Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics

All proposals should be submitted to jef@ut.ee and must be accepted by the editors of JEF. As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines:　

• The submission has not been previously published, nor is it submitted before to another journal for consideration.
• The submission length is maximum 10,000 words (including the references) for research articles.
• The paper includes an abstract of a maximum of 150 words summarising the article’s main points and 5 keywords. The title page should contain the name, affiliation, address and the email address of each author.
• To facilitate double-blind review process, the submitted manuscripts should be written in a way that does not give away the identity of authors.
• The submission file is in RTF, Microsoft Word, Open Office, or iWork Pages document file format.
• The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
• The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.　

Application for the Special Issue:　

In order to concentrate on significant topics, we encourage our colleagues to propose special issues on any subject within ethnology, folklore studies, cultural and social anthropology, and museology, for the Journal of Ethnology and Folkloristics. Tenders for a special issue should include the following information:

• Suggested title
• Topic
• Aims and scope. Please explain why it is important to publish this collection of articles in JEF and what the focus of the special issue would be.
• Outline of articles. Please list (preliminary) titles and present abstracts of the articles planned for the special issue.
• Summary (ca 1,000 words). Please explain how these manuscripts constitute a coherent whole and what is the added value of publishing these articles together.
• Make sure to provide the name(s) of the guest editor(s) of the special issue, their e-mail addresses, affiliations, and short biographies.

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