WRITE WITH US ON OUR BLOG
THE YALLA PROJECT IS A COLLECTIVE ENDEAVOUR.
SO IS OUR BLOG TOO!
Here below you find our essential guide & FAQs.
SO IS OUR BLOG TOO!
Here below you find our essential guide & FAQs.
Still looking for more info? Just drop us a mail!
WHICH TOPICS?
TYP pursues the discussion on the Everyday, its physical spaces, its communities and its practices at large.
We seek for a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary debate that puts in conversation different perspectives and subject areas, and experiences from various contexts.
In accordance to this, we welcome contributions from various fields of knowledge, which include [but are not limited to] architecture, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political sciences, economics, law, religious sciences, heritage & tourism, environmental studies, gender studies, social medicine.
WHICH KIND OF CONTRIBUTIONS?
We welcome a variety of contributions. Please check below our categories and its basic requirements.
HOW TO SUBMIT?
You can submit your proposal via email at our address: theyallaproject@gmail.com
Please make sure that your message includes the following information:
In case the file size is too big, please upload it using the free portal WeTransfer.
WHICH LANGUAGES ARE ACCEPTED?
We seek to make this discussion floor accessible to the widest audience possible.
Accordingly, we welcome contribution in different languages, amongst which, at the time being, primarily: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish.
Contributions in more than a language are particularly appreciated [although this is not obligatory].
If you are submitting an audiovisual contribution, we very much encourage you to provide it with subtitles and/or audio-description, so to make your work accessible also to people with ipaired sight and/or hearing.
HOW DOES THE REVIEW PROCESS WORK?
Your submission will be discussed by TYP board, which will activate its network of fellows and affiliates most competent in the field and typology of your proposal.
You will then be notified via mail about the response, useful feedbacks and further instructions.
In case of acceptance, your contribution will be insterted in the publication schedule for the blog.
Timing for this process may vary, depending on the number of proposals received at the time of your submission and the availability of competent TYP affiliates. We commit to keep you posted about the process of your proposal.
ETHICAL STANDARDS
Although TYP Blog is an informal collective publishing platform, we commit to the highest standards in terms of publication ethics.
Therefore, TYP adheres to the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Please visit the full document here.
MAY I CONTRIBUTE MORE CONTINUOUSLY TO THE TYP BLOG?
We foster to make this blog as collective as possible.
We are happy to receive proposals for series of contributions, colum sections and guest contents from your network.
Please contact us via email or on ous social channels to discuss your ideas.
CAN I BE PART OF THE BLOG IN OTHER WAYS?
Sure! There are several ways to be part of the project.
We look for motivated volunteers to join our reviewers or help us with translations, proofreading and media.
Being the task voluntary [in so far], we guarantee a sustainable workload, to be agreed together. This can be carried out in smartworking.
If you are looking for an internship, we may work together toward this goal and see if we can fit your requirements.
Please drop us a mail or a message on our socials to see which opportunities we can offer at the moment.
You can also support our work by simply sharing our contents with your networks and pointing out our blog to people that you think may be interested in contributing to this platform.
COPYRIGHT REQUIREMENTS
To reach a helping hand, we list the most important aspects regarding the correct use of reproductions and clearing of copyrights. After all, the author and not the publisher is fully responsible for materials submitted for publication. If you are using text fragments and/or (photo)graphic illustrations from others in your work, it is your duty to guarantee that this follows a legal and rightful manner and with the prior consent of all entitled parties.
Therefore, acquiring professional reproductions and clearing copyrights is part of the author’s responsibility and of the author’s agreement. If you are the author of an edited volume, the responsibility for the correct clearing of copyrights lies with each of the contributing authors and has to be well communicated to them. Take into account that requesting permissions and clearing rights take time.
2. Discuss your illustration programme with your publisher before acquiring or creating any illustration.
3. Obtain all illustrations from professional sources: archives, libraries, museums, stock photo agencies (Getty, ArtResource, Bridgman Library, ArtStore, …).
4. Photocopies, PowerPoint slides, and random internet images are not acceptable. Though they often look good on screen, their quality is too low for publication.
5. Illustrations have to be obtained in image files (jpeg, tiff, gif), and must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch) in the format in which it is intended to be reproduced.
6. For your own convenience: create a file entitled ‘Figures List’ that itemizes all figures, their sources, and cost price.
7. The cost price per image is the sum of the reproduction cost and the copyright cost.
8. Bear in mind that the copyright holder may be someone other than the author or the publisher of a book in which the illustration appears.
2. IF your citations are limited to small* fragments, (*) the work you are citing from is published, and the citation is accompanied with a correct and complete reference, you don’t have to request permissions and clear copyrights. In all other cases you have to request permissions and clear copyrights for the cited text parts.
* The description ‘small’ fragment is quite disputable in Belgian copyrights. Essentially it means that the length or extent of the citation may not be ‘disproportionate’, but has to be in balance with the extent of the publication, the nature of the publication (scientific, educational, popular, …), and the intended result of the citation.
1. The print run of your publication
2. The language of your publication
3. The nature of your publication: scholarly, educational, academic.
4. The precise use of the image/text in your publication: inside use, cover use, ¼ of the page, ½ of the page, black and white, full colour
TYP pursues the discussion on the Everyday, its physical spaces, its communities and its practices at large.
We seek for a multi-disciplinary and inter-disciplinary debate that puts in conversation different perspectives and subject areas, and experiences from various contexts.
In accordance to this, we welcome contributions from various fields of knowledge, which include [but are not limited to] architecture, urban planning, sociology, anthropology, psychology, political sciences, economics, law, religious sciences, heritage & tourism, environmental studies, gender studies, social medicine.
WHICH KIND OF CONTRIBUTIONS?
We welcome a variety of contributions. Please check below our categories and its basic requirements.
- TEXT-BASED
- ACADEMIC-STYLE SHORT ESSAY: 3000 words contributions [excluding references]. Submissions must include: title, a short abstract [150 words maximum], author(s) name(s), 3-5 keywords, image captions, references in 6th APA style .
- NEWSPAPER-STYLE ARTICLES: 600-800 words contributions. Submissions must include: title, author(s) name(s), a short abstract [100 words maximum].
- PERSONAL NOTES: 1500 words [maximum] contributions. This category include personal reflections, diary-like narrative, and field notes and memoires. Submissions must include: title, a short abstract [150 words maximum], author(s) name(s).
- VISUAL CONTRIBUTIONS
- VISUAL ESSAY: illustration-based essay consisting in maximum 12 images [pictures, collages, artworks, graphs, diagrams, drawings, sketches etc.] accompanied by 1000 words [maximum] text. Submissions must include: title, a short abstract [150 words maximum], author(s) name(s), 3-5 keywords, captions for each image, references in 6th APA style .
- [PHOTO]GRAPHIC CONTRIBUTION: 1 to 8 original images [pictures, collages, artworks, graphs, diagrams, drawings, sketches etc.]. Submissions must include: title, a short abstract [150 words maximum], author(s) name(s), captions for each image.
- AUDIOVISUAL & MEDIA: original videos and short movies including animations, interviews and documentaries. Submissions must include: title, a short abstract [150 words maximum], author(s) name(s), year of production.
HOW TO SUBMIT?
You can submit your proposal via email at our address: theyallaproject@gmail.com
Please make sure that your message includes the following information:
- your name and surname;
- the title and typology of your contribution [see categories listed in the paragraph above];
- a short abstract [150 words maximum];
- your short personal profile [300 words maximum].
In case the file size is too big, please upload it using the free portal WeTransfer.
WHICH LANGUAGES ARE ACCEPTED?
We seek to make this discussion floor accessible to the widest audience possible.
Accordingly, we welcome contribution in different languages, amongst which, at the time being, primarily: Arabic, English, French, Italian, Spanish.
Contributions in more than a language are particularly appreciated [although this is not obligatory].
If you are submitting an audiovisual contribution, we very much encourage you to provide it with subtitles and/or audio-description, so to make your work accessible also to people with ipaired sight and/or hearing.
HOW DOES THE REVIEW PROCESS WORK?
Your submission will be discussed by TYP board, which will activate its network of fellows and affiliates most competent in the field and typology of your proposal.
You will then be notified via mail about the response, useful feedbacks and further instructions.
In case of acceptance, your contribution will be insterted in the publication schedule for the blog.
Timing for this process may vary, depending on the number of proposals received at the time of your submission and the availability of competent TYP affiliates. We commit to keep you posted about the process of your proposal.
ETHICAL STANDARDS
Although TYP Blog is an informal collective publishing platform, we commit to the highest standards in terms of publication ethics.
Therefore, TYP adheres to the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors.
Please visit the full document here.
MAY I CONTRIBUTE MORE CONTINUOUSLY TO THE TYP BLOG?
We foster to make this blog as collective as possible.
We are happy to receive proposals for series of contributions, colum sections and guest contents from your network.
Please contact us via email or on ous social channels to discuss your ideas.
CAN I BE PART OF THE BLOG IN OTHER WAYS?
Sure! There are several ways to be part of the project.
We look for motivated volunteers to join our reviewers or help us with translations, proofreading and media.
Being the task voluntary [in so far], we guarantee a sustainable workload, to be agreed together. This can be carried out in smartworking.
If you are looking for an internship, we may work together toward this goal and see if we can fit your requirements.
Please drop us a mail or a message on our socials to see which opportunities we can offer at the moment.
You can also support our work by simply sharing our contents with your networks and pointing out our blog to people that you think may be interested in contributing to this platform.
COPYRIGHT REQUIREMENTS
- GENERAL INSTRUCTIONS
To reach a helping hand, we list the most important aspects regarding the correct use of reproductions and clearing of copyrights. After all, the author and not the publisher is fully responsible for materials submitted for publication. If you are using text fragments and/or (photo)graphic illustrations from others in your work, it is your duty to guarantee that this follows a legal and rightful manner and with the prior consent of all entitled parties.
Therefore, acquiring professional reproductions and clearing copyrights is part of the author’s responsibility and of the author’s agreement. If you are the author of an edited volume, the responsibility for the correct clearing of copyrights lies with each of the contributing authors and has to be well communicated to them. Take into account that requesting permissions and clearing rights take time.
- ILLUSTRATIONS (in the broadest sense)
2. Discuss your illustration programme with your publisher before acquiring or creating any illustration.
3. Obtain all illustrations from professional sources: archives, libraries, museums, stock photo agencies (Getty, ArtResource, Bridgman Library, ArtStore, …).
4. Photocopies, PowerPoint slides, and random internet images are not acceptable. Though they often look good on screen, their quality is too low for publication.
5. Illustrations have to be obtained in image files (jpeg, tiff, gif), and must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi (dots per inch) in the format in which it is intended to be reproduced.
6. For your own convenience: create a file entitled ‘Figures List’ that itemizes all figures, their sources, and cost price.
7. The cost price per image is the sum of the reproduction cost and the copyright cost.
8. Bear in mind that the copyright holder may be someone other than the author or the publisher of a book in which the illustration appears.
- TEXT CORPUS: CITATIONS
2. IF your citations are limited to small* fragments, (*) the work you are citing from is published, and the citation is accompanied with a correct and complete reference, you don’t have to request permissions and clear copyrights. In all other cases you have to request permissions and clear copyrights for the cited text parts.
* The description ‘small’ fragment is quite disputable in Belgian copyrights. Essentially it means that the length or extent of the citation may not be ‘disproportionate’, but has to be in balance with the extent of the publication, the nature of the publication (scientific, educational, popular, …), and the intended result of the citation.
- STANDARD FORM FOR REQUESTING PERMISSIONS
1. The print run of your publication
2. The language of your publication
3. The nature of your publication: scholarly, educational, academic.
4. The precise use of the image/text in your publication: inside use, cover use, ¼ of the page, ½ of the page, black and white, full colour
