Submission Guidelines
CSSAAME aims to produce content that is not only thoughtful but also well written and accessible to a multidisciplinary audience. Therefore, clear, well-articulated, jargon-free prose will be highly valued when submissions are evaluated. The editors strive to determine if an article will go out for peer review within four to six weeks. If so, the review process can take seven to eight months. We try our best to respond to author queries in a timely manner. CSSAAME has a blind submissions policy. Submit manuscripts as Microsoft Word files online at https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-csa. Send correspondence to [email protected].
Call for Papers
The interdisciplinary journal Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East (CSSAAME) has become a key site for new directions in the critical study of decolonized spaces and histories. Recent work we have published has explored third-worldisms, poetics and technics of war, and capital’s degradation of environments. We welcome new research and theoretical studies, as well as thematic and trans-regional special issues, from scholars who work across the journal’s geographic range. We especially seek early career scholars, collaborations across academic silos, and work that challenges existing categories. The senior editors are happy to respond to queries, discuss potential publications, and give guidance as needed: [email protected]. CSSAAME is an internationally renowned journal that strives to be an inclusive and welcoming space for critically important new research.
Manan Ahmed, Columbia University
Steven Pierce, University of Manchester
Submission Types and Length
As a general guideline, full-length articles are approximately 8,000 to 10,000 words. However, all manuscripts must be no longer than 11,000 words, including the notes and bibliography. Due to space restrictions, articles that exceed the word limit will be returned to the author with a request to edit the text and resubmit. Other types of submissions for which word count is not an adequate measure (for instance, photo essays) should be between ten and twenty-five pages.
We encourage the submission of work that incorporates other media, such as images, video, or sound. If you would like to submit such work for consideration, please contact the editorial office directly. For more information on submitting special section and Kitabkhana proposals, please consult the special section submission guidelines.
Citations
Please note that we do not use author-date style. Submissions are required to have both endnote citations and a bibliography. Provide a shortened citation in the endnotes rather than the full citation, which is included only in the bibliography. For reference, see the style guide below and section 13.18 of The Chicago Manual of Style, eighteenth edition. Authors are encouraged to limit the use of endnotes to acknowledgment of sources and parenthetical or tangential ideas. Self-citation is unnecessary.
Transliteration
In general, a word should be transliterated only if there is no acceptable English equivalent. If no such equivalent is available, authors should follow the ALA-LC romanization tables for the respective language (www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html) when possible. Translated Arabic and Persian text includes no diacritical marks except for ayn and hamza.
Forms for authors:
