Notes for Contributors
Submission of Material
Authors are encouraged to submit items for the IJA. Articles, which may be in English or Irish, should be original and should not be under consideration elsewhere. IJA is a peer-reviewed journal and articles submitted will be assessed for their suitability.
Articles for consideration should be sent to the Editor or Associate Editor as follows:
Fiona Larkan, Editor, Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin, 7-9 Leinster Street South, Dublin 2 larkanf@tcd.ie
Fiona Magowan, Associate Editor, School of History and Anthropology, The Queen’s University Belfast, Belfast BT7 1NN, N. Ireland. f.magowan@qub.ac.uk
Books for review and completed reviews should be sent to the Reviews Editors:
Fiona Murphy, Department of Anthropology, Rowan House, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland
Ioannis Tsioulakis, School of History and Anthropology, Queen’s University Belfast, 14 University Square, Belfast, BT7 1NN, Northern Ireland
Other material (conference and research reports, news, advertisements, letters etc.) should be sent to:
News Editor, c/o Department of Anthropology, Rowan House, NUI Maynooth, Co. Kildare, Ireland.
Presentation
Articles should be in the region of 4000 words and should include a title, a short abstract of no more than 100 words, and a list of key words. Included also should be the author’s name, contact details for publication, academic affiliation, and a short biographical note. Contributions should be submitted in electronic form, in PC format readable in Word. Receipt of a submission will be acknowledged.
The following points should be observed:
Notes should be endnotes and should be kept to a minimum.
Bibliographical references in the body of the text should be given in parentheses in standard author-date form: (Lee and Devore 1968: 236). A complete list of references cited, arranged alphabetically by author’s surname, should be typed at the end of the article and adhere to the following style:
Kelleher, W.F., 2003. The Troubles in Ballybogoin: Memory and Identity in Northern Ireland. Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press.
Benavides, O.H., 2004. ‘Anthropology’s Native “Conundrum”: Uneven Histories and Developments’, Critique of Anthropology, 24(2), 159–78.
Curtis Jr., L.P., 1987, ‘Stopping the Hunt, 1881–1882: An Aspect of the Irish Land War’, in C.H.E. Philpin (ed.), Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 349–402.
Subheadings should be typed flush left.
Quotations. Single inverted commas should be used except for quotations within quotations, which should have double inverted commas. Quotations of more than about 60 words should be indented and typed without inverted commas.
Spellings. British English (not American English) spelling should be used in English articles except in quoted material, which should follow the original. Use -ize not -ise word endings.