Submissions

Author Guidelines

This journal ceased publishing in 2009 and is not currently accepting submissions. Please visit the Contours journal.

Submissions

Solicited and contributed manuscripts must be double-spaced and submitted online via this site. Submission of an original manuscript to the Journal will be taken to mean that it represents original work not previously published, that it is not being considered elsewhere for publication; that the author is willing to assign copyright to the journal as per a contract that will be sent to the author just prior to publication and, if accepted for publication, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in any language, without the consent of the editor. Authors must take full responsibility for all figures, etc, and present them as camera-ready.

Go to the registration page to register as a user of the online system if you do not yet have a username and password. Ensure that you register as an 'Author' when creating your account.

Once you have an online account, login and click on the 'Author' link. The 'Author' page will include a link to begin the online submission process.

When submitting online, please note that you need to click on 'Save/Continue' at the bottom of each page in order to proceed to the next step in the submission process. There are 5 steps to an online submission:

    * In Step 1, please ensure that:

          o You select a section from the 'Journal Section' menu.

          o You review, complete, and check off each item in the 'Submission Checklist.'

    * In Step 2, please ensure that:

          o You provide your personal information (name, email, etc.).

          o You provide the title of your article or reviewed book.

    * In Step 3, please ensure that:

          o You upload a copy of your manuscript in Word (.doc) or RTF (.rtf) format, not DOCX (.docx).

          o You remove all personal, identifying information from the submission file as per the provided instructions. Please note that this is not required for book reviews.

          o Do not include figures, tables, or images within your manuscript file. Instead, upload each separately in Step 4.

    * In Step 4, upload all tables, figures, images, and supplementary files:

          o Tables should be saved and uploaded as separate Word (.doc) or RTF (.rtf) files, not DOCX (.docx).

          o Ensure all personal, identifying information is removed from the supplementary files as per the provided instructions. Please note that this is not required for book reviews.

          o Figures and images should be saved and uploaded using high quality image formats: BMP, TIFF, EPS, JPEG (uncompressed); not GIF or compressed JPEG.

          o Audio and video files should be saved and uploaded using the MPEG format (MP3 for audio and MPEG for video).

    * In Step 5, finish your submission by reviewing your submission details and confirming that your submission is complete.

Reviews

Interested in doing a book or media review? Visit our Book and Media Review Editor to see a list of currently available titles. The Humanities is interested in commissioning reviews from a wide variety of scholars and students.

Book-Review Guidelines

The book's contents should be concisely stated. Most of the review should be dedicated to the assessment of the book's strengths and weaknesses. Rather than listing in detail what is found in each of the book's chapters, the reviewer should emphasize what is most significant in the volume, the adequacy of the methods deployed, and the overall worth of the text. The issues addressed in the review could include some of the following:

    * What are the origins of the text? How did it come to be produced?

* What is the book generally about? What is the intent of the author in writing the book (e.g., scholarship, entertainment, political partisanship, etc.)?

    * What standpoint is taken (e.g., detached scholar, autobiographical, advocacy, etc.)?

    * What is the line of argument, if any?

    * What sort of evidence is used?

    * How is the material organized and structured?

    * To what extent does the author achieve his/her goals?

    * Is the standpoint appropriate to the intentions and the subject matter?

    * Do the steps in the argument follow logically?

    * Are there hidden assumptions?

    * Are the claims following from the argument well supported by evidence?

    * Is the work generally persuasive? Why or why not?

    * Is the work generally consistent (i.e., are there contradictions)?

* Is the work generally coherent (i.e., do the various parts complement one another and go together well)?

    * Is the book well written?

* To what extent does the book make a contribution to our understanding of the particular area of communication in question?

The length of the review should be around 1000 words, and we would like to have it by three months from the current date.

Article Abstracts

For each article (but not the commentaries or the research in brief), the author must provide a 100-125 word abstract in English. These summaries should be placed immediately below the paper title, author and institutional affiliation. Each summary should be indented 2.5 cm (1/2") and double-spaced.

Author Bio

The author(s) must supply a brief (25-word) bio giving name, rank, institution, institutional address, and email address. Author information and bio should be entered in Step 2 of the online submission process, and not as part of the submission file itself. For example, Anne-Marie Feenberg-Dibon is Director of the Institute for the Humanities at Simon Fraser University, 8888 University Drive, Burnaby, BC.  V5A 1S6 . Email: afeener@sfu.ca .

General Formatting

Authors are advised to follow as closely as possible the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA Manual), with necessary variations to suit the field of Humanities spelling practices. Please see recent Humanities volumes for current style and formats being followed.

Layout

    * The text should be double-spaced.

    * Start each paragraph at the margin (no tabs to indent first line). Place an extra blank   line between paragraphs to separate.

Heading Styles

* First level headings: (Boldface, first word capitalized, justified at left margin, on a separate line)

* Second level headings: (Plain type, first word capitalized, justified at left margin, on a separate line)

* Third level headings: (Italic type, first word capitalized, justified at left margin, on a separate line)

Citations in the Text

* If the work has more than one author, give all the names the first time the work is referred to, then et al. thereafter.

* When titles of journals, books, or other media are mentioned, they should be italicized, not underlined.

* If the citation follows a quotation, place the parentheses after the quotation marks but before the end punctuation. For example: "for the future of telecommunications" (Smith, 1987, p. 42). 

References

    * Following the Notes, list only those works actually cited in the text.

    * The heading for the references should be bold and left-justified, as References.

    * Double space all entries.

* Begin each entry at the margin and indent the subsequent lines by 1/2 inch; i.e., hanging indent.

* Separate the main items in each entry by periods (i.e., name of author, title of book, etc.) Leave one space between a period and next part of the entry.

* Publication date should be in parentheses following author name. Title of book should be in italics and only the first word and first word after a colon should be capitalized (see examples above).

* For articles, the title should be in plain text, with only the first word capitalized; the title of the periodical or edited book should be in italics.

* For journals the volume number of the periodical volume is in italics, with the issue number in plain text and parentheses. Page numbers are given at the end of the reference but without the requirement for 'page'' or 'p.' See examples below.

* The formats must be strictly adhered to in terms of punctuation and order of the items within each entry:

Book: Hall, Ignatieff, M. (2000). The Rights Revolution. Toronto: House of Anansi Press Ltd.

Article in a book: Smith, C.L. (1999). Is citizenship a gendered concept? In A.C. Cairns, J.C. Courtney, P. MacKinnon, H.J. Michelmann, & D.E. Smith (Eds.), Citizenship, diversity, & pluralism: Canadian and comparative perspectives, (pp. 137 -162). Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

Article in a journal: Clifford, James. (2001). Indigenous articulations. The Contemporary Pacific 13(2), 468-490.

Government document: Royal Commission on newspapers. (1981). Report. Ottawa: Minister of Supply and Services Canada.

Website: Ontario Arbitration Act. (1991). Government of Ontario. URL: http://www.e-laws.gov.on.ca/html/regs/english/elaws_regs_070134_e.htm [March 4, 2005].

Use of Notes

    * Footnotes are not used in this format; only endnotes are used.

* Do not use automatically formatted endnotes. Notes should appear at the end of the text and before the references (typed in a regular text). Endnote numbers in the text should be regular text formatted as eight-point superscript.

* Use of notes should be very sparing. They should be used only where additional explanations are absolutely necessary and cannot be incorporated in the text. Maximum: 10.

    * Notes should be listed after the text and before the list of biographical references.

    * The heading for the notes should be bold and left-justified, as Notes.

Keyword index

The Humanities requests that authors assign keywords to their article. Authors should confine their selection to five keywords or less, some of which may be their own. A few examples are listed below:

Social Sciences

Humanities

Social issues

Cultural studies

Modernity

Community education

Human rights

Violence

Non-violence

Democratic development

Religion