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Proposals for Special Issues

A thematic Special Issue consists of at least 5 and max. 10 articles, plus an editorial introduction of about 6000 words. Individual research articles should be 6000-8000 words in length. Articles can be published in both German and English.

Proposals should be sent to the Journal Executive Editors via email by 15 October of each year.
(Mail to: michael.proepper@uni-hamburg.de and mijal.trier@uni-hamburg.de ).

Proposals should include the name/s, contact details and position/s of the guest editor/s and all author/s. The proposed title and an abstract of 750 words outlining the thematic focus of the issue, titles and 200-word abstracts for all individual contributions should also be included.

Once a Special Issue has been chosen the peer-review process is being organized by the guest-editors. Once the guest editor/s have finalized their peer review the single Special Issue authors will have to submit their articles to the system. The articles then undergo a further revision process by the Ethnoscripts editorial team.

Proposals for Think Pieces 

Proposals/Submissions should offer a concise and accessible analysis, inviting reflection and discussion among anthropologists and other readers interested in the intersections of society, culture, and academia.

Submission Deadline: March 31st, annually

For more details and to submit, please send your essay via email to the Think Pieces Editors Jonas Bens (jonas.bens@uni-hamburg.de), Julia Pauli (julia.pauli@uni-hamburg.de) and Julian Sommerschuh (julian.sommerschuh@uni-hamburg.de).

Proposals for the section Miscellaneous

This section offers the possibility to publish reviews, obituaries, eventually interviews, research and conference reports, and more. If you are interested in publishing in this section, please send an email to the Executive Editors first.

Submission checklist

As part of the submission process, corresponding authors are asked to confirm or accept the following conditions on behalf of all authors of the article.

☑ The submitted manuscript is previously unpublished and has not been submitted to any other journal (otherwise a statement is attached in "Comments to the Editor").

☑ The corresponding author grants the journal the unrestricted right of first publication on behalf of all authors.

☑ The corresponding author declares in his/her own name and in the name of all authors to have written the submitted work himself / herself and to be its author in the legal sense (in the case of several authors: jointly co-author).

☑ The corresponding author assures that he/she is authorized by all authors to make the declarations listed here, and that he/she and all other authors can dispose of the rights to the extent stated; in particular, that no rights of third parties conflict with the publication. In this respect, they jointly and severally indemnify the journal, the Hamburg State and University Library, and the publisher Hamburg University Press from third-party claims.

☑ All published articles in this journal are released under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 4.0 International license. By submitting a manuscript, the corresponding author accepts publication after successful peer review on behalf of all authors under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

☑ The corresponding author accepts distribution of the article's metadata after successful peer review under the CC0 1.0 universal license on behalf of all authors.

☑ The privacy policy of the journal is accepted.

☑ The manuscript file is saved as Microsoft Word document (*.docx) or as OpenOffice / LibreOffice document (*.odt).

☑ Text, tables, and figures follow the stylistic and bibliographic guidelines found in the formatting guidelines.

☑ Citations in the text are linked (cross-linked) to references within the MS Word document (*.docx) or the OpenOffice / LibreOffice document (*.odt).

☑ All figures can be provided in vector format (e.g. *.pdf / *.eps) or as high-resolution pixel images (e.g. *.jpg / *.png) in case of a successful review process. See author guidelines and formatting guidelines of the journal.

☑ In accordance with the journal's ethical guidelines, the paper contains the following statements: (1) data availability, (2) funding information, and (3) conflicts of interest.

☑ The journal's author guidelines not named here are also met.

Author guidelines

Please read the author guidelines carefully. Submissions that do not meet the author guidelines may be rejected according to the journal's review process.

In the author guidelines you will find additional information on all mandatory metadata that must be provided during the submission process.

Detailed guidelines for the formatting of contributions and a template in MS Word format (*.docx) can be found at the formatting guidelines.

Article sections

Special Issue
Special Issues focus on specific topics once per year. These are topics of relevance to contemporary anthropology and human social life – preferably on a subject that Ethnoscripts has not addressed in recent years. Ethnoscripts offers the possibility to use and embed additional materials for the representation of research such as photos, sound and video. A thematic Special Issue consists of at least 5 and max. 10 articles, plus an editorial introduction of about 6000 words. Individual research articles should be 6000-8000 words in length. Articles can be published in both German and English.

Proposals should include the name/s, contact details and position/s of the guest editor/s and all author/s. The proposed title and an abstract of 750 words outlining the thematic focus of the issue, titles and 200-word abstracts for all individual contributions should also be included. 

See specific guidelines and requirements for this section during the submission process.

➟ Make a new submission to Special Issue.

Think Pieces
The section Think Pieces presents short essays of 1000-1500 words that engage critically with contemporary debates, trends, or controversies. Think Pieces focus on key issues or developments within anthropology as an academic discipline, reflections on current trends or challenges in anthropological research and practice, how anthropology can engage with and contribute to wider societal debates, problems, or controversies, thought-provoking perspectives on the future of anthropology in a rapidly changing world.

See specific guidelines and requirements for this section during the submission process.
➟ Make a new submission to Think Pieces.

Miscellaneous
This section offers the possibility to publish reviews, obituaries, eventually interviews, research and conference reports, and more. If you are interested in publishing in this section please send an email to the managing editors first.
➟ Make a new submission to Miscellaneous.

Article Processing Charges (APCs)

This journal is a pure open access journal. The journal does not charge neither article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges. For authors, neither the submission nor the publication of articles in the journal incurs any costs.

License information

Articles in this journal are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution - Share Alike 4.0  International license.