1. Submissions (in English, double-spaced, 15-30 pp.) should be sent as an e-mail attachment to Erin Alpert, Olga Klimova, and Elise Thorsen (Editors) at sisc@pitt.edu.
   
   
2. If approved for publication, a revised electronic copy of the submission will be required, either on a CD or as an e-mail attachment.
   
   
3. The preferred software is Microsoft Word ('97 or later).
   
   
4. Before final submission, authors will be asked to reformat their text files so that they use only fonts included in the standard packages of the recent Mac OS and Windows operating systems.
   
   
5. The revised manuscript should be accompanied by an electronic copy of all visuals in TIFF format, scanned at the size they appear in the text (at 150 dpi or greater), either on floppy disc or as an e-mail attachment. For the initial submission, images may simply be inserted into the Microsoft Word document.
   
   
6. For clarification of what constitutes "fair use" in visuals, contact the editors at sisc@pitt.edu
   
   
7. Deadline for submissions: TBA

1. TRANSLITERATION
• All transliteration should follow the Library of Congress system (System II), except in those spellings that have become part of common usage (e.g. "Dostoevsky," "Tchaikovsky," etc.).
2. DOCUMENTATION
• Titles of book-form texts and films should be italicized (not underlined). A title within an italicized title should be left unitalicized (The Greatness of Hamlet).
• All entries in the list of works cited should be in the Latin alphabet. Entries referencing publications in Cyrillic should be transliterated, not translated (Ardens, N. N. Tvorcheskii put' L. N. Tolstogo. Moskva:[not "Moscow"] Izd. ANSSSR, 1962).
• The list of works cited should be placed at the end of the paper, after the endnotes (SISC uses only endnotes; prior to sumbitting their journal entries, authors must convert all of their footnotes to endnotes).
3. QUOTATIONS
• All quotations from texts published originally in one of the Slavic languages should be accompanied by an English translation in an endnote. If the author uses the English translation in his/her text, then the corresponding passage in the Slavic original (again, in an endnote) must be included. If not the author's own, the English translation should be documented by a parenthetical reference after the closing quotation mark.
• Quotations consisting of 5 lines of text or more are separated from the main text by a single space and indented, retaining the alphabet of their source (no transliteration).
• Quotations consisting of 4 or fewer lines of text are enclosed within quotation marks and incorporated into the main text. They also retain the alphabet of their source.
• Individual words and phrases in Cyrillic that, rather than being quoted, constitute a part of the English sentence (or give the Slavic equivalent of an Enlish word or phrase), should be transliterated and italicized ("Oblomov is just one more example of that peculiar cultural specimen, the lishnii chelovek"; "But this dimple is also a little hole, a gap (dyrochka), which translates into a gap of meaning").

Studies in Slavic Cultures is now accepting submissions for the 2010 issue. The theme of this issue is “Alternative Culture,” and we welcome graduate student submissions investigating any aspect of this topic in relation to literary, visual, performative, and other areas of contemporary or non-contemporary culture in Russia and Eastern Europe.

The deadline for submissions is DECEMBER 15, 2009. Queries and submissions should be sent to Erin Alpert, Hillary Brevig, and Olga Klimova at sisc@pitt.edu