Submit an Article

Submission Procedure

VOICEPrints is the official journal of the New York Singing Teachers’ Association. We welcome submissions on topics related to voice and vocal pedagogy, including, but not limited to, repertoire, style, science, technology, performance, teaching, and the music business.

Please submit your article as a Microsoft Word document or PDF, accompanied by:

  • A brief abstract
  • A biography of approximately 200 words
  • A high-resolution headshot

Please email submissions to both ron.land@gmail.com and voiceprints@nyst.org.

Approval Process

The Editor-in-Chief, with assistance from the Associate Editors, will respond to submissions within 60 days, and often sooner. If accepted, an article will ordinarily appear in VOICEPrints within one year.

Remuneration

There is no monetary remuneration for articles published in VOICEPrints. We are pleased to include author biographies and acknowledge authors’ recent publications and professional accomplishments.

Length

Feature articles, book reviews, interviews, and other content vary in length. Submissions of any length are welcome but may be adjusted in consultation with the author.

Style

Titles of books and major works should be italicized rather than underlined. Capitalization and other matters of style should follow the Chicago Manual of Style.

Images

Please submit images in high-resolution format. Accepted formats include JPEG, PNG, TIFF, and GIF.

Citations

All citations should follow the Chicago Manual of Style and be presented as endnotes.

Numbers

Please spell out numbers from one through twenty. Numbers 21 and higher should generally be written as numerals.

IPA and Musical Symbols

International Phonetic Alphabet symbols and musical symbols, including sharps and flats, are welcome as long as they are in Unicode format and do not require a specialized font.

Permissions

Authors are responsible for ensuring that submitted materials and images are their original work. When quotations, images, or other materials from outside sources are included, the author must obtain and document all necessary permissions.

Ownership

Articles published in VOICEPrints remain the property of their authors. We request that authors wait one year after the article’s original appearance in VOICEPrints before publishing or adapting the material elsewhere. Any subsequent publication should acknowledge and link to the VOICEPrints issue in which the article originally appeared.