Submission Guidelines
Who Can Submit
The Center for African Studies only publishes materials conducted under the auspices of the Center for African Studies. We are not accepting unsolicted work at this time. For additional information, please contact asc@berkeley.edu.
**For those who have been invited to submit a paper**
How to Submit It
- Make sure your paper is in an acceptable format. We can accept papers in Microsoft
Word, Rich Text Format (RTF), or Adobe Acrobat (PDF).
If you use a word-processing program other than Microsoft Word, look for an "export" or "save as" option in your program to save it as an RTF file. If you have questions, please contact asc@berkeley.edu. - Write an abstract for your paper, maximum of one page. Please also select keywords. These are words that will help a user locate your paper through a search.
- Submit the paper by emailing it to asc@berkeley.edu. Include in an email message the following things: abstract; keywords; and name, affiliation (department and university), and email address for each author.
- If you have any questions, contact asc@berkeley.edu.
Overview of the Process
After you submit your paper, we will create an Adobe Acrobat (PDF) version of it and publish it on the site. You will be notified by e-mail when the paper is posted.
How to Revise Your Paper
If you publish this paper or a revised version elsewhere, for example in a journal, please send the citation of the new version to asc@berkeley.edu. We will be able to inform repository users about the new version.
If you would like to post a revised version of your paper on the site, please follow the instructions in "How to Submit"; however, please specify when you submit the paper that it is a revision of a previously submitted paper.