Submitting a Paper or Article

AQC accepts three types of research paper based on maximum word count: c.10,000-word long papers; c.5,000-word short papers; and c.2,000-word submissions for the ‘Notes and Queries’ section in AQC.

Papers – in Word – should be submitted to editor@quatuorcoronati.com and not directly to the secretary of Quatuor Coronati (QC) Lodge or any individual member of the lodge, even if they are known to the author.

Authors seeking advice as to the feasibility of a potential paper are welcome to email the editor with a short outline proposal (maximum 400 words).

Papers that are outside the scope of AQC, significantly over the word count, demonstrate no attempt to comply with the style guide below, or the editor considers otherwise unsuitable will be returned. Those thought appropriate will be sent for anonymous peer review; a paper may then be rejected, accepted subject to revision by the author, or accepted subject to any minor editorial changes required prior to publication. The decisions of QC’s editorial committee are final.

Published papers become the copyright of Quatuor Coronati / QC Correspondence Circle Limited, although the author is automatically granted a licence to reprint any paper, provided the fact that it was published in AQC is acknowledged. Papers cannot be published by third parties without the consent of QC/QCCC.

Papers should be submitted in line with the AQC Style Guide