Culture Machine publishes one edition of the journal each year to which contributions are invited. (Click on 'Future Events', below, for further details of forthcoming issues.)

The editors also invite focused review articles on any aspect of culture and theory for publication in the Culture Machine Reviews section which publishes reviews of books, conferences, and other items of interest on a rolling, all year round basis (rather than annually, as is the case with the journal).

Original unpublished submissions are also invited for the Culture Machine InterZone. Like the Reviews section, the InterZone publishes research in culture and theory all year round. It is also unthemed, thus enabling Culture Machine to  promote and support a far greater diversity of work. Other than that, all the main features of the Culture Machine journal remain. 

Culture Machine welcomes texts written in English from anywhere in the world. 

Culture Machine welcomes contributions consisting of so-called ‘inter-active’ texts, or any other forms that take advantage of and explore the uses and limitations of new technology.

Culture Machine accepts commissioned and unsolicited material from academics, post-graduates and non-academics. 

Anyone with material they would like to submit to the Culture Machine journal, Reviews section or InterZone for publication is invited to contact the editors. (We reply to all serious mail.)

Please note: all contributions to Culture Machine, including the Culture Machine journal, InterZone and Reviews section, will be refereed anonymously.
 
 

Style Manual

Preparation of files 

Authors should follow the Culture Machine Style Manual below when preparing their articles. Examples of style and formatting are also to be found in the current edition of the Culture Machine journal. 

Authors who wish to make submissions which include built-in dynamic content, for example elements in JavaScript, are advised to contact the editors well in advance of the relevant submission date. (Although every effort will be made by Culture Machine to incorporate such dynamic material, the final responsibility for verifying the deliverability of work across all platforms will rest with the author/s). Multi-file submissions, such as hypertext pieces, will finally be requested on disk, but authors may also inform editors of website addresses where the material can be accessed for the purposes of initial review.

Contributions, unsolicited or commissioned, and irrespective of length, should be submitted in the form of an e-mail attachment in MS Word 6 or above, or as an .html file. Authors should retain a copy of their files.

Authors are asked to supply a short biography of between 50-100 words, with a full mailing address, plus e-mail.

Contributions will be rendered anonymous for the purposes of refereeing.
 

Format for references in the text

All references to books, articles and other source materials should be identified at an appropriate point in the text by the author’s last name, year of publication and pagination where appropriate, all within parentheses, e.g. (Lingis, 1985: 200). If the author's name appears in the text of the sentence making reference to a specific work then a reference should appear as (1985: 200). With dual authorship give both names conjoined by '&'; for three or more authors use 'et al'. If there are references to more than one work by the same author then distinguish works with the same year of publication by the use of the letters 'a', 'b', ‘c’, etc., attached to the year of publication, e.g., (Derrida, 1974a). A series of references should be enclosed within a single pair of parentheses, separated by semi-colons, e.g. (Derrida, 1974:17; Bernasconi, 1994: 25; Grossberg, 1992: 36). Parentheses should be placed after quotation marks but before full-stops and commas, colons and semi-colons: e.g. ‘founded’ (1992), or ‘founded’ (1992).
 

Format for quotations within the text

Quotations within the text should always be within single inverted commas except for quotations within quotations, in which case double inverted commas should be used on all occasions. Inverted (and double inverted) commas should be placed before full-stops except in cases where the full-stop is part of the original text. 

Quotations longer than around 45 words should be typed in an indented paragraph format and inverted commas omitted. 

Endnotes 

Notes should be listed numerically at the end of the piece and indicated in the main body of the text by superscript numbers. Please DO NOT use the footnote facility on your word processor! Superscript numbers should be placed after full-stops and commas, colons and semi-colons, etc.
 

Format for references at the end of the text

Barthes, R. (1995) The Pleasure of the Text. Trans. R. Miller. New York: Hill and Wang.

Bourdieu, P. (1993) The Field of Cultural Production. Oxford: Polity Press.

Derrida, J. (1992) 'Ulysses Gramophone: Hear Say Yes in Joyce', in J. Derrida, Acts of Literature (ed.), D. Attridge. New York and London: Routledge.

Grossberg, L. et al. (eds) (1992) Cultural Studies. New York and London: Routledge. 

Morley, D. & Chen, K-H. (eds) (1996) Stuart Hall: Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London: Routledge.

Readings, B. (1995) ‘Dwelling in the Ruins’, The Oxford Literary Review 17: 15-28.

Rorty, R. (1998) ‘The Dark Side of the American Left’, The Chronicle of Higher Education (April 3).

Williams, R. (1983) ‘Culture’, in D. McLellan (ed.), Marx: The First 100 Years. London. Fontana.

Please note: (ed.) includes a full-stop, (eds) does not. Both are followed by a comma in the latter part of the reference, but are not in the former (see, for example, the references to Williams (1983) and Morley and Chen (1996) above).

Anyone with material they would like to submit for publication is invited to contact Culture Machine's editors Dave Boothroyd or Gary Hall. (We reply to all serious mail.)