International Review for Multidisciplinary Approaches and Comparative Studies related to Emile Zola and his Time, Naturalism, Naturalist Writers and Artists, Naturalism and Cinema around the World.

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Editor: Anna Gural-Migdal (University of Alberta, Canada)

Associate Editors: Marie-Sophie Armstrong (Lehigh University, USA), Carolyn Snipes-Hoyt (Pacific Union College, USA)

Editorial Committee: Kelly Benoudis Basilio (University of Lisbon, Portugal), Janice Best (Acadia University, Canada), Sam Bloom (University of Haifa, Israel), Véronique Cnockaert (Université du Québec à Montréal, Canada), Russell Cousins (University of Birmingham, England), Elizabeth Emery (Montclair State University, USA), Evlyn Gould (University of Oregon at Eugene, USA), Jurate Kaminskas (Queen's University, Canada), Lewis Kamm (University of Massachusetts, USA), Ellen Mayock (Washington and Lee University, USA), Encarnación Medina Arjona (University of Jaén, Spain), Julia Przybos (Hunter College, CUNY, USA), Halina Suwala (University of Warsaw, Poland), Robert Singer (Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, USA), Diane M. Smith (State University of New York, Farmingdale, USA), Dorothy Speirs (University of Toronto, Canada), Juan Pablo Spicer-Escalante (Utah State University, USA), Jacqueline Tavernier-Courbin (University of Ottawa, Canada), Marjolein van Tooren (VU Amsterdam, The Netherlands), Raleigh Whitinger (University of Alberta, Canada), Tony Williams (Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, USA)

Advisory Board: David Baguley (University of Durham, England), Colette Becker (Université de Paris X-Nanterre, France), Yves Chevrel (Université de Paris IV-Sorbonne, France), Francis Lacoste (Université de Bordeaux III, France), Chantal Morel (Institut Français du Royaume-Uni, England), Alain Pagès (Université de Paris III-Sorbonne Nouvelle, France), Dr. Brigitte Émile-Zola (France)

GUIDE FOR AUTHORS

Excavatio is a refereed journal published once or twice a year in a double volume. Open to professors, doctoral candidates, and independent scholars with an earned doctorate, it is dedicated to the dissemination of scholarly essays on literature, comparative and cultural studies, art and film studies related to Émile Zola, naturalism, naturalist writers or artists, naturalism and cinema, and the influence or reception of such works. It also serves as a forum for research in progress. As the voice of AIZEN, this international journal contributes to the rapid diffusion of research by publishing promptly the best papers presented at the association's conferences. Papers from the conference, however, must be entirely recast as full-length articles and submitted to peer review. Presentation of a paper at the conference in no way guarantees publication in Excavatio.

Guidelines for submissions,

1. All articles are to be submitted in triplicate to the Editor, Anna Gural-Migdal. The maximum length, including footnotes, is 6000 words (approximately twenty double-spaced pages in 12-point font). Longer articles cannot be considered. The submission should be accompanied by a cover letter stating that the essay is an original work that has not been published and is not under consideration elsewhere and by a 50-word biographical notice. Authors should also send (by post or e-mail) an electronic file of the manuscript in Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format (.rtf).
2. Contributions may be in English, French, or Spanish. Our editorial policy requires that articles in any other language be accompanied by a translation into one of these three languages. See the Excavatio style sheet for more information about format and documentation.
3. Excavatio subscribes to a policy of "blind" submissions. After initial review by the editors, essays that meet Excavatio's criteria for subject matter, quality, and format will be sent to at least two independent readers. Members of the editorial board and outside specialists will not know the identity of the authors whose essays they are asked to review. Consequently, authors should omit references to their identity within the text and should submit their work with a separate cover page listing article title, author's name, professional affiliation, address, e-mail, and fax number. Decision on publication normally takes three to six months.
4. Because the simultaneous submission of an article to more than one refereed journal can result in duplication of the task of reviewing the manuscript, Excavatio will not review articles that are under consideration by other journals. An article found to have been submitted elsewhere will not be published in Excavatio even if it has already been accepted for publication. Once accepted for publication, consent from the Editor must be obtained before a manuscript or any part of it is reproduced elsewhere.
5. Authors who agree to have their articles published in Excavatio are bound to accept editorial modifications required by the publication process.
6. Membership in AIZEN is a pre-requisite for the submission of articles. Information about the association and membership can be found at http://www.ualberta.ca/~aizen/

Excavatio Style Sheet

1. Excavatio has adopted the parenthetical documentation recommended by the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (5^th edition), with a minor change that brings it more in line with international bibliographical formats. Instead of including a separate "Works Cited" list, authors should cite the first reference to a work in a footnote. Subsequent references to literary works will appear parenthetically in the text, while subsequent references to secondary sources will appear in notes. There is no separate bibliography, so footnotes must be accurate and must provide complete bibliographic information. See section B.1.1 of the MLA Handbook for more discussion of this practice and examples of bibliographic format appropriate for footnotes.
2. Manuscripts should be double-spaced and printed only on one side of the paper. The first paragraph of each article as well as any subsequent sections should be flush left with the margin. All other paragraphs will be indented. Please do not include extra spaces between paragraphs.
3. Citations may be in English, French, or Spanish, the journal's three official languages. There is no need to translate them. For articles in French, use standard French spelling and vocabulary; for articles in Spanish, use either Latin American or Spanish consistently and avoid mixing the two. Capitalize according to the rules of the respective languages. When using foreign languages within an English text, please follow the rules provided by the MLA Handbook (section 2.8).
4. For general spelling, punctuation, capitalization, and quotation format in English, please consult the MLA Handbook in conjunction with the Oxford or Webster's Third New International Dictionary of the English Language. Use either British or American spelling consistently and avoid mixing the two. Spell out all numbers one hundred and lower. Use italics for titles of books, plays, and periodicals. Use double quotation marks for titles of articles and shorter works. Use accents on capital letters in French and Spanish (i.e. write Émile and not Emile). Please note that the words "naturalist" and "naturalism" should not be capitalized. Please note the spelling of the adjective fin-de-siècle and the noun fin de siècle.
5. Reproduction of text and images. Authors are responsible for obtaining the permission rights to reproduce any text or images that appear in their articles. For more information about "fair use" and obtaining permissions, see The Chicago Manual of Style (14^th edition), sections 4.43-4.73. If the essay is accepted for publication, images and tables should be submitted in camera-ready format.