Author Guidelines
HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory invites unsolicited contributions of several forms: articles, reviews and discussion articles, translations, and book reviews. Contributions should fall within the broad scope of the journal, as outlined in the statement of scope and focus. Contributors should present their material in a form that is accessible to a general anthropological readership. We especially invite contributions that engage with debates previously published articles in the journal.
Submissions are double-blind reviewed in accordance with our policy. Submissions will be immediately acknowledged but due to the review process, acceptance may take up to three months. Submissions should be submitted via our website submission form. If problems arise, they can be submitted to the editors as email attachments.
Each article should be accompanied by a title page that includes: all authors’ names, institutional affiliations, address, telephone numbers and e-mail address. Papers should be no longer than 10,000 words (inclusive of abstract 100-150 words, endnotes, bibliography and notes on contributors), unless permission for a longer submission has been granted in advance by the Editors. Each article must include a 25-50 word “note on contributor(s)” together will full institutional address details, including email address.
We are unable to pay for permissions to publish pieces whose copyright is not held by the author. Authors should secure rights before submitting translations, illustrations or long quotes. The views expressed in papers are those of the authors and not necessarily those of the journal or its editors.
HAU uses The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th edition, as the arbiter of manuscript style issues. In instances where Chicago defers to a dictionary and for spelling, we use Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary, 11th edition.
References (including references to personal communications) are placed in the body of the text, not in the notes. For each quotation or statement specific enough to need a reference, place the citation in parentheses (author’s name, year of publication of work quoted or referred to, page[s] cited) thus: (Leach 1961) or (Johansen 1954: 148). We use colons and not commas (exception to CMS).
All notes should appear as footnotes. The footnotes are restricted to material that is directly relevant to the text. Notes are numbered consecutively throughout the text by superscript numerals. We do not use “full-fact citation,” so references in the footnotes should follow the author-date style.
For the author-date, use in-text citations and not footnotes. Footnotes should be used for content only, such as the following:
1. Smith (1998) makes the same point but with a very different conclusion, namely that brown
eggs are in fact healthier than white ones.
Bibliographical references follow the autho-date style (Chicago, chapter 15), and include full citation of every publication cited in the text. It must begin on a new page, and all entries must be double-spaced, listed alphabetically by the same author(s). When listing successive works by the same author, use six hyphens (i.e., ‐‐‐‐‐‐), or 3-em dash, in place of the author’s name after the first appearance.
Books:
Anderson, Benedict. 1991. Imagined communities: reflections on the origins and spread of nationalism. Revised edition. New York: Verso.
Bourdieu, Pierre. 1977. Outline of a theory of practice. Translated by Richard Nice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Turner, Victor. 1957. Schism and continuity in an African society: a study in Ndembu village Life. Manchester: University Press on behalf of the Rhodes-Livingstone Institute, Northern Rhodesia.
Astuti, Rita, Jonathan Parry and Charles Stafford, eds. 2007. Questions of Anthropology. Oxford: Berg.
Chapters in books:
Fortes, Meyer. 1938. “Culture contact as a dynamic process.” In Methods of study of culture contact in Africa, edited by Bronislaw Malinowski, 60–92. Memorandum 15. London: Oxford University Press for the International Institute of African Languages and Cultures.
Edwards, Jeanette and Marilyn Strathern. 2000. “Including your own.” In Cultures of relatedness: new approaches to the study of kinship, edited by J. Carsten, 149–66. Cambridge: University Press.
Journal articles:
Radcliffe-Brown, Alfred R. 1924. “The mother’s brother in South Africa.” The South African Journal of Science 21:542–55.
Clifford, James. 1994. “Diasporas.” Special issue, “Further inflections: toward ethnographies of the future,” Cultural Anthropology 9 (3): 302–338.
Online journal articles (provide DOI or URL):
Viveiros de Castro, Eduardo. 2004. “Le don et le donné: trois nano-essais sur la parenté et la magie.” Ethnographiques.org 6 (Novembre). http://www.ethnographiques.org/2004/Viveiros-de-Castro.
References (including references to personal communications) are placed in the body of the text, not in the notes. For each quotation or statement specific enough to need a reference, place the citation in parentheses (author’s name, year of publication of work quoted or referred to, page[s] cited) thus: (Leach 1961) or (Johansen 1954: 148).
All notes should appear as footnotes. The footnotes are restricted to material that is directly relevant to the text. Notes are numbered consecutively throughout the text by superscript numerals. We do not use “full-fact citation,” so references in the footnotes should follow the author-date style.
