Raising the Wind: A New JJQ Citation Policy

For the last several years, we have weighed the question of how the JJQ should go about making changes to its now somewhat dated list of “standard editions” that has governed our citation practices for decades. Many of Joyce’s works have not entered the public domain, although global copyright laws have created a patchwork affair that means different rules apply in different countries. The result has nevertheless been a steadily expanding arrival of new editions, many of which are marked improvements on the standard works we have used for citation over the last three decades. The time has plainly come, therefore, for the journal to change its standard practices so that it can provide scholars, readers, and teachers around the world the tools they need.

We do not make these changes lightly. Over the last two years, we have sought input from our editorial advisory board, considered the practices used by other single-author journals, and hosted a roundtable discussion of the issue at the 2018 International James Joyce Symposium in Antwerp. We then convened a special editorial subcommittee that included Michael Groden, Sam Slote, and Valérie Bénéjam. They put a great deal of care into helping us develop our new policy, and we are grateful for all the work they devoted to helping us develop a new, far more flexible policy for citation. Beginning with Volume 55, we will operate under a new editorial policy explained here, on our website, and in our submission instructions.

Preferred Editions

The JJQ will no longer insist that authors use standard editions. Instead, we will list on our website and in the print issues a select list of “preferred editions” that have been reviewed and approved by our editorial advisory board. Authors wishing to cite other editions must provide a compelling reason to do so. The list of preferred editions will be periodically reviewed and updated to include new works that meet our scholarly standards as they appear.

In-Text Citations

In accordance with our standard use of Chicago-style citations, authors will be asked to provide a citation for the editions they are using in the endnotes. Each subsequent citation will be parenthetical and in the style appropriate to the edition (for instance, episode and line number for the Gabler Ulysses, page and line number for Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, and page numbers for most other editions). Abbreviated titles will continue to be used for citation clarity but will refer only to the editions cited in the endnotes.