Rapa Nui Journal

The Rapa Nui Journal (RNJ) is the official, peer-reviewed journal, of the Easter Island Foundation (EIF). The journal serves as a forum for interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities and social sciences on Easter Island and the Eastern Polynesian region. Each issue may include Research Articles, Research Reports, Commentaries or Dialogues, Book or Media Reviews and EIF News.

RNJ welcomes contributions from a wide range of social, cultural, indigenous and historical disciplines on topics related to the lives and cultures of the peoples of Rapa Nui and Eastern Polynesia. Abstracts for articles may be published in English, Spanish, and Rapanui. We welcome submissions from scholars across Oceania, North and South America, and beyond.

Submit your manuscript online. If you are new to the submission site you will need to create an account.

All Easter Island Foundation members receive a print + online subscription to the Rapa Nui Journal. Your additional donation is greatly appreciated and will be officially acknowledged.

Read Online:

2015 to present

• Recent Articles

• Kukuipahu: A Unique Hawaiian Monumental Structure Utilizing Cut-and-Dressed Stone Masonry
  Posted on Tuesday April 07, 2020

  The Many Uses of Matā on Rapa Nui
  Posted on Tuesday April 07, 2020

  Rapanui in the World and the World on Rapa Nui – A Report from Two International Scientific Conferences held on Rapa Nui during November 2018
  Posted on Tuesday April 07, 2020

  Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) 2019 Field Report: Creating Digital Access to Cultural Heritage
  Posted on Tuesday April 07, 2020

  Easter Island Foundation News
  Posted on Tuesday April 07, 2020

  Architecturally Modified Caves on Rapa Nui: Post-European Contact Ritual Spaces?
  Posted on Tuesday April 07, 2020

• Pricing Guide

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  PRINT SUBSCRIPTIONS – GENERAL INFORMATION

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  Back Issues

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• Author Guidelines

• Rapa Nui Journal

  Guidelines for Authors

  The Rapa Nui Journal publishes articles in English on the archaeology, anthropology, ethnography and history of Easter Island and Eastern Polynesia. Each issue may include Research Articles, Research Reports, Commentaries or Dialogues, Book or Media Reviews and EIF News. Conference announcements are also welcomed. Article manuscripts are peer-reviewed, and should be 3000 to 9000 words in length. Reports, Review sand commentaries are not peer-reviewed, and should be 1000 to 6000 words in length.

  Abstracts for articles may be published in English, Spanish, and Rapanui. We welcome submissions from scholars across Oceania, North and South America, and beyond.

  Manuscripts should be submitted online. Inquiries should be sent via e-mail to the Rapa Nui Journal editor (rapanuijournal@gmail.com).

  Costs

  Submission and publication are normally free to contributors. Authors may be asked to contribute to production costs if their articles are exceptionally long (over 10,000 words) or include more than 15 figures. The Rapa Nui Journal is printed in black and white, authors must be able to obtain subvention or cover production costs out of pocket if they wish to have color plates inserted in the printed journal. Color images may be submitted for display in the online version of the journal at no additional charge.

  Contributors who are not fluent in written, academic English are asked to have their work edited before submission by an independent copy-editor at their own cost. Having your manuscript independently edited does not guarantee that it will be accepted for publication, however. The Editors may also require that you have your text copy-edited after revisions following acceptance for publication.

  File Format and Manuscript structure

  Manuscripts should be double-spaced with margins of at least 1 inch (2.5 cm) on each side, and submitted as a single Microsoft Word (or similar) file with the following structure:

  1. Article title
  2. Author’s name(s) and contact details for publication
  3. Abstract
  4. Keywords 3-6
  5. Text
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. References
  8. Figures with captions
  9. Tables with captions

  Please do not embed graphics within the text of the document, rather append them to the end of the file. Plates and figures (including maps and graphs) should be as clear and simple as possible. Use uniform lettering on figures and ensure that the text on all figures accords with the Rapa Nui Journal’s text preparation guidelines below. Maps and plans must include an accurate scale and north arrow. If your paper is accepted for publication following the peer-revision process, you will be asked to provide separate high-resolution, publication-quality graphics. Resolution should be 300 dpi or higher and image dimensions should be either half-page width (2 1/2 in) or full-page width (5 in). Please keep this in mind when preparing your initial submission. Images may appear black & white in the printed issue. When provided, color images will appear online. Authors are responsible for obtaining copyright permissions for previously published imagery and other people’s photographs and illustrations.

  References

  References in the text

  Use footnotes and endnotes sparingly. Indicate footnotes in the text by a bracketed number (e.g. “[Footnote 2]”). List the footnotes at the end of thetext of the manuscript.

  Please do not use passim, op. cit, ibid.

  Example in-text citations

  Type of reference	Text citation	Notes
  Single author	(Hunt 2007:10)
  Two authors	(Bahn & Flenley 1992)
  Three or more authors	(Stevenson et al. 2006)
  More than one work by same author	(Hunt 2007, 2009)
  More than one work by different authors	(Stevenson et al. 2006; Hunt 2007)	In chronological order
  More than one work by one author and different authors	(Bahn & Flenley 1992; Hunt 2007, 2009)	In chronological order
  Personal communication	pers. comm.

  Please ensure that all references cited in the text are included in the bibliography.

  References in the bibliography

  Full references should be listed alphabetically at the end of the paper. For detailed guidance please see the example references below.

  References with the same first author should be given in the following order: Sole-authored publications in chronological order, followed by those with one co-author (in chronological order), then those with 2 or moreco-authors (in chronological order).

  Use the minimum forms of page numbers, i.e. the shortest way one could speak the figures: 23-4, 13-14, 115-16, 200-201.

  Please ensure that all references listed in the bibliography are cited in the text.

  Example references

  Reference Type	In-text citation	Reference format	Notes
  Book	Bahn & Flenley 1992	Bahn, P.G. & J. Flenley. 1992. Easter Island EarthIsland. London: Thames and Hudson.
  Book with a volume no.	Scottsberg 1956	Scottsberg, C. 1956. The Natural History of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island. Volume 1. Uppsala: Almsquist and Wiksells.
  Journal article	Hunt 2007	Hunt, T.L. 2007. Rethinking the fall of Easter Island. American Scientist 94(5):415-419.	Avoid abbreviations or acronyms
  Book chapter	Wozniak 1998	Wozniak, J. 1998. Settlement patterns and subsistence on the northwest coast of Rapa Nui. In Easter Island in Pacific Context. South SeasSymposium. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Easter Island and East Polynesia. C.M. Stevenson, G. Lee & F.J. Morin (eds.):161-175. Los Osos: Easter Island Foundation.
  Edited book	Kirch & Rallu 2007	Kirch, P.V. & J. Rallu. (eds.) 2007. The Growth and Collapse of Pacific Island Societies. Honolulu: University of Hawai‘i Press.
  Book in a numbered series	Buck 1957	Buck, P.H. (Te Rangi Hiroa). 1957. Arts and Crafts of Hawaii. B.P. Bishop Museum Special Publication 45. Honolulu: Bishop Museum (reprinted 1964).
  Unpublished dissertation	Ayres 1973	Ayres, W.S. 1973. The Cultural Context of Easter Island Religious Structures. Unpublished PhD Dissertation, Tulane University.	Title is not in italics as it is unpublished
  Online publication	Good 2008	Good, K. 2008. The 1958 Fuller Sonaband Recordings. Video Clip. http://sites.google.com/a/fieldmuseum.org/pacific-web Home/collections – collectors/fuller-tapes
  Unpublished report	Ayres n.d.	Ayres, W.S. n.d. Calibrated radiocarbon dates from Easter Island. Unpublished manuscript on file with the author.	Title is not in italics as it is unpublished
  Unpublished conference paper	Love n.d.	Love, C.M. n.d. The Easter Island cultural collapse. Paper presented at the VII International Conference on Easter Island and the Pacific, Gotland, Sweden, 2007.

• Editorial Board

• Editor: Mara A. Mulrooney, Pacific Legacy, Inc., Hawai‘i, USA

  Editorial Board:

  Paul Bahn, United Kingdom
  Riet Delsing, Santiago, Chile
  Steven Roger Fischer, Auckland, New Zealand
  Paul Horley, CIMAV, Mexico
  Patrick V. Kirch, University of Hawai‘i-Manoa, USA
  Thegn N. Ladefoged, University of Auckland, New Zealand
  Peter Mills, University of Hawai‘i-Hilo, USA
  Cristián Moreno Pakarati, Ahirenga Historical Research, Rapa Nui, Chile
  Hilary Scothorn, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
  Christopher M. Stevenson, Virginia Commonwealth University, VA, USA
  Jo Anne Van Tilburg, UCLA Rock Art Archive, USA
  Helene Martinsson-Wallin, Uppsala University, Sweden
  Paul Wallin, Uppsala University, Sweden

  Founding Editor: Georgia Lee

• Indexes

• This journal is indexed in the following sources:

  EBSCOhost–
  Anthropological Index Online

  OCLC–
  Anthropological Index Online

  ProQuest–
  Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (Online), Selective
  Royal Anthropological Institute
  Anthropological Index Online