| EOL Author Guidelines and Help 2 September, 2003. Subject to revision.
Ethnomusicology Online (EOL) seeks high-quality scholarly and general submissions in ethnomusicology and related disciplines, especially but not exclusively submissions which take advantage of the multimedia and hypertext capabilities of the World Wide Web. Articles for the online scholarly journal will be peer-reviewed. General articles on any ethnomusicology subject will not be peer-reviewed. Reviews, reports, dissertation abstracts, and other contributions will be edited in consultation with authors. First preference goes to submissions of high intellectual quality, whether or not they incorporate multimedia. Scholarly manuscripts submitted to EOL should be original works not previously published elsewhere. Substantial revisions of previously published material with the electronic multimedia/hypertext format of EOL in mind will be considered. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to include copyrighted material in any article or review published in EOL. Authors unfamiliar with the preparation of audio, graphic, and video files for use online may contact Assistant Editor Joseph Getter for help. EOL manuscript formatManuscripts submitted in text-only format should clearly show the location and content of multimedia illustrations. Please number all illustrations and refer to the number in the text. Multimedia files should be submitted with the manuscript whenever possible; a concise description of their content can be substituted when necessary. Authors capable of doing so may submit completed HTML pages after consulting with the Editor. Authors should design the format of their submissions to EOL with the context of reading on the Web in mind. Some readers will read the entire article online; others may download the files to read off-line. In both cases, the size of individual files is an important consideration. Shorter articles should be contained in a single HTML file with links from a table of contents to individual sections. Longer articles should be divided into smaller files and linked by an opening page. The size of inline graphics files (see "Graphics" below) should be kept small. Larger graphics, audio, and video files can be accessed through links in the main text and displayed by auxiliary programs. See previous issues of EOL for layout and binary size and format. Authors are invited to experiment with this new medium. A Web publication can simulate a conference presentation. Include audio, graphics, or video illustrations just as you would in a conference paper. Provide a brief description in the text of what each multimedia example is meant to illustrate. Web articles need not be limited to the conference presentation model. Hypertext links (non-sequential or multiply-branching texts) free the author to experiment with non-linear and user-directed pages. Browse the Web and get a feel for the possibilities. Netscape and MS Internet Explorer browsers will reveal the Document Source codes when you wonder how the author programmed a page you like. Footnotes should be linked to a Notes page. Use the hypertextual linking capabilities of Html to provide a link to the Notes page and a link from the Notes page that returns the reader to the position of the note in the main text. Links to other Web documents at EOL or anywhere on the Web can be included. As more scholarly publications become available on the Web, authors can offer readers the choice of a citation, a quotation, or a link to the complete article. HTML and browsersDocuments on the World Wide Web are usually text-only documents in HTML (hypertext markup language) format. HTML commands embedded in the text tell the World Wide Web browser program how to display text and make links to other documents or media. Browser programs include Netscape, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Lynx, and others. Graphics
Web browsers generally display graphics in one of two formats: gif or jpeg. For color or black-and-white photographs, use jpg. For music scores, simple line drawings, and other simple black-and-white artwork, use gif. To produce a gif image, use a graphics program that can save images either in gif format, or in a format (such as Macintosh's PICT or PhotoShop) that can be converted to gif format with shareware programs such as GIFConverter (available at the major Mac shareware sites). Include the file size and type of all graphics in the text, along with a short verbal "alt" description of the content for those using text-only browsers (the "alt" command allows authors to include a short verbal description in the link to a graphic, audio, or video file; look for it in the HTML sources cited above). You can link a large graphics image to a thumbnail inline graphic in the text. Thumbnail graphics should be about 100x100 pixels. Large graphics exceed 400 pixels in width only when absolutely necessary.
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