Submissions

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.