Author Guidelines

Labyrinth accepts contributions in English, German and French. The articles should not be longer than 10,000 words (50'000 characters), if not authorized by the editors, and not be shorter than 6000 words (text without the bibliographic references at the end of the paper). Articles in two parts may also be accepted if every part is independently intelligible. The bookreviews should not be longer than 2000 words (10,000 characters).

Each article should be submitted with an abstract in English of 100-150 words and 5 keywords, both at the beginning of the article. The abstract should not be just a description of the question(s) to be treated. It should include, first, a clear statement about the purpose of the paper, second, show the importance/actuality of the subject, and third, most importantly, the original contribution of the paper, i.e. proposition of a new solution, argumentation of a new thesis, uncovering of new aspects of the problematics, application of new methodology etc.

Each author should also provide a separate file with a brief bio-bibliographical note including name, address, institutional affiliation, academic degree and position, and main publications (150-300 words). NB: Labyrinth welcomes young reserachers, but it is not a student's journal, i.e. authors with PhD will be given priority. 

The manuscript must be supplied print ready, i.e. already proofread, in electronic format as a Microsoft Word document. All citiations should be made as INLINE citations providing the References as an A-Z list at the end of the paper. Brief Footnotes (no longer than 5lines) are allowed only as explanations and should not be provided as Endnotes, but as Footnotes.

Before submitting an article, check the Submission Preparation List. Articles will not be accepted unless an abstract, 5 keywords, and a bio are provided, and will not be accepted for peer review if not fulfilling all the requirements of the Author's Guidelines, especially if there are deviations from the Chicago Autor-Date Citation Style.

By submitting a paper, the author gives explicitely the right to the journal to sent it for peer review and to publish it, if the reviews are positive. Additional to that, authors will have to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement.

As we publish in different languages, all quotations should use straight double quote in order to preserve the same format. Use straight single quote for the insight quote.

Please use the Chicago Autor-Date Citation Style fomat as follows:

Inline citations:

(Derrida 1967, 413)

(Plato, Symposion 206e)

(Grazer and Fishman 2015, 12)

(Keng, Lin, and Orazem 2017, 9–10)

 One author:

Nabokov, Vladimir. 1955. Lolita. New York: Putnam.

Smith, Zadie. 2016. Swing Time. New York: Penguin Press.

Two authors:

Cross, Susan, and Christine Hoffman. 2004. Bruce Nauman: Theaters of Experience. New York: Guggenheim Museum; London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.

Grazer, Brian, and Charles Fishman. 2015. A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life. New York: Simon & Schuster.

Editor(s) of anthology or collection of essays:

D’Agata, John, ed. 2016. The Making of the American Essay. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.

Hill, Charles A., and Marguerite Helmers, eds. 2004. Defining Visual Rhetorics. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates

 Article in a book:

Thoreau, Henry David. 2016. "Walking." In The Making of the American Essay, edited by John D’Agata, 167–95. Minneapolis: Graywolf Press.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. 2007. "Nature." In The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7th ed., edited by Nina Baym, 1110-1138. New York: Norton & Company.

Journal article:

Keng, Shao-Hsun, Chun-Hung Lin, and Peter F. Orazem. 2017. "Expanding College Access in Taiwan, 1978–2014: Effects on Graduate Quality and Income Inequality.  Journal of Human Capital 11, no. 1 (Spring): 1–34. https://doi.org/10.1086/690235.

LaSalle, Peter. 2017. “Conundrum: A Story about Reading.” New England Review 38 (1): 95–109.

Satterfield, Susan. 2016. “Livy and the Pax Deum.” Classical Philology 111, no. 2 (April): 165–76.

Translated book

Lahiri, Jhumpa. 2016. In Other Words. Translated by Ann Goldstein. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.

CD-ROM
Citations should include the medium of the electronic publication (CD-ROM), the name of the vendor that made the material available on CD-ROM, and publications dates for the version used, if relevant.

"Marriage." 1997. Encyclopedia Judaica. CD-ROM. Vers. 1.0. Jerusalem: Judaica Multimedia.

 Online/Website publications:

Manjoo, Farhad. 2017. " Snap Makes a Bet on the Cultural Supremacy of the Camera." New York Times, March 8, 2017. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/technology/snap-makes-a-bet-on-the-cultural-supremacy-of-the-camera.html.

Bouman, Katie. 2016. " How to Take a Picture of a Black Hole. " Filmed November 2016 at TEDxBeaconStreet, Brookline, MA. Video, 12:51. https://www.ted.com/talks/katie_bouman_what_does_a_black_hole_look_like.

Google. 2017. “Privacy Policy.” Privacy & Terms. Last modified April 17, 2017. https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

Yale University. n.d. “About Yale: Yale Facts.” Accessed May 1, 2017. https://www.yale.edu/about-yale/yale-facts.