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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.

  • The submission has not been previously published (with the exception of earlier online issues of Digest, volumes 1-6), nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in Word.doc, Word.docx, or .rtf formats.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • 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.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Check the Digest Submission Guidelines for details on submitting to each section of this journal, as well as the Book Review Submission Guidelines for book reviews. 

Digest follows an adapted in-text citation style of the 16th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. All submissions must be in Word.doc, Word.docx, or .rtf formats. Photographs that accompany submissions should be no less than 300 dpi, TIFF or JPEG format, with the original width no less than 5 inches. Permissions and copyright information for photos and/or other supplemental materials must be supplied before their inclusion in published materials. A detailed style sheet is available here.

The editors of Digest will take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred, including plagiarism, citation manipulation, and data falsification or fabrication, among others. In the event that the editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct relating to a published article in their journal, the editors shall follow the Committee on Publication Ethic’s guidelines at https://publicationethics.org/guidance/Guidelines in dealing with allegations.

Copyright Notice

Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture Article Publishing Agreement The Foodways Section of the American Folklore Society (the "Publisher") and Author(s) agree as follows:


1. Publication and Promotion: In consideration of the Publisher's agreement to publish the Work, Author(s) hereby grant and assign to Publisher the non-exclusive right to print, publish, reproduce, or distribute the Work throughout the world in all means of expression by any method known or hereafter developed, including electronic format, and to market or sell the Work or any part of it as the Publisher sees fit. Author(s) further grant Publisher the right to use Author name(s) in association with the Work in published form and in advertising and promotional materials.

2. Copyright: Copyright of the Work remains in the Author(s)’ name(s), and Author(s) grant the journal right of first publication.

3. Prior and Post Publication and Attribution: Author(s) agree not to publish the Work in print form prior to publication of the Work by the Publisher. Author(s) may enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of Digest’s published version of the work (such as posting to an institutional repository or publishing in a book), with an acknowledgment of its initial publication in this journal. Author(s) agree to cite, by author(s), title, and publisher, the original Digest: A Journal of Foodways & Culture publication when subsequently publishing the Work elsewhere.

4. Author Representations: The Author(s) represent and warrant that the Work: (a) is the Author(s)’ original Work and that the Author(s) have full power to enter into this Agreement; (b) does not infringe the copyright, property, proprietary or personal rights of any third party; and (c) contains no material that is obscene, libelous, defamatory or previously published, in whole or in part, except as follows: when apparently “obscene, libelous, defamatory” information is considered integral to the foodways material under consideration (as in a quoted passage), has been fully vetted among editorial board members, and judiciously interpreted, described, and otherwise presented in the publication to clarify its inclusion and intent. Previously published material, in whole or in part, must meet ordinary fair use expectations concerning length and attribution. (d) If the Work contains any material that is owned or controlled by a third party (for instance, images used in the article), Author(s) warrant and represent that he/she/they have obtained permission for its use and that the material is clearly acknowledged within the text. Author shall indemnify and hold Publisher harmless against loss of expenses arising from breach of any such warranties.

5. Licensing and Reuse: While Digest adopts the above strategies with respect to best open access journal practices, it has not yet adopted Creative Commons licensing. It urges authors to promote use of the publication in Digest, in lieu of subsequent duplicate publication of unaltered papers, and to acknowledge the investments made by peer reviewers, editors, copy editors, programmers, layout editors, and others involved in supporting the work’s original publication in Digest.