ebr submission guidelines

Although our threads include review-essays on a wide range of topics, the editors at ebr are particularly interested in critically-savvy, in-depth work that addresses the electronic future of fiction, poetry, criticism, theory, and the visual and performing arts. ebr accepts work in plain-text format and free-standing hyperlinked pieces by arrangement.

Please direct inquiries to the editors: editors@electronicbookreview.com

In continuous publication since 1994, ebr is among the longest running critical reviews on the Internet. Each essay is reviewed by a thread editor (a tenured professor) and at least one other ebr editor. Using resources specific to our medium, ebr offers a forum in which critical discussion is staged: on acceptance, the essay is posted to our staging site, where it is made available for comment by our 500-plus past contributors, all of whom are published authors in print and online. Publication in ebr, therefore, is peer-to-peer, and public: a less secretive form of peer review that offers no settled critical standpoint or 'safe zones' for authors, reviewers, or editors. ebr reviewer comments can be read in the margins of the essays, as 'glosses.' More substantial response is given in commissioned Ripostes, and essay authors are welcome to respond to these in turn.

• all contributions should have a title and should be accompanied by a current email address and biographical blurb up to four lines in length

• submissions should be in MLA format and should include a list of works cited (along with URLs for digital sources)

• footnotes should be reserved for commentary only

• all bibliographic references should appear in the text and use this form (Joyce 44)

• ebr uses a single (non-formatted) hyphen - like this - to indicate a dash

• include the final comma in a series: red, white, and blue

• punctuation is placed "like this," appearing inside a quotation mark

• use single space between sentences

• do not use spaces between points of ellipses...

• use: Internet, World Wide Web or Web, and website, web page

• dates appear as 1980s, '80s, and 20th century

• use Burroughs' (not Burroughs's) for singular possessives ending in 's'

• anchor pronoun references (ex: in "this idea …" this must link explicitly to the concept mentioned in the previous sentence)

• gifs or jpegs only
• 72 pixels per inch
• width: 200 pixels or 400 pixels only (1/2 column or full column)
• height: variable