guidelines for contributors
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Borderlands is a fully (double-blind) refereed international journal of the humanities and social sciences. It has been publishing since 2002, and brings out 3 issues per year, in May, October and December. A general call for submissions, guidelinelines for contributors, and information about special issues, is provided below. articles, reviews and essays We are seeking articles, essays and reviews in a wide range of disciplines across the humanities and social sciences. Read our manifesto to get a sense of the kinds of work and approaches we intend to publish. If in doubt, just email us with an inquiry! We are especially interested in articles about or in the areas of:
We welcome abstracts of articles, or proposals for reviews, review essays and bibliographic essays. These should be emailed to the editors. borderlands e-journal does not accept unsolicited full manuscripts. If your proposed article, review or essay is relevant to borderlands, we will contact you and ask you to submit or draft the text. It will then be sent to referees (in the case of articles and longer reviews) or edited by borderlands’ editors. At that point, we request that the work not be submitted to another publication. Upon the receipt of referees’ comments a decision will be made about publication, and you will be contacted about any proposed revisions. Discretion to publish will remain with the editors, although the referees’ comments will be strongly relied upon as a guide. borderlands e-journal encourages referees to provide incisive, reasoned and helpful feedback to authors. special issues borderlands e-journal welcomes proposals for special issues. We wish to develop a great deal of content using independent editors and editorial teams, and we want your proposals and ideas! Please send us a preliminary email inquiry first, setting out the topic, rationale, editorship and potential authors in brief. We may then ask you to provide a full proposal; from there the publisher will make an agreement with you over the content, size and management of the Issue. Special issues will commonly involve a division of labour between the editor/s of the special issue and borderlands e-journal. The special issue editor/s will usually be responsible for soliciting content, and for refereeing and content editing, in accordance with borderlands policies. borderlands will web-publish the issue, and seek limited discretion over content relating to issues of legal liability, fair comment and length. word length and referencing Articles and bibliographic essays should be up to 7500 words in length. Reviews should be between 800 and 3500 words. If in doubt, consult the editors. Writers should use the "Harvard" referencing style (author surname, year of publication: page number) with a bibliography. Footnotes should not be used. Please also supply an abstract of up to 150 words. In Word documents, make sure that you turn off functions such as ‘smart quotes’, and refrain from using special characters, such as em-dashes. submission formats and address borderlands e-journal encourages the use of email and internet communication wherever possible. However do use our postal address if you need to. Short documents, such as abstracts and brief proposals, should be incorporated into the body of an email and sent to us. Longer documents should be emailed as attachments in Microsoft Word (.doc), RTF (.rtf), or "text only" (.txt) format. Do not use PDF or HTML. Attachments should be encoded as either Base68 or Appledouble, to ensure readability across platforms. contact borderlands e-journal snailmail Jane Mummery |
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ISSN 1447-0810
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