The Philosophy of Humor Yearbook

The yearbook accepts original articles written in the English language. The manuscript needs to be prepared for anonymous reviews. Upon submission, please choose one of the categories available:

1. Academic Philosophy article
2. Cognitive Studies article
3. Philosophy of Religion (Religious Studies) article
4. Political Science article
5. Humorous/satirical article
6. Critique of a humorous piece or act (play, stand-up act, novel, etc.)
7. Humor in Philosophy Education
8. Discussion piece

Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

1. All manuscripts should be submitted electronically as MS Word documents to lydamir [at] mail.com and phy [at] degruyter.com, prepared for anonymous review.
2. The manuscript should contain an abstract of 120–150 words and 4–5 keywords. Research articles should have a minimum of 8,000 words. We prefer the maximum to be 10, 000 words but in exceptional cases it can be up to 15,000 words. The word count includes notes and references. Satirical and critical pieces, sometimes also pedagogical articles can be shorter; discussion pieces should be much shorter (500–600 words).
3. The article should be prepared for anonymous refereeing. Author name(s), affiliation, and contact information, as well the title of the article, the date of submission and the desired section of the Yearbook to which the manuscript is submitted (see below) need to be submitted in a separate file.
4. The title of the e-mail should indicate the name of the Yearbook (PHY) and the section to which the manuscript is being submitted (for the categories, see above).

All manuscripts, except book reviews, which are judged differently, are sent to anonymous reviewers, selected from our pool of established scholars.

Formatting Guidelines

1. Word document, justified to the left.
2. Times New Roman font: 12 point for the text and block quotes, 10 point for footnotes.
3. Double spaced, excluding footnotes and block quotes, which are single-spaced.
4. Add free lines before and after headings and block quotes. Block quotes should also be indented.
5. Apart from the first paragraph of all sections and sub-sections, all paragraphs should be indented without free lines.
6. Use standard word formats for headings, including the Introduction and Conclusion, and number them in Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3…). Subheadings should follow (1.1, 1.2, 1.3…).

Reference Style

1. All manuscripts should follow American English and the conventions of The Chicago Manual of Style, 16^th Edition.
2. Use the author-date system. Further elaborations that do not fit into the main text may be placed in footnotes, though authors should keep them at a minimum. Bibliographies need only be provided in the references.
3. Quotes that are longer than four lines should be indented, without quotation marks.
4. References should be provided in full and in alphabetical order at the end of the article. See the examples below.

Journal Article

Waterman, Alan S. 1993. "Personal Expressiveness (eudaimonia) and Hedonic Enjoyment."

Journal of Personality and Social　Psychology 64(4): 678–91.

Book

Cohen, Ted. 1999. Jokes: Philosophical Thoughts on Joking Matters. Chicago, IL: University of

Chicago Press.

Emmanuel, Steven M. ed. 2018. Buddhist Philosophy: A Comparative Approach. Malden, MA:

John Wiley and Sons.

Freud, Sigmund. (1905) 1960. Jokes and Their Relation to the Unconscious. Translated by James

Strachey. Harmondsworth: Penguin.

Spell out "Edited by" or "Translated by" for citing books with an editor or translator apart from the author.

Use the abbreviation ed. (or eds. for more than one) when an editor takes the place of an author for citation. See CMOS 9.58–63

When there is more than one author or editor, the first name of the second author or editor should precede the family name: Smart, Mark, and Michael Debt.

Chapter or part of an edited book

Fridja, Nico H. 2004. "The Psychologists’ Point of View." In Handbook of Emotions, edited by

Michael Lewis, Jeannette M. Haviland-Jones, and Lisa Feldman Barrett‏, 3^rd edition, 68–87. New York, NY: Guilford Press.

Additional Requirements

1. Abbreviate number ranges: 316–17 (with an en dash) in the footnotes and the references.
2. Use un-spaced em dashes in the text.
3. When citing multiple works by the same author, write the author’s full name in every line.
4. Add States to towns when referencing books: Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
5. Emphasized and foreign words should be italicized.
6. Add "’s" rather than "’" to a name that finishes with s: "Socrates’s"
7. Indent by tabulator only, no manual spacing.
8. Type one space after periods, commas, and colons.
9. Do not use single quotation marks, except within a quote with double quotation marks.

Insert notes without changing the preset options on Microsoft Word’s "Footnote and Endnote" feature, and do not renumber notes.

Lydia Amir (Editor-in-Chief), Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA

Associate Editors

Pierre Destrée, University of Louvain, Belgium
Steven Gimbel, Gettysburg College, Pennsylvania, PA, USA
Christine A. James, Valdosta State University, GA, USA
Sheila Lintott, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, USA
John Marmysz, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA, USA
Lauren Olin University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA

Editorial Board Members

Noël Carroll, CUNY, NY, USA
Simon Critchley, The New School, NY, USA
Daniel Dennett, Tufts University, Medford, MA, USA
Stephen Halliwell, Emeritus, St. Andrews University, UK
Kathleen Higgins, University of Texas, Austin, TX, USA
John Lippitt, University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney, NSW, Australia
John Morreall, The College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA, USA
Robert C. Roberts, Baylor University, Waco, TX, USA
Quentin Skinner, Queen Mary University of London, UK

Submissions should be sent to the Editor at lydamir@mail.com

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