The Alpine Journal records all aspects of mountains and mountaineering, including expeditions, adventure, art, literature, geography, history, geology, medicine, ethics and the mountain environment.

Articles Contributions in English are invited. They should be sent to Susan Jensen, 38 Church Street, Inverkeithing KY11 1LQ (e-mail: journal.editor@alpine-club.org.uk). Articles should be sent on a disk with accompanying hard copy or as an e-mail attachment (in Microsoft Word) with hard copy sent separately by post. Length should not exceed 3000 words without prior approval of the editor and may be edited or shortened at his discretion. It is regretted that the Alpine Journal is unable to offer a fee for articles published, but authors receive a complimentary copy of the issue of the Journal in which their article appears. Preferably, articles and book reviews should not have been published in substantially the same form by any other publication.

MapsThese should be well researched, accurate, and show the most important place-names mentioned in the text. It is the author’s responsibility to get their maps redrawn if necessary. If submitted electronically, maps should be originated as CMYK in a vectorised drawing package (Adobe Illustrator, Freehand or similar), and submitted as pdfs. (Any embedded images should be at 300dpi resolution at A4 size.) Hard copy should be scanned as a Photoshop compatible 300dpi tiff at A4 finished size. This can be arranged through the production editor if required.

PhotographsColour transparencies should be originals (not copies) in 35mm format or larger. Prints (any size) should be numbered (in pencil) on the back and accompanied by a separate list of captions (see below). Pre-scanned images should be CMYK, 300dpi tiffs or Maximum Quality jpegs at A4 final size. Images from digital cameras should be CMYK, 300dpi jpegs or tiffs at the maximum file size (quality) the camera can produce. All images (slides, prints and digital) should have unique names/serial numbers that correspond to a list of captions supplied with your article or as a word processing document or via email.
Captions should include subject matter, photographer’s name, title and author of the article to which they refer.

Copyright It is the author’s responsibility to obtain copyright clearance for text, photographs, digital images and maps, to pay any fees involved and to ensure that acknowledgements are in the form required by the copyright owner.

Summaries A brief summary, helpful to researchers, may be included with ‘expedition’ articles.

Biographies Authors are asked to provide a short biography, in about 60 words, listing the most noteworthy items in their climbing career and anything else they wish to mention.

Deadline Copy and photographs should reach the editor by 1 January of the year of publication.