Submissions

This journal is not accepting submissions at this time.

Author Guidelines

Interested in Submitting?

  • All submissions should be sent to the Editor via email (susan.martin@mtsu.edu)
  • View our Author Guidelines for submissions and our About the Journal page for the journal's section policies.

 

The OpenPhilately Style Guidelines are designed to provide guidance to authors writing articles or reviews for publication. It aims to ensure that the journal’s content have a consistent style.

OpenPhilately publishes original materials in a variety of formats, such as full research articles, shorter length feature articles, book, website, and social media reviews, and philatelic exhibits. Except for exhibits, all materials must not have been previously published. Please contact the editor if you have a format that is outside of these areas.

Requirements

  • Articles and reviews must be written in American English.

  • Submit articles to the Editor via email. Articles should be in MS Word, double-spaced, with 12pt Georgia font. Include the article title and the author’s name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), and email address at the top of the first page.

  • Submit exhibits in PDF format.

  • For a style guide, OpenPhilately uses the Chicago Manual of Style (16th or 17th edition). Endnotes and bibliography format. Do not use Word's Endnote or footnote function. 

  • Do not number the text lines. 

  • Minimum of 200 dpi for charts and graphs and 300 dpi for photos. Please submit charts, graphs, and photos as separate files. Indicate within the body of the text where each one should be located along with the caption text. 

  • All material must be original and any permissions or copyright for charts, images, or photographs must be secured by the author before submitting to the journal. Copies of any copyright permissions obtained should be submitted at the same time as the content.

Content Length

  • Full-Length research articles: Maximum length 6,000 words (not including images and image captions).

  • Feature articles: Maximum length 2,000 words (not including images and image captions).

  • Reviews: Maximum length 1,000 words (not including images and image captions).

  • Exhibits: Maximum length 16 pages or the equivalent of a one frame exhibit.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • Except for exhibits, all submissions or materials must not been previously published.
  • Submit exhibits in PDF format.
  • Articles and reviews should be in MS Word, double-spaced, with 12pt Georgia font. Include the article title and the author’s name, institutional affiliation (if applicable), and email address at the top of the first page.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point Georgia font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Copyright Notice

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There are no article submission or processing charges. Each journal volume is preserved via the Walker Library's three level preservation methods including local and cloud storage.

The author(s) retains/retain the copyright to the work but grants the right of OpenPhilately to publish, display, and distribute the work in the OpenPhilately, in print and electronic format.

Works are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND), unless noted otherwise.

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