Contagion

Editor

William A. Johnsen, Michigan State University

Advisory Editors

René Girard‡, Stanford University
Andrew McKenna, Loyola University of Chicago
Raymund Schwager‡, University of Innsbruck
James Williams, Syracuse University

Editorial Board

Rebecca Adams, Independent Scholar
Jeremiah L. Alberg, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan
Mark Anspach, École Polytechnique, Paris
Pierpaolo Antonello, Cambridge University
Ann Astell, University of Notre Dame
Cesáreo Bandera, University of North Carolina
Ángel Jorge Barahona Plaza, Universidad Francisco de Vitoria, Madrid
Maria Stella Barberi, Università di Messina
Alexei Bodrov, St. Andrews Biblical Theological Institute, Moscow
João Cezar de Castro Rocha, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro
Benoît Chantre, L’Association Recherches Mimétiques
Diana Culbertson, Kent State University
Paul Dumouchel, Ritsumeikan University
Jean-Pierre Dupuy, Stanford University, École Polytechnique
Giuseppe Fornari, Università degli studi di Bergamo
Eric Gans, University of California, Los Angeles
Sandor Goodhart, Purdue University
Robert Hamerton-Kelly‡, Stanford University
Hans Jensen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Mark Juergensmeyer, University of California, Santa Barbara
Cheryl Kirk-Duggan, Shaw University
Michael Kirwan, SJ, Heythrop College, University of London
Paisley Livingston, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Charles Mabee, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, Detroit
Józef Niewiadomski, Universität Innsbruck
Wolfgang Palaver, Universität Innsbruck
Martha Reineke, University of Northern Iowa
Tobin Siebers‡, University of Michigan
Thee Smith, Emory University
Mark Wallace, Swarthmore College
Eugene Webb, University of Washington

Contagion invites submissions of manuscripts dealing with the theory or practical application of the mimetic model in anthropology, economics, literature, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, and cultural studies. All manuscripts submitted for publication consideration must be original work that has not been published previously and is not currently under review by any other publication outlet.

Manuscript Preparation and Submission

• Submit papers (electronic files only) in Microsoft Word PC format by email attachment to William Johnsen
• To prepare your piece for publication, refer to the Chicago Manual of Style and the MSU Press journals Style Sheet
• Articles accepted for publication require a signed Author Publishing Agreement
• List all accented letters or special characters on separate page at beginning of text
• Supply a one-paragraph author biography on a separate page
• Use 1-inch margins throughout; number each page; use left aligned margins (“ragged” right); double space all text, including quotations, notes, and captions
• Do not hyphenate words at end of lines; do not use headers or footers with identifying information. Use tab keys (not space bar) to indent first lines of new paragraphs
• Spell out numbers from one to ten. Use Arabic numerals for number 11 and above. Exceptions to this rule: 1) a series of mixed numbers (e.g., 14 cities, 2 small towns, 11 villages, and 8 settlements); 2) when a number precedes an abbreviation for a standard unit of measure (e.g., 3 g, 18 mm, 6 m). Use numerals for all dates, times, page numbers, and percentages.
• Use month-day-year (April 13, 1892) dating throughout
• Photographs, maps, or other graphics must be accompanied by permission from copyright holders for both print and electronic use. Electronic photographs must be minimum 300 dpi resolution at full size (size when printed in journal). See MSU Press’s Images & Derivative Materials policy below.
• Use endnotes rather than footnotes or the author-date system (Chicago documentation one style, chapter 16). Endnotes (no footnotes) are used for explanatory material, not general citations. Endnotes should be placed at the end of the body of the text but before the references.

EXAMPLES

BOOK
Olivier O’Donovan, Peace and Certainty: A Theological Essay
on Deterrence (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1989), 74–75.

ARTICLE
Andrew Lascaris, “The Likely Price of Peace: René Girard’s
Hypothesis,” New Blackfriars 66 (1985): 517–524.

CHAPTER
Eric Charles White, “Negentropy, Noise, and Emancipatory
Thought,” in Chaos and Order, ed. N. Katherine Hayles (Chicago: University of
Chicago Press, 1991), 263–277.

POEM
Lord Alfred Tennyson, “Ulysses,” in The Norton Anthology of
English Literature, Seventh Edition, Vol. 2, ed. M. H. Abrams (New York: Norton, 2001),
1214, lines 16–17.

SUBSEQUENT SHORTENED CITATIONS SHOULD READ AS FOLLOWS (do not use Ibid.):

• Campbell and Jamieson, Deeds Done in Words, 10.
• Brands, “Age of Vulnerability,” 963.
• Greenstein, “Eisenhower’s Leadership Style,” in Eisenhower, 55.

Images and Derivative Materials

It is the author/researcher’s obligation and responsibility to determine and satisfy copyright and/or other use restrictions prior to submitting materials to MSU Press for publication. Citations, permissions, and captions are required upon submission for all images. Use the Contagion permission request letter to obtain permission from an image’s rightsholder—we cannot publish such materials until written clearance is obtained. Electronic files accepted; all images must be minimum 300 dpi at planned publication size.