Submission Guidelines

Below is a basic checklist to assess if your article is a fit for Feminist Anthropology and to determine if it is ready to send to us for consideration.

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• The manuscript is based on original research and includes appropriate evidence, be it ethnographic, somatic, linguistic, material or otherwise.

• The manuscript engages relevant literatures that demonstrate a consideration of citational politics. Like the editorial team at PoLAR reminds us, “Citations are effective when they are relevant to your research questions and arguments. Sometimes these will include concepts and ideas that are currently popular, highly cited, or foundational concepts in the field. Sometimes the best fit for your analysis will come from less frequently cited works.” For further discussion of citational politics, please reference Sarah Ahmed’s  "Making Feminist Points ;” Lynn Bolles’s “ Telling the Story Straight: Black Feminist Intellectual Thought in Anthropology ;” and Catherine Lutz’s “ The Erasure of Women’s Writing in Sociocultural Anthropology .”

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Once the submission materials have been prepared in accordance with the author guidelines, new submissions should be made online via the Research Exchange submission portal: https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/FEA2. 

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You may check the status of your submission at any time by logging on to submission.wiley.com and clicking the "My Submissions" button. For technical help with the submission system, please review Wiley’s Research Exchange Author Help Documents or contact submissionhelp@wiley.com.

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For other help with submissions, please contact: feminist.anthropology.journal@gmail.com 

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This journal does not charge submission fees.

 

Free Format submission

• FA now offers Free Format submission for a simplified and streamlined submission process.

• Before you submit, you will need:

• Your manuscript: this should be an editable file including text, figures, and tables, or separate files—whichever you prefer. All required sections should be contained in your manuscript, including abstract, introduction, methods, results, and conclusions. Figures and tables should have legends. Figures should be uploaded in the highest resolution possible. If the figures are not of sufficiently high quality your manuscript may be delayed. References may be submitted in any style or format, as long as it is consistent throughout the manuscript. Supporting information should be submitted in separate files. If the manuscript, figures or tables are difficult for you to read, they will also be difficult for the editors and reviewers, and the editorial office will send it back to you for revision. Your manuscript may also be sent back to you for revision if the quality of English language is poor.

• An ORCID ID, freely available at https://orcid.org. (Why is this important? Your article, if accepted and published, will be attached to your ORCID profile. Institutions and funders are increasingly requiring authors to have ORCID IDs.)

• The title page of the manuscript, including:

• Your co-author details, including affiliation and email address. (Why is this important? We need to keep all co-authors informed of the outcome of the peer review process.)

• Statements relating to our ethics and integrity policies, which may include any of the following (Why are these important? We need to uphold rigorous ethical standards for the research we consider for publication):

• data availability statement

• funding statement

• conflict of interest disclosure

• ethics approval statement

• patient consent statement

• permission to reproduce material from other sources

• clinical trial registration

• Important: the journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy. Please anonymize your manuscript and supply a separate title page file.

• To submit, login at https://wiley.atyponrex.com/journal/FEA2 and create a new submission. Follow the submission steps as required and submit the manuscript.

 

Open Access

• This journal is a subscription journal that offers an Open Access option. You’ll have the option to make your article open access after acceptance, which will be subject to an APC unless a waiver applies. Read more about APCs here.

 

Preprint Policy

• Please find the Wiley preprint policy here.

• This journal accepts articles previously published on preprint servers.

• FA will consider for review articles previously available as preprints. You may also post the submitted version of a manuscript to a preprint server at any time. You are requested to update any pre-publication versions with a link to the final published article.

• This Journal operates a double-anonymized peer review process. Authors are responsible for anonymizing their manuscript in order to remain anonymous to the reviewers throughout the peer review process (see “Main Text File” above for more details). Since the journal also encourages posting of preprints, however, please note that if authors share their manuscript in preprint form this may compromise their anonymity during peer review.

 

Data Sharing and Data Availability

• This journal encourages data sharing. Review Wiley’s Data Sharing policy where you will be able to see and select the data availability statement that is right for your submission.

 

Data Citation

• Please review Wiley’s Data Citation policy.

 

Data Protection

• By submitting a manuscript to or reviewing for this publication, your name, email address, and affiliation, and other contact details the publication might require, will be used for the regular operations of the publication. Please review Wiley’s Data Protection Policy to learn more.

 

Funding

• You should list all funding sources in the Acknowledgments section. You are responsible for the accuracy of their funder designation. If in doubt, please check the Open Funder Registry for the correct nomenclature.

 

Authorship

• All listed authors should have contributed to the manuscript substantially and have agreed to the final submitted version. Review editorial standards and scroll down for a description of authorship criteria.

 

Author Pronouns

• Authors may now include their personal pronouns in the author bylines of their published articles and on Wiley Online Library. Authors will never be required to include their pronouns; it will always be optional for the author.  Authors can include their pronouns in their manuscript upon submission and can add, edit, or remove their pronouns at any stage upon request. Submitting/corresponding authors should never add, edit, or remove a coauthor’s pronouns without that coauthor’s consent. Where post-publication changes to pronouns are required, these can be made without a correction notice to the paper, following Wiley’s Name Change Policy to protect the author’s privacy. Terms which fall outside of the scope of personal pronouns (e.g. proper or improper nouns), are currently not supported.

 

ORCID

• This journal requires ORCID. Please refer to Wiley’s resources on ORCID.

 

Reproduction of Copyright Material

• If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is your responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners. For more information visit Wiley’s Copyright Terms & Conditions FAQ.

• The corresponding author is responsible for obtaining written permission to reproduce the material "in print and other media" from the publisher of the original source, and for supplying Wiley with that permission upon submission.

 

Elements of the Manuscript

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Title Page 

• The title page should contain: 

• A brief informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations (see Wiley's best practice SEO tips); 

• A short running title of less than 40 characters;

• The full names of the authors; 

• The author's institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted; 

• Acknowledgments. 

• Details IRB or equivalent approvals or exemption from review, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate

• All conflicts of interest, or none, on submission.

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• Important: the journal operates a double-anonymized peer review policy. Please anonymize your manuscript and prepare a separate title page containing author details.

 

Main Text File

• Please ensure that all identifying information such as author names and affiliations, acknowledgements or explicit mentions of author institution in the text are on a separate page.

• The main text file should be in Word or PDF format.

• Your main document file should include:

• A short informative title containing the major key words. The title should not contain abbreviations;

• The full names of the authors with institutional affiliations where the work was conducted, with a footnote for the author’s present address if different from where the work was conducted;

• Acknowledgments;

• Abstract structured (intro/methods/results/conclusion) or unstructured;

• Up to seven keywords;

• Practitioner Points (optional) Authors will need to provide no more than 3 ‘key points’, written with the practitioner in mind, that summarize the key messages of their paper to be published with their article;

• Main body: formatted as per the author(s) prerogative. Typically, the main body should have in some form an introduction, materials & methods, results, discussion, conclusion;

• References;

• Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);

• Figure legends: Legends should be supplied as a complete list in the text. Figures should be uploaded as separate files (see below).

 

Reference Style

• This journal uses Chicago reference style; as the journal offers Free Format submission, however, this is for information only and you do not need to format the references in your article. This will instead be taken care of by the typesetter.

 

Figures and Supporting Information

• Figures, supporting information, and appendices should be supplied as separate files. You should review the basic figure requirements for manuscripts for peer review, as well as the more detailed post-acceptance figure requirements. View Wiley’s FAQs on supporting information.

 

Peer Review

• This journal operates under a double-anonymized peer review model. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are peer reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. IF the reviewers suggest a major revision, it will go through a second review with the original reviewers (if they are willing/able) or a new set of reviewers (if the original reviewers are unwilling/unable) Papers will only be sent to review if the Co-Editors-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.

• In-house submissions, i.e. papers authored by Editors or Editorial Board members of the title, will be sent to Editors unaffiliated with the author or institution and monitored carefully to ensure there is no peer review bias.

• Wiley's policy on the confidentiality of the review process is available here.

 

Appeals and Complaints

• Authors may appeal an editorial decision if they feel that the decision to reject was based on either a significant misunderstanding of a core aspect of the manuscript, a failure to understand how the manuscript advances the literature or concerns regarding the manuscript-handling process. Differences in opinion regarding the novelty or significance of the reported findings are not considered as grounds for appeal. To raise an appeal, please contact the journal by email, quoting your manuscript ID number and explaining your rationale for the appeal. The editor’s decision following an appeal consideration is final.

• To raise a complaint regarding editorial staff, policy or process please contact the journal in the first instance. If you believe further support outside the journal’s management is necessary, please refer to Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics.

 

Refer and Transfer Program

• Wiley believes that no valuable research should go unshared. This journal participates in Wiley’s Refer & Transfer program. If your manuscript is not accepted, you may receive a recommendation to transfer your manuscript to another suitable Wiley journal, either through a referral from the journal’s editor or through our Transfer Desk Assistant.

 

Guidelines on Publishing and Research Ethics in Journal Articles

• The journal requires that you include in the manuscript submission process full details IRB or equivalent approvals or exemption from review, ethical treatment of human and animal research participants, and gathering of informed consent, as appropriate. You will be expected to declare all conflicts of interest, or none, on submission. Please review Wiley’s policies surrounding human studies, animal studies, clinical trial registration, biosecurity, and research reporting guidelines.

• This journal follows the core practices of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and handles cases of research and publication misconduct accordingly (https://publicationethics.org/core-practices).

• This journal uses iThenticate’s CrossCheck software to detect instances of overlapping and similar text in submitted manuscripts. Read Wiley’s Top 10 Publishing Ethics Tips for Authors and Wiley’s Publication Ethics Guidelines.

 

After Acceptance

First Look

• After your paper is accepted, your files will be assessed by the editorial office to ensure they are ready for production. You may be contacted if any updates or final files are required. Otherwise, your paper will be sent to the production team.

 

Wiley Author Services

• When an accepted article is received by Wiley’s production team, the corresponding author will receive an email asking them to login or register with Wiley Author Services. You will be asked to sign a publication license at this point as well as pay for any applicable APCs.

 

Copyright & Licensing

• You may choose to publish under the terms of the journal’s standard copyright agreement, or Open Access under the terms of a Creative Commons License.

• Standard re-use and licensing rights vary by journal. Note that certain funders mandate a particular type of CC license be used. This journal uses the CC-BY/CC-BY-NC/CC-BY-NC-ND Creative Commons License.

• Self-Archiving Definitions and Policies: Note that the journal’s standard copyright agreement allows for self-archiving of different versions of the article under specific conditions.

 

Early View

• Upon publication, articles are available as full text HTML or PDF in Early View prior to inclusion in an issue and can be cited as references using their Digital Object Identifier (DOI) number.

 

Proofs

• Authors will receive an e-mail notification with a link and instructions for accessing HTML page proofs online. Authors should also make sure that any renumbered tables, figures, or references match text citations and that figure legends correspond with text citations and actual figures. Proofs must be returned within 48 hours of receipt of the email.

 

Author Name Change Policy

• In cases where authors wish to change their name following publication, Wiley will update and republish the paper and redeliver the updated metadata to indexing services. Our editorial and production teams will use discretion in recognizing that name changes may be of a sensitive and private nature for various reasons including (but not limited to) alignment with gender identity, or as a result of marriage, divorce, or religious conversion. Accordingly, to protect the author’s privacy, we will not publish a correction notice to the paper, and we will not notify co-authors of the change. Authors should contact the journal’s Editorial Office with their name change request.

 

Correction to Authorship

• In accordance with Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines on Research Integrity and Publishing Ethics and the Committee on Publication Ethics’ guidance, Feminist Anthropology will allow authors to correct authorship on a submitted, accepted, or published article if a valid reason exists to do so. All authors – including those to be added or removed – must agree to any proposed change. To request a change to the author list, please complete the Request for Changes to a Journal Article Author List Form and contact either the journal’s editorial or production office, depending on the status of the article. Authorship changes will not be considered without a fully completed Author Change form. [Correcting the authorship is different from changing an author’s name; the relevant policy for that can be found in Wiley’s Best Practice Guidelines under “Author name changes after publication.”]

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Embedded Rich Media

• This journal has the option for authors to embed rich media (i.e. video and audio) within their final article. These files should be submitted with the manuscript files online, using either the “Embedded Video” or “Embedded Audio” file designation. If the video/audio includes dialogue, a transcript should be included as a separate file. The combined manuscript files, including video, audio, tables, figures, and text must not exceed 350 MB. For full guidance on accepted file types and resolution please see here.

• Ensure each file is numbered (e.g. Video 1, Video 2, etc.). Legends for the rich media files should be placed at the end of the article.

• The content of the video should not display overt product advertising. Educational presentations are encouraged.

• Any narration should be in English, if possible. A typed transcript of any speech within the video/audio should be provided. An English translation of any non-English speech should be provided in the transcript.

• All embedded rich media will be subject to peer review. Editors reserve the right to request edits to rich media files as a condition of acceptance. Contributors are asked to be succinct, and the Editors reserve the right to require shorter video/audio duration. The video/audio should be high quality (both in content and visibility/audibility). The video/audio should make a specific point; particularly, it should demonstrate the features described in the text of the manuscript.

• Participant Consent: It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to seek informed consent from any identifiable participant in the rich media files. Masking a participant’s eyes, or excluded head and shoulders is not sufficient. Please ensure that a consent form (https://authorservices.wiley.com/author-resources/Journal-Authors/licensing/licensing-info-faqs.html) is provided for each participant.

 

ELocators

• This journal now uses eLocators. eLocators are unique identifiers for an article that service the same function page numbers have traditionally served in the print world. For more information, please visit the Author Services eLocator page here.