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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published by another academic journal, nor is it currently under consideration by another journal.
  • The submission file is in an editable file format (Microsoft Word preferred).
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

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 authors' names, article title, title pages, 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

  • Please remove the authors' identifying information from the article to ensure blind peer review. 

 

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.  
  • present a clear argument that is well supported by evidence grounded in analysis of artistic experience or research, along with bibliographic references

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. Notes should clearly communicate the authors' ideas; opinions and arguments should be substantiated using evidence gathered from artistic experience or bibliographical research. 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. The JCBP will also consider book reviews and performance reviews for publication as Notes from the Field. Reviews should include a brief but coherent summary of the work and of the author's takeaway from the work. Reviews are not meant to pass judgement on a work (good/bad), but to share what you learned from a piece and how that piece contributes to or furthers the field of consent-based practice.

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 with evidence gathered from artistic experience or research. 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.

 

Scope of this Journal

The JCBP has been established to maintain a record of the evolution of the emerging fields of intimacy specialization within performance. Our editorial team is willing to consider any writings which focus upon the use of consent-based and trauma-informed practices within any genre of performance, either in theory or in practice. We are especially interested in considering the intersections of performance practice, philosophy, consent, identity, creativity, and the human experience. We are open to considering writing focused on consent and equity in relation to performance. 

We adopt Diana Taylor's broad definition of performance "as a process, praxis, an episteme, a mode of transmission, an accomplishment, and a means of intervening in the world" (2012, p 202), and therefore considers consent-based performance a concept that steps off the stage or set and into our own lives. We ask that authors considering consent in non-theatrical and non-cinematic performance clarify how their articles or contributions to the journal could inform consent-based performance practices within these disciplines.

We promote a definition of consent that extends beyond sexually charged content to include the uplifting of personal agency and the radical act of accepting without retaliation or questioning the personal, professional, physical, and cultural boundaries of others. We acknowledge that consent and intimacy infuse much of our lived experience, and we invite writing that makes this acknowledgement while reflecting on the ways that work for stage and screen can learn from the impacts of consent and intimacy outside of the working environment.

 

Open Access Publication

JCBP does not charge any authors' fees related to submission, processing, or publication. Similarly, readers do not pay to read or subscribe to the JCBP,  as an open-access journal. In resistance to these academic gatekeeping practices, the JCBP is grant-funded and offers small stipends to authors upon publication. Authors retain copyright of submissions to and publications within the JCBP while granting JCBP a non-exclusive CC-BY-NC 4.0 license to share and distribute their work. Authors have full copyright and may share or archive drafts of their work as they wish. All drafts submitted to the JCBP will remain accessible to authors within the PKP JCBP workflow system.