期刊名称:EXPLICATOR
期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
Concentrating on works that are frequently anthologized and studied in college classrooms, The Explicator , with its yearly index of titles, is a must for college and university libraries and teachers of literature. Text-based criticism thrives in The Explicator . One of few in its class, the journal publishes concise notes on passages of prose and poetry. Each issue contains between 25 and 30 notes on works of literature, ranging from ancient Greek and Roman times to our own, from throughout the world. Students rely on The Explicator for insight into works they are studying. Publication office: Taylor & Francis, Inc., 325 Chestnut Street, Suite 800, Philadelphia, PA 19106.
The Explicator is abstracted/indexed in: Dietrich's Index Philosophicus; EBSCOhost Online Research Databases; Elsevier: Scopus; Gale Cengage: Academic ASAP, Academic OneFile, Expanded Academic ASAP, General OneFile, General Reference Center, General Reference Center Gold, General Reference Centre International, InfoTrac Custom, InfoTrac Student Edition, Shakespeare Collection, Student Resource Center: College Edition; H.W. Wilson: Book Review Digest Plus, Humanities Abstracts, Humanities Full Text, Humanities Index, Humanities Index Retrospective, Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Mega Edition; Wilson OmniFile: Full Text Select; International Bibliography of Periodical Literature (IBZ); MLA International Bibliography; OCLC: ArticleFirst, Arts and Humanities Search, Periodical Abstracts; ProQuest: Humanities Module, ProQuest Central, ProQuest Research Library, ProQuest Research Library Core; Thomson Reuters: Arts & Humanities Citation Index® and Current Contents/Arts & Humanities®.
Instructions to Authors
The Explicator, a quarterly journal, invites submission of short papers (less than 1,200 words) relevant to explication de texte in prose or poetry. Contributions should be directly related to interpretation of text. All critical approaches will be of interest. Not acceptable are materials concerned with genesis, parallelism, or biography, unless directly related to interpretation of text.
The Explicator does not accept responsibility for views expressed in articles. The journal merely provides opportunity for publication of materials that may represent divergent ideas, judgments, and opinions. Authors are required to sign an agreement for the transfer of copyright to the publisher upon acceptance. The editors reserve the right to make editorial changes necessary for space requirements and journal standards.
Please note that The Explicator uses CrossCheck™ software to screen papers for unoriginal material. By submitting your paper to The Explicator you are agreeing to any necessary originality checks your paper may have to undergo during the peer review and production processes.
Submission Method . To submit a manuscript, visit http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/exp.
Manuscripts should be typed, double-spaced throughout and prepared using a word processing program, preferably Microsoft Word.
All reviews are blind so author names and affiliations should not appear in the submitted file/s. Essays should be about 1,200 words. Essays exceeding 3,000 words may be rejected for consideration at the discretion of the Editors. Include in your cover letter a brief statement on what the essay achieves. During submission please select the relevant national period from the list of keywords (i.e., 20th Century American). If the title of your essay does not include the author of the work, you must add the last name of the author as a keyword (i.e., Shakespeare, Dickens, Morrison).
Documentation should adhere to the style of MLA Style Manual, 3rd edition. If the literary work explicated is a short work or a poem, enclose a copy of the work as a supplemental file. Provide translations with foreign works. If the text is not yet in the public domain, please include bibliographical data and be prepared to secure reprint permission if necessary for publication. Manuscripts that do not comply with instructions specified here will be returned to the author immediately.
Illustrations, Tables and Figures. Tables and figures (illustrations) should not be embedded in the text, but should be included as separate files. A short descriptive title should appear above each table or figure with a clear legend and any footnotes suitably identified below. All units must be included. Figures should be completely labeled, taking into account necessary size reduction. Figures should be 300 dpi or higher, and EPS, TIFF, or PSD format only.
Proofs . Page proofs are sent to the designated author using Taylor & Francis' Central Article Tracking System (CATS). They must be carefully checked and returned within 48 hours of receipt. Reprints and Issues. Reprints of individual articles are available for order at the time authors review page proofs. A discount on reprints is available to authors who order before print publication. Authors from whom we receive a valid email address will be given an opportunity to purchase reprints of individual articles, or copies of the complete print issue. These authors will also be given complimentary access to their final article on Taylor & Francis Online .
Editorial Board
Executive Editors Jonathan Bolton, Auburn University Kirk Curnutt, Troy University Catherine Loomis, University of New Orleans
Consulting Editors
Paul Ardoin, Florida State University Richard Badenhausen, Westminster College, Salt Lake City, Utah Robert W. Barrett, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Jack M. Beckham, Saddleback College
Lawton A. Brewer, Georgia Northwestern Technical College
Bob Burkholder, Pennsylvania State University
Steve Criniti, West Liberty University Joshua David Gonsalves, Rice University Melissa Heidari, Columbia College Karen Humphreys, Trinity College James B. Kelley, Mississippi State University - Meridian
Christopher C. MacLean Nagle, Western Michigan University Luiz Fernando Valente, Brown University
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