SUBMISSIONS

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Full-length essays should be no longer than 10,000 words, inclusive of an abstract of 100-150 words, footnotes and bibliography. Short essays should be between 5,000 and 6,000 words and include an abstract.

To protect the anonymity of peer-reviewed content, authors should submit a separate cover page with the manuscript title and author names, affiliations, short bio note, and contact information. Authors should also remove name and affiliation from the abstract and manuscript.

Authors must ensure that proper acknowledgement of sources is given. References should follow the notes and bibliography format stipulated by the Chicago Manual of Style. Bibliographic citations provided in footnotes should be included in a separate bibliography.

Critical Times maintains the right to first publication of all submitted manuscripts. Submission of a manuscript to Critical Times is taken to indicate the author’s commitment to publish in the journal. Critical Times will not review any submission simultaneously under review by another journal.

All unpublished manuscripts are treated as strictly confidential.

We invite submissions of visual and textual art, video, and other artistic works.

Three issues per year.

Full-length and short essays are peer-reviewed. All essays deemed appropriate for Critical Times will be sent to at least two referees. After considering the recommendations of the reviews, the editorial board will decide whether a submission is accepted for publication with minor or no revisions, or rejected. Both solicited and unsolicited submissions will be peer-reviewed as a condition of acceptance. The editors collaborate with reviewers and authors to promote prompt review and response to proposed edits and revisions to facilitate the timely publication of essays.

Critical Times is an open access journal. Articles are published under a Creative Commons license (BY-NC-ND) and are open immediately upon publication. Authors are not charged any fees for publication and retain copyright in their articles. Readers may use the full text of articles as described in the license. More information about this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.