Submission Guidelines

Ethnomusicology

Note: Article manuscripts should henceforth be submitted to Incoming Editor, J. Lawrence Witzleben, School of Music, 2110 Clarice Smith Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742-1620.

1. Submit three copies of all material related to the article, a brief biographical data sheet, and an abstract of no more than 100 words. Copies must be printed on one side only, on standard size paper. Authors must obtain in writing all permissions for the publication of material under copyright and submit a copy of the permissions file when the manuscript is ﬁrst sent to the editor. Authors hold the editor and the Society for Ethnomusicology harmless against copyright claims.

2. Manuscripts must be typed double-spaced (including footnotes, quotations, song texts, references cited, indented material, and captions for illustrations). Copies using single line or one and a half line spacing are not acceptable. Leave 1.5” margins on all sides with only the left-hand margin justified.

3. Do not submit original artwork (tables, maps, musical transcriptions, etc.) for review; submit copies. Original artwork may be requested upon acceptance for publication, in which case it must be of sufficient quality to permit direct reproduction.

4. All tables and figures, maps, black-and-white photographs, musical examples, and other illustrative material should have captions and should be presented on separate sheets with notations made as to their location in the manuscript. Each should be mentioned in the body of the text and its approximate position noted in the margin.

5. References cited are carried within the text, e.g., (Rhodes 1955:262), and should be typed double-spaced on a separate sheet alphabetically by author and chronologically for each author. Fig. 16.2, p. 648, of the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993) will serve as a model.

6. Acknowledgments are to be presented in a separate paragraph, thusly labeled, at the end of the text, preceding endnotes. Authors who welcome correspondence are encouraged to give their email addresses.

7. Manuscripts submitted to Ethnomusicology should not have been published elsewhere nor should they simultaneously be under review or scheduled for publication in another journal or in a book. Further, if an author submits a paper to Ethnomusicology that is based on material closely related to that in other published or submitted papers or books, the author should explain the relationships among them, in a cover letter to the editor.

8. Manuscripts must be in English and observe United States conventions of usage, spelling, and punctuation. This journal maintains the principles of gender-neutral discourse and the editors thus request authors and reviewers to adhere to these practices. A set of guidelines developed by the Society for Music Theory (SMT) has been adopted by the Society for Ethnomusicology and is posted on the SEM web site.

9. Book, record, and film reviews ordinarily are solicited by the respective review editors, from whom authors will receive instructions. Authors should work footnotes into the body of the review and limit references cited. Authors should submit reviews simultaneously on hard copy and IBM- or Macintosh-compatible computer disk.

10. In order to preserve anonymity in the review process, authors should refrain from using headers or footers that include their name. When possible, authors should submit reviews electronically as e-mail attachments, or as directed by the review editor.

Manuscript Processing

1. A manuscript is read first by the editor, who determines if it is of sufficient interest to proceed further. If not, the editor notifies the author that this is the case. If the manuscript is of sufficient interest, it is sent to outside referees who send written evaluations and recommendations, sometimes with suggestions for revision, to the editor. The editor may reject the manuscript, delay a decision while encouraging revisions, or accept it substantially as is. Ordinarily, the editors will forward the referees' evaluations (anonymously) along with their decisions. Authors of articles may suggest names of appropriate (and inappropriate) referees.

2. The review process is generally completed within four months. Authors will be notified if there is a delay.

3. Articles and reviews are accepted for publication subject to editing for style. Authors of articles will have an opportunity to make final changes after copyediting, and to correct printer's errors in page proof.

Authors of articles will receive ten copies of the journal free of charge; authors of reviews will receive two copies.