Notes for contributors

In order to avoid frustration and disappointment, and save time, the following list of notes and guidelines has been prepared for the assistance of contributors.

1. Contributors are advised to review recent issues of the Journal in order to familiarise themselves with the expected content, style and tone of contributions. The Journal's contents are expected to be consistent with the objects of the Society (see below).
2. Unsolicited contributions will NOT be considered. The general nature and content of contributions must be agreed with the editor in advance.
3. The Journal is edited and published as a volunteer effort. Because of time constraints, the editor is obliged to follow a strict policy toward contributions that appear likely to require any significant amount of additional research, correspondence, editing, or rewriting.
4. The Journal is currently the means whereby statutory information is communicated to members, ie. the Annual Report & Accounts. In respect of contents other than the forementioned, the editor's decision whether or not to include is final. The editor reserves the right to edit submissions that are to appear in the Journal.
5. All copyright matters in respect of a contribution are the contributor's responsibility to clarify and resolve, including (but not limited to) the following: obtaining permission (where required) to use lengthy quotations, obtaining licence to use images owned or controlled by third parties, and notifying to the editor any conditions imposed by third parties governing the use of their material (including the correct form of words for credit). Contributors are strongly advised to deal with these matters in good time, and to retain all relevant correspondence with third parties. Contributors retain all rights to their own work, and, if it is accepted for publication, are granting the trustees of the London Society a non-exclusive licence to reproduce it. Contributors should retain a copy of their submission as the editor will not be responsible for preserving it.
6. Contributions should be submitted in Microsoft Word (any version). Please do not apply any special formatting, fonts, etc., as this is done when the Journal is being typeset.
7. Where necessary, contributions should be accompanied by as full a selection as possible of images in their original mode (colour, or black & white). It is possible that colour images are reproduced in black & white in the Journal: we still require the colour original, however. It is the contributor's responsibility to source such images. Contributors should bear in mind that images are reproduced at a minimum of 300 pixels per inch. (For example, an image intended to span the width of our A4 page will need to have a minimum of 2550 pixels in the horizontal dimension.) Images "found on the internet" are highly unlikely to be acceptable for two reasons: (i) lack of size and quality required for print reproduction, and (ii) lack of clarity about copyright. Images should be submitted as TIFF or JPEG, in the latter case at the finest quality setting. Contributors are welcome to email images to the editor: if they are submitted on storage media such as disks, these will not be returned.
8. Where contributors provide their own images, they should bear in mind that, while modern cameras, scanners and other such equipment incorporate considerable capabilities, as does image-editing software, this functionality is no substitute for the skill and judgment of the operator. The best results will be obtained if the object or scene to be photographed is well-lit so that necessary detail is visible across the dynamic range from shadow to highlight.

The charitable objects of the London Society

1. To acquire, examine and comment as necessary on planning applications relating to the Cities of London, Westminster and the London boroughs (the area of benefit) and to act as a co-ordinating body and co-operate with the local authorities' planning committees, all other statutory authorities and voluntary organisations, charities and persons having similar aims to those of the Society.
2. To promote high standards of planning and architecture in or affecting the area of benefit.
3. To secure the preservation, protection, development and improvement of features of historic or public interest in the area of benefit.
4. To promote civic pride in the area of benefit.

Photograph: the historic Barley Mow public house, Marylebone (William Arthurs).