Journal of CAC - Notice to Contributors
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The Journal of CAC is an annual, peer-reviewed journal produced by the Canadian Association for Conservation of Cultural Property (CAC). It is distributed in printed form to CAC members as part of their membership benefits. It is also posted on the CAC website.
Articles, notes, letters, and book reviews are invited, written in English or French. Articles which record novel solutions to conservation problems (case histories) or original research in conservation methodology and conservation related artifact/art historical studies are especially sought. Submissions are normally between 2500 and 5000 words in length. Tutorial and review papers will be considered. Abstracts of articles appear in both English and French. Authors who can submit their abstract in both languages are encouraged to do so.
Manuscripts submitted to the Journal for publication must not have appeared substantially in another publication except in the form of a preliminary report, and must neither be under consideration nor in the process of publication with another publisher.
Copyright
Copyright of articles will be retained by the CAC with some exceptions. Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permission for the use of images from secondary sources. The cost to authors of obtaining copyright permission may be partially subsidized by the Journal; authors are asked to submit a request and justification.
Submission Format
Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form, by email, or by mail on diskette or CD-ROM. Accepted formats are WordPerfect or Microsoft Word files. Automatic formatting features such as endnotes and footers must be avoided. Images, figures and tables should be submitted as separate files. Alternatively, the manuscript can be submitted as 4 paper copies, including all illustrations, graphs and tables.
Layout of Articles
The layout of the manuscript should follow the style of the Journal since Volume 24 (1999). The first manuscript page should include, in the following order: title, authors' names (with at least one given name), institution, full postal address, email address and abstract. The abstract, a concise statement of the purpose of the paper and of the major results obtained, should not exceed 200 words in length.
The paper should be divided in sections, primary subsections, and if necessary, secondary subsections with appropriate titles for each. Principal headings, primary and secondary subheadings should be left-justified and typed, respectively, in bold face, in italics and in underlined typeface.
Units and Nomenclature
SI Units should be used; refer to [http://www.bipm.fr/]. As well, IUPAC (International Union of Pure & Applied Chemistry) chemical nomenclature should be used; refer to [http://www.iupac.org/nomenclature].
Materials
Materials referred to in a treatment or study must be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the article, giving trade name, composition (if known), and manufacturer or local supplier with either complete postal address and telephone number, or URLs.
Tables
Tables should be numbered with roman numerals and be accompanied by a title. They should be cited in bold typeface and their contents described in the text. Avoid long description headings for table columns.
Figures, Line Drawings, Photographs, Radiographs, Micrographs
Figures must be numbered using arabic numerals and cited in bold typeface within the text. Figure captions should be placed on a separate page at the end of the article. Figures, either individually or in groups, should be designed to fit (after reduction) into one or two columns in the published article. Line drawings should be submitted in black/india ink on smooth white card or tracing paper and must be on separate pages, one per sheet. Photographs, radiographs, and micrographs should be submitted on glossy paper bearing the image dimensions. They must have good contrast to reproduce well. Digital images are also accepted provided that they are of sufficient quality to reproduce well. For example, they must be at least 3.2 megapixels in size to produce images of 3.5 x 2.5 inches at 600 dots per inch. Larger images require sizes up to 7 megapixels.
Printing in colour
The Journal encourages the use of colour images in its articles and assists by sharing the cost of colour printing with the author.
Notes and References
Notes and References should be combined and numbered in sequence according to the first mention of each in the text. The place in the text at which the reference or note is introduced should be marked witha superscript arabic numeral. Subsequent references to a work may use the same number. The style of the following examples must be followed; please refer to recent Journal volumes for further examples. Electronic and unpublished sources may be used, but published sources should be favored whenever possible. Abbreviations vol., no., p., and pp. are used to avoid ambiguity.
Book
1. Town, Harold and Silcox, David P., Tom Thomson: The Silence and the Storm (Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1977), p. 93.
Chapter or Article within a Book
2. Gettens, Rutherford J. and FitzHugh, Elisabeth West, "Malachite and Green Verditer," in: Artists' Pigments: A Handbook of Their History and Characteristics, vol. 2, edited by Ashok Roy (Washington: National Gallery of Art, 1993), pp. 183-202.
Periodical Articles
3. Brunet, Jacques and Vidal, Pierre, "Les œuvres rupestres préhistoriques: étude des problèmes de conservation," Studies in Conservation, vol. 25, no. 3, 1980, pp. 97-107.
Proceedings
4. Villers, Caroline, Stevenson, Lesley and Sharp, Julia, "The Technique of Four 14th-Century Italian Paintings on Fabic Supports," in: Preprints, 10th Triennial Meeting, ICOM Committee for Conservation, vol. 1, Washington, DC, 22-27 August 1993, edited by Janet Bridgland (Paris: ICOM Committee for Conservation, 1993), pp. 104-109.
5. Lechtman, H., "The Gilding of Metals in Pre-Columbian Peru," in: Application of Science in Examination of Works of Art, Proceedings of the Seminar, 15-19 June 1970, edited by William J. Young (Boston: Museum of Fine Arts, 1973), pp. 38-52.
Electronic Sources and Websites
6. Eusman, Elmer, "Iron Gall Ink," in: The Iron-gall Ink Corrosion Website, http://www.knaw.nl/ecpa/ink/ink.html. Accessed December 1998.
7. Stanley, Ted, "A Tool for Pressure Sensitive Tape Removal: the AirPencil", The Book and Paper Group Annual, Vol. 17, 1998, http://aic.stanford.edu/sg/bpg/annual/v17/bp17-16.html. Accessed May 2005.
Unpublished Reports
8. Klein and Sears, Petroglyphs Provincial Park: Site Preservation Feasibility Study (Toronto: Klein and Sears, Architects, 1983). Unpublished report.
Personal Communication
9. Darcy, Sean (Archivist, National Archives of Canada), personal communication, April 2003.