Submitting a Contribution
We invite the submission of research articles as well as practice-based outputs including artworks and films. All submissions must demonstrate an original contribution to knowledge of art and its history or to museum practice.
Text-based submissions should be no longer than 5,000 words in length, excluding endnotes. Exceptions are made on a case-by-case basis.
We welcome submissions throughout the year. We also occasionally post calls for submissions to themed issues. See past and current calls for papers here.
Suitable submissions are reviewed by the editors and will be sent for peer review (see About Tate Papers for editorial policies). We aim to respond to submissions within twelve weeks.
Please send submissions to us by email, including your full name and affiliation, as well as those of any co-authors or contributors.
STYLE AND FORMATTING GUIDE
Please apply these guidelines to text-based submissions as far as possible. These guidelines might not apply to creative pieces of writing.
- Please submit your article in English, using UK spelling.
- Texts should be submitted in Times New Roman in size 12. The text should be double-spaced, with line breaks and no tabs. Dashes in sentences appear as a spaced en dash (–) as opposed to a hyphen or em dash.
- Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Endnotes should be numbered within the running text using superscript Arabic numerals (see ‘References’).
- Quotations appear in single quotation marks (‘example’); quotations within a quote appear in double quotation marks.
- To indicate that material is omitted within a quote, an ellipsis in the form of three dots connecting the two parts of the sentence with spaces on either side should be used, example: ‘quote … second part of the quote’.
- Italics are used for the titles of whole publications and artworks (including films, plays, albums, series, exhibitions, songs etc.). The dates of whole publications are mentioned after their title, in brackets. The dates of artworks are given after their title, without brackets. Single quotation marks are used for articles and chapters within a publication.
Image: John Latham, Ben N 2004 (detail), Tate P79064.