Submissions
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
- The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
- Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
- The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Scholarly Articles
We welcome scholarly articles from any discipline that must be accompanied by an abstract (100 words maximum).
Style and length: Manuscripts should be formatted in the appropriate referencing style for your discipline (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago) and be a maximum of 8,000 words.
Anonymous Review: All submissions will undergo a double peer review. The authors must delete their names from the text. This includes the reference list and footnotes, where "Author" and year, instead of the authors' names, publication title, etc. should be used to cite any publications written by the authors themselves. Author identification should also be removed from the file properties.
Indigenous Peoples Stories and Language Feature
We invite stories that celebrate good work led by Indigenous peoples. Stories may take the form of news-like articles about community members and/or projects or short stories that center Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. Stories profiling the work of others should include the contact information of both the author and the individual or group being celebrated.
Each story submission should be a maximum of 1500 words and must be accompanied by an author biography (100 words) and a community connection statement (200 words).
Artistic Practices
Visual Culture
We welcome submissions relating to visual culture, which can include critical reviews (visual art, performance, exhibition, film) to a maximum of 1500 words, or art images, performance documentation or film stills, with an artist statement (maximum 150 words).
Submissions in this section must be accompanied by an author bibliography (100 words) and community connection statement (200 words).
Combined visual files should not exceed 4GB. Image files (up to 10 images may be submitted) should be in JPEG format, RGB colour mode, and be no larger than 1.5 MB. Please name your file: 01filename. For example: 01janedoe
Poetry
We invite established and emerging poets to submit and ask that poems be completed upon submission.
Poetry submitted to CJIS must be accompanied by an author biography (100 words) and community connection statement (200 words).
Current Topics
We welcome contemporary topics articles from any discipline that must be accompanied by an abstract (100 words maximum). Topics to be explored could include pretendians, identity fraud, Bill C-53, etc.
Style and length: Manuscripts should be formatted in the appropriate referencing style for your discipline (e.g. APA, MLA, Chicago) and be a maximum of 4,000 words.
Anonymous Review: All submissions will undergo a double peer review. The authors must delete their names from the text. This includes the reference list and footnotes, where "Author" and year, instead of the authors' names, publication title, etc. should be used to cite any publications written by the authors themselves. Author identification should also be removed from the file properties.
Book Reviews
We invite reviews of books on Indigenous topics relevant to developments in Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing. Book reviews should be a maximum of 1500 words and include a summary of the book's information, a concise overview of themes, and a critical analysis of the significance of the work.
Submissions should include an author biography (100 words) and a community connection statement (200 words).
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