Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

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Author Guidelines

Contributions may vary widely in length; research articles should generally not exceed 20 pages, shorter pieces might include critical essays, commentaries, discussions and reviews of recent books. Submitted manuscripts should be typewritten in English and sent to the editorial address as an e-mail attachment (MS Word is preferred) and in hard copy. Please, keep tables, figures, illustrations and text as separate files.

Endnotes and parenthetical in-text citations in author-date style should be used as follows: (Bynum 1987: 83). A complete list of references cited should be provided at the end of the article as appropriate:

Bynum, Caroline Walker 1987. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: the Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Berkeley: University of California Press. 

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara 1989. Authoring Lives. – Journal of Folklore Research. Vol. 26, No. 2: 123–149. 

Radley, Alan 1990. Artefacts, Memory and a Sense of the Past. – David Middleton, Derek Edwards (eds.). Collective Remembering. London: Sage Publications, 46–59. 

The Royal Anthropological Institute. Report of the Strategic Review Working Group. – http://www.therai.org.uk/rainews/StrategicReviewReport2003.html (accessed August 20, 2008).

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in RTF, Microsoft Word, Open Office, or iWork Pages document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

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