Submit an Article
The Editorial Board of the journal ROSSICA. Literary Contacts & Connections considers original essays and publications in Russian, English, French, German, that are relevant to the journal’s subject matter and have not been previously published.
Essays are submitted via email litfakt_rossica@mail.ru
Style Sheet
1. Submissions. Articles should be submitted as e-mail attachments to litfakt_rossica@mail.ru. The file name should contain author’s name and the year.
Example: Smith_2017.doc
2. General style
ROSSICA. Literary Contacts & Connections follows Webster’s Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary for spelling, and strict Library of Congress transliteration of Russian.
3. Opener: Your name and the title of your paper should be printed in Times New Roman, font size 14, centered. The title should be short and descriptive of the content. Below are: information about the author: name, patronimic (if applicable), surname, academic degree (if any), rank (if any), position, full name of the institution, city, country, ORCID ID, E-mail (font size 12); the keywords (5–10), the abstract (200–250 words), acknowledgement(s) (font 12).
Example:
Olga Yu. Panova
“Soviet Russia and the Negro”: Claude McKay in the Soviet Union, 1922–1923
Information about the author:
Olga Yu. Panova, Doctor hab. of Philology, Leading Research Fellow, A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia; Professor, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia. E-mail: olgapanova65@gmail.com
Keywords: Claude McKay, Soviet Russia, travelogue, memoir, Soviet-American literary contacts, Comintern, Leon Trotsky, Grigory Zinoviev, Korney and Nikolai Chukovsky, archival documents.
Abstract: The paper offers a detailed reconstruction of Claude McKay’s travel to the USSR (November 1922 – early June 1923). Two texts by Claude McKay describing his pilgrimage to revolutionary Russia – “Soviet Russia and the Negro”, his travel essay published in The Crisis (December 1923 – January 1924) and his memoir A Long Way from Home (1937) – help to recreate his seven month stay there, its historical and literary context. Facts stated by McKay are being checked, verified, specified and supplemented by referring to Soviet, American and Britain press, unpublished materials from Russian archives, memoirs and diaries of McKay’s contemporaries. The Russian translation of Claude McKay’s essay “Soviet Russia and the Negro” and Grigory Zinoviev’s letter to McKay are published in the Addendum.
Acknowledgements: The research was carried out at A.M. Gorky Institute of World Literature of the Russian Academy of Sciences and was financially supported by the Russian Science Foundation, grant no 23-18-00393, “Russia and the West viewing each other: Literature at the intersection of culture and politics, XX century”, https://rscf.ru/en/project/23-18-00393/.
The author expresses her sincere gratitude to Victoria Popova for providing unpublished materials from St.-Petersburg archives.
4. Text: The text should be printed in Microsoft Word, format А4, margins 25 mm at all sides, font Times New Roman, font size – 12, line spacing 1,5, indentation (new paragraph) 1,25, portrait orientation without hyphens. Foreign twords should be translated whenever possible. Those that must remain in a foreign language should be in italics and transliterated according to the Library of Congress system of translation. Numbers one to ten should be spelled out; those 11 and over must be in numerals. Exceptions: If the number is the first word in the sentence, it should be written out, regardless of size (Eight hundred men went to the army). Dates: day month year (1 October 2003).
5. Footnotes:
Please use Chicago style (The Chicago Manual of Style, 2017) for the footnotes and references.
Footnotes are placed at the bottom of a page. They cite comments or references to archived documents and other historical sources (old periodicals and editions) that are not included in the list of references (bibliography). Please insert automatic footnotes. Footnote font: Times New Roman, size — 11. The footnote number is placed immediately after the word to which the footnote citation refers.
Please do not use “op. cit.” Use short titles instead. “Ibid.” may be used (and is never italicized), but avoid “op. cit.”
Please do not use “idem.”! Repeat the author’s or editor’s name instead of using “idem.”
Examples:
Book editions:
Зверев А.М. Модернизм в литературе США: формирование, эволюция, кризис. М.: Наука, 1979.
Gates H.L. Jr. Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial” Self. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Chapters, essays in collections / companions^
Иванов П.П. Жанровое своеобразие постсоветского детектива // Жанр и стиль / ред. В.Е. Смыслова. М.: 2003. С. 20-26.
Jakobson R. On Linguistic Aspect of Translation // The Translation Studies Reader / ed. J. Crane. London: Routledge, 2000, pp. 113–118.
Periodicals:
Никольский С.А. Мировоззрение русского земледельца в романной прозе И.С. Тургенева // Вопросы философии. 2008. № 5. С. 80–95.
Мессерер Б. Промельк Беллы // Знамя. 2011. № 9. URL: http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/2011/9/me11.html (дата обращения: 22.01.2020).
Маккей К. Домой в Гарлем / пер. З. Вершининой // Вестник иностранной литературы. 1928. № 11. С. 33-95.
Немировская О. Навстречу реализму // Литературный Ленинград. 1936. 6 июня.
Foster Ch.I. The Colonization of Free Negroes // Journal of Negro History. Vol. 28. No. 1. January 1953. P. 40–51.
Bent H.E. Professionalization of the Ph.D. Degree // College Composition and Communication. Vol. 58. No. 4. 2007. Summer. P. 1–145. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978286.
Wilson E. “Evgeni Onegin”: In Honor of Pushkin, 1799–1837 // New Republic. 1937. December 9.
Youngsmith B. Date Local: The case against long-distance relationships // Green Room. 2008. October 22. http://www.slate.com/id/2202431 (accessed 21.02.2021).
Morris W. The World Below. Review of “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison // New York Times. 1952. April 13.
Dissertations:
Choi M. Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008.
Скворцов П.Е. Ранние памятники литературы США (1730-1760-е гг.): проблема жанра. Дисс. … к. филол. н., СПбГУ, 2000.
Archival materials:
In references to archives, write out the full name of the archive at the first reference and thereafter cite it by the standard acronym. Please identify fonds and documents on first use, if possible.
The Russian State Archive of Literature and Arts (RGALI) f. 1 (Maxim Gorky Papers), inv. 1, it. 336:1 (M.Gorky’s Letter to V. Lenin, 12 October 1920).
RGALI, f. 1, inv. 1, it. 336:l.
РГАЛИ. Ф. 2210. Оп. 1. Ед. хр. 10.
James Oglethorpe to the Trustees, 13 January 1733, Phillipps Collection of Egmont Manuscripts, 14200:13, University of Georgia Library.
Alvin Johnson, memorandum, 1937, file 36, Horace Kallen Papers, YIVO Institute for Jewish Research, New York.
6. Bibliography
At the end of the article, add a numbered list of references organized in alphabetical order.
The list is divided into two sections: “Литература” (publications in Cyrillic), “Translit” (Cyrillic references transliterated into Latin) and “References” (publications in Latin).
All the references in Cyrillic are to be transliterated. Please use the website https://translit.ru/ and select a variant of the Library of Congress (LC) Library. Copy and paste the transliterated text into the References list. Please copyedit the transliterated list in accordance with the Chicago style (The Chicago Manual of Style, 2017). Add translations of the book titles and titles of the articles after transliterated titles in brackets.
Examples:
Литература
Зверев А.М. Модернизм в литературе США: формирование, эволюция, кризис. М.: Наука, 1979.
Никольский С.А. Мировоззрение русского земледельца в романной прозе И.С. Тургенева // Вопросы философии. 2008. № 5. С. 80–95.
Мессерер Б. Промельк Беллы // Знамя. 2011. № 9. URL: http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/2011/9/me11.html (дата обращения: 22.01.2020).
Translit:
Zverev A.M. Modernism v literature SShA: formirovaniye, evolutsia, krisis [Modernism in American Literature: Emergence, Evolution, Crisis]. Moscow: Nauka Publ., 1979. (In Russ.)
Nikol’skii S.A. “Mirovozzrenie russkogo zemledeltsa v romannoi prose I.S. Turgeneva” [“The Word Outlook of a Russian Peasant in I.S. Turgenev’s Prose”]. Vestnik MGOU 5 (2008): 80–95. (In Russ.)
Messerer B. “Promel’k Belly” [“Bella’s Flashing”]. Znamya 9 (2011). http://magazines.russ.ru/znamia/2011/9/me11.html (accessed 21.01.2020) (In Russ.)
References:
Book editions:
Gates H.L. Jr. Figures in Black: Words, Signs, and the “Racial” Self. New York: Oxford University Press, 1987.
Chapters, essays in collections / companions:
Jakobson R. “On Linguistic Aspect of Translation.” In The Translation Studies Reader, ed. J. Crane. London: Routledge, 2000: 113–118.
Scholarly periodicals:
Foster Ch.I. “The Colonization of Free Negroes.” Journal of Negro History 28: 1 (January 1953): 40–51.
Bent H.E. “Professionalization of the Ph.D. Degree.” College Composition and Communication 58: 4 (2007): 1–145. http://www.jstor.org/stable/1978286. (accsessed 21.02.2021)
Dissertations:
Choi M. Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty. PhD diss., University of Chicago, 2008.Скворцов П.Е. Ранние памятники литературы США (1730-1760-е гг.): проблема жанра. Дисс. … к. филол. н., СПбГУ, 2000.
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At the first stage of the reviewing process, the Editorial Department reviews manuscripts on the subject of their compliance with the journal’s formal requirements.
Manuscripts that do not meet the formal requirements or the subject scope of the journal will not be considered or peer reviewed. The Editorial Board decides whether the essay shall not be considered or accepted for publication.
Manuscripts that meet the formal requirements or the subject scope of the journal are sent to two independent reviewers in the specific field of the submitted manuscript.
The essay undergoes a double “blind” review process, e.g. when any of the reviewers knows the author’s name nor the author knows the names of the reviewers.
The invited reviewers may be members of the Editorial Board or any other highly qualified experts from IWL RAS and other institutions. Reviewers must follow the principles of Publishing Ethics accepted by the journal.
Reviews are written in a free form or according to the scheme developed by the Editorial Board.
The review is sent to the author on his or her request without indicating the reviewer’s name, job title, and place of work. If the reviewer recommends that the author revises/makes minor revisions and resubmits the manuscript, he or she will be sent a partial text of the review with suggestions without indicating the reviewer’s name, job title, and place of work. In case of rejection, the author will receive a motivated refusal.
The essay sent to the author for revision shall be returned by the time specified in the letter.
The essay rejected by reviewers shall not be resubmitted or considered at the Editorial Board meeting.
The time period of the review is determined in each particular case considering the most rapid possible publication of the essay. It takes the maximum of three months to have the manuscript reviewed.
The manuscripts that have successfully undergone the peer review process will be considered at the Editorial Board meeting. After making a decision about the essay’s acceptance, the author will receive a letter briefly informing him or her about the results of the review and the possible date of publication. The editorial board of the journal reserves the right to carry out scientific and literary editing of materials accepted for publication, if necessary, reduce them in agreement with the author.
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