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.
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).
The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format.
Where available, URLs and DOIs for the references have been provided.
All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. Each should also be uploaded as a supplementary file.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
Manuscripts should be submitted electronically, preferably in Microsoft Word (using 12-point Georgia font for main articles; 12-point, PT Sans for review essays), and should conform to MLA Style Manual, 8th edition (New York, MLA, 2008) or APA format, 7th edition, except for specific differences indicated here. Submissions should be 1.5 spaced, with both margins justified. Upper margin should be set at 1.2”, other margins at 1”. Articles must be written in English. Content notes are allowable for elaborations, in addition to parenthetic citations within the body of the text. Footnotes (in 9-point font, single spaced, font should match text font) should be used, rather than endnotes, and a References list (in 10-point font, single spaced) should follow all main articles, and review essays (in 11-point font, single spaced) wherever appropriate. Subheads should be in bold, no caps except for the first word of the subhead, as well as proper names. Sub-subheads should be not in Bold, but italicized. Italics should always be used instead of underlining (for titles or foreign words or matters for emphasis). The first paragraph of each article or review essay should not be indented. Similarly, the first paragraph of each section or subsection should not be indented. All other paragraphs should be indented .5” using the tab function. An Abstract of a maximum of 250 words should appear as a separate paragraph at the start of each main article (Georgia 10-point font), and a biography of 150 words maximum should accompany all submissions as a separate document. For initial submissions, authors' names should not appear in the document, nor in its notes (to facilitate anonymous peer review). Normally, main articles should be somewhere between 5000 and 10,000 words. Review essays should be between 1000 and 3000 words. Review essays should be given a title. Images should be a maximum of 500 pixels in width and should be embedded in the main document but also submitted as separate files.