Journal of Africana Religions
- Edward E. Curtis, IV
- Sylvester A. Johnson
- Quarterly Publication
- ISSN 2165-5405
- E-ISSN 2165-5413
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If you would like to submit an article to JOAR please visit http://www.editorialmanager.com/joar/ and create an author profile. The online system will guide you through the steps to upload your article for submission to the editorial office.
The journal encourages authors to submit unsolicited articles and comprehensive review essays. All academic articles should be approximately 8,000-10,000 words long. Comprehensive review essays should be about 5,000 words in length. An abstract of approximately 150 words must accompany each manuscript. All articles and comprehensive review essays will be peer-reviewed.
Authors interested in contributing short review essays (of two to five recent works) and ideas for round-table discussions should contact the editors before submitting a manuscript. Short review essays and round-table comments, which are not peer reviewed, should be approximately 1,500 to 3,000 words in length. Abstracts should be no more than 50 words long.
All submission should follow the following guidelines
- Manuscripts must be submitted as a Microsoft Word document (Times New Roman font, size 12, flush left, double spaced)
- Citations should be in endnotes
All manuscripts must follow the current edition of the Chicago Manual of Style and should use endnotes. Materials submitted to the Journal of Africana Religions (JOAR) must not have been previously published nor submitted for publication elsewhere while under review by JOAR editors.
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