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Sibirica
Interdisciplinary Journal of Siberian Studies
Information for Contributors
PDF version of the Style Guide
Please send submissions of articles, research reports, and contributions to the discussion forum as an email attachment (either .rtf or MS Word .doc file) to: sibiricajournal@gmail.com Authors interested in reviewing books, films, museum exhibits, conferences or writing review articles should contact the Reviews Editor directly (John Ziker, JZiker@boisestate.edu). All other editorial inquiries should go to the Editor at sibiricajournal@gmail.com.
Articles should normally be 6000-10,000 words (including notes and references), although longer articles may be considered. Research reports should be 2000-6000 words, Reviews should be 800 words, and Discussions are expected to be 1000-5000 words.
Formatting
The document must be set at the US letter or A4 paper size standard. The entire document (including the notes and references) should be double-spaced with 1-inch (2.5 cm) margins on all sides. A 12-point standard font such as Times or Times New Roman is required and should be used for all text, including headings, notes, and references. An unusual character or diacritical mark should be flagged, as the character may not translate correctly during typesetting.
Cover Page
The cover page should provide the title of the article, complete contact information for each author (address, phone, fax, and e-mail), biographical data of approximately 100 words for each author, and any acknowledgments. Please provide a total word count and indicate the number of tables and/or figures as included.
Abtract/Keywords
The article must include an abstract of no more than 150 words and 6 to 8 keywords. The abstract should not duplicate the text verbatim but include the research question or puzzle, identify the data, and give some indication of the findings. Keywords will be drawn from the content and not duplicate the article title.
Copyright/Permissions
Upon acceptance, authors are required to submit copyright agreements and all necessary permission letters for reprinting or modifying copyrighted materials. The author is fully responsible for obtaining all permissions. Although most Soviet-era publications are not copyrighted, the author is responsible for verifying this with a copyright library.
Figures
All figures (photos, graphs and maps) should be placed in separate files; only placement indicators should appear in the main text. Figures should be numbered consecutively as they appear in text. Please number items individually (Figure 1, 2, 3, 4) as opposed to grouping items together (Figure 1, Figure 2a, 2b, 2c).
For optimal reproduction figures or photos should be submitted as TIFF (resolution at 300 dpi) or EPS (800 dpi), grayscale (black and white for line art), with all fonts embedded. Additionally, all images should be approximately 4" x 4" inches at the resolution indicated. Figures may also be submitted on glossy camera-ready paper.
Style Guide
The Sibirica style guide is based on the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), 14th and 15th editions with some deviations based on house style preferences. Please note that the journal uses US punctuation and spelling, following Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary or the American Heritage College Dictionary. Italicize isolated non-English words that do not appear roman in standard US dictionary. The word should be italicized on every use.
Transliteration Table for Russian
Sibirica uses a simplified version of the Library of Congress transliteration system for modern Russian without ligatures (superscript arcs above the letters)
For the transliteration of non-Slavic indigenous languages please consult the library of congress website for languages that approach the same language group www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/roman.html. In most cases a note will have to be added to adopt the Library of Congress standard to the diphthongs of the Turkic languages and the lack of iotised vowels in the Tungus languages.
Placenames
All Russian place names should be transliterated with the exception of the commonly used English language names for countries and cities which can be found in the above dictionaries. Please note, the names of Siberian and Russian regions should be transliterated strictly.
Placename Examples
COUNTRIES: Russia, Mongolia, Ukraine
CITIES: Moscow, St.Petersburg but Krasnoiarsk, Arkhangel'sk
REGIONS: Pomor’e, Zabaikal’e, Buriatiia, Evenkii, Sakha (Iakutiia), Khakasiia
Dates, Numbers & Ranges
Dates should be set day/month/year, with no comma in between the elements, e.g., 26 January 1988. Dates in the Gregorian Calendar should be marked with the notation "old-style" [O.S.].
In general, use words for numbers that are less than 10, and numerals for all other numbers. Number ranges should not be abbreviated.
When prepositions are involved, use "from 1924 to 1928" not "from 1924–1928," and "between 1924 and 1928" not "between 1924–1928."
Citation Systems
Contributors may choose between the Author-Date System and the Endnote System. Whichever system is decided on must be used consistently and correctly through out the entire article.
Whether using Author-Date system or the Endnote System, articles must include a full bibliography of all references cited.
Citation Systems for Russian/Soviet Archives
Russian/Soviet archives should be cited and referenced in a consistent manner. Abbreviations must be defined for the first usage and may be presented as notes in the Notes section, preceding the References.
Abbreviation Examples
GAKK Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Krasnoiarskogo Kraia [The State Archive of Krasnoiarsk Territory];
GANO Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Novosibirskoi Oblasti [The State Archive of Novosibirsk Province]
GARF Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Rossiiskoi Federatsii [The State Archive of the Russian Federation];
KKKM Krasnoiarskii Kraevoi Kraevedcheskii Muzei [The Krasnoiarsk Territorial Museum of Local History]
References to specific documents within archives are also abbreviated by indicating the class-marks for the fond, opis', delo (or edinitsa khraneniia) with their unique numbers.
If the author chooses to use the Author-Date citation system, the document is referenced with an abbreviation with the various components of the classmark separated by hyphens. References to specific folios (or their versos) are made with the number of the folio following a colon. Thus (GAKK R769-1-306: 15) represents the document Gosudarstvennyi Arkhiv Krasnoiarskogo Kraia fond R769 opis 1 delo 306 list 15. With this system it is not necessary to give the full title of the document and of the document collection.
If the author chooses to use the Endnote system, the full title of the document and its document collection must be given, and the name of the archive spelled out on first usage (thereafter an abbreviation can be used).
In-text Examples
Zhukov and Nagaev of the Turukhansk Polar Census expedition came up with a compromise position for their own territory (GAKK R769-1-304: 7-10v).
The damaging effect of the civil war on aboriginal people was directly cited by the Russian Society of the Red Cross for its interest in surveying the aboriginal population (Malysheva and Poznanskii 1998; GANO P45-5-7; GARF R3977-1-75: 17-25).
Author-Date System for Published Sources
Referencing should follow the author-date system, with full documentation in the reference list, including the publishers' names and authors' full first names, when known. Note that article/chapter titles are to be capitalized and enclosed within quotation marks.
In-text Examples
(Smith 1987; Pickett and White 1985)
Jones's research (1977, 1979a, 1979b)
(Kant n.d.; McGinnis forthcoming)
Single Author with Multiple Sources: (Smith 1993: 63; 1998: 124–169; 2001: 104)
Three or More Authors: (Jones et al. 2001)
Authors with Same Last Name: (D. Smith 1981; G. Smith 1999)
Reference Lists
The reference list must be in Alphabetical order. For multiple listings under an author's name, list the oldest publication first, followed by the next publications, in chronological order.
Every author mentioned in the reference list must be cited in the main text or notes, and every author cited in the main text and notes must be listed in the reference list.
Reference Examples
BOOK:
Wagner, Roy G. [1975] 1981. The Invention of Culture. Chicago: University
of Chicago Press.
———. 1986. Symbols That Stand for Themselves. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Two Authors (Use comma to separate)
Bloch, Alexia, and Laurel Kendall. 2004. The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Chapter/Essay in a Book (Note Placement of Page Numbers and Editors)
Anisimov, Arkadii Fedorovich. 1963. "The Shamans's Tent of the Evenki and the Origins of Shamanistic Rite."
Pp. 199-238 in Studies in Siberian Shamanism, ed. Henry N. Michael. Toronto: University of Toronto Press.
Article in a Journal
Shimkin, Demitri B. 1990. Siberian Ethnography: A Current Assessment. Cahiers du monde soviétique, 31 (2-3):
333-340.
Russian Collective Work (Cite the Otvetstvennyi Redaktor)
Ol'denburg, S. F. (otv.red.) 1929. Ob"iasnitel'naia zapiska k etnograficheskoi karte Sibiri. Leningrad: Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR.
Russian Prerevolutionary Serial Work (Spell out all component parts in Russian)
Patkanov, Serafim K. 1906. Opyt geografii i statistiki tungusskikh plemen Sibiri na osnovanii dannykh perepisi naseleniia 1897 g i drugikh istochnikov (chast' 1. Tungusy sobstvenno. vypusk. 1) .Sankt Peterburg, Tipogr: Slovo.
Translation
Liapunova, Roza G. 1996. Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts. Trans. Jerry Shelest. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press.
Article in a Newspaper or Popular Magazine
Fontanelle, Eric C., and Valerie Mandible. 1951. "Iron Despair: Postwar Bewilderment." World Spectator, 6 April.
Papers Read at Meetings
Schweitzer, Peter. 1993 "Rediscovering a Continent: Siberian Peoples and the
Hunter-Gatherer Debate." Paper presented at the Seventh International
Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies.
Dissertation
Downer, John. 1975. "Necessity and Knowledge in the Later Philosophy of
Wittgenstein." PhD diss., University College of North Wales.
Grinev, Andrei Val'terovich. 2000. "Rossiiskaia kolonizatsiia Aliaski (ee khod,
kharakter i rezul'taty)" . Diss. doktora istoricheskikh nauk.
Sankt-Peterburgskii Gumanitarnii Universitet Profsoiuzov.
Internet/World Wide Web Sites
Goroda Sibiri. 2006. "Fotoreportazh: 1 maia v Chite". Informatsionnyi Portal Goroda
Sibiri http://www.sibcity.ru/?news=4947 (accessed 6 May 2006).
Endnotes System for Published Sources
This system provides bibliographical citations in endnote form with full details provided in a note at the first mention of the work. Subsequent citations should provide last name(s) and a short-title form.
Note numbers or asterisks should not be placed on essay titles, section headings, epigraphs, or the essay author's name.
Please note that "cf." is not a synonym of "see"; it means "compare with." Use 'f." to indicate "and following page" and " ff." to indicate "and following pages." There should be no space between the abbreviations and the page numbers that they follow: 179ff.
Examples
Book
First note citation
1. Roy G. Wagner, The Invention of Culture (Chicago: University of Chicago Press,
[1975] 1981), 46.
Later citations
3. Wagner, Invention of Culture, 112.
6. Ibid., 145-169.
Two Authors
First note citation
8. Alexia Bloch and Laurel Kendall, The Museum at the End of the World: Encounters in the Russian Far East (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2004), 120.
Later citations
11. Bloch and Kendall, The Museum, 120.
Chapter/Essay In a Book
First note citation
12. Arkadii Fedorovich Anisimov, "The shamans's tent of the Evenki and the origins of shamanistic rite," in Studies in Siberian Shamanism, ed. Henry N. Michael (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1963), 199-238.
Later citations
18. Anisimov, "The Shamans's Tent," 201.
Article in a Journal
First note citation
19. Demitri B. Shimkin, "Siberian Ethnography: A Current Assessment," Cahiers du monde soviétique, 31, nos. 2-3 (1990): 338.
Later citations
21. Shimkin, "Siberian Ethnography," 336.
Russian Collective Work (Cite the Otvetstvennyi Redaktor)
First note citation
55. Ol'denburg, S. F. (otv.red.), Ob"iasnitel'naia zapiska k etnograficheskoi karte Sibiri. (Leningrad: Izd-vo Akademii Nauk SSSR, 1929).
Later citations
58. Ol'denburg, Ob"iasnitel'naia zapiska.
Russian Prerevolutionary Serial Work (Spell out all component parts in Russian)
First note citation
61. Patkanov, Serafim K., Opyt geografii i statistiki tungusskikh plemen Sibiri na osnovanii dannykh perepisi naseleniia 1897 g i drugikh istochnikov, chast' 1. Tungusy sobstvenno. Vypusk 1. (Sankt Peterburg: Tipogr. Slovo, 1906), 99.
Later citations
66. Patkanov, Opyt geografii i statistiki tungusskikh plemen, 89.
Materials in Russian/Soviet Archives
First note citation
23. Claudia Dedyk, Lingvisticheskie zapiski. Rossiskii Gosudarsvenyi Isoricheskii Arkhiv [RGIA], fond 1129, opis' 1, delo 491 (11 February 1933), ll. 74-83, 116-19.
Later citations
27. RGIA 1129-1-491: 81.
Translations
First note citation
28 Roza G. Liapunova, Essays on the Ethnography of the Aleuts, trans. Jerry Shelest (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1996), 56.
Later citations
30. Liapunova, Essays on the Ethnography, 98.
Article in a Newspaper or Popular Magazine
First note citation
31. Eric C. Fontanelle and Valerie Mandible, "Iron Despair: Postwar Bewilderment," World Spectator, April 6, 1951, 12.
Later citations
35. Fontanelle and Mandible, "Iron Despair," 15.
Paper Read at Meetings
First note citation
36. Peter Schweitzer, "Rediscovering a Continent: Siberian Peoples and the Hunter-Gatherer Debate." (Paper presented at the Seventh International Conference on Hunting and Gathering Societies, 1993).
Later citations
37. Schweitzer, "Rediscovering a Continent."
Dissertation
First note citation
40. Andrei V. Grinev, "Rossiiskaia kolonizatsiia Aliaski (ee khod, kharakter i rezul'taty)" (Diss. doktora istoricheskikh nauk, Sankt-Peterburgskii Gumanitarnii Universitet Profsoiuzov), 136-143.
Later citations
42. Grinev, "Rossiiskaia kolonizatsiia Aliaski," 156.
Internet/World Wide Web Sites
First note citation
47. Goroda Sibiri. Fotoreportazh: 1 maia v Chite" (Informatsionnyi Portal Goroda Sibiri, 2006), http://www.sibcity.ru/?news=4947 (accessed 6 May 2006).
Later citations
49. Goroda Sibiri, "Fotoreportazh: 1 maia v Chite."