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Medieval Leavings is NOT a standard academic journal! Our process reflects this in fundamental ways:
- TEXT: submit your article as a .odt OR .docx AND as a .pdf.
- Unless otherwise specified, upload materials as .odt or .docx.
- Please do not include your name on your article file–not in the file name, and not in the paper itself.
- Also upload old reader reports (.pdf) and an abstract (150-250 words), together with list of a half dozen or so keywords.
- In addition to these, write a cover letter in which you explain how/whether you have addressed the reports in the version of your article you have attached. Also tell us why you may not have addressed some of the reports’ concerns. This is a pretty standard document in R&Rs, and will be helpful to our editorial team (and may be helpful to you in clarifying your thoughts, too).
- Archival Darlings submissions will perforce be a bit different, and a bit more like a standard article submission in how they are reviewed. Send the short writeup (under 4,000 words, probably closer to 1,000) and abstract with keywords as above, and we’ll route it to an appropriate editor from there.
- IMAGES: embed images into your files. As usual, authors are responsible for securing permission to reproduce images. However, if you are using images that are not Public Domain or appropriately CC, we are happy to include links instead of illustrations, so that you are not spending additional funds on this research. It is your article, and your decision.
- HOUSE STYLE: We wish we could allow authors to retain the style of their last submission in order to highlight the variety of disciplines and home regions of our authors, and also to gesture toward the palimpsestic nature of our journal’s articles. Yet this would not be fair to our copyediting team, who must develop deep expertise in the styles they assess. Therefore we ask you to use Chicago, and if you have a strong reason to employ another style, to contact our editor directly and make your case.
- Anonymized, these will be sent to a boardmember in your general area of expertise for additional feedback and possibly another round of revision. (And yes, we KNOW! The goal of this round is to give your piece a final polish, NOT to run you through yet another wringer.)
- Yes, it is possible that we may not think your piece is ready for publication. (More on what we are looking for, and what we aren’t set up to handle, here.) If this is our editorial team’s decision, we will work hard to express it in a manner that will leave you feeling supported, and, we hope, with a solid gameplan to further develop your piece in useful ways.
- For further breakdown of our peer review process, see here.
- You will retain copyright over your published piece, and it will be released under a Creative Commons license.
Ready to submit a piece to Medieval Leavings? Email us.
MedievalLeavingsSubmissions AT gmail