Submissions

The editors of Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes welcome manuscript submissions, in English or French, dealing with one or more aspects of the Jewish experience in Canada. We seek original contributions of general and specialized scholarly interest, in both subject and approach, and from a range of disciplinary perspectives. These include (but are not limited to): history, literature, sociology, anthropology, political science, religious studies, gender studies, the medical humanities, art history, film and media studies, education, and public policy.  

The journal also accepts contributions for several non-peer-reviewed subsections: 

• The Archives Matter: short essays on holdings in Jewish and non-Jewish Canadian archives organized around a central theme. Please contact section editor Janice Rosen (jrosen@cjarchives.ca) for more information. 

• Roundtables: scholarly and often interdisciplinary discussions featuring several voices and organized around a central theme. We welcome expressions of interest for future roundtable topics along with possible participants. 

• Translations: translations of historical or contemporary sources (broadly defined) dealing with the Canadian Jewish experience in languages other than English or French.  

• Field Notes: non-standard academic writing on contemporary literary, cultural, intellectual, and communal events of interest relevant to the Canadian Jewish experience. More information about this section can be found here.  

• Reflections: personal essays by academics or practitioners about their careers in the field.  

• Book Reviews: the journal maintains a list of books for which we seek reviewers, available here. If you wish to contribute a book review or propose a longer review essay, please contact section editor Vardit Lightstone (varditlightstone@gmail.com).

In an effort to stimulate original, comparative, and intersectional research involving Canadian Jewish content and both non-Jewish CanCon and non-Canadian Jewish content, the journal welcomes submissions from researcher-author pairs committed to producing collaborative scholarship. The journal offers co-author collaboration grants of $500 in support of this work. Please note in your submission if you and your co-author seek consideration for this grant. More information can be found here.  

The journal accepts expressions of interest and completed manuscripts for all sections on a rolling basis. For submissions that require peer review (full-length scholarly essays only), the journal’s editorial staff reserves the right to determine suitability prior to starting the peer review process.  

• For inquiries regarding original articles to be submitted for peer review, please include a tentative title, a short abstract (200 words), and a brief biography. The journal also accepts completed manuscripts in the range of 6,000 to 9,000 words, including endnotes.  

• For submissions to one of our subsections, please include a short abstract (200 words) clearly stating the subject of the proposed reflection, translation, field note, etc., and how you expect to execute it.   

Please refer to the journal’s policies and submission preparation checklist available on our website. Completed manuscripts that do not comply with our guidelines may be returned to authors. Deadlines for peer-reviewed and non-peer-reviewed submissions will be negotiated upon acceptance for publication. 

Author Guidelines

For submissions and general inquiries, please contact the journal’s editor-in-chief, David Koffman (koffman@yorku.ca), or its managing editor, Joshua Tapper (jtapper@yorku.ca).  

Submission preparation checklist

Manuscript preparation

1. Full-length scholarly articles should be between 6,000 and 10,000 words (please contact the editors if your submission falls outside that word range). 

2. All pages should be numbered and double-spaced, with text in Times New Roman 12-point font.  

3. Do not include bibliographies or reference lists.  

4. Subheadings should be brief and distinguished in bold, with one space between the subheading and subsequent paragraph. The subheading “Introduction” is unnecessary.  

5. The manuscript should adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition, CMOS) for all stylistic, grammatical, and citation matters. It is the full responsibility of contributors to ensure their work is in line with CMOS.

6. Audio files in MP3 format may be submitted for our online publication.

7. All non-English text must appear in its original language, transliterated into English, and follow capitalization standards accordingly, unless the original script is necessary for the scholarly discussion.

Endnote formatting

1. Citations must adhere to CMOS guidelines. Please pay attention to CMOS punctuation practices and guidelines for second and later references. Please click here for a list of sample citations. 

2. Manuscripts should use no more than one endnote per sentence, always after the period.  

3. It is imperative that your references include all relevant citation information, including volume and issue numbers for scholarly articles, places of publication, editors of a collection of essays, page numbers, and so on.

4. All citations should appear as numbered endnotes (and not as Roman numerals). The journal does not use parenthesized in-text references.  

5. Avoid long discursive endnotes if possible.  

6. In-text endnote numbers should appear in superscript, with no space between the numeral and the preceding period.  

7. Do not use more than one endnote per sentence. Endnotes should follow the final period in the sentence; do not include endnotes after commas, colons, semicolons, or any other punctuation. If a sentence requires multiple citations, consolidate them in a single endnote separated by semicolons or confine each reference to its own sentence.  

8. In notes with multiple citations, separate them using a semicolon followed by a space. A period should follow the very last citation in the list.  

9. Use Ibid. (no italics) when the same reference appears in sequence.  

10. All non-English citations must appear in their original language, transliterated into English, and follow capitalization standards accordingly, unless the original script is necessary for the scholarly discussion. Titles published in a language that do not use the Latin alphabet (Hebrew, Yiddish, Russian, Arabic, etc.) must be transliterated according to the Library of Congress system. For Yiddish, please refer to the YIVO transliteration guidelines. Translations of non-English references are not required.  

Copyright 

Canadian Jewish Studies / Études juives canadiennes is a journal dedicated to the open exchange of information; therefore the author agrees that the work published in the journal be made available to the public under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 Unported License. The publisher (Association for Canadian Jewish Studies / Association des études juives canadiennes) recognizes the author's intellectual property rights. The author grants the publisher first serial publication rights and the non-exclusive right to mount, preserve, and distribute the intellectual property. The author will agree to sign a consent form detailing author and publisher rights.