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THE LATCHKEY STYLE SHEET

Date: August 6, 2009

The Latchkey is a new interdisciplinary online journal devoted to the concept of the New Woman. It covers the lives and writings of New Women authors and figures; the representation of the New Woman in literature, culture, theatre, art, and society; proto-feminism and early feminist journalism; and current innovative scholarship on the New Woman in the fin-de-siècle and modernist eras. While the term ‘New Woman’ originated in England, the cultural phenomenon extended beyond Britain. We wish to explore its presence (or reasons for its absence) and influence in other countries and across disciplines, and aim at covering both canonical and non-canonical New Woman figures and aspects.

Taking full advantage of the online publication environment, yet committed to rigorous scholarly standards, The Latchkey seeks to provide an outlet for contributors who are interested in easy, open access for academic and general interest readers, no exclusivity, and only minimal copyright restrictions, to foster the easy sharing and republication of their work.

The journal will be published twice a year, in spring and autumn. We welcome submission of scholarly articles (which will be double blind peer reviewed), as well as book reviews, and teaching materials of interest to the journal, at any time.

Editorial Policy

Please send all submissions electronically via email to unbolt@gmail.com and include the following as attachments:
• Your article in MS Word (prepared according to the Style guidelines below)
• A brief curriculum vitae

Submission of a paper to The Latchkey will be taken to imply that your paper is not currently under consideration elsewhere. All articles sent to us will first be read by a Latchkey editor to decide suitability for the journal. Selected articles will subsequently undergo double blind peer review. The editors maintain responsibility for final selection.

The Latchkey is devoted to open and free access to the journal. Authors of articles we publish will retain full copyright for their work. We only ask to be acknowledged in case of any republication of work that first appeared in The Latchkey.

Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission for reproducing any material (such as visuals) copyrighted by others, and for including the appropriate acknowledgments in their essays.

Publishers who wish to send us books for review in The Latchkey are kindly invited to contact us by email (unbolt@gmail.com).

Preparing your text

Scholarly essays for peer review should ordinarily be between 5,000 and 9,000 words long; book reviews should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words (include your word count at the end).

Please double-space your text throughout (including all in-text quotations, endnotes and Works Cited page), with one-inch margins all around. Use endnotes instead of footnotes, and include a Works Cited page at the end.

The Latchkey uses British spelling (e.g. publicise instead of publicize, splendour instead of splendor, etc.). Punctuation for quotations should also follow standard British practice: single quotation marks for regular quotations, double quotation marks for a quotation within a quotation; any punctuation mark that is not part of the quoted material itself should be outside the closing quotation marks. Please indent all quotations that are longer than 4 lines by 0.5 inch (or 5 spaces) on the left side, and do not use punctuation marks for such quotations.

For all other matters, please follow the latest edition of the MLA style manual.