Submission Details

Submission Process

The continued success of Anthropology Matters is dependent on the active support of its readership. If you would like to submit an original paper, a review article or a short book review please contact the current Coordinating Editor by clicking here. Submissions should be in English, and and should normally be restricted to 5,000 words.

Submitted articles should be accompanied by an appropriate title, a short abstract of no more than 100 words, and some relevant information about the author (no more than 50 words) describing the nature of his or her research and related interests. A submitted article will not be considered ready for publication until the Article Editor has received this additional information. There is no financial remuneration for published contributions.

Format for Submitting Articles

Unless other arrangements have been agreed between the Article Editor and contributing author, articles should be formatted in Microsoft Word and sent as an e-mail attachment. To encourage a user-friendly format, footnotes and references should be kept to an absolute minimum unless considered integral to the submitted text. This emphasis on avoiding excessive referencing is an editorial stance to try and encourage contributors to write more personal articles that do not hide behind standard academic framing devices. It is left to the discretion of individual contributors, in collaboration with their Article Editor, to decide to what extent they are able to conform to these editorial guidelines. If references are used, the author's name, date, and page numbers should appear in the text with full bibliographical references in alphabetical order at the end of the article.

Review Process:

The editorial collective reserves the right to edit or otherwise alter submissions. When possible this will be done in consultation with the contributor. Submitted articles will be subject to peer review by two anonymous referees and we retain the right to reject articles that we consider inappropriate for specified reasons.

There is an expectation that contributors will agree to abide to the deadlines set by the Article Editor. Opinions expressed in published contributions are the authors' own and do not necessarily reflect the views of the editorial collective or the Anthropology Matters steering group.

Copyright:

Individual contributors retain the copyright to their published material, but the editorial collective would appreciate that due acknowledgement of Anthropology Matters is made when reproducing parts or the whole of articles that have previously appeared in the journal.