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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.

Author Guidelines

 

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Information for Contributors

The Canadian Journal of Native Studies [CJNS] is an international refereed periodical.  It is Open Access, does not charge authors a fee for publication and it utilizes a CC Attribution, Non-Commerical, No Deriviatives 4.0 International License.  

All submissions to this journal, except critical reviews, are independently and anonymously reviewed by two peers, with at least one being Indigenous, prior to acceptance for publication.

CJNS accepts articles and reviews in either English or French.  If you wish to submit an article in an Indigenous language, please contact the editor.

Types of Articles

CJNS presently accepts five types of submissions including:


1. Scholarly Articles

CJNS welcome scholarly articles from any discipline that must be accompanied by an abstract (150-300 words). 

Style and length: All articles should use American Psychological Association, 7th edition (APA 7) format and be a maximum of 20,000 words.

Anonymous Review:  All submissions will be sent to two academic reviewers, with at least one being Indigenous. Reviewers are selected based on their knowledge and expertise in the topic of the submitted article.  CJNS follows a blind peer-review process.  Authors can also suggest reviewers, whom the Journal will contact and invite to peer-review manuscripts.  The authors must delete their names and other identifiable features 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.

If you are interested in submitting an article, please see the “Submitting an Article”

2. Indigenous Perspectives

Indigenous Perspectives provides a space for Indigenous Peoples to share a story or write about things that are important to them and their communities.  For instance, one may choose to write about an issue, a program, or a project a community is undergoing; they might want to share a story that centres on Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing; or, they might want to share a work of fiction they have written with a wider audience.  Submissions for this section should be no longer than 8,000 words.  They must also be accompanied by an author biography (no longer than 100 words) and a community connection statement (maximum 250 words).


3. Indigenous Voices

Indigenous Voices provides a space for Indigenous Peoples to share something in an Indigenous language from Turtle Island.  A wide variety of submissions will be considered for Indigenous Voices. For instance, one may choose to write about an issue, a program, or a project a community is undergoing; one might want to share a story that centres on Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing; or, one might want to share a work of fiction they have written with a wider audience.  Submissions to Indigenous Voices can be written in any Indigenous language from Turtle Island but English translation must accompany the submission. Submissions must also be accompanied by an author biography (no longer than 100 words) and a community connection statement (maximum 250 words).


4. Videos

We accept video files up to five minutes in length.  If you have a video that is longer than this, you will need to create separate files, with none exceeding five minutes.  Videos should be submitted as mpeg files.  

Submitters must also  ensure that they adhere to copyright by securing the rights to make the video openly available from:

1.    Anyone  in the video,
2.    Coauthors,
3.    Coproducers, or
4.    The copyright  owners of any images, charts, graphs, works of art (etc); for which;  you are not the artist / author / photographer.  


5. Book Reviews. 

Book reviews are to be between 1,000 and 1,800 words, depending on the importance of the book. Reviews are descriptive of the book’s content and methodologies, with perhaps some mild attention paid to where the author or editors might have done better. Suggestions for further research in the area are welcome. References to secondary sources are discouraged for reviews, but may be incorporated by in-text citation (publisher and date for books; journal name and issue for articles). Negative reviews will not be published.

We recommend that you also review the journal's  Policies.

Authors need to register with the journal prior to submitting or, if already registered, can simply log in and begin the five-step process.

Scholarly Articles

The Canadian Journal of Native Studies welcome scholarly articles from any discipline that must be accompanied by an abstract (150-300 words). 

 

Style and length: All articles should use American Psychological Association, 7th edition (APA 7) format and be a maximum of 20,000 words. 

 

Anonymous Review: All submissions will be sent to two academic reviewers, with at least one being Indigenous. Articles will be sent to two academic reviewers, one being Indigenous.  Reviewers are selected based on their knowledge and expertise in the topic of the submitted article.  The Canadian Journal of Native Studies follows a blind peer-review process.  Authors may suggest reviewers, whom the Journal will contact and invite to peer-review manuscripts.  The authors must delete their names and other identifiable features 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 Perspectives

Indigenous Perspectives provides a space for Indigenous Peoples to share a story or write about things that are important to them and their communities.  For instance, one may choose to write about an issue, a program, or a project a community is undergoing; they might want to share a story that centres on Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing; or, they might want to share a work of fiction they have written with a wider audience.  Submissions for this section should be no longer than 8,000 words.  They must also be accompanied by an author biography (no longer than 100 words) and a community connection statement (maximum 250 words).

Indigenous Voices

Indigenous Voices provides a space for Indigenous Peoples to share something in an Indigenous language from Turtle Island.  A wide variety of submissions will be considered for Indigenous Voices. For instance, one may choose to write about an issue, a program, or a project a community is undergoing; one might want to share a story that centres on Indigenous ways of knowing, being, and doing; or, one might want to share a work of fiction they have written with a wider audience.  Submissions to Indigenous Voices can be written in any Indigenous language from Turtle Island but English translation must accompany the submission. Submissions must also be accompanied by an author biography (no longer than 100 words) and a community connection statement (maximum 250 words).

Videos

Video Requirements

CJNS accepts video files related to research, Indigenous communities or Indigenous languages that are up to five minutes in length.  If you have a video that is longer than this, you will need to create separate files, with none exceeding five minutes.  Videos should be uploaded as MPEG4 files.  

All submissions must adhere to P OCAP and the CARE Principles for Indigenous Data Governance, Copyright, Identiy all Contributors, and Disclose Conflicts of Interest and any Funding Sources. 

Before a video is made openly available, the author(s) / producer(s) must sign a Creative Commons, Attribution, Noncommercial, No Derivatives, 4.0 International License.   

 

 

Book Reviews

Book reviews are to be between 1,000 and 1,800 words, depending on the importance of the book. Reviews are descriptive of the book’s content and methodologies, with perhaps some mild attention paid to where the author or editors might have done better. Suggestions for further research in the area are welcome. References to secondary sources are discouraged for reviews, but may be incorporated by in-text citation (publisher and date for books; journal name and issue for articles). Negative reviews will not be published.

Copyright Notice

Before Publishing, Authors Must  agree to make their work openly available via  a Creative Commons- Attribution-NonCommerical-No Derivatives 4.0 International License.

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