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    Contributors’ Guidelines

    SWAHILI FORUM invites you to submit papers on all aspects of Swahili language, culture and society as well as book reviews pertaining to these topics. We also invite our readers to submit bibliographical information on Swahili topics. Papers and reviews will be published in Swahili, English, French and German. All papers should be accompanied by an abstract, preferably in one of the other languages of publication.

    Please submit your papers via e-mail to one of the following addresses:

    Please mind the following specifications for manuscripts:

    • Format A4 (i. e. 21 cm x 29.7 cm). Top margin 4.5 cm, other margins 2.5 cm. Times New Roman 12 pt, spacing 16 pt. Citations: spacing 1.0. Footnotes: 10 pt, spacing 10pt.
    • Articles should be divided into sections ranging from 1 to 1.1.1 (max. three levels).
    • Figures, tables, and equations should always be cited in the text and numbered sequentially using arabic numerals.
    • Footnotes should be indicated by superscript arabic numerals and put at the bottom of the same page (10pt; single-spaced).
    • Authors are asked to provide the references at the end of each article. References should not be numbered; the list should be arranged alphabetically by authors' last names. References cited in the text should be referred to by the name/date system (e.g. Greenberg 1952: 14). For three or more authors use 'et al.', but in the reference list, all co-authors should be mentioned.
      References should have the following format:
      • Article from a journal, e.g.
          Gromov, Mikhail D. 1998. Nagona and Mzingile - Novel, Tale or Parable? Afrikanistische Arbeitspapiere (AAP) 55: Swahili Forum V: 73-78.
      • Article from a book, e.g.
          Schulze-Engler, Frank. 1993. Discourses of Arrested Modernization: African Literary Theory in the 1980s. African Literatures in the Eighties (Matatu No. 10), ed. by Frank Schulze-Engler & Dieter Riemenschneider. Amsterdam & Atlanta: Rodopi. pp. 9-26.
      • Monographs, e.g.
          Bertoncini-Zúbková, Elena. 1989. An Outline of Swahili Literature, Leiden & New York.

    The editors of SWAHILI FORUM
    Rose Marie Beck, Claudia Böhme, Maud Devos, Lutz Diegner, Uta Reuster-Jahn, Clarissa Vierke