DHQ Special Issues Guidelines

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DHQ will consider proposals for special issues that focus on topics germane to DHQ's subject areas. A special issue might arise from a conference or other event, or might be a thematic collection on a particular topic or research problem. Special issues may include articles, interactive multimedia materials, editorials, and even guest bloggers. Each special issue will have a guest editor, who will work with a designated DHQ editor to ensure the quality and coherence of the issue. A special issue may take the place of a regular issue of DHQ, or may be a subsection of a regular issue, or may be an additional (fifth) issue. No more than two special issues will be published in any given year. Arrangements for peer review will be made between DHQ and the guest editor; DHQ reserves the right to decline any submitted material that is inappropriate or of insufficiently high quality.

Proposals

To propose a special issue, please send the following information to submissions@digitalhumanities.org:

A brief summary of the rationale and topic for the special issue
The anticipated submission date for articles
The name(s) of the guest editor(s)
The number and nature of materials to be submitted (e.g. articles, editorials, IM submissions, etc.)
Any constraints that would make publication on or by a certain date essential

Submission, Review, and Revision Process

The proposal will be reviewed by the three general editors and the articles editors, who will decide whether to accept it and will determine when and how the issue is to appear and how peer review is to be handled. If the proposal is accepted, a member of the DHQ editorial board will be assigned to work with the guest editor, and to settle details of the submission date for articles.

The guest editor will coordinate the submission of the materials for the special issue. Once the peer review process is complete, the DHQ editor assigned to the issue will advise the guest editor on any revisions that are necessary, and the guest editor will coordinate the revision and resubmission process.

Once the final revised versions of materials are received, they will be passed into the DHQ production workflow, including copyediting, proofreading, encoding, authorial preview, and publication.