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, Multimedia, and Exhibit Reviews

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