double-space ALL copy. Use 12-point Times New Roman type for all elements.  Begin each section (text, captions, bibliography, author’s biographical statement, one-sentence description of content, abstract) on a new page.  Number all pages. Leave a margin of 1½ inches all around. Do not break words (hyphenate) at ends of lines. Do not justify the right-hand margin. Use italic type for words to be set in italics. Do not use boldface or other sizes or styles of font.

Notes:
Notes should be numbered consecutively and appear not as endnotes or footnotes but within parentheses and embedded at the end of the sentences to which they pertain.  For example, “In the Dutch Republic, Johan van Nyenborgh’s….mixture of ideas.” (Johan van Nyenborgh, Tooneel der Ambachten of Den Winckel der Handtwercken en Konsten (Groningen: Jacob Sipkes, 1659, p. 7.)) In published form, the note will appear to the side of the article and our content management program will number them consecutively.  Notes should therefore be kept fairly short.

Quotations:
Quotations must be absolutely accurate and carefully transcribed.  An ellipsis (three spaced dots) indicates words dropped within a sentence. A period and three spaced dots indicate a deletion between sentences.

If you are responsible for some of the translations, add at the head of the notes: "Unless otherwise indicated, translations are mine."

Foreign-language quotations in both text and notes should be translated into English, unless the significance of the quotation will be lost. The original text may be included in a note if it is unpublished, difficult to access, or of philological relevance to the article.

Brackets in quoted material indicate author's interpolation; in inscriptions they indicate letters lost through damage. Parentheses indicate letters omitted as the result of abbreviation in inscriptions.

All references to publications, archival documents, and the like should appear in full form (including place of publication and publisher) only once. Subsequent appearances should use a short form: surname of author, short title, and page reference. (Consult The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., 16.42, for details). Do not use op. cit.

Illustrations:  
Illustrations must be excellent in quality and in digital form. These will be published as jpegs at 72 dpi resolution. Images should be at least 600 pixels at the largest dimension.

Captions:
Captions should be submitted on a separate page or section, double-spaced. Captions should be numbered consecutively.
JHNA includes full caption information, whenever available and appropriate, in this order:

• Figure number with period
• Artist
• Title (in italics)
• Date
• Medium on support
• Dimensions in centimeters (1 inch = 2.54 cm)
• Name of collection
• City of collection
• Other collection information such as "gift of . . . ," accession number, in addition to special wording required by the museum/collector that has provided the reproduction.
• (artwork in the public domain)

For example:
Fig. 4 Cornelis Engelbrechtsz, Christ Taking Leave of His Mother, ca. 1515-20, oil on panel, 54.7 x 44 cm. Rijksmuseum, inv. no. SK-A-1719, Amsterdam (artwork in the public domain)

Artist, title, date, medium, and dimensions are separated by commas, and these elements are followed by a period. Collection, city, and additional lines follow, separated by commas. There is no terminal period, unless the basic caption information is followed by a descriptive sentence, which is only permitted in exceptional cases.  “Artwork in the public domain,” in parentheses, closes the caption (without period at the end).

Once their articles are accepted, authors will be asked to provide a one-sentence summary of their articles which can be posted on the site’s table of contents.