We invite your submissions of scholarly work on traditional and popular culture.

Guidelines for authors

Submission Process

Manuscripts should be submitted following the style guide below for English authors. The authors are required to provide a copy of the text, accompanied by a 100 words abstract, a brief biographical sketch (including ORCID iD if applicable) and keywords, in electronic form (MS Word) to the Editor-in-chief laurier.turgeon@hst.ulaval.ca, the Assistant editor catherine.briand.1@ulaval.ca, and, when applicable, the guest-editor(s). Please also attach the Declaration on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in MS WORD and read the Journal's Policy on AI: https://www.acef-fsac.ulaval.ca/en/ethnologies/ai-policy 

Articles. Research articles should not exceed 7,500 words in length (including all figures, tables, references, and notes).

Research Notes. The journal also publishes field notes or research reports. These are shorter than major articles and are restricted to personal reflections or straightforward presentations of research results.

Book Reviews. Manuscripts of book reviews should be sent to the reviews editor, and follow the same guidelines as articles.

Style guide

Place citations in parentheses and include the author’s name and the source’s year of publication, with no intervening punctuation, at the end of a sentence or before a comma or semicolon, whenever possible: (Turgeon 2005).

Always include page numbers for quotations or extensive paraphrases, using a hyphen for page ranges: (Turgeon 2005: 205-206).

Use semicolons to separate two or more references in a single parenthetical citation and list them alphabetically: (Greenhill 2015; MacKinnon 2014; Pichette 2010; Turgeon 2005).

Use the first author’s last name and et al. for works with four or more authors.

Do not use ibid., passim, op. cit.

Reference list

Books

Turgeon, Laurier. 2003. Patrimoines métissés. Contextes coloniaux et postcoloniaux. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval.

Bender, Courtney and Pamela E. Klassen. 2010. After Pluralism: Reimagining Religious Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press.

Book Chapters

Dube, Saurabh. 2010. “Ties that Bind: Tribe, Village, Nation, and S. C. Dube.” In Patricia Uberoi, Nandini Sundar and Satish Deshpande (eds.), Anthropology in the East: Founders of Indian Sociology and Anthropology: 444-495. New Delhi: Permanent Black.

Comaroff, Jean. 1996. “The Empire’s Old Clothes: Fashioning the Colonial Subject.” In David Howes (ed.), Cross-Cultural Consumption: Global Markets, Local Realities: 19-38. London: Routledge.

Edited Volumes

Auzas, Vincent and Van Troi Tran (eds.). 2010. Patrimoines sensibles: Mots, espaces, pratiques. Québec: Presses de l’Université Laval.

Stoler, Ann (ed.). 2013. Imperial Debris: On Ruins and Ruination. Durham: Duke University Press.

Journal Articles

Bessire, Lucas and David Bond. 2014. “Ontological Anthropology and the Deferral of Critique.” American Ethnologist 41(3): 440-456.

Pocius, Gerald L. 2014. “The Government of Canada and Intangible Cultural Heritage. An Excursion into Federal Domestic Policies and the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage Convention.” Ethnologies 36(1-2): 63-92.

Online Resources

Stoller, Paul. 2016. “Revisiting the Anthropology of Trump: Ethnography and the Power of Culture.” The Huffington Post, November 10. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-stoller/revisiting-the-anthropolo_b_1...

Illustrations

Please submit each figure as a separate file, in high resolution (300 dpi). Provide tables and graphs in their original format. Captions should be supplied within the manuscript file (title, location, date, source, with any relevant copyright information).

Inclusive Writing

The Journal lets the authors choose to use or not inclusive writing. We discourage the use of neologisms.

Proposals for guest-edited volumes 

Ethnologies welcomes submissions for guest-edited volumes around any theme or topic related to traditional or popular culture. The manuscripts will undergo the same review process as any other manuscript.

Diversity and Inclusion

Following FSAC/ACEF's commitment to diversity and inclusion, and in line with the Diversity and Inclusion Fellowship created by the FSAC/ACEF, we encourage submissions from authors belonging to one of the following EDI groups (as defined by Memorial University's EDI Policy): women, racialized persons, Indigenous persons, persons with disabilities, persons belonging to a minority group in terms of sexual orientation, gender identity or gender expression.

Author Responsibilities

Any author submitting a manuscript for publication in the journal Ethnologies, agrees to the following, in the event of publication of the manuscript (hereinafter referred to as the "work"):

The authors cede to the journal Ethnologies, within the exclusive framework of its publication, all right, title or interest relating to the work. This transfer includes all the rights covered by the Copyright Act and the right to perform acts provided for in this Act on the work, without limitation those, with regard to the work, to distribute it on the Internet, to publish it, to reproduce it on any medium.

The authors waive the exercise of their moral rights with regard to the work, insofar as the persons responsible for the protection of Ethnologies undertake to protect their reputation and their honor.

Authors are responsible for: the content of their articles, the accuracy of their citations and attribution, obtaining legal permissions for publication of submitted material (including documentary supplements such as tables or images), and submission of their manuscripts in a suitable format for publication.

The authors also guarantee that the work does not contain any illegal, illicit or defamatory information that could discredit an organization, person, event, practice, locality, building, place or any other subject dealt with therein.

Manuscripts submitted to Ethnologies must not have been simultaneously submitted for publication to any other journal, or have already been published elsewhere in any form.

The authors agree to seek the authorization of Ethnologies in the event of a full or partial reuse of the work in another publication (excluding thesis and unpublished university work). Following the obtaining of said authorization, we undertake to mention in the references or footnotes of the existence of the work.

The authors agree to abide by the journal's Policy on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and to complete the Declaration on the Use of AI: /sites/acef-fsac.ulaval.ca/files//declaration_on_the_use_of_artificial_intelligence.docx

Evaluation

The journal follows a rigorous evaluation process to ensure the excellence of the published articles. Manuscripts first undergo a preliminary internal review by the editor-in-chief, assisted by the editorial board, to make sure that they meet the journal's criteria and guidelines. For special issues, guest editors may also participate in the evaluation process. Selected and anonymized manuscripts follow a double-blind peer review process conducted by two anonymous external reviewers, or three or more reviewers in case of divergent opinions. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles.

The external reviewers are selected according to three criteria: their expertise, confirmed by recent scientific publications on the topic; their experience in reviewing academic manuscripts; and the absence of conflicts of interest (according to the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics, COPE: https://publicationethics.org/guidance/guideline/ethical-guidelines-peer...). Reviewers are required to treat manuscripts as strictly confidential.

Articles are carefully selected according to specific criteria, which fall into two categories. First, the substantive criteria: a clearly stated research question based on a critical evaluation of the main works and recent articles on the topic; the rigorous presentation of the methodology; and the precision of the analysis and interpretation of the fieldwork data. We require original, substantive articles resulting from in-depth reflection and rigorous research. As for the formal criteria: the text must be between 5,000 and 7,500 words, written in a clear and concise style, and include relevant references.

To ensure the quality and originality of manuscripts, the journal has created a policy on artificial intelligence (AI) (). Authors must indicate the role of AI in their article in a declaration submitted to the reviewers: /sites/acef-fsac.ulaval.ca/files//declaration_on_the_use_of_artificial_intelligence.docx. We ask reviewers not to use AI during their evaluation. Reviewers who suspect inappropriate or undisclosed use of generative AI in a manuscript should report their concerns to the journal's editor-in-chief. Manuscripts may be rejected if AI-assisted technologies are used inappropriately or without disclosure.

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