Submissions

Folklore Forum Submission Guidelines

 

General

  • All documents should be submitted to folkpub@indiana.edu.
  • In the subject line include attn: (appropriate) editor and your name
    • ex. attn: submissions editor, Jane Smith
    • ex. attn: review editor, John Donne
  • Only electronic submissions in .doc, .txt, or .rtf will be accepted
  • Each copy should have a separate title page. On the title page, please give your name, e-mail address, and telephone number
  • Your name should not appear on the document pages

Book Reviews

  • 500-1000 words
  • Spacing: Double
  • Font: Times New Romans 12

Articles

  • Maximum 10,000 words including endnotes.
  • Spacing: Double
  • Font: Times New Romans 12

Bibliographic Style

  • Use Chicago Style for in text and bibliography citations.
  • Use endnotes instead of footnotes
  • Provide parenthetical internal citations with author, date and page numbers of any passage quoted or referred to as follows (Chandler 2001, 24).
  • Dolby, Sandra. Literary Folkloristics and the Personal Narrative. Bloomington: Trickster Press, 2008.
  • Lindahl, Carl. “Two Tellings of ‘Merrywise’”: 1949 and 2000.” Journal of Folklore Research 38 (2001): 39-54.