CALL FOR PAPERS
The University of Victoria’s peer-reviewed graduate student music journal, Musicological Explorations (http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/me), is seeking essays from diverse areas of scholarship related to the study of music for possible inclusion in the journal’s thirteenth volume to be published in autumn 2012.
Musicological Explorations’ mandate is to provide a forum for scholarly work in musicology and related arts. The Editorial Board encourages graduate students and other scholars to submit previously unpublished articles on topics of musicology, music theory, performance practice, ethnomusicology, music education, and interdisciplinary studies. Announcements of conferences, symposia, and other musicological activities in North America are also welcome.
Guidelines for Submissions:
Articles should be should be in English, between 2000 and 6000 words in length, excluding citations and notes, and are to be directed as e-mail attachments to the editor, Iain Gillis, at Cette adresse email est protégée contre les robots des spammeurs, vous devez activer Javascript pour la voir. by Friday, December 9, 2011, at 11:59p.m. as attachments in .doc/.docx or .pdf format. Receipt of submissions will be acknowledged within 72 hours; and selections for publication will be made in February 2012.
A cover letter should accompany the submission. Submissions are reviewed anonymously by the editorial committee; therefore, the author’s name should appear only in the cover letter, which should also include the author’s e-mail address.
Musical examples or other illustrations may appear in the body of the paper or may follow as appendices. They must be labeled clearly. The Editorial Board reserves the right to place these examples as publication layout requires, and to make other editorial suggestions.
Contributors are to refer to the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., or to Kate L. Turabian’s A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses, and Dissertations, 6th ed., for general matters of style and citation. Titles and foreign names should be italicized. Papers should include both footnotes and a bibliography.
If accepted for publication, authors should also be prepared to submit a short biography (max. 80 words) and an abstract (max. 250 words) for inclusion in the journal. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint all copyrighted material.
