Submission Guidelines

To Submit an Article for Publication

Original manuscripts reflecting a high quality of scholarship are invited from scholars and practitioners in a wide variety of arenas and disciplines relevant to the double bass or related instruments. Topics may be presented from any number of different perspectives or disciplines, such as historical musicology, classical or jazz performance practice, pedagogy, lutherie, iconography, biography, and/or analysis, and may deal with subjects stemming from any period in the instrument's history up to the present.

• Article length should not exceed 10,000 words.
• Contributions must be new, previously unpublished material or interpretations.
• The official language of the OJBR is English. Authors are required to submit their document in English, or provide an English translation, before the article may be considered.
• Contributors are advised to consult current issues of the OJBR and/or to contact the with any questions concerning tone or content, or if the suitability of their material is in doubt.
• Articles may be submitted for consideration at any time. Submissions should be sent by email to the .
• Any musical examples created with a music software program should be submitted electronically, either in a music software program or as saved as JPEG files. All files, tables, figures and illustrations should be submitted as separate documents.
• Photographs and artwork to support the article are welcome. These should also ideally be sent electronically, as JPEG files.
• It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission for including/reproducing any copyrighted material. Along with their submission, authors should submit written permission from the copyright owner(s) for any works that they reproduce in their article, when applicable.
• Authors are encouraged to send a short biographical paragraph, or to include a more extensive resume for paraphrasing.
• Any research involving human subjects must be approved or exempted by an Institutional Review Board (IRB). Before the abstract, please include a statement of which IRB approved your research, the IRB number assigned to your research project, and the date of approval if your research involves human subjects.
• The Online Journal of Bass Research does not allow authors to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to generate data or content for publication in its journal. Responsible use of AI is permitted in idea generation stages or minor language revisions. If an author uses AI in any stage of the project, they must declare what AI tool was used and how it was used before the abstract in the submission document.
• Articles should be submitted as a Word Document and follow the Chicago Manual of Style formatting.
• Questions about suitability of material, choice of subject, or tone? Email the .