INFORMATION
FOR AUTHORS
Diaspora
welcomes articles on all aspects of the topics with which it is
concerned: diaspora and related forms of dispersion, transnationalism,
nationalism, ethnicity, globalization, and postcoloniality. The
journal welcomes studies of specific diaspora communities, whether
past, existent, or emerging. We solicit essays on all aspects of
the sub-national, transnational, and globalizing phenomena that
now challenge the nation-state and supplement the old international
order, including but not limited to migrating peoples, cultures,
nomadic ideas and works of art, and mass media productions that
traverse frontiers.
We welcome contributions from the disciplines of anthropology, art
history, cultural studies, economics, geography, history, linguistics,
literary and postcolonial studies, media studies, political science,
psychology, religious studies, sociology, and interdisciplinary
fields including-but not limited to-African-American, Asian-American,
and Latin-American Studies and ethnomusicology.
Manuscript Submissions: Authors must submit a digital file
(in Microsoft Word) of their manuscript to Prof. Khachig Tölölyan,
Editor, Diaspora: A journal of transnational studies, Wesleyan University,
Middletown, CT 06459-0100 USA. E-mail: ktololyan@wesleyan.edu.
Because manuscripts will be refereed anonymously, the author's name
and all contact information should be on a separate title page.
An abstract no longer than one page should accompany the submission.
Manuscript Preparation: Manuscripts should be typewritten
with 1" margins on 8½ by 11" paper. All material
must be double-spaced, including citations longer than four lines,
which should be indented from the main text; endnotes; works cited;
and other extracts, poetry, and figure legends. Sections must be
assembled in the following order: title page listing the author's
full name and address, telephone, fax, and e-mail numbers, as available;
text; works cited; figure legends; endnotes. Acknowledgments should
appear as the first, unnumbered endnote. Ordinarily, contributions
should not exceed 40 standard pages.
Style: The journal follows the recommendations of the MLA
[Modern Languages Association] Handbook for Writers of Research
Papers, latest edition. This differs from the citation practice
of social science journals in significant ways. The article is followed
by sections on "Notes" and "Works Cited." The
journal uses no footnotes; endnotes should be used in moderation,
and only to provide additional explanation as needed-not to offer
bibliographic information. Such information about a cited text is
placed in the "Works Cited" section (note, not "Bibliography").
Samples of the format used in "Works Cited":
(1) Books: Gallop, Jane. Reading Lacan. Ithaca, NY: Cornell UP,
1985.
(2) Journal articles: Baily, Samuel. "Italians and the Development
of Organized Labor in Argentina, Brazil, and the United States,
1880-1914." Journal of Social History 3 (1969): 123-34.
(3) Articles in edited collections: Powell, B.G. "Voting Turnout
in Thirty Democracies: Partisan, Legal, and Socio-Economic Influences."
Electoral Participation: A Comparative Analysis. Ed. R. Rose. London:
Sage, 1990. 5-34.
Endnotes must not be used to provide page references. Rather, in-text
citations are annotated parenthetically, and annotations refer only
to the author's last name and a page number. Thus, the quotation
mark ending a citation will be immediately followed by the source
notation, for example (Gallop 23). When more than one work by the
same author is used, a short title is added, e.g., (Gallop, Reading
23). All other bibliographic information about such texts is relegated
to "Works Cited."
After a manuscript has been accepted for publication, authors must
send an up-to-date CV to the Editor.
The journal will publish suitable illustrations in black and white.
Photocopies of photographs, in black and white or color, are acceptable
for first review, but high-quality glossy prints must accompany
the final manuscript. On a separate sheet, a properly keyed legend
for each figure must be provided, as well as a digital file of same.
Illustrations will be cropped and sized by the publisher as needed.
Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint extracts
and reproduce illustrations. Copies of permission forms must be
supplied with the final manuscript. All necessary credits and acknowledgments
must be included with the figure legends.
All sections of the article should be in a single file, in the order
specified in "manuscript preparation." The preferred word-processing
software is Microsoft Word, but other mainstream word-processing
software may also be used.
The electronic file should be prepared accurately, consistently,
and simply, avoiding the use of special fonts or elaborate formatting
for aesthetics. Paragraphs should be formatted in the same way throughout.
Notes should be typed as embedded endnotes. The lowercase "ell"
(l), the numeral one (1), the capital "oh" (O), and the
numeral zero (0) should be used correctly, not interchangeably;
the lowercase "o" should not be used as a subscript zero.
Greek symbols, diacritical marks, italics, superscripts, and subscripts
should be typed in the electronic file using software features as
much as possible. When a special character cannot be typed in the
file, it should be represented by an available character that is
not otherwise used, and authors should provide a translation key
to those characters in the cover letter. The "footnotes"
function of the word-processing software should be used to create
the endnotes.
Authors should be aware that an electronic file is considered final
material. Substantive changes should not be made during the copy-editing
stage following acceptance; the copy-editing process will be facilitated
by submission of a carefully prepared manuscript using correct and
complete documentation.
Contributors' Copies: Authors of articles and review essays
in Diaspora will receive three free copies of the journal issue
in which their article appears.
