Submission Guidelines
Hoodoo &
Conjure Quarterly™
is a quarterly journal on the magickal arts with a special
emphasis on New Orleans Voodoo, hoodoo,
folk magic and folklore. We are looking for articles outlining various
aspects of Southern style hoodoo, conjure and rootwork, candle magic
techniques, divination, magickal formularies, working with the saints
and psalms, doll magick, and tutorials. We are also interested in
related African Traditional Religions and topics. In addition, we are
seeking artwork and photography related to these topics.
We seek to have a balance between
academic-oriented, informational articles and layperson articles. Our
informational articles are geared towards factual information and must
be backed up with references and citations. We also encourage
practitioners to submit articles and tutorials, artists and
photographers to submit artwork and photographs, as well as professional
authors and writers to submit manuscripts.
All articles must
meet the submission guidelines identified below. For more information
about the journal, please visit our website:
www.hoodooandconjurequarterly.com.
· Manuscripts
should be 500 to 1200 words in length.
· All
pages should be single spaced.
· Manuscripts
should be submitted electronically in Microsoft Word format via email
attachment to
hcq@planetvoodoo.com. In the subject
line, please put HCQ Journal Submission.
· All
tables, figures and other graphics should be at the end of the article,
appropriately labeled, and camera ready, with reference to each in the
content body (i.e. see figure 1).
· References
should be provided at the end of the manuscript.
References
should be provided at the end of the manuscript.
· A
cover page should be included with the manuscript. The cover page should
include the title of the article, the date of submission, and the
following information for all
authors: name, official title and
affiliation, office and/or home contact information (address, phone and
fax numbers, email addresses). The manuscript should have the title
of the article and the date of submission on the top of the first page
of the manuscript. Please include a page containing a short 1 paragraph
biography for each author and attach it to the original.
· Manuscripts
submitted to the Journal must be original and unpublished work of the author(s) and must not be under consideration by other publications.
Exceptions to this policy must be discussed with the Editor in Chief.
· It
is the author’s responsibility to obtain any necessary written
permission for use of copyrighted material contained within the article.
· HCQ
style is based on APA style as outlined in the
Publication Manual of
the American Psychological Association.
This determines such elements as capitalization, hyphenation, use of
numerals or spelled-out numbers, and form of parenthetical references.
All submissions are edited and proofed according to these
guidelines. Layperson articles are not held to as stringent
standards. For more information, please visit: http://www.apastyle.org/learn/faqs/index.aspx
In addition to manual editing and proofing
by the editors, all articles are submitted to a plagiarism detection
service. Do not submit any content that is not original because you will
be found out and rejected.
Submission to HCQ does not mean your
manuscript or article will be accepted for publication. If you are
serious about being published, you must follow the submission guidelines
or your submission will be rejected.
Historically inaccurate information will be
rejected, so check your facts. Opinions should be stated as such; facts
need to be backed up by references to legitimate sources (not
Wikipedia).
If the editors are interested, they will
contact you. You retain all rights to your work. Submitting an
article, manuscript, artwork, or photograph indicates your permission to
publish the piece in HCQ.
Please note: If the technique you wish to share with our
readers was learned in a class, a workshop, or from an art or craft
book,
Hoodoo & Conjure Quarterly™
requires that you give
credit to the author or teacher who instructed you.
All samples, queries, and correspondences
should be forwarded to Denise Alvarado, Editor in Chief, Hoodoo &
Conjure Quarterly, 5700 E. Market St. #2016, Prescott Valley, AZ. 86314,
USA. The editor welcomes brief e-mail queries: denisealvarado@planetvoodoo.com.
Please pay attention to the format of your
email. If you send an email with ridiculously informal punctuation,
typos, and incorrect grammar, you will not receive a response. We are
interested in serious inquiries only.
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