Journal Details
Folklore
Instructions for Authors
***Note to Authors: please make sure your contact address information is clearly visible on the outside of all packages you are sending to Editors.***
We invite you to submit original unpublished articles, not being considered for publication elsewhere. Extracts from, or translations of, published articles or book chapters are accepted only in special circumstances.
We accept submissions in three categories:
- Research Articles
- Topics, Notes and Comments
- Reviews of Folklore Scholarship
Original research papers (maximum 10,000 words including endnotes, bibliography, and an abstract of up to 50 words).
Informal items of topical interest (maximum 5000 words including endnotes and bibliography).
Review essays (maximum 5000 words), bibliographies, and book reviews (but see below).
The Folklore Society, The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, UK
Final publication will be in the Folkore house style. To limit reworking, here follow important guidelines on electronic formatting, style, and bibliographic style. Detailed guides are available from the Editor. As an interim measure, check a copy of Folklore. Your paper does not have to conform on first submission.
Book Reviews
Book reviews, not exceeding 1000 words, are normally by invitation. The Book Reviews Editor may be contacted at bookreviews@folklore-society.com or by post to The Folklore Society, The Warburg Institute, Woburn Square, London WC1H 0AB, UK.
Electronic formatting
During make-up of the journal your text is flowed on to the page, so do not justify margins, use "soft" hyphens at the end of lines or any other device that interrupts the flow. Use the normal word wrap function.
Do not bookmark your files.
Use endnotes, not footnotes.
Do not embed any markers in the text.
Indent paragraphs uniformly using the tab key (0.38").
Indent displayed material left and right.
Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk
Style
Provide headings and sub-headings to denote the main stages of your argument.
Keep endnotes short and few, and key them in the text with an on-line (not superscript) numeral in square brackets, following closing punctuation.
Provide a bibliography (under the heading References Cited) at the end of your paper.
Give in-text citations in the order: author surname, date, page number(s) (do not use p. or pp.). Place citations at the end of the sentence, in date order, enclosed in round brackets, inside the closing punctuation, e.g. (Howkins 1986, 69).
Use British English spelling (consult the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors).
Use US punctuation (consult the Chicago Manual of Style).
Do not use sexist or racist language, and avoid political or religious polemic.
Bibliographical Style
This is based on the 14th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. Here are some examples:
Newspaper and magazines: "L'autre Martin." Télérama (14 June 1989): 68-72.
Books: Aubrey, John. Miscellanies. London: Edward Castle, 1691.
Essays in edited anthologies: Arora, Shirley. "Memorate as Metaphor: Some Mexican American Treasure Narratives and their Narrators." In Perspectives on Contemporary Legend ll, ed. Gillian Bennett, Paul Smith and J.D.A.Widdowson. 79-92. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1987.
Translated works: include the name of the translator.
Multi-volume work: state the number of volumes in the complete work. If you have referred to one particular volume, give its title as well as that of the whole work; also give the volume number and date (if all volumes not published in the same year).
