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The Horn Call is published tri-annually, with mailings as close as possible to the first day of October, February, and May. Submission deadlines for articles and News items are the first day of the month, two months prior to the issue (August 1, December 1, and March 1). Inquiries and materials intended for The Horn Call should be directed to the editor or appropriate contributing editor. Inquiries and materials intended for IHS News should be directed to the News Editor.
The style manuals used by The Horn Call are The Chicago Manual of Style, fourteenth edition, and A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, sixth edition, by Kate Turabian. Refer to these texts or to recent issues of The Horn Call for guidelines regarding usage, style, and formatting. The author's name, email address (or home address), and a brief biography should be included with all submissions. Authors are hereby advised that there may be editorial spelling/style/grammatical changes to articles in order to maintain the journal’s format and professional integrity.
The Horn Call is currently created using QuarkXpress 7. Software such as PageMaker 6.5, Adobe Photoshop 7, Adobe Illustrator 11, and Adobe Acrobat 7 are employed in the process. It is preferred that articles be submitted electronically attached to an email or on a CD, zip, or floppy disk – including another pdf version of the article insures format accuracy. Footnotes (endnotes) should be numbered consecutively (no roman numerals) and placed at the end of the text. Musical examples can be sent as pdfs, Finale (2007) files, embedded in a Word document, or as a black and white images for scanning. Images/photographs may be sent electronically attached to an email or as “hard copies” to scan. For electronic submissions, 300 dpi is the minimum resolution necessary for clear reproductions in The Horn Call. Microsoft Word is the universally-accepted word-processing program for articles. For other programs, save and send the document as a RTF (Rich Text Format). For disks sent, please label them clearly as to the format and application used.
The octave designation system used in The Horn Call is the one preferred by The New Harvard Dictionary of Music, edited by Don Randel (1986), as follows:
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