Guidelines for Book Reviewers

We have finite space in the journal; the number of reviews that we run depends on their cumulative length. Therefore we ask you to keep reviews to 500-600 words. Reviews of multiple books and review articles can be longer, as assigned.

Please include all bibliographical information at the head of the review:

Author, title, publication information, number of pages. Indicate maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, etc. (to the extent that they are present), and price: cloth and/or paper, if given. (If the price is not given, please state "No price reported.")

Here is a sample:

Chris Abotchie. Social Control in Traditional Southern Eweland of Ghana. Relevance for Modern Crime Prevention. Legon: Ghana Universities Press, 1997. Distributed by African Books Collective Ltd., Unit 13 Kings Meadow, Ferry Hinksey Rd., Oxford OX2 0DP. vi + 154 pp. Photographs. Bibliography. Index. $18.00. Paper.

At the end of the review, please note your name, your institution and its address (or city address if no institutional affiliation), and your e-mail address.

Format Requirements:

Reviews must be double-spaced, aligned left, with all margins at least 1 inch (2.5cm). Please send your review to us as a WORD or Rich Text Format (RTF) file either:

as an attachment to an e-mail message (sent to asrbook@smith.edu); or
as a file on a 3 1/2" diskette or compact disk (please label with your name) mailed to the ASR Book Review editors' address.

For production reasons, we ask you to avoid footnotes or endnotes and references. Review essays may include occasional notes, but please be parsimonious; in such cases do not use your word processor's footnote/endnote utility, but add the note(s) in at the end manually. Include page references for all quotations. When making parenthetical citations, please include publisher and date of publication.

Download a copy of these guidelines.