Submissions and instructions for authors

General

• Oraxiom accepts unsolicited manuscripts. As our journal produces more issues, our admission rate will be determined based off previous results.
• We do not provide payment for submitted material.
• Submitting your work to Oraxiom means you agree to publish it with us once the manuscript has underwent all necessary steps to see publication, and that you accept the copyright license our journal operates with.
• Please submit manuscript proposals by email to oraxiom@onphi.org.
• We encourage e-mail inquiries and correspondence prior to submission.
• We only consider unpublished material. Please do not submit any previously published material. Only under special circumstances substantially revised versions of previously published writings will be considered for review.
• Simultaneous submissions (more than one at once) are not welcomed.
• There are no precise limitations regarding length of submissions. We welcome submissions ranging from 1000–8000 words. Until more issues are produced, this range will serve as a standard.
• Oraxiom uses non-binary gender pronouns wherever appropriate. Misgendered persons and dead-naming of trans people will be asked to be corrected.
• Oraxiom encourages the use of singular they or its inflected or derivative forms, them, their, theirs, and themselves (or themself), as an epicene (gender-neutral) singular pronoun.
• Articles must be written in clear, grammatical English or French. Oraxiom provides assistance with language editing, proofreading, and copy-editing upon a successful review process.

Types of Material Accepted

• Short Essays (ranging from approximately 1000–4000 words).
• Scholarly Articles (ranging from approximately 5000–7500 words, with exceptions).
• Reviews (both book reviews and review essays, between 1500–5000 words).
• Oraxiom also invites and curates creative and artistic material. This includes the following: poetry, manifestos, visual arts, and other non-standard experiments.
• Material should fall under the scope of the journal; where there is a special issue, also the journal’s themes for its call for papers.

Submission Format

Follow the instructions closely below to guarantee the editors and reviewers involved will read a clean and finalized version of material prior to the review process begins.

• To maintain anonymity during the blind review process, put names, affiliations, abstract (maximum 300 words), biographical note (maximum 200 words), contact information (mailing address, phone number, and email) all on a separate title page.
• Citations to the author’s own works should be made in a way that does not compromise anonymity.
• All files must be sent as Microsoft Word/Open Office document files (such as .doc, .docx, .odt, etc.).
• Please name file: surname_abstract, and provide it in the above stated format (e.g. smith_abstract.doc).
• Please set up submission in A4 letter-sized format (210mm × 297mm, or 8.26" × 11.69"), with 1" margins, double-spaced, left-indexed, using a standard typeface (such as Arial, Helvetica, or Times New Roman) and 12-point font size.
• Please paginate your material at the bottom of the page and centered.
• Do not use any templates. Set “Styles” to “normal.”
• Images: Please indicate page number and caption in text (refer to Style Guidelines for more information).
• Citations: refer to Style Guidelines.
• Bibliographic references: in the footnotes of the page where the quote appears (the first time as full-length references, the remaining references as abbreviated).
• Please use minimal document and font styling in submission. Avoid from bolding.
• If the author is using material that is copyrighted (such as photographs, lengthy quotations from previously published material, etc.), the author must obtain permission prior to submission.

Submission Process — Timing and Response

• Responses will be provided either via online submission system and/or e-mail correspondence.
• Allow between two-to-four working weeks for initial editorial reply.
• We will normally publish two issues per year by the end of each year. Please plan ahead upon submission with that being stated.
• Allow at least four-to-six months for editorial engagement and peer review process.
• Upon acceptance of material and having checked that our guidelines are followed, the editors will then send the material to be double-blind refereed. On the basis of the advice provided by the referees, the editors will decide whether the material is appropriate for Oraxiom. In the instance of it successfully passing double-blind refereeing, we will then work with the contributor to see the material to its final publication.
• When material is accepted and published in Oraxiom, authors will receive two free copies of the journal in which their work appears in the case that the issue has a print publication. The copies will be sent to authors upon publication to the information provided listed in the submission format above. If at the time of publication contact information is changed, the author must provide the new information.

Peer-review process

• The timeline of publication will be between four-to-six months depending on submission of the material.
• To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review process for submission to Oraxiom, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of both parties (contributor and reviewer) from being known to each other.

• Upon completion of the review process, proofs will be sent by PDF to the corresponding author/s and should be returned promptly (no more than two weeks upon receipt of proofs). Authors are requested to confirm all previously shared information upon abstract submission including biographical note, affiliation, and contact information during this time.
• In the instance that commissioned writings are involved with our review process, this is subject to a different editorial process.

Copyright information

• Oraxiom is published under the following license: Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0). Under this license, users of our content must give appropriate credit to authors and source as well as indicate if changes were made, cannot be used for commercial purposes, and, in the instance that it is built upon or transformed, may not be distributed. For Oraxiom, the copyrights allow the audience to download, reprint, quote in length and/or copy articles published by Oraxiom so long as the authors and source are cited.

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I. General Rules

Please consult the CMS for these general rules.

• Spelling: Oraxiom follows American English spelling in all texts, except in the instance that British spelling is used within a quotation or reference.
• Capitalization: Styles or periods, as nouns or adjectives, must be capitalized when referring to a specific characteristic of a specific time (e.g. “Victorian Era”).
• Titles for books, artworks, films, musical albums, etc., must be italicized (e.g. General Theory of Victims).
• Titles of exhibitions, lectures, essays, poems, songs, short stories, etc., appear within double quotation marks (e.g. “Variations on a Theme by Heidegger”).
• Punctuation: under American standards, punctuation appears within quotation marks except in the case of colons or semicolons where quotation marks close off. A serial (Oxford) comma is used in phrases where three or more elements appear.
• Quoting: All quotations appear between double quotation marks. Single quotations appear only when there is a quotation within a quotation.
• In subheadings to indicate section breaks, capitalize all words. Do not capitalize sub-subheadings.
• Ellipses indicate omitted content ( … ), with rules for sentence boundaries, paragraph omissions, and capitalization after ellipses as detailed in the full PDF.
• Foreign words and words that need special emphasis are italicized (e.g. au-delà). Common academic phrases (a priori, à la) are not italicized; less common phrases (inter alia) are.
• Dates/Years: American formatting (May 16, 1975; 1980s; twentieth century; twentieth-century philosophy).
• Numbering: Numbers one through ninety-nine are written out; after ninety-nine, numerals are used. Inclusive numbers use en dashes (100–400; 1991–98).
• Spacing between paragraphs: do not use a full line of space between paragraphs except when introducing a block quote, image, table, or section break.
• En dashes (–) separate durations; em dashes (—) are discouraged except for stylistic emphasis outside typical academic practice.
• Hyphenation: Non-philosophy concepts often use hyphenation (e.g. “lived-without-life”, “determination-in-the-last-instance”).
• Bibliographies: Oraxiom requires all texts to not have a bibliography at the end. All notes and references should be in footnotes.
• Diacritics: Use appropriately for terms and personal names (e.g. François Laruelle).
• “Ibid.” (or “Idem.”) may refer to a single work cited in the footnote directly above; avoid overuse.

II. Notes and Referencing

Submissions should not contain a bibliography at the end of the text. All references and literature cited should be in the notes of text. Notes should be double-spaced, superscripted, and font size 12. Oraxiom only uses footnotes.

• Additional models in the full PDF cover: books in a series, reprints, revised editions, books with editors/translators, multi-author works, e-books, exhibition catalogues, special journal issues, magazine and newspaper articles, lectures, reference materials, institutional documents, interviews, personal communication, unknown authors, and image rights.
• For music, film, sound recordings, audio archives, etc., please consult the CMS.