Submissions

Author Guidelines

JCBP asks authors to:

• acknowledge those who have come before by properly citing written works, attributing practices used and taught, and acknowledging those who have been doing this work throughout history, whose efforts have or have not not been documented.
• offer thoughts, practices, questions, and reflections to continue moving us all forward by claiming your own contributions to the field of consent-based practices while remaining open to the contributions others in our community that may build upon your work. We invite authors to ask questions for others to experiment with answering.
• craft your writing with accessibility in mind by explaining jargon and acronyms in ways that embrace a broad audience while maintaining the rigorous ideas in your writing.  

A few formatting preferences we ask you to use in your submission:

• Please format citations according to The Chicago Manual of Style 17th Edition Author/Date Format with references page and in-text parenthetical citations.

• Please do not include article title, headers, or footers in the document.

• Font and Layout:

  1. Main Body—12 pt. Times New Roman.

  2. References—12 pt. Times New Roman (Chicago Author/Date Format).

  3. 1.5 spacing

  4. Left justified

We acknowledge that writing, formatting, and revising your article is work, and that unpaid labor is often a barrier to publication and representation.

Therefore, supported by the generosity of Theatrical Intimacy Education, the JCBP offers a stipend for each article upon publication of the accepted work. This funding is determined per article, rather than per author or contributor. Please contact us if you have further questions.

Scholarly Article Submissions:

The JCBP publishes scholarly articles analyzing, proposing, or responding to approaches to, and theories of, consent-based practice in the performing arts and performance in public arenas. All articles are reviewed through a double-blind peer reviewing process. In order to facilitate double blind peer-review, only the article title should appear at the head of the article file; the author’s name and/or institution should not appear anywhere within the article. 

JCBP asks authors to:

• acknowledge those who have come before by properly citing written works, attributing practices used and taught, and acknowledging those who have been doing this work throughout history, whose efforts have or have not not been documented.
• clarify your theoretical frame by engaging with and acknowledging the training and research that have informed the development of this work.
• offer thoughts, practices, and reflections to continue moving us all forward by claiming your own contributions to the field of consent-based practices while remaining open to the contributions others in our community that may build upon your work. We invite authors to ask questions for others to experiment with answering.
• craft your writing with accessibility in mind by explaining jargon and acronyms in ways that embrace a broad audience while maintaining the rigorous ideas in your writing.  

Our editors will support you in shaping your article for the JCBP.

Submissions to our Notes From the Field Section:

Notes from the Field should articulate the author's insight and discoveries gained from specific projects, or perspectives on specific subjects related to the performing arts, pedagogy, and/or consent. The editorial board is specifically interested in notes that reflect upon current practice and invite readers to consider the need for further development within the field of consent-based performance; the editorial board is open to notes that critique the current state of this field as well as notes that offer alternative paths forward.

Notes can be creative in format or in nature. Formats may include interviews, roundtable dialogues, descriptions of or reflections upon workshops or classroom exercises, calls to action, and discussions of emerging tools and resources.

Unlike peer-reviewed articles, the author need not include a detailed theoretical or methodological frame; however, Notes must contain a clearly communicated flow of ideas and must support arguments made within the writing. Notes, like scholarly articles, will be submitted to the double-blind peer-review process and should be formatted using Chicago Manual of Style author/date guidelines.