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.

If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal (if submitting an article, in other words), the instructions in the Author Guidelines have been followed. These instructions require the separation of the author's name, contact information, and biographical notes from the manuscript and removing author identification from the properties of the manuscript file.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Journal of Jazz Studies (JJS) is dedicated to publishing leading-edge research on jazz, broadly defined, from a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives, including but not limited to musicology, ethnomusicology, history, cultural studies, music theory, technical analysis, biography, oral history, and criticism. JJS welcomes submissions from performers and independent scholars as well as affiliated scholars. All manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s website (user registration required, see above).

Articles should be comprehensible and accessible to a broad, musically literate jazz audience, not just to other specialists within the writer’s sub-field.
Articles must not be submitted to other journals while under consideration by JJS.
Manuscripts should be double spaced with one-inch margins, using 12-point font, and must be submitted in Microsoft Word file format.
Manuscripts must adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. Citations should be formatted as footnotes and follow Chicago notes and bibliography guidelines.
Except for foreign-language quotations, manuscripts must be in English, using American musical terminology, spelling, and punctuation. Gender-neutral language and pronouns should be used whenever possible and appropriate. In keeping with recent trends in scholarship and guidance from the Chicago Manual of Style, the Journal of Jazz Studies recommends the usage of a capital B in Black when it refers to racial and ethnic identity.
Music examples, complex tables, photographs, and other graphics should each be submitted as a separate file. The manuscript should include references indicating where to place each graphic. If possible, initial manuscript submissions should also include these visual elements embeded in the word doc to facilitate peer review.
Image files must be high-resolution and presentable for publication; authors should take into account that each image and its caption have to fit within a page frame of 5 X 8 inches (12.5 X 20 cm). Image files must be in a format intended for images, such as TIFF, GIF, PNG, JPEG, or PDF.
A one-paragraph abstract of no more than 300 words must be included along with the submission (as a separate MS word file).
Authors should append a two- or three-sentence biographical note. The author’s name, contact information, and biographical note should be submitted as a separate document from the manuscript, so that the manuscript can be sent to reviewers without identifying the author.
Authors alone are responsible for the contents of their articles and for obtaining permission for use of material under copyright protection.

If you have any questions about formatting or the submission process, please contact the journal’s managing editor, Sean Lorre (sjlorre@mgsa.rutgers.edu).

Copyright Notice

By submitting a paper to the Journal of Jazz Studies, I agree to the entire Journal of Jazz Studies Author's Agreement below:

Submission

The Journal of Jazz Studies (JJS) accepts exclusive submissions of original manuscripts that have not been previously published and are not forthcoming in print or online in a scholarly journal, book, or other publishing format. When submitting, the Author agrees not to submit a manuscript for electronic or print publication in another journal until JJS decides to accept or reject it, or until the Author withdraws this submission.

Copyright

Authors own the copyright to their articles. The authors have, however, consented to the following provisions associated with their copyright:

1. Authors grant JJS the right to publish and archive their articles for an unlimited time and to make their articles available to readers (see item 2 below) on the World Wide Web, or through whatever medium JJS determines is best to accomplish its purposes, whether the medium is now known or developed in the future.

2. Authors agree that JJS is an open access journal made available by a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 United States License (read the full license legal code). Under this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright for their articles, but allow anyone to download, reuse, reprint, distribute, and/or copy or quote articles in JJS so long as the original authors and source are cited, and the use is noncommercial. Permission is required only for commercial or other uses not permitted by the Creative Commons license.

3. To help maintain the distinctive nature of JJS and the tradition of scholarly publications, for one year from the date of initial publication in JJS, authors are encouraged not to publish their article in any other scholarly journal, print or online—either open access or non-open-access.

4. Authors agree to let JJS use their articles to create compilations for sale that consist of selected articles from JJS for the sole purpose of financially supporting the continuing publication of JJS.

5. Authors agree to let JJS provide articles to document delivery services and abstracting indexing services.

Disclaimers

1. The First Author is responsible for the accuracy and completeness of the data, facts, references, and copyediting in his or her submission and for securing co-author agreement to the terms of the JJS Copyright policy above and all other journal policies.

2. Authors are responsible for obtaining the proper permissions to use material INCLUDING ALL ILLUSTRATIONS in their articles for which they do not own copyright and which is not covered by Fair Use.

3. All authors warrant that an article contains no material which violates any copyright belonging to any third party, or which is defamatory, an invasion of privacy, or otherwise illegal.

4. Authors shall indemnify and hold JJS, the Rutgers University Libraries, the Institute of Jazz Studies, the New Jersey Department of State, and Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey harmless from any claims that a manuscript and/or an article infringes a third party's copyright or contains inaccurate, defamatory, or otherwise unlawful material or constitutes an invasion of privacy.

Unless otherwise noted, all articles in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 4.0 International Public License.

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The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to informs readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication.

This journal’s editorial team uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here.

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