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Author Guidelines

Language submitted texts
Native English speakers write in English; their articles will be edited by a native speaker. Dutch authors write in Dutch; their articles shall be translated after editing. If authors want to submit an article in German, which is to be translated into English as well, please contact the editor. Most of the guidelines below are valid for all three languages.

Short outline
Authors are requested to send a short outline of the intended article to the editorial board first (bulletin@rijksmuseum.nl). This should be no more than 300 words long and contain the answers to the following questions:

  • What is the central question of the article?
  • How does the author propose to answer it?
  • What sources are being used?
  • To what conclusion(s) does the author come?
  • What does the article add to the area of research and to the knowledge of the Rijksmuseum’s collection in particular?

Full-length article
Once the editors have extended an invitation to you to write the intended article, please observe our word count restriction of 6,000 words including notes. Articles that exceed this word count cannot be considered for publication. Notes are primarily to be used for referencing sources. The addition of appendices needs to be discussed with the editor. The article may be accompanied by approximately twenty images.

Short Notice
Short Notices should be no more than 2,000 words long including notes, with six images.

Abstract and biography
Please include an abstract and a short biography when submitting your article. The abstract should be between 150 and 200 words in length (full-length articles only). Biographies must describe your current engagements only and should span two sentences (about 30 words).

For detailed copy instructions, please read the full Instructions for Authors and English Style Guide.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

a) The Rijksmuseum Bulletin provides immediate open access to its content. Articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work licensed under a CC BY 4.0 license. This license allows others to share the work published in The Rijksmuseum Bulletin with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.

b) Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (for instance, post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.

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