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As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Commoning Ethnography is on a publication break in 2024. We will not publish an issue this year. Submissions will reopen in 2025.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in a Microsoft Word file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Submission guidelines

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Author guidelines 

Presentation of submission

Articles should follow this order:

  • Title
  • Abstracts 150 words
  • Key words (up to five)
  • Main text
  • Acknowledgements, including for sources of funding
  • Notes (use endnotes rather than footnotes)
  • References

 


Citation style

Cite references in the text (not in footnotes) in the following style:

(Smith 1999)

(Smith 1999: 3)

(Smith and Jones 2010: 456)

Please provide page references for quotations and paraphrases.

For multiple sources cited within one in-text citation, list alphabetically and separate each with a comma.

 

Quotations

Use single quote marks (and double for quotes within quotes)

Quotations longer than 50 words should be separated from the main text by a single line and indented from the left margin.

 

subheadings

Format in bold text only.

 

Images

All permissions for copyrighted images used in works published in Commoning Ethnography need to be obtained by the author prior to submission.

 

Anonymity

For blind peer review, the text should contain no details that identify the author/s.

 

Spelling and Grammar

Please use British spelling. We use the Oxford comma.

 

 

 

Formatting the reference list


Book
Benkov, Laura

  1. Reinventing the Family: Emerging stories of lesbian and gay parents. New York: Crown Publishers.

 

Co-authored book
Casarino, Cesare and Antonio Negri

2008 In Praise of the Common: A conversation on philosophy and politics. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

 

Edited book

Faircloth, Charlotte, Diane M. Hoffman and Linda L. Layne, eds

  1. Parenting in Global Perspective: Negotiating ideologies of kinship, self and politics. London: Routledge.

 

Translation
Chekhov, Anton

  1. The Plays of Anton Chekhov. Translated by Paul Schmidt. New York: Harper Collins.


Chapter in an edited book

Segalen, Martine

  1. The Shift in Kinship Studies in France: The case of grandparenting. In Relative Values: Reconfiguring kinship studies, edited by Sarah Franklin and Susan McKinnon, 246-73. Durham, NC: Duke University Press

 

Article 
Terrell, John and Judith Modell

  1. Anthropology and Adoption. American Anthropologist 96(1): 155-61.

 

Online source

Chekero, Tamuka and Fiona C. Ross

  1. ‘On paper’ and ‘having papers’: Migrants navigating medical xenophobia and obstetric rights in South Africa. Somatosphere. October 25 http://somatosphere.net/2017/10/on-paper.html

 

Webpage
The Ministry of Justice.

 n.d. Constitutional Issues and Human Rights. Accessed 13 May 2017 from https://www.justice.govt.nz/justice-sector-policy/constitutional-issues-and-human-rights/human-rights/international-human-rights/crc/

Dissertation

Fabish, Rachael

  1. 2015. Black Rainbow: Stories of Māori and Pākehā working across difference. PhD dissertation. Victoria University of Wellington. http://hdl.handle.net/10063/4166

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