Oceania

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Editors:
Jadran Mimica and Nancy Williams
Department of Anthropology, SSPS, Mills Building A26, University of Sydney
Department of Anthropology, University of Queensland

[Jadran.Mimica@sydney.edu.au] [n.williams@uq.edu.au ]

Editorial Assistant
Tigger Wise
Oceania Publications, 116 Darlington Road (H42), University of Sydney
[tigger.wise@sydney.edu.au]

The journal

Oceania is a fully refereed journal which is published online and in print versions three times a year.  Oceania publishes contributions in the field of social and cultural anthropology.  Its primary regional orientation is to the peoples of Australia, Melanesia, Polynesia, Micronesia and insular southeast Asia.  The central concern of the journal lies with papers that are the product of sustained ethnographic research, but review articles and papers that have direct bearing on the central ethnographic concerns of the journal are also accepted.   Correspondence and shorter comments may be published at the discretion of the editor.
Submissions must be original works not previously published and not under consideration, or scheduled for publication, by another publisher.  Manuscripts should generally be 5,000 to 12,000 words including references.  However, we also recognize that in an ethnographic journal there is a place for longer papers that are not yet on the scale of a monograph.

Information for Authors

1. All manuscripts should be submitted to Oceania, University of Sydney (H42), 116 Darlington Road, NSW 2006 Australia. Emailed submissions should be sent to tigger.wise@sydney.edu.au

2. The editors welcome full-length articles of 5,000 to 12,000 words, and shorter comments on topical issues.  Authors who would like to offer review articles should contact the editors.   Longer articles will be considered.

3.  Articles should be printed in double space on one side of the paper only, with a 4 cm margin on both sides.  Please submit a total of 2 copies along with an .RTF version on CD.  If, for formatting reason, an .RTF version is not adequate, please include an anonymous .PDF version for refereeing purposes. Avoid phonetic symbols and underlining where possible.  Foreign words should be italicized throughout the text.  Full-length articles should supply an abstract of not more than 200 words, and not more than 5 keywords.  Title pages should include the authors’ institutional affiliations.

4.  Use in-text referencing in the form (Jones 1974:29; Smith 1980, 1989). For a series of references within a set of brackets either date or author ordering is acceptable, but please ensure consistency of style throughout the article.  Notes should be used as sparingly as possible.  Place them at the end of the manuscript and number them consecutively throughout the text.  Short quotations (less than 30 words) should be placed in single quotes.  Longer quotes should be placed in indented paragraphs without quote marks.

5.  Lists of references should be typed alphabetically in accordance with the following style:
BERNDT, R. and C. BERNDT.  1974.  Card games among the Aborigines of the Northern Territory.  Oceania 17: 248-69.
1964.  The World of the First Australians.  Sydney: Ure Smith
LEACH, E.  1983.  The Kula: New perspectives on Massim exchange, pp. 529-38.  Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.              Please ensure consistency of style.

6.  Tables, maps and illustrations should be on separate pages, numbered and with headings.  Indicate where in the text they should appear.  Maps and illustrations should be black on white paper, measuring the intended final size – our pages measure 131 x 201 mm. Oceania cannot redraw illustrations and may ask for a production subsidy for elaborate diagrams and maps.  Photographs should be glossy black and white prints, preferably 200 x 250 mm. Digital images in TIFF format and minimum 300 dpi resolution at the publishable size are acceptable.  Acknowledge the photographer and/or source of any image not your own and please check on copyright issues.

7.  All full-length articles within the remit of the journal are submitted to referees, whose comments are passed anonymously to authors.  Final responsibility for acceptance rests with the editors.  Responsibility for opinions remains with the authors. 

8.  When articles have been accepted in their final form they should be presented for publication as a Word file AND in .RTF format on CD, accompanied by one hard copy.  Please ensure that the hard copy accurately reflects any use of unusual fonts, characters or symbols. KEEP FORMATTING AND USE OF TABS AND SPACES TO A MINIMUM.  Authors will not receive proofs for correction, but will be consulted about any substantial changes to the text.

9.  The editors reserve the right to shorten correspondence.

Oceania is indexed in APAIS: Australian Public Affairs Information Service produced by the National Library of Australia in both online and printed form, in Anthropological Literature in online and printed form, in Anthropological Index Online (www.aio.anthropology.org.uk/aiosearch/), in Current Contents, International Bibliography of the Social Sciences, Research Alert, Social Sciences Citation Index.

Back issues

All back issues to 2005 are now available through JSTOR Arts and Sciences IX

Many back issues, especially from Volume 50 (1979) onwards, are available in printed form.  Send us an email to enquire .
Volumes 1 – 70: $A5 ($US4) per number, postage and GST included.
Volumes 71-77: $A15 ($US12) per number, postage and GST included.

Single articles

Single articles are available through the following collections:
Gale Group (InfoTrac Onefile)
Social Sciences Index
Ingenta.com (UnCover Plus)
Ebsco (Academic Research Premier; Religion and Philosophy collection)

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