BAFM Journal Submission Guidelines

Our deadline for the next issue is 15th March 2022.

All submissions must be made to the editorial team at journal@bafm.co.uk by the specified deadline for the issue.

All submissions are subject to editorial change at the discretion of the editor.

HOW TO SUBMIT

Text should be submitted by email to journal@bafm.co.uk as a separate attachment. Text should be in Word format (.doc). Please do not send as a pdf.

Please avoid anything other than basic formatting.   Fonts, sizes and layout will be managed by the editors and designer.  

Please do not embed photos within the document – these should be sent as separate files (see note on illustrations below).

Please ensure that all website and email addresses are checked and double-checked.

Please write words and titles in full. If your museum is known locally by a shortened version of its name, or by its initials, please ensure that at first mention the official name is given in full with the abbreviated version in parenthesis after. Thereafter you may use the shortened version.

Please spell check your article. Please include the word count at top of the article. 

Contributors are asked to include their full contact details including a telephone number in case we need to verify or heavily edit anything. If we are unable to contact you then editorial changes could take place which you may be unhappy with. This may happens if an article is larger than was agreed or requested.

Our standard author acknowledgement is name followed by any role (eg Chair, Friends of X Museum). If the article is co-written list all authors in same format and they should be included at end of the article.

 IMAGES

 We prefer images to be submitted at a high resolution at 300dpi (dots per inch) or higher. Never compress files; this can cause problems when opening them. They should be sent as separate .jpg files. We cannot use images embedded in text documents.

Please do not download images from the internet for use unless they are of a reasonable resolution (and you have appropriate permission to reproduce them). It is best to ask the source of the image for a jpeg and permissions.

If captions are required please rename the jpeg with the caption and if necessary any acknowledgment required – usually the photographer or the museum if it is one of their images. If you or a friend have taken the image and do not require acknowledgement please us know.

People in your article and images

Please ensure any individuals quoted in your articles are happy to be named. Please make sure their names are correct and in the form they prefer.

If individuals are photographed and might be identifiable, eg in an image of a museum event, please ensure you respect their privacy. Many museum signpost that events are to be photographed and ask individuals who do not want to be photographed to let them know. Ensure that all involved agree to the use of images, especially where children are involved as parents may be unwilling for images to be shared. Most museums have standard permission forms and you should follow their guidance.

More details on the use of photography is available in the Winter/Spring 2020 Journal.

DISCLAIMER 

We reserve the right to not publish any article sent to us and to edit any article.  

We hope these guidelines are helpful.  If you have any queries do not hesitate to contact us for further information or advice. We depend in your contributions and look forward to hearing from you soon.