Three Oranges is the journal of the Serge Prokofiev Foundation. It appears in May and November of each year. The Editor invites contributions on any aspect of artistic and social life in the first half of the twentieth century, providing it is related to the circles and places in which Prokofiev operated.
Authors of articles will receive two free copies of the journal; reviewers will receive one copy.
Copyright of articles published in Three Oranges will be owned jointly by the contributors and the Prokofiev Foundation. Permission for republication will be given at the Editor’s discretion.

Click here to download a pdf file with the Notes for contributors and housestyle recommendations.

SUBMISSION

Contributors are invited to submit their articles in electronic form.

The electronic file should be saved as a Microsoft Word document and sent as an attachment to the Editor, Simon Morrison.

Musical examples should be sent as separate electronic documents saved as bitmap files or tiff files in 300dpi gray scale. The Editor is willing to typeset musical examples on behalf of those who do not have access to the necessary software.

The recommended length is up to 5,000 words.

Once an article has been accepted, authors should send a short abstract (maximum 200 words), a list of up to 10 keywords and a short biography (maximum 70 words).
   The abstract should convey the essential aspects of the article, omitting nonessential matters and unnecessary background information. When citing the names of people, institutions or musical works please use the full form. (Contributors might find the RILM guidelines useful).
   Keywords should either be topical or present the names of people, institutions, places or musical works essential to the article.

HOUSESTYLE

References

References should be consecutive and appear as endnotes at the end of the text, not as footnotes at the bottom of the page. Do not enter or number endnotes manually but use the endnotes facility in your word-processing package.

Bibliographical references for citations

Bibliographical references should be carefully checked for accuracy.

References to books should give (in this order) author(s) surname, first name, full title, (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), page of the citation.
For example:

References to journal articles should give (in this order) author(s) surname, first name, title of the article enclosed in quotation marks, title of the journal, Volume number, Issue number, (date), page of the citation.
For example:

References to chapters within multi-authored publications should give (in this order) author(s) surname, first name, the chapter title in quotation marks, title of the publication, editor of the publication, (place of publication: publisher, year of publication), page of the citation.
For example:

Abbreviations and Symbols in references

et al. (and others): used when there is more than one author but only one is cited.
ibid. (the same): used to refer to an immediately preceding reference. It is capitalised when it is the first word in the footnote.
op. cit. (the work cited): used to refer to a previously cited book. The author’s name and the page reference must always accompany it.

Italics should be used exclusively for the titles of a work and foreign words.

Double quotation marks should be used throughout, except when there is a quote within a quote, which should be indicated by single quotation marks.

Dates concerning nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Russia should be presented in the New Style (Gregorian Calendar). If it is necessary to refer to Old Style dates please do so in parentheses: e.g. 14 November (1 November (OS)) 1910.

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