Guidelines for Contributors/Calls for Papers

Hypatia solicits papers on all topics in feminist philosophy. Please send five copies to:

Editors, Hypatia
Center for the Study of Women in Society
University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1201

Articles may vary in length, though long articles will be published only as space permits. In addition to substantial research papers, we invite submissions for our Comment/Reply, Archive, and Review Essay sections, as well as proposals for our Symposia and Special Features sections. We also invite proposals for Special Issues. Book reviews are normally by invitation.

Manuscripts submitted to Hypatia should not be under simultaneous consideration by any other journal, nor should they have been published elsewhere. The review process takes an average of four to six months. Though the primary aim of our review process is to select and refine papers for publication, we aim to have the review process nurture and support scholarship in the area of feminist philosophy.

Manuscript Preparation:

1. Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced with one inch margins (including quotations and excerpts, notes, and references) and the right margin should not be justified.
2. The author should not be identified except on the title page in order to facilitate our anonymous review process.
3. Papers should include a 75 word (or less) abstract.
4. Use one side of 8 x 11-inch white paper. Dot-matrix print is acceptable only if the characters are clear and legible. Send five clean copies of the manuscript.
5. Use American spellings and punctuation, except when directly quoting a source that has followed British style. All punctuation, except colons and semicolons, should be placed inside quotation marks. Single quotation marks are used only for quotes within quotes. Quoted material of 10 lines or more in length should be set off from the text without quotation marks as double-indented extracts.
6. Notes should appear in a separate section at the end of the paper and should be kept brief. Any acknowledgements should appear first, unnumbered.
7. We use the Author/Date system of citing references, as described in The ChicagoManual of Style (14th ed., University of Chicago Press, 1993). In the text or notes, works should be cited as follows (author year, page number); for example (Anzaldúa 1990, 86). An author's name can be left out if understood from the context; for example (1990, 86). A list of all works cited should be included after the notes in a list called "References." For example:

Guinier, Lani. 1994. The tyranny of the majority. New York: Free Press. [book]

Le Dœuff, Michèle. 1989. The philosophical imaginary. Trans. Colin Gordon. London: Athlone. [translated book]

Jaggar, Alison M. 1977. Political philosophies of women's liberation. In Feminism andphilosophy, ed. Mary Vettering-Braggin, Frederick A. Elliston, and Jane English. Totowa, NJ: Littlefield, Adams. [article in an anthology]

Mouffe, Chantal. 1992a. Democratic citizenship and the political community. In Dimensions of radical democracy, ed. Mouffe. London: Verso. [book chapter for author with second publication in reference list of the same year]

Lugones, María. 1990. Hablando cara a cara/Speaking face to face. In Making face,making soul/Haciendo caras. See Anzaldúa 1990. [article from book appearing in same reference list]

Harding, Sandra. 1986. The instability of the analytical categories of feminist theory. Signs 11 (4): 645-64. [journal article]

Wittig, Monique. 1980. The straight mind. Feminist Issues 1 (Summer): 103-11. [journal article without issue number]

8. Final versions of papers accepted for publication must be submitted both in hard copy and on a 3.5" computer disk. If a paper includes figures or artwork, authors must submit camera-ready copy with the final draft. Short sound or video files and selected images may be simultaneously published with an article on our website.

Papers that do not follow format instructions #1-7 may be returned to their authors before being sent for review. Authors in the U.S. or Canada should send five copies to the address above. Authors outside of the U.S. or Canada, and unaffiliated scholars, may send one copy.

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