FORMATTING TITLES OF SECTIONS AND SUBSECTIONS
Use H2 headers for 1st level titles, and align centre.
Use H3 headers for 2nd level titles, and align left.
Use H4 headers for 3rd level titles, and align left.
ABOUT REFERENCES AND NOTES
GENERAL
- Live Interfaces journal uses a custom formatting convention. References and notes are compiled into one single list, which is appended at the end of the your publication.
Example of a note:
The priming layers on these paintings were made with similar combinations of zinc and lead white, with a small amount of calcium-containing filler - All references and notes must be numbered sequentially.
- Create a section named REFERENCES AND NOTES. This is a first-level title: use the H2 header, aligned center.
IMPORTANT REQUESTS
- All sources cited in the text must be referenced.
- It is the author’s responsibility to include accurate, complete and properly formatted citations.
- Each reference number should appear ONLY ONCE in the text. Subsequent references to the same source should have a new number and refer back to the initial reference.
Example:
See Jones (2023) p.43, p.92 [3.]. - Include page numbers of quotes.
IN-TEXT & END-LIST STYLES
In-text format
- Note (1) and reference (2) in brackets, like this.
- With quotes, “like this” (3) if the sentence continues after. the quote.
- “And like this, if the quote includes a full sentence.” (4)
End-list format
1. Each reference and note must have its own “block”, because anchors apply to blocks.
2. Note that numbers appear bold.
4. Book.
5. Etcetera.
FORMATTING REFERENCES
Books
Author, Title of Book (place of publication: short form of publisher’s name, date) page numbers.
Include name of editor or translator, edition, date of original publication and any other pertinent information. Include page numbers of quotes.
Example:
Jonathan Smith, Visual and Plastic Arts (London: John Doe Press, 1976) p. 5.
Alternative listings:
- If editor credit only—no author:
Joe Jones, ed., Visual and Plastic Arts (London: John Doe Press, 1976) p. 5. - If no publisher available (City: date):
Joe Jones, ed., Visual and Plastic Arts (London: 1976) p. 5. - If no city available (Publisher, date):
Joe Jones, ed., Visual and Plastic Arts (John Doe Press, 1976) p. 5.
Book chapters
- Julie Anderson, “Art Now”, in Art Forever (New York: Albany Univ. Press, 1988) pp. 17-29.
Articles and conference papers
Journal articles and conference papers are treated in a similar way:
- Author, “Title of Conference Paper”, Name of Conference, pages (Year).
- Author, “Title of Article”, Name of Journal Volume Number, Issue Number, pages (Publisher, year).
If no publisher:
- Author, “Title of Article”, Name of Journal Volume Number, Issue Number, pages ( year).
Examples:
- John Smith, “This is Music”, Liveness 59, No.3, pp. 18-32 (2014).
- Joanna Star, “Beyond the Human”, Proceedings of. That Conference, pp. 8-16 (2018)
Performances and exhibitions
- Ron Nachmann, Editorial Dance of Woe, ISAST Theater, San Francisco, California, 1998
Online references
Include the URL in angle brackets <> and provide the access date in brackets ().
Examples:
- Kadhim Shubber, “This German artist is training geese to fly to the moon”, Wired.UK, 9 September 2013, <www.wired.co.uk/news/archive>, accessed 1 July 2023.
- This experiment is described at <we-make-money-not-art.com/amb-working.php#.Uwe0XPRdUj2>, accessed 2 July 2023.
MEDIA AND CAPTIONS
Media contents (sounds, images, videos, code, etc.) must be referenced in the text, and placed immediately bellow the paragraph where the reference appears. Authorship and ownership are credited in the captions. Online contents with no copyright should include links to the URL sources.
Third-party materials must be properly credited in the caption. Authors are responsible for requesting copyright permissions. If the person granting permission specifies particular wording, those instructions must be followed. However, the editor may make minor changes to conform to the journal’s style. Some works have more than one source and each must be cited.
IMAGES
Preparing
The image resolution must be 72dpi. Save/export as JPG or PNG.
Name your images YourName_fig1.jpg, YourName_fig2.png, etc.
Size your images so that the largest side (be it horizontal or vertical) does not exceed 1000px.
Make sure that your images are as light-weight as possible; please find an optimal balance with perceived resolution/definition, because all this affects internet speed (and also ranking, therefore).
Uploading
Upload images by choosing the “image” block.
If you need to upload the same image more than once, please make sure to delete all earlier copies from the WP “media library”
Include descriptive captions. Credit authorship and ownership.
All images must be referenced in the paragraph just before they apear, like this (Fig. 1).
Figure 1: Radioactive stone in aquarium, workshop with Martin Howse at the International Conference on Live Interfaces 2022, Lusófona University, Lisbon. Photo by Ricardo Geraldes, courtesy of Jane Doe Institution.
AUDIO
Preparing
Save/export your audio files as 16bit mp3.
Name them as YourName_audio1.mp3, YourName_audio2.mp3, etc.
Uploading
Upload your sound files by choosing the “audio” block.
If you need to upload the same audio more than once, please make sure to delete all earlier copies from the WP “media library”.
Include descriptive captions. Credit authorship and ownership.
All sound files must be referenced in the paragraph just before they apear, like (Audio 1).
Audio 1: A sonic teaser for Favela Real #1, an audio-visual performance by Adriana Sá and John Klima at Penha.co, Lisbon 2021.
VIDEO
Preparing
Prior to uploading your video files, please make sure to properly compress them.
Using the Handbrake software to do this is a good solution – it’s multi-platform, free, and it does not use much space on the computer.
Subsequently to opening a video file with Handbrake, configure the export/compression settings as shown in Figures 2 and 3, bellow.
Figure 2: Adequate Handbrake configuration in the “summary” tab.
Figure 3: Adequate Handbrake configuration in the “video” tab.
Uploading
Upload your videos by choosing the “video” block.
If you need to upload the same video more than once, please make sure to delete all earlier copies from the WP “media library”.
Include descriptive captions. Credit authorship and ownership.
All videos must be referenced in the paragraph just before they apear, like (Video 1).
CODE ELEMENTS
Embedding shared HTML
It is possible to insert html code directly in the article simply by copying the code that platforms make available through options such as *share* or *embed* and pasting it in the WP content editor.
Code text
Use the “Preformatted” block to display code, as shown in this example extracted from the markdown system developed by ESMAE:
<iframe style="width: 300px; height: 100px; margin: 0 auto 2rem; display: block; border: 0px" src="conversor.html"></iframe>
Introducing external elements with *iframe*
External elements can be introduced through the “custom HTML” block <>. The drag&drop code above appears as follows:
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
Acknowledgments are optional. Additional contributors and grants may be acknowledged.
LINKS AND NAVIGATION
JUMP LINKS FOR REFERENCES AND NOTES
To optimise navigation, the journal uses anchor links (also called jump links). For example, by clicking the in-text number (1), the reader can automatically jump to the corresponding reference/ note “1.” in the REFERENCES NOTES section. Bellow each item, there is also a BACK link that takes the reader back to the in-text paragraph.
From in-text numbers to notes and references
For example, quote (1) includes a link named #1. In your REFERENCES NOTES section the corresponding item will need an anchor named “1“.
To create that anchor, go to down to REFERENCES AND NOTES, where that item is listed as “1.” Click the item. On the top right of your WP editor, click “block settings”, scroll down and click “Advanced”. Type the number of your reference/ note (“1”, in this case) in the HTML Anchor box and save. This will become your anchor.
From notes and references to in-text numbers
Each in-text paragraph with a reference/ note also needs an anchor name. For example, the paragraph where note (1) appears should have an anchor named “1o” – with the letter “o”, not the number “0”.
In the REFERENCES NOTES section, put the cursor at the end of reference/ note “1.“, press SHIFT>ENTER and write “BACK“. Embed a link named “#1o“.
EXTERNAL LINKS
Embed hyperlinks in all listed publication titles. Use trustable links such as DOI.