Ethnologia Europaea

Manuscript Submission

Please carefully review the contributor submission and style guide PDF before submitting.

Please submit articles, reviews, and other contributions as Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format (rtf) files through the online submissions system at https://ojs.berghahnjournals.com/index.php/ee/submission.

Authors must register with the journal on the submission website prior to submitting, or, if already registered, they can simply log in. On registering as an Author, prospective contributors have the option of also registering as a Reviewer (to be called upon to undertake peer reviews of other submissions).

Research article submissions should be a maximum of 8,000 words in length, including abstract/keywords, footnotes and the reference section. They should include a title, subtitle, and section headings within the text.

Ethnographic Snapshot submissions should be a maximum of 3,000 words in length.

Book reviews should be no longer than 1,000 words. Authors interested in reviewing books should contact the reviews editor at ee@berghahnjournals.com.

To be published, all manuscripts need to be firmly anchored in the theoretical concepts and methodologies of ethnology, cultural anthropology, and/or folklore studies. This includes, for instance, ethnography, narrative, textual and media analysis, historical anthropology and ethnology, but precludes manuscripts that draw their data solely from surveys, questionnaires, and quantitative data.

Please note that manuscripts judged to be suitable for articles in Ethnologia Europaea will undergo at least 2 double-blind peer reviews. After that, reviews will be discussed by the journal editors and sent to you. After authors resubmit their revised versions to the journal platform, the journal editors will give their own round of comments and suggested changes, and authors will be asked to make a second round of revisions (to then be resubmitted to the journal platform).

Manuscripts judged to be suitable as Ethnographic Snapshots will undergo a single double-blind review.

Have other questions? Please refer to the various Berghahn Info for Authors pages for general information and guidelines including topics such as article usage and permissions for Berghahn journal article authors.

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License Agreement

As part of the Berghahn Open Anthro initiative, articles in Ethnologia Europaea are published open access under a Creative Commons license.

Authors must visit our License Options page to select and download their preferred license agreement. Completed and signed forms should be sent to: copyright@berghahnjournals.com.
 

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Guidelines for Special Issues

Proposal: Please email your proposal for a special issue to the journal editors, Alexandra Schwell and Patrick Laviolette, at ee@berghahnjournals.com for evaluation. Your proposal should include:

• A tentative title for the special issue
• An outline of not more than one page summarising the focus
• Titles and abstracts of up to five articles and brief bios of those scholars who have committed to participating in the special issue
• If the special issue is not yet compiled, include a draft CFP inviting submissions.
• Brief bios of the proposed guest editor(s), including institutional affiliation, representative publications, and editorial experience

After acceptance: If your special issue proposal is accepted, please note that it is the special issue editors’ responsibility to find and select authors and to communicate with them regarding deadlines, timelines, revisions, and return of proofs. Before submitting the special issue to EE and starting the peer review process, special issue editors must take at least one round of detailed editing of all contributions to make sure that they contribute to, complement, deepen, add to, or in other ways develop the special issue theme in important ways. Only those papers that seem most likely to meet the editorial criteria of the journal should be submitted.

Special issue editors are responsible for their special issue's quality and timely editing. Authors must be aware that the EE criteria of quality, originality, and significance, as stated in the submission and style guide, apply to articles in special issues as well. Special issue editors are expected to check and ensure that the format of the articles adheres to EE guidelines and that all in-text references and reference lists at the ends of articles are complete. Please take the length of articles into consideration; the maximum limit for EE contributions is 8,000 words. The Ethnologia Europaea journal editors will make the final decision of acceptance of the articles. It is essential to inform all contributors that the peer review process might result in evaluations that eventually lead to a rejection of their contribution. Being part of a special issue submission does not guarantee publication.

Preparation of manuscripts before double-blind peer review: All authors in the special issue must follow the submission and style guide in preparing their article manuscripts. Please ensure that authors have anonymised their manuscripts before submission. Manuscripts that have not been anonymised will not be accepted for peer review.

Submission: All submissions need to be made through the submission portal of our journal platform. Please see the instructions for submission in the submission and style guide.

Peer review process: All submissions will be double-blind peer-reviewed by active researchers. Special issue editors need to provide a list of at least three potential reviewers for each article. Journal editors reserve the right to reject manuscripts that do not meet EE’s criteria without sending them for formal review. The journal editors will send the manuscripts to peer-reviewers through the journal platform. The revision process will occur through the journal’s publication platform and by email. After receiving the reviews, the journal editors will add their editorial comments and send them to the authors, cc’ing the special issue editors.

The special issue editors must handle the revision process in close cooperation with the authors (advising, reading the results, and advising again, etc.). They should also remind the authors to cc them in any communication with the journal editors. When submitting their revision, authors have to provide a cover letter to the journal editors in which they address how they have revised their articles point by point according to the reviewers’ comments.

Preparation of the manuscript for copy-editing and proofreading: Special issue editors need to check the formatting and references of all articles in their special issue. They will ensure that all references cited in the text are listed in the references and vice versa. They will also ensure their reference sources are complete and follow Ethnologia Europaea guidelines. Based on this revision and checking process, journal editors make the final decision on whether or not to accept the final manuscripts for publication.

Proofreading and language check: Please note that all authors are expected to have their accepted, final text proofread by a native speaker at their own expense – this should be after the text has gone through the peer review process and has been accepted for publication. This proofreading should be completed, and the article should be resubmitted by the issue deadline set by the journal editors.

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Ethics Statement
Authors published in Ethnologia Europaea (EE) certify that their works are original and their own. The editors certify that all materials, with the possible exception of editorial introductions, book reviews, and some types of commentary, have been subjected to double-blind peer review by qualified scholars in the field. While the publishers and the editorial board make every effort to see that no inaccurate or misleading data, opinions or statements appear in this journal, they wish to make clear that the data and opinions appearing in the articles herein are the sole responsibility of the contributor concerned. For a more detailed explanation concerning these qualifications and responsibilities, please see the complete EE Ethics Statement.

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