Memory Studies
Aims and Scopes
Memory Studies is an international peer reviewed journal. It affords recognition, form, and direction to work in this nascent field, and provides a critical forum for dialogue and debate on the theoretical, empirical and methodological issues central to a collaborative understanding of memory today.
Memory Studies examines the social, cultural, cognitve, political and technological shifts affecting how, what and why individuals, groups and societies remember, and forget. The journal responds to and seeks to shape public and academic discourses on the nature, manipulation, and contestation of memory in the contemporary era.
Despite the epistemological and causal significance attributed to memory in the study of such questions as the formation of personal and public identity, culture and politics, and social communities, there remains dramatic divergence on the basic concepts and methods of the area.
The field mobilises scholarship driven by problem or topic, rather than by singular method or tradition. We seek papers that highlight and deliberately negotiate divergence in backgrounds and assumptions, as opposed to those that avoid these issues.
Crucially, we welcome submissions which speak to a range of participants across memory studies.
Manuscript Submission Guidelines
Manuscripts should be submitted in electronic form (word for windows) to the Editors: memorystudies@warwick.ac.uk. Full guidelines for authors will be sent upon request.
Book Reviews:Publishers, please send three copies of books for review to the Book Review Editor, Memory Studies, C/O Macquarie Centre for Cognitive Science,Macquarie University, Building C5C, Level 4, Sydeney, NSW 2109, Australia.
Papers should be written in English and should not have been published already, nor be currently under consideration elsewhere. All articles are refereed anonymously by at least two referees, so please attach a separate page with your name, affiliation, email and postal address.
Articles should be between 7000 and 8000 words including notes and references and must be accompanied with a 150 word abstract and up to six key words along with a short author biog. Book reviews should be between 800 and 1500 words.
Articles must be typed in double spacing throughout on one side of A4 or American Qurto paper with generous margins on all sides. All pages should be numbered. Titles and section headings should be clear with a maximum of three orders of heading. The maximum length should be 8,000 words, including notes and references.
The typescript should be carefully checked for errors before it is submitted for publication. Authors are responsible for the accuracy of quotations, for supplying complete and correct references, and for obtaining permission where needed to cite another author's material.
Quotations: Lenthy quotations (of more than 40 words) should be displayed, indented; shorter quotes should be retained within the body of the text, within single quotation marks.
Tables: These should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position within the text clearly indicated. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables.
Illustrations: All line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet and in b/w only. Pleae provide either EPS files (all fonts embedded) or TIFF files, 800dpi. Photographs should preferably be submitted as TIFF files, 300 dpi. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
Notes: These should be indicated by superscript numbers in the text, and presented at the end of the text before the references. Notes and references should be in double-spacing. Any acknowledgements and disclaimers should be listed at the end of the article as an unnumbered note.
References:
The journal uses the Harvard referencing system with author's name and date in the text, and a full reference in alphabetical order at the end of the article.
For example:
Book
Wertsch, J.V. (2002) Voices of Collective Remembering. New York: Cambridge University Press.
Article in Book
Wertsch, J.V. (2005) 'Forces behind the Rose Revolution', in Z. Karumidze and J.V. Wertsch (eds) Enough! The Rose Revolution in the Republic of Georgia in 2003, 131-40. New York: Nova Science Publishers.
Journal Article
Havel, B.F. (2005) 'In Search of a Theory of Public Memory: The State, the Individual, and Marcel Proust', Indiana Law Journal 80(1): 605-726.
Paper
Surname, X. (year) 'Title of Paper', paper presented at Name of Conference,City, Month of presentation.
Website
Surname, X. (year) 'Title of Arricle', Name of journal vol,no. (issue no,) URL (consulted Month, Year): http;/xxxx.xxxx.xx/xxxx/xxxx
An English translation should be provided in parentheses for non-English book/chapter and article titles (journal titles do not need to be translated).
Short references should have a comma between the author and date and a colon between the date and the page number/range, e.g. Havel, 2005: 10-12.
Spelling: UK or US spellings may be used with 'ize' spellings as given in the Oxford English Dictionary (e.g. organize recognize).
Other style points: Single quotation marks should be used, with double inside single, where necessary; dates should be in the form 24 November 1997; delete points from abreviations, hence UK, USA etc.; when referring to pagination and dates use the smallest number of numerals possible (e.g. 10-1, 42-5, 116-35, 1961-4). All acronyms should be defined at first use. Preferred style is 'article' rather than 'paper' or 'essay'.
Peer Review Process:
Memory Studies operates a conventional single-blind reviewing policy in which the reviewer's name is always concealed from the submitting author(s). Each submitted manuscript is reviewed by a minimum of two referees of appropriate standing in the field.
Authors will receive electronic offprints of their article and a complimentary journal copy. A maximum of 5 journals will be supplied for multi-authored articles.
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