Author Guidelines
GENERAL GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory invites unsolicited contributions of several forms: articles, reviews and discussion articles, translations, and fora. Contributions should fall within the broad scope of the journal, as outlined in the statement of scope and focus. Contributors should present their material in a form that is accessible to a general anthropological readership. We especially invite contributions that engage with debates from previously published articles in the journal.
Submissions are double-blind peer-reviewed in accordance with our policy. Submissions will be immediately acknowledged but due to the review process, acceptance may take up to three months. Submissions should be submitted via University of Chicago Press’s Editorial Manager website submission form (see links above for registration and login). Once you login, make sure your user profile has "author" selected, then click "new submission" and follow the instructions carefully to submit your article. If problems arise, first check the FAQ and Troubleshooting guide posted below. If you are still experiencing difficulty, articles can be submitted to the editors as email attachments.
Each article should be accompanied by a title page that includes: all authors’ names, institutional affiliations, address, telephone numbers and e-mail address. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words (inclusive of abstract 100-150 words, footnotes, bibliography and notes on contributors), unless permission for a longer submission has been granted in advance by the Editors. Each article must include a 100 words “note on contributor(s)” together will full institutional address details, including email address. We request that you submit this material (title page and notes on the contributors) as "supplementary files" rather than in the article itself, which will need to be blinded for peer-review. For tips on ensuring a blind peer-review, see here.
We are unable to pay for permissions to publish pieces whose copyright is not held by the author. Authors should secure rights before submitting translations, illustrations or long quotes. The views expressed in all articles are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the journal or its editors.
HAU uses The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, as the arbiter of manuscript style issues. In instances where Chicago defers to a dictionary and for spelling, we use Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition.
References (including references to personal communications) are placed in the body of the text, not in footnotes. For each quotation or statement specific enough to need a reference, place the citation in parentheses (author’s name, year of publication of work quoted or referred to, page[s] cited) thus: (Leach 1961) or (Johansen 1954: 148). We use colons and not commas (exception to CMS). Authors should cite only sources that are relevant and necessary; excessive citations in the body of the text should be avoided. There should be no excess entries in the bibliography that go uncited in the body of the manuscript.
All notes should appear as footnotes. The footnotes are restricted to material that is directly relevant to the text. Notes are numbered consecutively throughout the text by superscript numerals. We do not use “full-fact citation,” so references in the footnotes should follow the author-date style. Be aware that while the note number is superscript in the text, it appears in regular face and font in the note itself (see example below).
The only footnotes in the article should be content based, such as this:
1. Smith (1998) makes the same point but with a very different conclusion, namely that brown eggs are in fact healthier than white ones.
Footnotes should not be citational like these (instead use the author-date system as described above):
1. Brown 1992: 213-14.
2. Smith 1998; Jones 2006: 103.
Bibliographical references follow the author-date style (Chicago Manual of Style, chapter 15), and include full citation of every publication cited in the text. All entries must be double-spaced, listed alphabetically by the same author(s). When listing successive works by the same author, the 3-em dash replaces the preceding name or names only (not an added ed., trans. or whatever). The 3-em dash should replace the six hyphens (i.e., ------) if used in the manuscript.
Books:
Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined communities: Reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism. Revised edition. New York: Verso.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a theory of practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Turner, Victor. 1957. Schism and continuity in an African society: A study in Ndembu village Life. Manchester: Manchester University Press on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Northern Rhodesia.
Astuti, Rita, Jonathan Parry, and Charles Stafford, eds. 2007. Questions of anthropology. Oxford: Berg.
Chapters in books:
Fortes, Meyer. 1938. “Culture contact as a dynamic process.” In Methods of study of culture contact in Africa, edited by Bronislaw Malinowski, 60–92. Memorandum 15. London: Oxford University Press for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures.
Edwards, Jeanette, and Marilyn Strathern. 2000. “Including your own.” In Cultures of relatedness: New approaches to the study of kinship, edited by Janet Carsten, 149–66. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Journal articles:
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred R. 1924. “The mother’s brother in South Africa.” The South African Journal of Science 21: 542–55.
Clifford, James. 1994. “Diasporas.” Special issue, “Further inflections: Toward ethnographies of the future,” Cultural Anthropology 9 (3): 302–38.
Online journal articles (provide doi or url):
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2004. “Le don et le donné: trois nano-essais sur la parenté et la magie.” Ethnographiques.org 6 (Novembre). http://www.ethnographiques.org/2004/Viveiros-de-Castro.
(About URLs or DOI line breaks, see CMS 14.12)
ENSURING A BLIND PEER-REVIEW
To maintain the integrity of blind peer review, authors and reviewers must remain anonymous to each other. Follow these guidelines to remove identifying information from your submission:
General Document Requirements
1. Remove all author names, affiliations, and acknowledgments from the main text
2. Replace author citations with "Author" and year in references and footnotes
3. Remove identifying information from all supplementary files
4. Check headers, footers, and figure captions for identifying information
Microsoft Word (Windows 11/10 and Office 365)
1. Click File > Info > Check for Issues > Inspect Document
3. Ensure "Document Properties and Personal Information" is checked
4. Click "Inspect"
5. Click "Remove All" when prompted
6. Save the document
Microsoft Word (macOS)
1. Click Word > Settings > Preferences
2. Under Privacy, select "Remove personal information from this file on save"
3. Click File > Properties
4. Clear all fields under the Summary tab
5. Save the documen
PDF Files
With PDFs, the authors' names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat's main menu.
SUBMISSIONS IN FRENCH, PORTUGUESE, OR SPANISH
HAU is happy to review manuscripts written in French, Portuguese, or Spanish. If accepted, the author is responsible for submitting a professionally translated English version with the revised manuscript.
