New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession Submission

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New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession is hosted by the University of California's California Digital Library. NCSPP is sustained through the voluntary labor of our editorial collective, University of Freiburg graduate interns, our advisory board members, peer reviewers and our authors. 

We ask that authors read through the guidelines below carefully, keeping in mind that we not employ paid staff or copy editors because our resources are limited. Essays that do not follow the guidelines and conventions below will be sent back to authors or cluster guest editors for revision before they can be published.

We thank you for your efforts to keep New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession accessible to all.  We welcome any questions you have about style, citation, or any other matters related to our publication process. 

We look forward to working with you.

  • Submission should present original, previously unpublished materials.
  • Essays should use the author-date format of the Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. References to primary or secondary sources should be cited within the main text, with the year following the author’s name or with a parenthetical citation with the following (last name year of publication, page number). 
  • These references should be keyed to a Works Cited page at the end of the essay. 
  • Works Cited should include all entries, whatever the medium, alphabetized in a list. In other words, do not divide between print and online sources.
  • Relatedly, the access date for online sources not needed unless the website is undated.
  • Works Cited should include the DOI for journal articles.
  • Footnotes should be used sparingly.
  • Use consistent spelling (either American or British).
  • Use consistent single- / double-quotation formats.
  • Manuscripts should be double-spaced, including all notes and the Works Cited. Use a 12-point font and 1” margins all around.
  • Use a single-space after periods, commas, semi-colons, and colons.
  • Only use quotation marks around words/ phrases that are quotations and that are followed by an in-text parenthetical citation. Avoid the casual use of quotation marks.
  • Italicize foreign words and phrases.
  • Translate all foreign-language quotations.
  • Replace Latin abbreviations with English equivalents.
  • Italicizing or underlining for emphasis should be done sparingly.
  • Section breaks should be indicated by bolding and centering a subheading title.
  • Authors must obtain high quality images (and any relevant permissions) if they wish to use illustrations. We recommend authors take advantage of options that do not require permissions:
    • Use Creative Commons or similarly licensed content.
    • Find works in the public domain.
    • Apply Fair Use.

Consider if you wish to have your essay evaluated according to a strict, double-blind review process. If so, please anonymize your essay and indicate your decision in your submission e-mail.

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About

Sponsored by the New Chaucer Society, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession offers essays, news, and resources for teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age. Published annually, this peer-reviewed, open-access journal is dedicated to our work inside both the classroom and the institution, as well as to our outward-facing work contributing to the public discourse. In these ways, the journal seeks to advance a broad and embracing conception of medieval literary studies.

Focus and Scope

This peer-reviewed, open access journal offers brief essays on teaching, service, and institutional environments/ cultures geared toward teachers and scholars of Geoffrey Chaucer and his age. Drawing on a wide range of contributors, including independent scholars and educators at K-12/primary and secondary schools, New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession publishes essays concerned with usefulness, to readers across institutions and non-institutional settings. The journal also aims to be geographically inclusive in order to attempt to understand the issues discussed within a global perspective.

Areas for inquiry will include the following:

  • the effect of current events on our profession; 
  • strategies for equity and inclusivity in teaching, recruiting, and hiring;
  • strategies for addressing or rectifying institutional constraints (budgets, criteria for tenure, etc.);
  • teaching methods for medieval literature; including medieval literature in a Gen Ed curriculum and/ or at the level of K-12 and primary and secondary schools;
  • recruiting graduate students for the study of medieval literature;
  • the impact of curricular change on medieval courses;
  • issues of hiring, tenure and promotion;
  • the workings of professional organizations, journals, and conferences;
  • graduate training for a shrinking number of academic jobs;
  • outreach to the public and to colleagues in other disciplines. 

New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession also publishes collaborative essays or responses unified around a single topic and will have a letters section featuring responses to past issues.

Submission Checklist

We follow The Chicago Manual of Style https://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html. If you have questions, please contact us: ncs.pedagogyandprofession@anglistik.uni-freiburg.de

Note that failure to follow these manuscript style rules may result in the return of your manuscript for editing, and in delay or postponement of publication of your article.

 

MATERIALS TO UPLOAD TO THE PORTAL –before editing begins:

£  An electronic version of your essay in MS word format.

£  An abstract for your essay, of no more than 150 words, for use in online indexes and search engines.

 

MANUSCRIPT LAYOUT

£  Double-space all text with 1” / 2,54cm margins.

£  Use Times New Roman, 12-point font.

£  Use a single-space after periods, commas, semi-colons, and colons.

£  Use a consistent single or double quotation mark (for quotations).

£  Number the pages.

£  Indicate section breaks by using a subheading title centered and in bold.

 

CITATIONS (CHICAGO AUTHOR-DATE)

Keep in the mind that the reason for using Chicago Author-Date is to incorporate references into the essay and not send readers to the bottom of the page or end of the article to look at notes. We are aware that some authors may be less familiar with this reference-style than with endnotes/footnotes, and we encourage you to look at a couple of essays here https://escholarship.org/uc/ncs_pedagogyandprofession/5/1 . Please review the following and ensure your essay conforms before uploading the final version.

 

£  Author names that appear in the text are followed by the year of publication in parentheses.

1.      Minnis (2008) argues that the Wife of Bath is a fallible author. OR

2.      Minnis (2008) sees the Wife of Bath as “most blatantly fallible” (4).

£  Anonymously written texts use the translator’s/editor’s name in the parenthetical references.

1.      In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Gawain describes himself as the “weakest” (Armitage 2021, 1.354).

2.      For anonymously written manuscripts, use the name of the library for the author.

£  Every quotation is followed by a parenthetical reference with author, year, and page number: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath is a “most blatantly fallible” author (Minnis 2008, 4).

£  Parenthetical citations appear at the end of the sentence.

£  There is a Works Cited at the end of the essay that follows Chicago Author-Date format.

£  The Works Cited contains all the works referred to in the essay and is alphabetized (no need to separate out mss, print, and online entries).

£  The Works Cited includes DOI for all journal articles.

£  The Works Cited uses the editor-name for anonymously written texts (printed) and library-name for anonymously written manuscripts (not the title!).

£  All footnotes have been removed. One or two content footnotes may be reasonable in a brief essay.

£  All quotations have been double-checked.

£  All bibliographic information in the Works Cited has been double-checked.

 

GENERAL EDITING PRINCIPLES

£  Use consistent spelling conventions (American or British).

£  Leave quotations in their original spelling.

£  We discourage the use of scare quotes (unattributed words or phrases set in quotations “like this”) and the use of italics for emphasized words (unless these are in a quotation, indicated “emphasis added”).

£  Use Arabic numerals for all sections, lines, pages, etc. Only introductions take Roman numerals for page numbers.

£  Translate foreign language quotations, including Old English. No need to translate Middle English.

£  Italicize book titles, foreign words, and foreign phrases, except for Middle English.

£  Use en-dashes for ranges of numbers/ years: 35–36. Not hyphens: -

£  Use em-dashes for parenthetical remarks: he said—or so I thought at the time—to turn in the exam.

 

ILLUSTRATIONS

£  Authors must obtain high quality images and any relevant permissions if they wish to use illustrations.

£  Include the photo in the MS Word document with a caption indicating the permission.

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Copyright Notice

The following is an agreement between New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession (the Journal) and the submitter (the Author), governing the work currently being submitted, including the primary contribution as well as any supporting materials such as an abstract, data sets, media files, figures, or tables created by the Author and any co-authors (the Submission). 
 
The Journal is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to readers or their institutions. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. 
 
1. As consideration for publication in the Journal, the Author grants the Journal the following rights: 
1.1. A non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to publish, reproduce, publicly display, publicly perform and distribute the Submission in perpetuity throughout the world in all means of expression by any method or media now known or hereafter developed; and 
1.2. A non-exclusive, irrevocable, royalty-free right to license others, including databases or printing vendors, to do any or all of the above on a non-exclusive basis. 
 
2. The Author warrants that: 
2.1. The Author is the author of the Submission, or is authorized to act on behalf of the author(s) and copyright holder (if different from the author(s)), and has the power to convey the rights granted in this agreement. 
2.2. If the Submission has multiple authors, the other authors are identified in the Submission, and the Author will inform the other authors of the terms of this agreement. 
2.3. Any textual, graphic or multimedia material included in the Submission that is the intellectual property or work of another is identified and cited in the Submission.  
2.4. If the Submission reproduces any material that is the intellectual property of another, the Author has received permission to publish that material in the Submission, or the material is being incorporated based on an informed, reasonable, and good faith application of fair use. 
2.5. The Submission is the original work of the Author(s). To the best of the Author’s knowledge, it does not contain matter that is obscene, libelous, or defamatory; it does not knowingly violate another’s right of privacy, right of publicity, or other legal right; does not contain false or misleading statements; and is otherwise not unlawful. 
2.6. The Submission has not been previously published, and is not pending review elsewhere. If this is not the case, the Author will provide the Journal with information about the other locations where the Submission appears or is pending review. Prior distribution of a Submission, including on a preprint server or in a repository, does not disqualify a Submission from potential publication; the Journal is primarily concerned with other appearances in similar publications. 
2.7. If the Author is a student, the Author agrees to share their work and waive any privacy rights granted by FERPA or any other law, policy or regulation, with respect to the Submission, for the purpose of publication. If the Author has any student co-authors, the Author will obtain a signed copy of this agreement from those co-authors.  
 
3. Indemnification 
The Author will indemnify and hold the Journal harmless against loss, damages, expenses, awards, and judgments arising from breach of any of the above warranties. 
 
4. Author’s Rights and Obligations 
4.1. Nothing in this agreement constitutes a transfer of the copyright by the Author. As such, the Author retains all rights not expressly granted herein, including but not limited to, the right: 
4.1.1. To reproduce and distribute the Submission, and to authorize others to reproduce and distribute the Submission, in any format; 
4.1.2. To post the Submission in an institutional repository or the Author’s personal or departmental web page. 
4.1.3. To include the Submission, in whole or in part, in another work. 
4.2. If the Author distributes the Submission on another website or in another publication (as described above), the Journal will be cited as the source of first publication. 
 
5. Rights for Readers 
The Journal and the Author agree that the Submission will be distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0), or other later version of the same license, that allows others to copy and redistribute the Submission, as long as they provide appropriate credit to the author(s) and do not use the Submission for commercial purposes. Anyone who uses or redistributes the Submission under this license must indicate any changes that were made, must link to the license, and cannot imply that the author(s) endorse them or their use. Anyone who translates, adapts, or builds upon the Submission may not distribute the modified material. More information about this license is available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/.   
 
6. Termination 
The Author agrees to the terms of this agreement for the Submission being considered for publication. If the Submission is declined, this agreement is terminated.

Peer Review

The journal is committed to fair, professional evaluation of the essays we receive. Each issue will have a coordinating editor who will gather and anonymize the essays. The editors will then meet to determine whether the new submissions fit the general topics of pedagogy and profession. Essays that do not meet the criteria will be returned, with feedback to the authors in a timely manner. Essays that pass this initial review will be sent out to reviewers.

Reviewers will be drawn both from the journal’s advisory board and from the community of medievalists at large. People interested in serving as reviewers should feel free to contact us at ncs.pedagogyandprofession@gmail.com.

Because essays on pedagogy and profession may necessarily thematize the personal, we cannot ensure anonymity. For that reason, we encourage reviewers to sign their reviews (see below). That said, we will honor an author’s request for the standard, double-blind peer review process if that is most useful for the purposes of merit review, promotion, and/ or tenure.

In the interests of transparency, we provide below our guidelines for authors and peer-reviewers.

Licences

New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession allows the following licences for submission:

  • CC BY-NC-ND 4.0
    Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. NonCommercial — You may not use the material for commercial purposes. NoDerivatives — If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you may not distribute the modified material. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Publication Cycle

This journal publishes annually with occasional special issues.

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