Northeast African Studies BOOK REVIEW GUIDELINES

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1 Northeast African Studies BOOK REVIEW GUIDELINES Editor Lee V. Cassanelli Assistant Editor James De Lorenzi Book Review Editor Tim Carmichael Length: Take the space that you need to complete the best possible review. Rather than focus on a number of words, aim for somewhere in the range of four to seven double-spaced pages, as you deem most appropriate for the book at hand. Justification for shorter or longer reviews should be discussed with the Book Review Editor prior to submission. Style: Head your review according to the Chicago Manual of Style, as follows: Header format: Title Author City, State: Publisher, Year. XXX pp., ISBN CCCC-CCCC. $ Paper/Cloth. Header Example: Achieving Blackness: Race, Nationalism, and Afrocentrism in the Twentieth Century Algernon Austin New York, NY: New York University Press, pp., ISBN $ Paper. Include your name and affiliation at the end of the review. Double space your document, with an extra space between paragraphs (rather than indenting each one). For transliteration questions see below. For style questions not addressed in these guidelines, follow the Chicago Manual of Style. JOURNALS DIVISION 1405 S. HARRISON RD., STE. 25 EAST LANSING, MI USA TEL: (517) X 130 FAX: (517) journals@msu.edu journals/neas Submissions: Within three months of receiving the book, your completed review in Microsoft Word (or MSWord compatible) format to <carmichaelt@cofc.edu>. Also include the signed Publishing Agreement with your full mailing address. Reviews cannot be forwarded to the Press without the Publishing Agreement. Offprints: Book review authors receive one gratis print copy, mailed to the address provided in their signed Publishing Agreement, and are invited to buy additional print copies at a discount. The Book Review Editor will also forward each review author an electronic offprint (in.pdf format). MSU is an Affirmative-Action, Equal-Opportunity Employer.

2 Transliteration: General Guidelines If there is an English word for a foreign term, please use it. Foreign terms not found in a standard dictionary (e.g., should be italicized and fully transliterated according to the appropriate system (see below). However, italicization and transliteration are not necessary for the following: 1. Foreign words found in a standard dictionary, 2. The names of heads of state and similarly well known individuals, and 3. Well known foreign organizations (e.g., Hamas). Foreign titles should be italicized and transliterated (e.g., däǧǧazmač), unless they can be found in a standard dictionary (e.g., sheikh). Use italics for foreign currency terms. Foreign language quotations, long or short, should not be italicized but should include quotation marks. Transliteration and Orthography: Specific Languages For languages using the Ethiopic (fidäl) script, please follow the system employed by Encyclopaedia Aethiopica: For more detailed guidelines on this system, please see the Encyclopaedia Aethiopica website: <

3 Transliteration from Arabic, Ottoman Turkish, and Turkish should follow the system established by The International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies: For more detailed guidelines on this system, please see the IJMES website: <

4 Oromo orthography should follow the Qubee standard. Somali orthography should follow the 1972 national standard, except in the case of personal names. These can be anglicized for clarity (i.e, Ali rather than Cali, and Abdi rather than Cabdi ). In addition, the word Somali should be spelt according the standard English usage (not Soomaali). For Epigraphic/Ancient South Arabian, Cushitic, Omotic, and Nilo-Saharan languages, please follow the guidelines established by Encyclopaedia Aethiopica. For more details, see: <

5 NORTHEAST AFRICAN STUDIES Publishing Agreement (Book Review) Northeast African Studies (the Journal) and The Board of Trustees of Michigan State University, through its Michigan State University Press (the Publisher), agree to publish your book review of (title of reviewed book) by (reviewer of book). 1. You, as Author of the Book Review, hereby grant and transfer exclusively to the Journal and the Publisher world, English language rights of whatever kind to the Book Review, including but not limited to copyright, during the full term of copyright in the United States of America and elsewhere. 2. Rights of the Author: You have the following, nonexclusive rights: (1) to use the Book Review in your own teaching activities; (2) to publish or permit publication of the Book Review, as a part of any anthology or book you may write or edit; or (3) to include the Book Review in your personal or departmental database or online site; or (4) to include the Book Review, twelve (12) months after publication of the Journal issue, in a non-commercial data repository maintained by an institution with which you are officially affiliated. For all the rights granted in this paragraph, you agree to credit the Journal as follows: Copyright [year] by Michigan State University. This Book Review originally appeared in Northeast African Studies Vol. [#], Iss. [#], [year], pages ; and to notify the Publisher of such publication. You as Author will be provided one (1) print copy of the Journal issue in which the Book Review appears; additional print copies may be purchased at a twenty percent (20%) discount off the singleissue price. 3. Proofs: You agree to make changes to the Book Review to conform to the Journal s style. You will be given an opportunity to read and correct proofs. If proofs are not returned by the designated date, publication may proceed without your approval. The Publisher will charge you $10 per line altered for text changes you make in typeset material that exceed the correction of errors and/or omissions. 4. Rights of the Journal and the Publisher: The rights of the Journal and the Publisher include but are not limited to the following uses: (1) to publish the Book Review in any media, whether paper or electronic; (2) to use the Book Review either in complete form or as an extract in promotional material for the Journal; (3) to license abstracts, quotations, extracts, reprints, and/or translations of the work for publication; (4) to license reprints of the Book Review to third persons for educational photocopying; (5) to license others to create abstracts of and to index the Book Review; (6) to license secondary publishers to reproduce the Book Review in print, microform, or any computer-readable form, including electronic online databases; and (7) to license the Book Review for document delivery. 5. Warranties: You represent and warrant to the Journal and the Publisher that the Book Review is original, that you have full power to make this Agreement; that you are the sole Author(s); that you have not previously published or agreed to publish the Book Review in whole or in part elsewhere, except as you have informed the Journal and the Publisher in writing; that you have used all reasonable care to ensure that all facts and statements in the Book Review are accurate; and that the Book Review is not defamatory or in violation of any right of privacy, common law, statutory copyright, or other personal or property rights. You as Author: (1) will indemnify and hold the Journal and the Publisher harmless against any loss, including attorney fees, occasioned by any breach of warranties outlined above in paragraph two; (2) have secured from the rights holders and have provided to the Journal and the Publisher written permission to reproduce all illustrations and/or other material employed in the Book Review. 6. Fees for Subsidiary Rights: If any fee of more than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) is collected by the Publisher for the licensing of subsidiary rights to separate use of the Book Review, and if the Publisher has your current address, the Publisher will pay you sixty percent (60%) of said fee. Any fee of less than two hundred fifty dollars ($250.00) collected will be divided by the Journal and the Publisher to help defray publication and licensing. Any alterations to this document will render this agreement null and void. Please sign and date two copies of this agreement; retain a copy for your files. We are unable to publish your Article without a signed copy of this agreement on record with the Publisher. Return the original, signed copy to: Tim Carmichael, Book Review Editor; College of Charleston; Maybank Hall, Room 326; Charleston, SC USA; or carmichaelt@cofc.edu Author Name (please print) Author Signature Date Address (required; update to receive any permission fees) Gabriel Dotto, Director Date Michigan State University Press Phone: