Submissions

Author Guidelines

Online Submissions

All submissions to Perfect Beat must be made online. Please make sure you have read the full author guidelines before beginning the submission process.

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Prospective authors to Perfect Beat should register as authors (see the 'Online Submission' details above).

First, download the author guidelines, which you will find in PDF format. The guidelines pertain to article and book review submissions. All articles are peer-reviewed. We will acknowledge your submission upon receipt and let you know the anticipated timeframe for a decision. If your article is accepted, we will send you further instructions for submitting the final manuscript of your article. All Articles and Review Articles are peer reviewed. Typically two external reviewers under a blind-review process. Book Reviews are reviewed by the Reviews Editor.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Please view the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.  

Equinox Publishing is a leading publisher specialising in books and journals in the humanities, social sciences and performing arts. We recognise and believe in the integrity of good ethical practice in publishing in order to promote and maintain the quality our contributors produce. As a publisher, we uphold the standards set forth in the COPE code of practice, specifically for all contributing parties: author, editor, reviewer and as publisher.

We have communicated these standards to our journal editors who share in our aims for ethical publishing practice and agree to work towards these standards throughout the editorial process. Together, we ensure the ongoing excellence and quality for which Equinox is recognised.

Equinox journal editors have access to (and are encouraged to use) CrossCheck, a plagarism-detection software system which identifies professional plagiarism and other forms of scholarly misconduct.

Copyright Notice

The editors will not consider manuscripts which are under consideration by other publishers. It is assumed that once you have submitted an article to this journal, it will not be sent to other publishers until a decision about inclusion has been made. Only by special arrangement will the editors consider previously published material. 

As a condition of publication, please download, sign (electronic signature is acceptable) and return a copy of the contributor agreement by email or regular mail, once your manuscript is accepted. For multi-authored submissions, it is acceptable for one author to sign on behalf of all authors.

If your paper has passed peer review and been accepted for publication on an Open Access basis, we will send you a different contributor/Creative Commons agreement after payment of the fee and prior to publication.