| Conscious Control will publish new as well as previously published articles (mainly articles which are out of print).
CC is not appropriate for newsreports, matters pertaining only to an individual teaching society, political debates of temporary nature and original research papers. (However, research can be presented in articles written for the lay reader, for example by taking a broader view, summarising findings before the new research, presenting the new research and then discussing the consequences of the new research. Examples of this style can be found in New Scientist or American Scientist.) Excerpts from books yet to be published will also be considered: please make an excerpt of a section that stands well by itself.
How to make submissions
Manuscripts should be unpublished or out of print. In this context manuscripts which have only been available on the internet or have been presented as conference papers are considered as unpublished.
The submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere unless full details are clearly stated with the submission.
Submissions can be made by mail or e-mail. Please include with each submission a covering page containing full names of the author(s), the title, a summary or abstract, a list of illustrations, a wordcount, a short biographical note (max. 100 words), contact telephone numbers and, where possible, e-mail address of the person who will deal with correspondence. Please also state any correspondence e-mail addresss you want published at the end of the article. By submitting, you agree that you have read, understood and accepted the conditions for submissions.
Manuscripts submitted by e-mail must be sent as an attachment (not in the body of the e-mail) either as RFT (Rich Text Format) or DOC (Word document) with the approprirate suffix: .rtf or .doc.
The word count minimum for articles is 1,000 words. The limit for a single article submissions is 26,000 words. There is no minimum for reviews or letters to editor.
E-mail: Jean M. O. Fischer
Post: CC Mouritz, 66 Wricklemarsh Road, London SE3 8DS.
Tables and Figures
Illustrations should be relevant to the article. Diagrams and figures should be supported by permissions from copyright or intellectual property holders where appropriate. Figures should be numbered in order of appearance. Clearly descriptive or identifying captions should be provided for each figure, followed (at the end of the caption) by appropriate references for any reproduced material. Please take care to indicate clearly in the text where diagrams and tables are to appear.
Illustrations and figures are preferred in the form of high resolution computer-generated graphics, clearly printed black and white line drawings, or photographs. Save each figure as a separate file, in either TIFF (Tagged Image File Format), JPEG, or EPS (Encapsulated PostScript) format. Electronic images of line drawings should have a resolution of 1200 dots per inch (dpi) and all other types of artwork must have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Mark a CD clearly with your name. If submitting by e-mail then TIFF files can be saved with LZW compression to reduce file size (Photoshop). ZIP compressions for Macintosh are also accepted. Please place files in a folder before compression. The max. size possible for an illustration in the journal is 144 x 190 mm. All illustrations should be large enough to withstand 50% reduction and still be easily readable. Photocopies or previously printed material cannot be used. Note that all tables and illustrations are reproduced in black and white.
Abstract
Abstracts (i.e. a summaries) are used for the journal’s website to inform readers of the contents of a journal. Summaries will also be used by the editor to write brief introductory summaries. Summaries should be written in complete sentences, not exceeding 150 words, in a form comprehensive to any teacher of the Alexander Technique and suitable for publication separate from the complete article. Abbreviations should be avoided as far as possible in the Abstract. Abstracts are not necessary for reviews or letters.
Acceptance
The journal’s editors reserve the right to accept or reject any of the articles received. The decision will normally fall into the following categories: accepted as is (excluding house-style changes), accepted with corrections (grammatical changes and other small changes made by the editor), accepted with revision (changes, made for clarity and space considerations), provisionally accepted (subject to requested changes made by the author) or rejected.
Format
Accepted manuscripts will be edited by the editor for grammar, language, and house style, including conciseness, readability, directness, etc. The editor will correspond with the author if other than grammatical changes are suggested. Once those changes have been agreed upon, PDF proofs will be e-mailed (or mailed, if requested) to the corresponding author. To avoid delay in publication, only necessary changes should be made, and corrections should be returned within five business days. Author response to proofs is limited only to typographical and minor technical errors.
Author’s awareness of the house style is a help, but not a necessity. Please see the “Elements of the house style” at the end of this paper for the main points.
Copyright
It is a condition of publication in CC that you have read, understood and accepted the submission conditions set out in this document. Submission implies your manuscript is not considered for publication elsewhere, and that you give CC the rights to publish you manuscript in CC and that CC has the nonexclusive right to publish the contribution and the continuing right, without limit, to include the contribution as part of any reprint of the issue and/or volume of the journal in which it first appeared by any means and in any format, including computer-assisted storage and readout, in which the issue and/or volume may be reproduced by the publisher.
After publication in CC authors will retain the right to publish their articles in other publications except making it freely available on the internet: it is a condition of publication in CC that authors do not publish or give permission to the publication of their article on the internet for four years after the publication of the article in the journal (except excerpts from a forthcoming book). The submission of a manuscript will be taken to imply that it is not available on the internet and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.
Letters and reviews may be published by author on the internet after publication in CC.
Submission dates
CC is published twice a year, in April and November. Articles to be considered for the April issue should be received no later than 5th January. Articles to be considered for the November issue should be received no later than 5th August. Articles received after the “deadline” for one issue will be considered as submitted for the following issue.
Remuneration for published material
All accepted entries, except letters, qualify the author for 10 courtesy copies. (Where there is more than one author, the copies are divided between the authors.) Authors of articles longer than 4,000 words, will also receive one years’ subscription to the journal. If the author is already subscribing, the subscription will be extended one year. Only one subscription is given, so in the case of multiple authors, please indicate who is to receive the subscription.
In addition the following payments are offered for an original article. This is only offered to previously unpublished articles which required little or no editing. Payment is per article, not per author, and will only be made to one person, so in the case of multiple authors, please indicate who is to receive the payment. Articles longer than 8,000 words: £75; longer than 12,000 words: £125; longer than 16,000 words: £150.
The calculation will be done by the editor who will include footnotes and captions, but not references and bibliography lists.
In addition by submitting the author(s) accepts and warrants the following conditions.
1. You hereby assert your moral rights to be identified as the author of the Article according to the UK Copyright Designs & Patents Act 1988.
2. You warrant that you have secured the necessary written permission from the appropriate copyright owner or authorities for the reproduction in the manuscript of any text, illustration, or other material.
3. You warrant that, apart from any such third party copyright material included in the manuscript, the manuscript is your original work, and cannot be construed as plagiarising any other published work, and has not been published elsewhere.
4. You warrant that the manuscript contains no statement that is abusive, defamatory, libellous, obscene, fraudulent, nor in any way infringes the rights of others, nor is in any other way unlawful or in violation of applicable laws.
5. If the manuscript was prepared jointly with other authors, you warrant that you have been authorised by all co-authors to submit the manuscript on their behalf, and to agree on their behalf the order of names in the publication of the manuscript.
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