Submissions
The Arab Studies Journal is a peer-reviewed, independent, multi-disciplinary forum in the field of Arab and Middle Eastern studies. It maintains no editorial position on issues. Papers will be evaluated on their scholarly probity and not on their theses.
Previously unpublished papers submitted to the Journal usually range between 25-35 double-spaced pages, including endnotes. The Journal conforms to the Chicago Manual of Style. In addition, see the ASJ Submissions Style Requirements below.
All submissions must include the author's name, institutional affiliation, address, telephone, and email address. Articles should be emailed to Articles@ArabStudiesJournal.org and reviews should be emailed to Reviews@ArabStudiesJournal.org
Hard copies of manuscripts may be mailed to:
Arab Studies Journal
CCAS, ICC 241,
Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20057
The Arab Studies Journal is also accepting submissions on line:
For Book Review Submissions, Contact our Reviews Managing Editor.
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ASJ Submission Style Requirements
Text:
Use a 2-space paragraph indent. Avoid hyphenation at the end of lines. Do not use desktop publishing features such as right margin justification, or bold or italic typefaces. Block indent long quotations (more than 50 words). Never cross-reference. No words in an article are to be underlined. Should the author wish to indicate stress, he or she may use italics. Long quotations should be in block form and not right-justified. The Journal uses serial commas: "Professors Judith Tucker, Michael Hudson, and Halim Barakat attended the conference."
Footnotes and References:
Footnotes must be numbered consecutively throughout the text. Any acknowledgement of grant support, substantial assistance, etc., should be typed as a footnote to the title. All footnotes must conform to the Chicago Manual of Style.
Foreign Words and General Transliteration:
For Arabic and Persian, the Arab Studies Journal follows a modified form of the International Journal of Middle East Studies system. All non-Roman alphabets (Arabic, Hebrew, Persian, Cyrillic, etc.) must be transliterated, and authors are responsible for consistency and accuracy in their transliterations. All Arabic words found in an unabridged dictionary, (for example, ulema, shaykh, qadi, Sunni, and hadith) should be treated as English words--not underlined nor italicized. Contemporary names and places should be spelled as they are found in such standard publications as The New York Times and the Economist. All other transliterated words and phrases should be italicized.
Diacritical marks are not used except ` for `ayn and ' for hamza. Qaf is represented by "q," jim by "j," and not "dj." The "l" of "al-" is not assimilated to the following consonant; ta marbuta is rendered a, not ah and the adjectival -ya followed by a ta marbuta is rendered -iyya. The ASJ, however, is in the process of regularizing the use of diacritical marks. Please contact our Managing Editor for more information.
Dating:
The Arab Studies Journal does not use double dating. Use common era (CE) dates only unless quoting from an original source, in which case use the date as quoted (hijra, solar) with the common era equivalent in parentheses.
Tables, Figures, and Artwork:
Tables and figures must be cited in the text (e.g., Table 1, or Figure 1). They should be numbered consecutively in arabic (not roman) numbers, and appear at the end of the text. The Arab Studies Journal cannot intersperse diagrams throughout the text. Details should be legible at a 50% reduction. All artwork must be labeled with author's name and article title.
Citations:
The Arab Studies Journal follows the Chicago Manual of Style for notes and references. The style of citations must conform with the following examples:
1. Judith Tucker, In the House of the Law: Gender and Islamic Law in Ottoman Syria and Palestine (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998), p. 165.
2. Dimitri Gondicas and Charles Issawi, eds., Ottoman Greeks in the Age of Nationalism: Politics, Economy, and Society in the Nineteenth Century (Princeton, NJ: Darwin Press, 1998), pp. 148-201.
3. Jurgen Kovacs and Paul U. Unschuld, trans., Essential Subtleties on the Silver Sea (Berkeley: University of California, 1998), p. 203.
4. Irfan Shahid, foreword to Early Medieval Arabic: Studies on al-Khalil ibn Ahmad, Karin C. Ryding, ed. (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1998).
5. Frederick Mathewson Denny, An Introduction to Islam, 2nd ed. (New York: Macmillan Publishing Company, 1994), p. 23.
6. John L. Esposito, Shahrough Akhavi, and Yvonne Yazbeck Haddad, eds., The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern Islamic World, 4 vols. (New York: Oxford University Press, 1995).
7. Antonio Fernandez-Puertas, The Alhambra from the Ninth Century to Yusuf 1 (1354), vol. 1 (London: Saqi Books, 1997), pp. 136-198.
8. Chris Toensing, "The Shaykh and the Saviors: Conceptions of Gender in Two Approaches to Girls' Education in the Northern Sudan, 1907-1921," Arab Studies Journal 4 (1996), pp. 55-70.
Parenthetical citations are not permitted.
