Western Folklore
Manuscript Submission and Editorial Correspondence

Western Folklore is an interdisciplinary journal that is international in scope. The journal welcomes contributions dealing with folklore, folklife, the discipline or history of Folklore, folklore theory, or other topics related to expressive human behavior anywhere in the world. Submissions that address folklore as informed by any academic field, methodological approach, or theoretical perspective shall be considered. Authors are responsible for the content of their articles.

Submissions Format: Western Folklore follows the format of the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, chapter 16. A brief guide to citation style may be found at http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html.

Works Cited entries should contain author, year, title, volume, and page numbers for articles. Examples of these for a book, an article, a chapter or an essay in an edited book, and a dissertation are as follows:

Herskovits, Melville. 1937. Life in a Haitian Valley. New York: Alfred Knopf.

Simons, Elizabeth Radin. 1986. The NASA Joke Cycle: The Astronauts and the Teacher. Western Folklore     45:261-277.

Lloyd, Timothy C. 1995. Folklore, Foodways, and the Supernatural. In Out of the Ordinary: Folklore and the Supernatural, edited by Barbara Walker. Logan, Utah: Utah State University Press.

Hall, Jonathan. 1984. The Dynamics of Oral Tradition. Ph.D. diss., The Ohio State University.

Author-Date citations are used parenthetically, e.g. (Herskovits 1937:25), in both the text and in any notes. Substantive notes are welcome, but are to be in conformity with the main text with regard to bibliographical citation. Authors are asked to avoid gender-specific language in their contributions.

Photographs: The editors will be happy to consider photographic material accompanying your paper. Please limit your photo selection to four or five, and make sure that they are at 300 dpi density at 5 inches width. Please do not try to fix photographs to correspond to these requirements, for example by resizing in PhotoShop. Indicate clearly in the body of your paper where they are to go by inserting a separate paragraph in square brackets indicating which photo or photos should be included, such as: [Photo 1 should go about here].

Abstracts and keywords: Each submission should contain a 50-75 word abstract and a list of 5 keywords associated with the subject of the article.

The order of assembly is abstract, keywords, text, notes, and works cited.

Electronic format for manuscripts is required. Submissions should be in Word (.doc) or rich text (.rtf) format, double-spaced throughout, including all quotations, notes, and bibliographical references. Manuscripts may be mailed as an electronic copy on a PC-formatted CD-ROM. However, the preferred method of submission is by email attachment. CDs or other materials will be returned only if accompanied by return postage (loose stamps); submissions from outside North America should be accompanied by return postage in the form of international reply coupons. Address manuscripts and editorial correspondence by email to westernfolklore@commarts.wisc.edu, or by mail to:

Robert Glenn Howard
Editor, Western Folklore
University of Wisconsin—Madison
Department of Communication Arts
821 University Avenue
Madison, Wisconsin 53706-1497

Book and Film/Video Reviews: Address all correspondence regarding books, films, and videos for review to lisa.gabbert@usu.edu, or by mail to:

Lisa Gabbert
Book Review Editor, Western Folklore
284 E. Kensington Ave.
Salt Lake City, UT 84115