Following a very successful launch earlier this year, the Journal for the

Academic Study of Magic (JSM), a multidisciplinary, peer-reviewed print

publication, is seeking submissions for its second annual edition, to be

published in Spring 2004. Scholarly articles of up to 8000 words, written in

English, plus shorter book reviews (up to 800 words) and the like are

welcomed. We aim to cover all areas of magic, witchcraft, paganism etc; all

geographical regions and all historical periods, and we encourage articles

from postgraduates, tenured academics and freelance writers alike, using an

academic style.



Submissions should be prepared according to the MHRA style guide (5th

edition). Please see their printed style guide (available in libraries and

bookshops) or their website http://www.mhra.org.uk/index.html, plus our own

guideline pages at http://www.sasm.co.uk/journal.html and

http://www.sasm.co.uk/chklist.html for style and content details. In light

of the breadth of submissions we received for Issue 1, we welcome early,

BRIEF correspondence with authors to discuss intended articles and their

potential suitability for our journal- the above links also give guidelines

for subject areas, including some areas that we do not cover, so please

consult these first.



Submissions should be sent electronically to Dave Evans at

socacademicstudymagic@btopenworld.com as Rich Text Format email attachments,

including your name and brief title in the file name (for example

"JSmithModernFrenchWitchcraft.rtf" rather than "essay.rtf") . If you are

unable to send by email please use regular mail to: Dave Evans, Department

of Historical Studies, University of Bristol, 13 Woodland Road, Clifton,

Bristol, UK BS8 1AD. Please enclose an SAE or IRC if you require postal

acknowledgement of receipt, and if sending by regular mail please include

one copy of your article on disk (PC formatted only, and virus-checked

please!) and one print copy, with a covering letter.



Deadline: October 31st, 2003



Issue 1 of the journal, published by Mandrake of Oxford can be ordered from

the website http://www.sasm.co.uk/journal2.html via a secure credit card

server, or from any good bookshop quoting the references ISBN 1869928 679

and ISSN 1479-0750. Academic Institutions and Libraries can send an

official purchase order to Mandrake (whose regular mail address is to be

found on the above link) to be invoiced on delivery.



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Thanks

Dave Evans and Alison Butler

General Editors, JSM