Journal of Caribbean Amerindian History and Anthropology

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Notes for Contributors

This page addresses three topics with which prospective contributors should familiarize themselves. The first concerns issues of copyright and submissions policy. The second, style and submission format. The third concerns types of contributions according to our feature sections (though variants that could fit in more than category, or none, will also be considered). Please print or save this page to a local file so that you may refer to it as you prepare to submit an article. Submissions and Review Policy KACIKE welcomes the submission of papers of any length that seems reasonably justified, relating to Caribbean Amerindian societies, communities, groups, organizations, individuals, either past or present. We welcome submissions from any of the disciplines in the social sciences and humanities. Contributors should aim to present their material in a form that is accessible to a broad social science and humanities readership so that the publications may be of maximum educational utility and allow for dialogue across the boundaries of specializations and subdisciplines. Frequently, articles published in KACIKE also attract the interest of many members of the non-academic public. You may wish to communicate your findings in a manner that can be readily understood, allowing for more stimulating and productive exchanges with your wider readership. Submissions are considered for publication on the understanding that the author retains copyright and that the paper may be revised and republished by an author subsequent to publication in KACIKE. Publication in KACIKE may be considered, therefore, as a "preprint" or as a final print. Once an article is published in KACIKE, it will not be withdrawn from the Journal. Reprints of articles that were first published in KACIKE must provide appropriate credit to KACIKE and reference the original place of publication. All prospective authors should also familiarize themselves with the broad Editorial Policy of KACIKE. REVIEW PROCESS: All manuscripts are reviewed anonymously by available specialists in the field. Normally, the reviewers consist of one member of the editorial board of KACIKE, one external reviewer, and the current senior editor of KACIKE who functions simply as a reader and, if needed, as an arbiter in the review process. The managing editor will remove title pages from papers and not include the identity of the author anywhere in the manuscript. All authors whose papers are not accepted will be allowed to revise and resubmit. In cases where extreme differences of opinion obtain between reviewers and authors, the paper will be published along with comments by the reviewers (without anonymity) and responses by the authors. The Editors believe that serious disagreements in perspective should be aired and not concealed from an intelligent readership, nor do they agree that such disagreements should only be indulged as private quarrels. Authors who choose not to engage in the review process, or whose work is not intended primarily for an academic audience, should consider publishing in Issues in Caribbean Amerindian Studies at http://www.centrelink.org/Papers.html. PRODUCTION PROCESS, DATA ABOUT KACIKE: The length of time needed to prepare an article for online publication can vary considerably. The more complicated the item, with multiple tables, illustrations, photographs, numerous sections and sub-sub-sections, lists, a large number of endnotes and a complex bibliography, can take from three months to more than a year. KACIKE is run at the expense of voluntary management, and this includes the occasional hiring of assistants to aid in formatting items for publication. We ask authors to show patience and consideration for the constraints operating on a journal that is independently managed and financed by academics. All published items are listed and indexed in the Directory of Open Access Journals. KACIKE appears in the "electronic resources" section of most library websites of most universities in North America, the United Kingdom and Australia. On average for the period 2002-2006, KACIKE received over 500,000 page views per annum, with visitors from most countries of the planet. When tracking and statistics services were available, it was discovered that the first articles to be published had been downloaded to people's computers at a rate of 3,000 per annum, per article. This is considerably larger than the number of subscribers to most academic journals in the social sciences and humanities. However, given that KACIKE receives no revenue, articles are not indexed and abstracted in any of the major print databases that offer those services. Nevertheless, this does not seem to have impeded very large numbers of readers from finding articles published in KACIKE.   Format and Style Guidelines Please submit an electronic copy of your work, as an e-mail attachment.     To facilitate the efficient handling of papers, the following conventions should be observed: Manuscripts should be single-spaced. An abstract must accompany your article. Photographs should be inserted into the text if using a word processor. Please include captions, the name of the photographer and year the photograph was taken. Photographs should be suitably minimized for economy of transfer and one should be able to view three or more photographs on one standard page. Accompanying notes must be placed at the end of the text. At the end of the text, immediately following the main body of the article, please provide a fully detailed list of the notes, in numerical order with the numbers in superscript, under the heading of "Notes." Use 12 point font for the entire text, preferably "Times New Roman."  When quoting a source, use double quotation marks (“). When quoting a source within another source, use double quotation marks, followed by a space, followed by a single quotation mark (" 'In 1759 the mission was established.' "). Words of a language foreign to that used in the main body of the article are to be italicized. However, subsequent appearances of the word in the article do not need to be italicized. Tables, figures and other illustrations should be inserted into the text if using a word processor. Bibliographic References: You may use either of the two standard reference formats—the format used by the social sciences, wherein the author’s last name, year of publication and page number appear in parentheses within the text, i.e., (Sahlins 1991: 368), or the format used by historians, which provides the reference information in notes. The Bibliography, too, may follow either the social sciences or the history format, but must, in all instances, include all of the authors mentioned, in alphabetical order, as well as the date, title and, for books, the place of publication and the name of the publisher; for articles, name of the journal in full, volume number (1, 2, or 3, etc.), issue number and page range. Please refer to your departmental guidelines for formatting details  Guidelines for Writing Book Reviews and Review Essays: Please provide the names of the author(s) or editor(s), followed by the date of publication, then the title of the publication, the city of publication, and the publisher. After that, please provide the ISBN and the price(s) of the text, and then the total number of pages (add "with illustrations" if applicable). The review/ review essay must have a clearly set out introduction and conclusion. For book reviews, make sure to include discussion of: (a) the stated objectives of the book; (b) the questions addressed in the book; (c) how well the book achieves its aims and addresses its key questions; (d) the perspective/ approach of the author(s); (e) an overview of the contents (not a summary); and, (f) your own ideas on the gaps left unaddressed in the book and possible directions for future research or improvement. For review essays, follow the guidelines stated in #2 above, but place the text within a broader range of literature of relevance. Accompany your review essay with a list of references used. Review essays may be of two or more related works that have been published within a short time of each other, or focused entirely on one volume, but again discussed with specific reference to extant literature. In addition, provide detailed discussion of the contents, chapter by chapter. Please avoid polemics or ad hominem remarks. Instead, suggest ways of improving a text if you find it wanting, and explain why doing what you suggest would be an improvement. There are NO WORD limits for any reviews. Follow the format guidelines for References as set out in the previous section. Reviews and essays which do not follow these guidelines will be returned to the reviewers for revision and resubmission. ADDRESS FOR MANUSCRIPTS AND RELATED CORRESPONDENCE: Dr. Maximilian C. Forte, Editor E-mail: mcforte@kacike.org Or by post to: Dr. Maximilian C. Forte Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University 1455 de Maisonneuve Blvd., W., Montréal, Québec, Canada H3G 1M8 Fax: 514-858-4539   Featured Categories Articles in this journal refers to materials that are of the standard academic journal type, that is, they consist of a judicious balance of both theory and description, consider the wider related literature, and aim to make a novel contribution to knowledge. Reports are primarily empirical and descriptive in nature, and may include papers that consist of interviews. Book Reviews can be written of a single item listed under "Items Received" on the front page of this journal website. They can also be review essays placing a single item in a broader context, or reviewing multiple related works. Also, an author may choose to write a review essay or book review of any relevant item, whether or not it is actually held by KACIKE. However, it is the firm intention of KACIKE to allow the widest possible range of submissions and writing styles, as well as materials that exploit the multimedia capabilities of the WWW. The categories in this section are intended as guidelines, not as restrictions.

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An electronic peer reviewed journal published by the Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink.