File Type and Format
All manuscripts should be submitted as Microsoft Word files (i.e., docx files), not PDF files.
The document should be formatted as follows:
- Double-spacing: Please double-space all pages, including notes and references
- Alignment: The document should be left-aligned, not justified.
- Font: Please use a san-serif font (e.g. Arial, Calibri, Tahoma, Verdana) and not a serif font (e.g. Times New Roman, Garamond, Cambria)
Anonymity
To facilitate our anonymous review process, please ensure that you or your institution cannot be identified in the manuscript or the abstract (for example: personal references, acknowledgments, conferences or seminars attended, name in document title, etc). Any citations to your own previously published work should be cited as if you, the writer, are not also the author of that work. Please do not redact a citation unless its role in the text makes it absolutely impossible to cite it as if it was by someone other than yourself. Please do not cite your own unpublished work. If resubmitting a manuscript, please ensure that the 'Author's Response' is anonymous, as this will be seen by the referees (additional information can be supplied in the 'Author's Cover Letter' if needed). If a manuscript includes essential reference to the yourself (e.g., autobiographical detail crucial to the content of the paper), we ask that you remove as much identifying information as possible and confirm with the Editor (in your cover letter) your understanding that it may not be possible to ensure anonymity in the review process.
Abstract
Articles and Musings should include an abstract of no more than 200 words. All other submission types (e.g. Book Reviews, Review Essays, Translations) do not require an abstract.
Figures
If a manuscript includes figures, illustrations, or artwork, authors must submit these files with their final draft. Please confirm arrangements for figures with the Managing Editor before submitting an accepted manuscript for production. See the section on “Illustrations, Images, and Graphics” on the Submission Guidelines page.
Non-Latin Characters
The journal's policy is to include non-Latin characters (alongside transliterations and translations) only where the non-Latin Character itself is the subject of discussion; authors who feel they have a strong reason to deviate from this policy are invited to discuss this with the editors at the point of acceptance.
Spelling
You can use any English spelling (e.g. American, British, etc.) so long as the spelling is internally consistent. The only exception is when directly quoting a source, in which case, the quote should be in the original language
Punctuation
Hypatia uses the serial, or Oxford, comma. For example: “Vulnerability, Ignorance, and Oppression” instead of “Vulnerability, Ignorance and Oppression”.
References
References need not be formatted before review, but they must be formatted before a manuscript can be copy-edited and sent into production. Please ensure that your references conform to these guidelines.
In Text Citations:
We use the author/date system for in-text citations, as described in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2003). In the text or in notes, citations should take the following form: (author year, page number); for example (Card 2003, 65). The page number alone can be used if understood from the context; for example (65). Multiple citations should be in chronological order, and, if in the same year, alphabetical within year; for example (England 2004; Pierce 2005; Pratt 2005; Jiwani and Young 2006).
References:
A list of all works cited in the manuscript should be included after the notes in a section titled "References." The titles of articles and books included in the reference list should follow sentence capitalization style: only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized. Quotation marks should not be used for the titles of articles. Book and journal titles should be italicized. Journal citations should include both volume and issue numbers. For example:
Books:
Oluo, Ijeoma. 2018. So you want to talk about race. New York: Seal Press.
Deloria, Jr., Vine. 1999. Spirit and reason: The Vine Deloria, Jr. reader, ed. Barbara Deloria, Kristen Foehner, and Sam Scinta. Golden Fulcrum Publishing.
Journal Articles:
McDonald, CeCe. 2017. "Go beyond our natural selves": The prison letters of CeCe McDonald. Transgender Studies Quarterly 4 (2): 243–65.
Chapter from a Book:
Anzaldúa, Gloria. 2015. Speaking in tongues: A letter to Third World women writers. In This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color, 4th ed., ed. Cherríe Moraga and Gloria Anzaldúa. Albany: SUNY Press.
Two or More Authors:
Collins, Patricia Hill, and Sirma Bilge. 2016. Intersectionality. Cambridge: Polity.
Newspaper Article:
Dabashi, Hamid. 2013. Can non-Europeans think? Al Jazeera, January 15.
Website:
National Down Syndrome Society. 2002. About Down Syndrome. http://www.ndss.org/aboutds/aboutds.html.
Legal Document:
Education for All Handicapped Children Act. 1975. U.S. Public Law 94-142, U.S. Code. Vol. 20, sec. 1400 et seq.
