Guidelines for Contributors
Hypatia welcomes papers on all topics in feminist philosophy. Please submit your manuscript online at https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/hypa. If you are submitting a revised manuscript and the original version was submitted prior to 2009, please submit your manuscript by email to hypatia@u.washington.edu.
Articles should not exceed 8,000 words, including footnotes and references. In addition to substantial research papers, we invite submissions for our Comment/Reply, Archive, Review Essay, and Musings sections, as well as proposals for our Symposia and Special Features sections. We also invite proposals for Special Issues; please see the Special Issues webpage for current guidelines. Book reviews are normally published by invitation.
Manuscripts submitted to Hypatia should not be under simultaneous consideration by any other journal, nor should they have been published elsewhere. The review process takes an average of approximately four months. Although the primary goal of our review process is to select and refine papers for publication, we are committed to ensuring that it nurtures and supports scholarship in the area of feminist philosophy.
Manuscript Preparation
- Manuscripts should be double-spaced (including quotations and excerpts, notes, and references), and the right margin should not be justified.
- To facilitate our anonymous review process, the author should not be identified in the manuscript or the abstract.
- Papers should include an abstract of no more than 200 words.
- Please use American spellings and punctuation, except when directly quoting a source that has followed British style.
- Please do not use the “insert endnote/footnote” function in Microsoft Word. Instead, please place numerals between arrowheads (e.g., <2>) in the text, and list notes in the penultimate section of the paper (just before the references). Any acknowledgments should appear unnumbered, before the first note. Notes must be correctly formatted before publication; they need not be formatted before review.
- We use the author/date system of citing references, as described in The Chicago Manual of Style (15th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2003). In the text or notes, works should be cited as (author year, page number); for example (Card 2003, 65). The page number alone can be used if understood from the context; for example (86). A list of all works cited should be included after the notes in a section called "References." Titles of articles and books in the references follow sentence capitalization: only the first word and proper nouns are capitalized. For example:
Calhoun, Cheshire. 2000. Feminism, the family, and the politics of the closet: Lesbian and gay displacement. New York: Oxford University Press.
------. 1995. Standing for something. Journal of Philosophy 92 (5): 235-61.
Roberts, Dorothy E. 1999. Mothers who fail to protect their children: Accounting for private and public responsibility. In Mother troubles: Rethinking contemporary maternal dilemmas, ed. Julia E. Hanigsberg and Sara Ruddick. Boston: Beacon.
Clines, Francis X. 2001. Before and after: Voices in the wind, a new form of grieving evolves over last goodbyes. The New York Times, September 16.
Irigaray, Luce. 2002. The way of love. Trans. Heidi Bostic and Stephen Pluhácek. New York: Continuum.
National Down Syndrome Society. 2002. About Down Syndrome. http://www.ndss.org/aboutds/aboutds.html (accessed J 8, 2002).
Education for All Handicapped Children Act. 1975. U.S. Public Law 94-142, U.S. Code. Vol. 20, sec. 1400 et seq.
References must be correctly formatted before publication; they need not be formatted before review.
- If a paper includes figures or artwork, authors must submit these files with the final draft.
- Hypatia can now host supporting material related to published articles on our website. This can take a wide range of forms: text or PDF files that provide additional notes or background information relevant to your article; figures, graphics, illustrations (in a variety of formats, including PowerPoint slides and most standard graphics files); video clips and audio podcasts. Supplementary materials will be posted exactly as provided by the author (they will not be edited, typeset, or checked for functionality), and must be submitted in final form when the article they support is accepted and ready for production. Please see these instructions provided by Wiley-Blackwell.
Review Process and Acceptance Rates
To maintain its reputation as the premier journal in feminist philosophy and to assure the high quality of the work it publishes, Hypatia relies heavily on its peer reviewers. When essays are submitted to Hypatia, the editors do an initial review to determine that they are appropriate for the journal. They then draw on Hypatia's extensive referee database and identify two referees with appropriate expertise to provide readers’ reports on each essay; if the referees disagree in their assessment, they request an additional report from a third reviewer. When all the reviews have been assembled, the editors read them and make the final decision. The decision categories are as follows.
- The manuscript is accepted.
- The manuscript is accepted on the condition that the author makes minor revisions.
- The manuscript is accepted on the condition that the author makes substantial revisions. The reworked manuscript will be reviewed by one referee upon resubmission.
- The manuscript is declined, but the author is welcome to resubmit the manuscript to Hypatia for another full review if it is substantially revised.
- The manuscript is declined.
The editors then notify the author of their decision and send the reviewers’ reports; these will be anonymous unless the reviewer asks to be identified. The editors are committed to providing helpful and supportive feedback, even when a paper is not accepted for publication in Hypatia.
Hypatia's acceptance rate for open submissions is currently approximately 15%.