INFORMATION FOR EDITORS OF SPECIAL ISSUES |
Space Contraints from Cambridge Univeristy Press
under the Current Contract
Issues for Volume 7, 2003
Number 1, maximum printed pages = 144
Number 2, maximum printed pages = 144
Number 3, maximum printed pages = 144
Number 4, maximum printed pages = 144
Number 5, maximum printed pages = 144
Issues for Volume 8, 2004
Conversion Factor: average ratio of manuscript to typeset printed pages = 1.47.
Binding Space Constraint: Unless special arrangements are made, editors of special issues should view the above constraints to be binding. With book publishing, prices are set after the manuscript is received, and hence contractual space constraints often are flexible. But since journal subscription prices are set in advance, no such adjustment flexibility exists. Allocation of space to individual issues, from the total annual available space, should be viewed as a zero sum game. Effective with volume 5, the annual space allocation from Cambridge University Press increased from 640 printed pages to 720 printed pages per year. But we also changed from printing quarterly to printing five issues per year. Hence the page constraint imposed on each individual issue has decreased from 160 to 144 effective with volume 5 in 2001.
Delivery Deadlines
The following table contains the delivery deadlines for inclusion in
each of the journal's five quarterly issues through the end of the year
2004. Since those deadlines are for receipt by Cambridge University Press
in New York, editors of special issues should plan to have manuscripts
to the editor at the University of Kansas at least two weeks
prior to the deadline for inclusion in the target issue. Delivery must
include the manuscript for the complete special issue (including the editors'
introduction and the Table of Contents), the diskettes for all papers,
and the signed Copyright Release forms from the authors of each included
paper. The Editorial Board Members' web page that links to this page
also links to the Transfer of Copyright Agreement, which is thereby
online and can be downloaded for supply to authors.
Starting with volume 4 in the year 2001, the journal has been publishing
five issues per year. The delivery deadlines have become:
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| September 6 of previous year | Issue 1, February |
| November 1 of previous year | Issue 2, April |
| January 3 of the same year | Issue 3, June |
| April 4 of the same year | Issue 4, September |
| June 6 of the same year | Issue 5, November |
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