Welcoming the interdisciplinary study of otherness and alterity, Otherness: Essays and Studies is an open-access, full-text, and peer-reviewed e-journal under the auspices of the Centre for Studies in Otherness. The journal publishes new scholarship primarily within the humanities and social sciences. We particularly appreciate dynamic cross-disciplinary research articles.

Manuscripts are solicited for publication in our Call for Papers. For information on forthcoming Call for Papers, please consult http://www.otherness.dk/journal/call-for-papers.

All submissions should be sent electronically via email with Word document attachment and addressed to the issue Editor at otherness.research@gmail.com. Please include:

• name, professional affiliation, phone number, and email address in the cover e-mail.
• an abstract of 200-300 words.
• a maximum of 5 keywords.

 

Authors should adhere to the following guidelines:

LENGTH

The article should be 5,000 – 8,000 words (approx. 12 - 20 pages) in length (including footnotes, excluding abstract and bibliography).

STYLE

Manuscripts must conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, author-date system. 

Please ensure that the texts are absolutely free from linguistic and typographical errors. It is strongly recommended to have the text checked and proofread by a native speaker or a professional style editor.

LANGUAGE

Otherness: Essays and Studies publishes in English (other than special issues). 

We primarily publish using British and US varieties of English. However, we recognize that spelling can vary according to national usage, but for our purposes it should be internally consistent and adhere to its conventions.. 

FOOTNOTES

We use footnotes rather than endnotes. 

Use footnotes only where necessary. Do not use footnotes for citation.

Try to keep the footnote on the same page as the reference number.

Generally try to keep the number of notes down as much as possible. Do not use them for mere bibliographic references (for these, see ‘references’ above).

 

Should you need further information regarding the journal’s submission guidelines, please contact us at otherness.research@gmail.com. 

Otherness: Essays and Studies is an open-access, non-profit journal. All work associated with the journal by its editors, editorial assistants, editorial board, and referees is voluntary and without salary. The journal does not require any author fees nor payment for its publications.