Submission and Peer Review Process

New submissions can be made via the contact form. Should your manuscript proceed to the revision stage, you will be directed to make your revisions via the the contact form. 

Main Text File

Manuscripts should be uploaded either as a single document (containing main text, tables, figures, etc.), or with figures and tables provided as separate files. The main manuscript file should be submitted in Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx).

Your main document file should include:

• A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations;
• The full name(s) of the author(s) with institutional affiliation(s) where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author(s)' present address if different from where the work was conducted;
• Acknowledgements;
• Abstract (150 – 250 words);
• Main body;
• References;
• Music examples;
• Tables;
• Figures;
• Music examples, figures and table-captions should be listed on a separate sheet;
• Endnotes should be numbered in sequence and referred to by superscriptions in the text. Please do not number endnotes manually; instead, please generate them automatically using Word software. Use endnotes only when you need to comment on the main text; otherwise use a short reference within the text (e.g. (Forte, 1998, p. xx)) that will correspond to one of the items from an alphabetical list of references, which should follow the text;
• It will expediate publication if citations of books, articles and other published works follow the style as per the inaugural article of musica codificata;
• Where a quotation in the original language (i.e. other than English) is considered essential, a translation with a record of its source should also be given;
• British spellings and terminology should be used throughout (e.g. bar, crotchet, metre, perfect cadence); please use -ise, -isation, etc. in preference to -ize, -ization, etc. Other preferred forms include the following: acknowledgement, bar line, double bar, focused, interpretative, interval class, judgement, neighbour note, neoclassical, note (not tone), pitch class, postmodern, premise, set class, tempi, third progression, towards (not toward), Ursatz, Urlinie, voice-leading. Two-letter abbreviations of the names of American states should be used where necessary (e.g. MA, NY);
  
• Set-class names should follow the usage established in Allen Forte, The Structure of Atonal Music (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1973);
• Conventional titles of musical works should not be italicised (or underlined) if in normal English usage; proper names and foreign titles should be; 
• Capitalisation should be maximised in English titles of musical works, books, etc; capitalisation of foreign-language titles should follow the custom of the language concerned; 
• Authors are responsible for supplying written evidence of copyright permission with respect to the reproduction of music examples and similar materials when submitting an article to the journal;
• Authors are advised to consult the inaugural issue of musica codificata for general guidance on spelling, orthography and citation.

Article Length
Articles should normally be between 5,000 and 10,000 words (excluding notes and references). 
Music examples, tables and other illustrative materials are normally expected to occupy up to a quarter of the total space of an article.