University of Calgary

How to Submit Articles and Reviews

The following are guidelines for submitting your work to ARIEL. Please click here to submit online. Be sure to register as an author, and select 'click here to start a new submission'.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR AUTHORS

  • Articles should be approximately 6,000 words and should follow the current edition of the MLA  Handbook for Writers of Research Papers or The MLA Style Manual. See any recent issue of ARIEL
  • All articles are subject to anonymous refereeing (authorship unattributed and readers unidentified); consequently, names of contributors should appear only on the title page of the manuscripts and not as a running head on each page. Articles are read by at least two readers.
  • Articles may be submitted by attachment (Word or rich text  format [rtf]). Alternatively, two copies of each may be submitted in print form. If you submit an article in e-file, ARIEL assumes that you consent to its circulation to readers as an e-file.
  • The editors require assurance that authors are not offering their articles concurrently elsewhere.
  • Manuscripts are returned only when accompanied with self-addressed envelopes and Canadian stamps or International Reply Coupons.
  • Translations should be provided for citations in languages other than French.
  • The editors reserve the right to amend phrasing and punctuation in articles and reviews accepted for publication.
  • While every care is taken in the handling of manuscripts, the editors will assume no responsibility in the rare event of their loss.
  • Please provide us with your telephone and fax numbers and your e-mail address.

INSTRUCTIONS FOR REVIEWERS

ARIEL appreciates your taking on this assignment and offers the following information on the mechanics and format of our reviews:

  • The standard length of an ARIEL review is 750-1000 words (3-5 pages). Reviews should not exceed 1200 words.
  • Provide citations (using the new MLA form of documentation) for all quotations from the text under review (and other texts, which should be included in a "Works Cited"). Please check the accuracy of all quotations.
  • Adhere to the following order and format for the preliminary bibliographical data:  author (first name first), title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, pagination (prefaced by Pp. and including preliminary pages), price (in local currency) of hardback and/or paperbound editions. Examples are given below.
  • Double space the entire review, including "Notes" and "Works Cited."
  • Please submit the review by attachment in either Word or rich text format.
  • All reviews are subject to standard copyediting practices. No substantial changes will be made without consulting the reviewer.
  • Put your name (in upper case type) at the end of the review and attach a biographical note of not more than sixty words for inclusion in "Notes on Contributors."
  • Please recognize your obligation to meet the due date of your review and notify us immediately if you cannot fulfill your commitment.
  • Please provide us with your telephone and fax numbers and your e-mail address.

 

Sample Format

Preliminary documentation of the text under review:
Peter de Bolla. The Discourse of the Sublime: Readings in History, Aesthetics and the Subject. Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1989. Pp. vii, 324. £30.00.
Deborah E. McDowell and Arnold Rampersad, eds. Slavery and the Literary Imagination: Selected Papers from the English Institute. Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins UP, 1989. Pp. xiv, 172. $22.95; $9.95 pb.

Parenthetical or embedded citation:
One aim of LeClair's study is to "open up . . . the loop of academic discussion" (xiii) which tends "to privilege poststructuralist paradigms in its definitions of the postmodern" (23; emphasis added).

Works cited (if required):

WORKS CITED

Carby, Hazel. Reconstructing Womanhood: The Emergence of the Afro-American Woman Novelist. New York: Oxford UP, 1987.
Henderson, Gwendolyn Mae. "Speaking in Tongues Dialogues, Dialects, and the Black Woman Writer's Literary Tradition." Changing Our Own Words: Essays on Criticism, Theory, and Writing on Black Women. Ed. Cheryl A. Wall. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers UP, 1989. 125-37.
Fee, Margery. "Resistance and Complicity in David Dabydeen's The Intended." ARIEL: A Review of International English Literature 24.1 (1993): 107-25.

A NEW POLICY ON POETRY

Readers of ARIEL will have noticed that the journal has stopped publishing poetry. The editorial board has reluctantly decided to adopt a moratorium on publishing poetry because of lack of resources to process the large number of submissions. 

The journal recognizes the importance of writing in different generic forms and we are grateful to the many authors of poetry whose work has appeared in the pages of ARIEL since its inception.