GUIDELINES FOR THE FINAL DRAFT OF THE PAPER

A great number of papers presented at CIPIC 2011 have great potential for making a contribution to the study of contemporary identity with particular focus on the globalizing world. We encourage you strongly to submit your papers for publication. The editors intend to publish all papers which make a theoretical contribution to the discussion of contemporary identity either in a printed or electronic format. The goal of the following specifications is to assist authors in the preparation of their manuscript for publication.

We accept only original work, that has not been published or that has not been submitted for publication to another publishing house.

Your article should contain no more than 7500 words (including footnotes and bibliography).

Given the goal of furthering the theoretical consideration of contemporary identities, we are asking that the emphasis in the article be placed on stating and developing the theoretical argument that frames and emerges from your research. We understand that articles must inform the reader about the subject and describe different situations, phenomena, and events. At the same time, the work must go beyond informing and describing (as in an encyclopedia entry) to identify conceptual conclusions or frames that draw out the theoretical implications of your research project. We appreciate that many findings are tentative or parts of larger ongoing studies, and thus may be stated as hypotheses or tentative conclusions; where further research is required or advisable, we ask that the further direction of this work be specified to the extent possible.

Thus, the intended contribution -- to a better understanding of the idea of identity/identities in its theoretical implications for the global contemporary discourse on identity or the evolution, development, or transformation of identity in certain contexts -- should be announced at the beginning. Where the conference paper was primarily concerned with informing or describing, we ask that you add a discussion (in a conclusion, final section, evaluation, or the like) of the theoretical implications of your work.

The papers should not simply follow a certain theoretical pattern established by a noted researcher, whether a theoretical approach laid down some decades ago or theoretical grounds recently provided by a philosopher, anthropologist, researcher, etc. The paper should develop a theoretical frame of its own rather than following dogmatically the point of view of prior thinkers, by at least updating and revaluating the theoretical ground of prior work according to new contexts determined by the contemporary historical, political, cultural situations.

Research which limits itself to a certain geographical or ideological context should consider the impact of the rapid exchange between cultures made possible through contemporary communication and other global networks on the specific case study. At the same time, nationalistic or ideological points of view need to be interrogated. Authors that are basing their research exclusively on the work of researchers whose origin is in the context studied are encouraged to look for alternative points of view emanating from “outsiders.”

Papers should be written in a non-dogmatic manner, considering alternative arguments and frames as well as the limits of the analysis presented. Comments and discussions arising during the conference presentations should be considered.

The volumes (printed and electronic) will be assembled by a team of editors who will construct the general argument of each book. This team of editors may include some of the participants in the conference, which will be determined by the conference organizers on the basis of theoretical breadth and intellectual diversity. These editors will have the opportunity to see the conference presentations once our video and/or audio recordings are ready.

The main focus of these volumes will be to point the way toward emerging theoretical frames for the conceptualization of identity/identities in the contemporary world, with the goal of assessing the value of a comprehensive theoretical approach versus the need for multiple frames. Depending on the evolution of this approach, the books will be structured in different sections to reflect either the aspects of a central theme or the multiplicity of views being offered.

The editors will thus seek articles which theoretically advance this common work and which express their unique contribution in a well-written and accessible manner. Editorial comments will be designed to help the author in producing a high quality paper. While the editorial comments and suggestions need to be addressed, authors are encouraged to engage in a full discussion with the editors in order to clarify both their own thinking and the thinking of the editors. If the author does not agree with the point of view of the editors, she/he should work with the editors to reconcile differences and to satisfy the objectives of all parties. If these differences cannot be reconciled, the papers can be withdrawn only in the early stages in order to minimize serious delays and other complications that might jeopardize publication.

The first draft of your article should be sent to us by August 1^st.

Please find below some of the main characteristics that your article should contain:

• Please adjust your article according to the MLA Style Manual. For detailed information on the MLA Style please check the following link:

http://thewritedirection.net/drpaper/help-mac/m05-08-mlastyle.htm

•  Parenthetical referencing (author-page) in the body of the text.
• Use footnotes only if necessary in order to clarify information in the text;
• At the end of each article there should be a full list of the works mentioned in the body of the text.
• If your article contains any image, its publication is on your entire responsibility: we will ask you to submit documents of permission to publish the image(s) inside the article. The image files should be of a high resolution. A low resolution image will not appear in print as it appears on the web.
• If you are not an Anglophone or Francophone scholar, please check your text before submitting it. We will not edit your paper for you. If grammar or style errors are found, we will send you back the article and give you a short deadline to submit the corrected version.

Provisional schedule:

After August 1 there will be a two-month-period, corresponding to the first stage of the peer reviewing process. This stage could begin even earlier, depending on your way of writing. In order to have an accurate evaluation of your position, we have decided to give you the opportunity to send us the name and the e-mail address of one researcher who is specialist in the field in which your article is situated and who is familiar with your previous work. We will then send her/him the guidelines for the evaluation of your article.

We think that, if we want to obtain from you an article written according to the guidelines above, letting you assign an evaluator who is familiar with your way of thinking and arguing is the best solution.

During the same period an external evaluator will be assigned by us. This external evaluator could be a participant to the conference or another person (her/his name will not be disclosed, but they will be mentioned in a list at the end of each volume).

Other preliminary evaluations of the future volumes will be made by the main editors.

After September 30, there will be another two-month-period necessary for confronting the evaluations of each party. Starting with this date there could be a more intensive exchange of e-mails of the authors with the editors.

After December 1st: further debates concerning the adaptation and integration of the papers in one corpus and selection of the papers for the paperback and online volumes.

(From a very optimistic point of view): we would like that the volumes from CIPIC 2011 be available at CIPIC 2012.