The European Journal of Humour Research strictly enforces the double blind review policy. Every submitted article is first assessed by the Editorial Team. If not desk-rejected for formal reasons or considered unsuitable for the journal, it is then assigned to the appropriate Editor, who assigns it to two reviewers collaborating with the journal, who specialise in the field that the article represents. In each of the cases, the policy of independence of the reviewers from the authors is followed, specifically authors and reviewers cannot be members of the same institution.
The reviewers are usually allowed 3-4 weeks for review, whereupon authors are asked to revise the articles according to the recommendations of reviewers and Editor within an agreed deadline, usually not more than 4-8 weeks. After the articles are revised, they are submitted to the journal Editor, who assigns them either for another review or for desk-editing to one of the editorial assistants. They check the articles for compatibility with formal requirements of the journal, including the required template and details of the bibliographical style.
After the desk-editors have completed their work, the Editor in charge assigns the article to an issue. Before the publication, the final update of the author's data and bio, as well as the article metadata: authors' names, article title, abstract and bibliography is carried out by the author in collaboration with the Editor. Authors have the right to proofread the article before their final publication.
Reviewers assess every article on the following scale:
When reviewing an article, reviewers are guided by the following criteria: the originality and importance of research, clarity, methodology, conclusions, reference support and quality of English.
Reviewers receive a special template to complete their review.
Lists of reviewers are published annually (lists of reviewers for previous years can be found here).
The journal uses the APA bibllographical style.
In-text references
References in the text should be indicated by giving the author’s name with the year of publication and pages in parentheses, e.g. (Ruch 1998: 7), (Chapman & Foot 1976); or if there are more than two authors Ruch et al. (2010: 3). If several papers from the same author(s) and from the same year are cited, (a), (b), (c), etc. should be put after the year of publication, e.g. (Ruch 2009a: 5). If you refer to more than one work at the same time, enclose all the references within the same parentheses and separate each reference from the next by a semi-colon (Davies 1998: 12; Ruch 1998: 23).
End references
References should be listed in full alphabetical order at the end of the paper in the following form (please note: initial letters of book and journal titles should be placed in capitals while those of article titles in lower-case letters as shown below):
Davies, C. (2011). Jokes and Targets. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.
Dekavalla, M. (2010). ‘Tax, war and waiting lists: The construction of national identity in newspaper coverage of general elections after devolution’. Discourse & Society 21 (6), pp. 638-654.
Goddard, C. (2020). ‘De-Anglicising humour studies’. The European Journal of Humour Research 8(4), pp 48-58.
Hempelmann, C. F. & Samson, A. (2007). ‘Visual puns and verbal puns: Descriptive analogy or false analogy?’, in Popa, D. & Attardo, S. (eds.), New Approaches to the Linguistics of Humour, Galati: Academica, pp. 180-196.
Lu, C.-T. (2010). Analysis of English Subtitles Produced for the Taiwanese Movie Cape No.7. Auckland: Auckland University of Technology MA thesis.
Milner Davis, J. 2012. ‘Lope de Rueda (1510-1565), farceur par excellence, and his Paso Septimo, or Las Aceitunas’. Paper presented at the International Society of Humour Studies 24th Conference. Jagiellonian University, Krakow, 25-29 June.
Ritchie, G. (2004). The Linguistic Analysis of Jokes. London: Routledge.
Other detailed requirements can be found in the templates as well as here
