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Completed reviews should be sent as email attachments to jfrr@iu.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.
  • The review has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided to the editor beforehand).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • The text is double-spaced and employs italics rather than underlining (except with URLs).
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

  • Remember, the goal of a scholarly review is to inform readers of the content, style, main argument(s), evidence, and overall feel of the work being reviewed, with attention to the contribution of the work and/or any concerns the reviewer may wish to identify.
  • If the reviewer's native language is other than English, we request the reviewer to seek an initial editorial reading from a native speaker of English.
  • We ask that reviewers avoid using footnotes if at all possible.
  • At the conclusion of your review, include your full name, current email address, and your current institutional affiliation. Also, please alert us if you would prefer your email address to not be published with your review.

Equitable Reviews

  • Reviewers are expected to write constructive, unbiased reviews of the scholarly products they are assigned. They should consider the assigned product as objectively as possible and without regard to the race, gender, religion, nationality, sexuality, seniority, or institutional affiliation of its author.

Bibliographic Information

  • JFRR conforms to style guidelines of the Journal of American Folklore, the 17th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style, and Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

Bibliographic Examples

Book:

Bronner, Simon J. 1988. American Children's Folklore. Little Rock, AR: August House.

Chapter:

Geertz, Clifford. 1973. "Deep Play: Notes on the Balinese Cockfight." In The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays by Cliffor Geertz, 412-53. New York: Basic Books.

Article:

Roberts, John M., and Brian Sutton-Smith. 1962. "Child Training and Game Involvement." Ethnology 1 (2):166-85.

Copyright Notice

Reviewers who publish with JFRR agree to the following terms:

1. Reviewers retain copyright and grant JFRR the right of first publication with the review simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share or redistribute reviews with an acknowledgment of the review's original authorship and initial publication JFRR.

2. Reviewers are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of JFRR's published version of the review (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgment of the review’s initial publication in JFRR.

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