Does the word count limit include the bibliography or just the essay itself?
The Fountain is not a full-scale academic journal, so we expect the authors to keep the references not more than five or six. Notes can be more. So, references and notes do not make a big change in the word count which has been announced to be between 1,500 and 2,500. A range is always necessary to be able to have an objective measure in terms of size.