Imponderabilia: Call for Papers
Imponderabilia is happy to announce its second call for papers!
Imponderabilia is a student anthropology journal, concerned with anthropology in the widest sense of the term – the study of humans, their lives, beliefs and practices both past and present. We welcome submissions contemplating human experience from students of all disciplines. We are searching for articles that think outside of the box, that look over the rim of our anthropological glasses, and challenge the way in which we have been taught to write and engage with concepts.
We wish to provide space for your anthropological voice, be it in the form of articles, images, photos, illustrations, diagrams; we also welcome book, film or exhibition reviews as well as news snippets, conversations and interviews etc.
Guidelines for submitting manuscripts to Imponderabilia for review
Manuscripts submitted to Imponderabilia should not be under simultaneous consideration by any other journal, nor have been published elsewhere. Priority is given to undergraduate submissions. Imponderabilia prefers not to publish university coursework essays.
Peer review and editing process
Once your submission is received it is verified against submission requirements. Your identity and contact details are then removed and the paper is matched to two appropriate peer reviewers and sent for review. The publication decision is based on the peer reviewers’ reports. Once provisionally accepted for publication, articles may still be returned to the author for approval and implementation of editorial suggestions and criticisms. On final acceptance, articles are passed to the coordinating editors of the issue in which they will appear, who are responsible for all further correspondence with the author.
Language
Contributors are requested to submit in English. However the editors recognise that some authors may not have English as a native language, and will from time to time help proofread and correct minor grammar and spelling mistakes.The English equivalent to technical foreign words and phrases should always be included. We would prefer authors to avoid using sexist turns of phrase (e.g. the anthropologist and his field data).
Word Count
Your manuscript should follow the following recommendations for word count.
Long Article: 8200 – 12000 characters with spaces
Short Article: 4200 – 7200 characters with spaces
Short submission: 800 – 3300 characters with spaces
Figures and illustrations
Authors can send in illustrations, even for a short submission we welcome logos and images. Figures should be embedded in your text. Number figures in the order in which they appear in the text. Each figure should have a caption that articulates its relevance. Illustrations should be supplied as TIF or JPEG files – in high resolution.
Required Information
The article title page should include the full name(s) of the authors, personal affiliation with their university, (if they are students) and the complete email address of the author to whom correspondence should be sent. Imponderabilia requires authors, who submit articles also to submit a short biography, (maximum 700 characters), a bibliography, an introduction (200-800) and a title. Short submissions do not require a bibliography, a biography or an introduction.
Formatting
Imponderabilia follows The Chicago Manual of Style (14th ed., University of Chicago Press, 1993) for most matters of style. We follow the Oxford English Dictionary for spelling.
References
References appearing in the bibliography must be cited in text, and vice versa, using a concise author-date system, with an in-text citation, followed by a reference-list entry. See the Chicago Citation Guide for more information. http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Permissions
Authors are responsible for obtaining permissions from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of citations, quotations, diagrams, tables and maps.
Enriched Content
Supplemental content is important for Imponderabilia. Visual and audio material is welcome and encouraged, for example links to a YouTube video, or a relevant website. Please reference in your manuscript where this material would be relevant, encouraging readers to move beyond the manuscript.
Deadline
The deadline for submissions is the 1st December 2009, no submissions will be considered for the second issue of Imponderabilia after this deadline.
Please send articles to journal.imponderabilia@gmail.com
If you have any difficulties in submitting items to Imponderabilia please email our editorial team.
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Imponderabilia
The International Student Journal
Cambridge University