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Author Guidelines

All submissions must be in either Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) format or Rich-Text Format (.rtf). The text, quotations, and endnotes should be double-spaced with 1 inch margins for copy-editing and should conform to the 16th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. If you do not have ready access to the Chicago Manual, please consult a recent issue of the Journal or consult our style sheet.

Two sample articles give a sense of the content of JFR articles (though they no longer reflect our bibliographic style):

Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, Barbara. 1989. "Authoring Lives." Journal of Folklore Research 26/2:123–49.

Kwesi, Yankah. 1991. "Power and Circuit of Formal Talk." Journal of Folklore Research 28/1:1–22.

If a manuscript includes notes, endnotes should be used rather than footnotes. All submissions should be accompanied by an abstract of no more than 250 words, as well as a 50-word author biographical statement (uploaded as a separate file).

Visual elements should be submitted in digital form. Please scan images (including slides) at a resolution of 300 dpi, in TIF or EPS format. Size all images to no more than 5 inches horizontally. All images, tables, diagrams, and figures should be uploaded as supplemental files rather than embedded in the manuscript itself. In the text file, please indicate where each graphic should appear by placing a "callout" description in the appropriate location (e.g., <figure 1 about here>). Drawings and maps must be submitted in a form suitable for publication without redrawing. Submit captions for all graphic elements by completing the supplemental file information form during the manuscript submission phase.

Any inquiries concerning manuscript submission should be directed to the JFR editorial staff at jofr@indiana.edu.

 

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 Microsoft Word (.doc or .docx) or Rich Text (.rtf) document file format.
  3. The text is double-spaced; has 1-inch margins; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses).

  4. If present, images (including slides) are scanned at a resolution of 300 dpi, in TIF or EPS format. All images are sized to no more than 5 inches horizontally. Low-resolution images (such as those taken from the Internet) are at least 900 pixels across to ensure print quality.

  5. Images and captions, if present, are not included in the main document, but rather uploaded as supplemental files (Step 4).
  6. The author's name and brief contributor information (not exceeding fifty words) is uploaded as a separate, supplemental file in Step 4, rather than included in the manuscript.
  7. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the JFR Style Guide.
  8. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

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