Send all submissions to Stephanie Hershinow and Christopher Loar.

Peer Review
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries is a peer reviewed journal.  Submissions, regardless of format, will undergo a mutually-anonymous peer review process. (Book reviews and some solicited contributions will not undergo peer review.)

Format
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries encourages and accepts submissions in a wide variety of formats, from print documents saved as Word files to hyperlinked documents, pedagogical resources, files with embedded video and audio, movies, 3D and virtual pieces, photo documentaries, databases, and interactive webtexts.

Length
As noted above, Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries is committed to publishing a diverse range of academic articles, notes, reviews, pedagogical materials and multimedia material. Academic articles should be between 4000 and 7000 words in length. Academic notes should be between 1500 and 3500 words in length. Book reviews should be between 1500 and 2000 words in length. For information on the acceptable length of (or required memory for) pedagogical materials or multimedia material, please contact the journal’s co-editors.

Awards
Essays published in the journal are eligible for several awards from the Defoe Society, including the Sharon Alker, Katherine Ellison, and Holly Nelson Prize, a biennial award for the best published essay in Digital Defoe that is not principally about Daniel Defoe.

Style
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries uses the most recent edition of The Modern Language Association Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing. Spelling in Digital Defoe is American.

Endnotes & Citations
Parenthetical citations are used in Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries. If any explanatory endnotes are required, they should be formatted according to the most recent edition of The Modern Language Association Style Manual and Guide to Scholarly Publishing and double-spaced.

Fees
Digital Defoe: Studies in Defoe & His Contemporaries does not have charges for article processing or article submission.