New Publication
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Easter Island Foundation News: Scholarship Program
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Note from the Easter Island Foundation
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Terevaka Archaeological Outreach (TAO) 2017/2018 Field Report: Archaeology Provides Future Opportunities
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Comparisons of Moriori, Maori, and Easter Island Cognates
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Revisiting Rapa Nui Matā
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Project MUSE, 2015 to present.

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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 Reports, Review sand commentaries are not peer-reviewed, and should be 1000 to 6000 words in length.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

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

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

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