Manuscript Submissions

Slavic Review is a peer-reviewed journal featuring new scholarship, in any discipline, concerning eastern and east central Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present. We seek original and significant new research that also explores conceptual and analytical themes with potential resonance across fields and disciplines.

Guidelines for Manuscripts

Manuscripts for consideration should be prepared according to the following guidelines:

Submissions

Manuscripts are submitted via ScholarOne electronically. Please direct any questions about the submissions process to our email.

Submit a manuscript
Length

We welcome manuscripts of approximately 8,000 words of text, with footnotes of approximately 3,000 words. To restate, authors should submit manuscripts totaling 11,000 words, out of which 8,000 are text words and 3,000 are footnote words. Submissions that are significantly under or over this length will not be considered. Please indicate the word count (with and without notes) on the cover page of the manuscript.

Anonymity

The text should be prepared without information indicating the identity of the author, as manuscripts are sent to outside readers in anonymous form. Please do not include acknowledgment of your institution, references to your own work (as in “see my article…”), etc.

Cover Page

A separate cover page (uploaded separately to ScholarOne) should include the author’s name and contact information, manuscript length, a brief abstract of the paper of about 150 words and a brief biographical statement of about 75 words.

Notes

Submitted manuscripts must use Chicago Manual of Style footnotes (no bibliography). Please convert internal text citations to footnotes. Notes in accepted articles will need to be revised to conform to Slavic Review‘s house style.

Graphs, Tables, maps

Graphs, tables, and black and white maps of relatively low resolution (around 300 dpi) should be submitted within the text document itself, not separate, as with images (see next below).

Images

Do not place image files in your text document. Submit scans of each image as separate files into ScholarOne and a separate document of the image captions and source credits (see below).

TRANSLITERATION & STYLE

Library of Congress transliteration and the Chicago Manual of Style are to be followed.

ORIGINAL PUBLICATION

We cannot consider materials that are being considered for publication elsewhere or have been published previously, in any language or in any form, including electronic. The final version of manuscripts accepted by Slavic Review cannot be placed on any website, platform, or scholarly network like ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc. until after publication in Slavic Review.

MEMBERSHIP

Slavic Review is the journal of the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. Membership in ASEEES is required for article authors in order to publish their article, but is not required for submission.

TIMELINE

Ordinarily, we are able to report back to authors about their submissions within four months.

QUESTIONS

If you have questions, you may contact the editor by email.

Note Style Examples
Journal Article
  1. Gregory Freeze, “Confessions in the Soviet Era: Analytical Overview of Historiography,” Russian History 44, no. 1 (2017): 1–24.
Book
  1. Katherine Verdery, The Political Lives of Dead Bodies: Reburial and Postsocialist Change (New York, 2000), 26.
EDITED Book
  1. Valerie Kivelson and Robert H. Greene, eds., Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice under the Tsars (University Park, PA, 2003). 
Translated book
  1. Władysław Szpilman, The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man’s Survival in Warsaw, 1939–1945, trans. Althea Bell (New York, 1999), 43
Chapter in an edited book
  1. Vera Shevzov, “Letting the People into Church: Reflections on Orthodoxy and Community in Late Imperial Russia,” in Valerie A. Kivelson and Robert H. Greene, eds., Orthodox Russia: Belief and Practice Under the Tsars (University Park, PA, 2003), 59–77.
Dissertation or thesis
  1. Francesca Silano, “‘In the Language of the Patriarch’: Patriarch Tikhon, the Russian Orthodox Church, and the Soviet State (1865–1925),” (PhD diss., University of Toronto, 2017), 228–80.
Clusters

Slavic Review welcomes thematic clusters of articles on a common topic, as they often have an analytical synergy that can be very appealing to our wide array of readers. Before articles are submitted, cluster organizers should send their proposals to the Editor. In their proposals to the Editor, they should describe the problem, issue, or phenomenon that the cluster articles will examine, explaining the conceptual and analytical themes to be discussed, and showing their potential resonance across fields and disciplines.

Because Slavic Review can accommodate no more than seven articles per issue, and we need to leave space for individual articles that are outside any special topic, thematic clusters generally have no more than four papers. In addition, a possible introduction or comment highlights the larger interpretive, conceptual, and theoretical issues at stake, including their potential value outside Slavic studies, and facilitates reading for scholars outside of the particular areas, topics, and disciplines of the papers.

Each article will be evaluated to see whether it is acceptable for publication on its own merits. Thus all manuscripts should be prepared according to the standard guidelines above, with a line included in each submission’s cover letter indicating that it is part of a proposed cluster. Because of this dual consideration of each article both individually and as part of the thematic whole of the cluster, and because we can only publish four clusters per year, the time to publication can be substantially longer than for standalone articles. 

Preparing Accepted Manuscripts for Publication

We will need a final electronic version (a Word document, not a PDF). This final copy should be doubled-spaced, include the article title and your name as you wish to see it in print at the top, and present all references as footnotes. It should be submitted, as with individual manuscripts, to ScholarOne electronically. Please direct any questions about the submission process to us via email.

submit the manuscript

Please enter into ScholarOne the following when you submit your final manuscript (electronic-only is fine):

1. 150-word abstract
A 150-word abstract of your essay, including within this text (not as a separate list) the keywords and thesis of your article.

2. 50- to 75-word biographical sketch
A 50- to 75-word biographical sketch. This should include your rank and affiliation and may also include publications and current research.

Submit as separate electronic files in MS Word into ScholarOne. If images or tables are included, please group these in a file separate from the text.

Important Issues

Very important style and formatting issues to keep in mind: 

  • If you used an in-text citation system (allowable while the manuscript is in review) please convert these to footnotes following The Chicago Manual of Style. Do not place footnotes in the middle of sentences or use more than one footnote within a sentence. Footnotes must follow periods at the end of the sentences.
  • Please double-check your manuscript to ensure that first names are provided for all individuals when they are first mentioned. 
  • Dates should have the format October 26, 1879. 
  • For all transliterations, we use the Library of Congress system.
  • We only accept submissions in English.
  • For place-names, we follow the Merriam-Webster Dictionary (https://www.merriam-webster.com); for other names, the Library of Congress authorities page (https://authorities.loc.gov/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?DB=local&PAGE=First). For borderlands and political changes, we recognize that conventions may change. Spellings may also vary by the language used in your sources. However, consistency within your article is essential. If you have questions, contact the Managing Editor at slavrev@illinois.edu. 
  • Publishers should not be included in bibliographic information in notes, only place and year of publication. To avoid confusion, for books published in Cambridge, indicate either “Cambridge, Eng.” or “Cambridge, Mass.” 
  • Archival references need a brief description of the contents (in parentheses) after the first reference to a specific folder or delo. When appropriate, you may also wish to identify individual documents. Simply listing numbers is inadequate, as these can change.
Images

If images are an essential component of your article, we are happy to include them. The Cambridge artwork guide is available below. Images should be submitted as TIFF files; JPEG files, at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi, are accepted, but it can result in a lower print quality. A resolution of at least 600 dpi for color and 1200 dpi for black and white images is strongly preferred. Do not place image files into your text document. Submit scans of each image as separate files into ScholarOne and a separate Word document of the image captions and source credits (also via ScholarOne). In the text, close to where each image is discussed, be sure to include an in-text citation, e.g., (See Figure 1). It is your responsibility to secure any needed permissions and document these to us in writing (slavrev@illinois.edu). Please contact permission holders as early as possible – ideally, before you first submit your article.

Cambridge artwork guide