
Journal of American Folklore
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About
The Journal of American Folklore, the quarterly journal of the American Folklore Society since the Society's founding in 1888, publishes scholarly articles, notes, and commentaries directed to a wide professional audience. Other sections include those devoted to poetry, short fiction, and creative non-fiction on matters fundamental to the field; and reviews of books, exhibitions and events, films, sound recordings, and digital/online resources.
The contents of the Journal reflect a wide range of topics and points of view. As the flagship publication of the Society, the Journal reflects concerns of members in both academic and public spheres. Content is grounded in past and current folklore scholarship, and is based on recognized disciplinary methods. Articles present significant research findings and theoretical analyses from the disciplinary perspective of folklore. Notes are narrower in scope and focus on a single, often provocative, issue of definition, interpretation, or practice. Commentaries briefly address topics raised in earlier articles. Its contents are not restricted to folklore in the United States; the Journal publishes materials on folklore and from folklorists anywhere in the world.
Indexes
Abstracts in Anthropology, Academic Search Elite, Academic Search Premier, America: History and Life, American Bibliography of Slavic & East European Studies, Annual Bibliography of English Language and Literature, Anthropological Index, Anthropological Literature, Anthropology Plus, Arts & Humanities Citation Index, ATLA Religion Database, Bibliographie Linguistique/Linguistic Bibliography, Book Review Index, Chicano Index, Children's Book Review Index, Current Contents: Art and Humanities, Expanded Academic Index, Historical Abstracts, History Source, Humanities Abstracts, Index to Book Reviews in the Humanities, International Bibliography of Book Reviews of Scholarly Literature on the Humanities & Social Sciences, International Bibliography of Periodical Literature on the Humanities & Social Sciences, JSTOR, Magazine Index, MLA International Bibliography, Music Index, OCLC ArticleFirst, ProQuest 5000, Proquest Research Library, Recently Published Articles, Reference Sources for the Social Sciences and Humanities, Research Library, Social Science Citation Index, Social Science Source, Sociological Abstracts, Wilson OmniFile Full Text Mega Edition, Women's Studies Abstracts
MEMBERSHIP RATES
For individual and student memberships, please contact the American Folklore Society.
Institutions, click here to subscribe to 'Print Only' format.
Institutions: | 1 Year |
Print Only | $153 |
Online Only | $159* |
Print + Online | $199* |
*Institutional 'Online Only' and 'Print + Online' subscriptions must be purchased through the Scholarly Publishing Collective. |
Non-U.S. Postage: $10 Canada/Mexico, $35 Other Non-U.S. Locations
Single Issues: $15 Institutions
ONLINE + PRINT ADVERTISING
The print ad rates for all our titles can be found in the 2023 journals catalog/rate card.
Editors
Editor-in-Chief Associate Editors Editorial Assistant Sound Recording Review Editor Film and Video Review Editor Exhibits and Events Review Editor | Digital Resource Review Editor Book Review Editor To submit books for review (not using UPS or FedEx), mail three copies to: James Deutsch To submit books for review using UPS or FedEx, mail three copies to: James Deutsch | |
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PDF Policy
Author Deposit Permissions Policy
Journal of American Folklore
In response to the evolving nature of scholarly exchange and communications, the American Folklore Society has established the following policy regarding authors’ deposit of their Journal of American Folklore (JAF) contributions (including articles, reviews, notes, etc.) in their institutional repositories. This policy replaces any previous AFS author deposit policy, so it also applies to materials already published in the JAF.
Definitions
[These definitions are based on those on the SHERPA/RoMEO web site (www.sherpa.ac.uk/romeoinfo.html).]
This policy applies to pre-prints, post-prints, and the publisher’s version.
A pre-print is a work-in-process: a contribution not yet accepted, or perhaps even submitted, to the JAF, that you make available for comments and criticism from others.
A post-print is the version of your JAF contribution after peer review and acceptance for the Journal of American Folklore, with revisions having been made.
The publisher’s version is the PDF file of your contribution as it appears in the Journal of American Folklore.
Policy
AFS encourages authors to post pre-prints and post-prints of their JAF contributions in temporary locations, such as personal websites, until such time as the publisher’s version is available.
Authors may post publisher’s versions of their JAF contributions to the repository of their home institution as soon as those versions are available. When posting a publisher’s version, authors must include one of the following two notations:
For JAF contributions published before 2003:
Published as [provide the complete bibliographic citation as it appears in the print version of the Journal of American Folklore]. © [Year] by the American Folklore Society.
For JAF contributions published beginning in 2003:
Published as [provide the complete bibliographic citation as it appears in the print version of the Journal of American Folklore]. © [Year] by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois.
Submissions
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