Guidelines for Contributors

  1. All manuscripts should be submitted to the editors of the journal.
  2. The editors welcome original articles up to 8.000 words, reviews up to 1000 words, in German or English. The submitted articles should not be under consideration elsewhere.
  3. Articles should be printed in 1 2 space on one side of the paper only with a 3 cm margin on all sides. Please submit a total of three copies. Avoid underlinings as far as possible. Foreign words should be italicized. Articles should be accompanied by English abstracts of not more than 200 words.
  4. References within the text should be cited in the following form: (Best 1924:184). Footnotes should be kept to a minimum and they must be numbered consecutively throughout the text. Any figure captions should be on a separate sheet. On a further sheet complete references to all works cited must be listed, arranged in alphabetical and calendrical order, as in the following examples:
    • Best, Elsdon 1924: The Maori, Vol. 1. Wellington: Polynesian Society.
    • Firth, Raymond 1936: We, the Tikopia. London: George Allen and Unwin.
    • Firth, Raymond 1940: The analysis of mana: An empirical approach. Journal of the Polynesian Society 49:483-510.
    • Howard, Alan; Kirckpatrick, John: 1989. Social organization. In: A. Howard and R. Borofsky (eds.), Developments in Polynesian Ethnology. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, pp. 47-94.
    Tables, maps and illustrations should be on separate page, numbered and with headings. Indicate in the text where they should appear.
  5. All articles are submitted to referees. Responsibility for opinions published remains with the authors.
  6. When articles have been accepted in their final form they should be presented for publication on a 3.5 inch disk accompanied by hard copy. Please keep formatting and the use of tabs and spaces to a minimum. Authors will receive proofs for correction which have to be returned within ten days of receipt to the publisher. Authors of articles receive 30, reviewers 13 free offprints.
    We can’t pay regard to subsequent text corrections, deviating from manuscript, except the author is willing to bear the additional expenditure.