Guidelines for Submission of Book/Media Reviews for
The Rocky Mountain Review

Submission: Book/media reviews should be submitted electronically as a Word document to davissj@wsu.edu.
Sabine J. Davis, Editor
The Rocky Mountain Review
Washington State University
P. O. Box 642610
Pullman, WA 99164-2610

The review should have the following information:
  • Your name, e-mail address, and phone number; and
  • Name of the file (with extension) *plus* the software program and version that you have used.
Reviews should be submitted within three months of reception of the book. If, having looked at the book, you decide that you do not wish to review it, please return the book to the editor.

RMMLA membership is a prerequisite for submission of the review. Following publication in The Rocky Mountain Review, reviews can be downloaded in PDF format from our web site at www.rmmla.org.

All corrections and revisions must be completed by the following deadlines: August 31st for the fall issue and December 31st for the spring issue. The Editors bear the final responsibility for the journal, and reserve the right to refuse any review that is excessively tardy or otherwise unsuitable.

Format: Reviews should begin with the following information, in the order and with the punctuation and styles outlined in the example below:

  • Name of the author or editor(s) of the book or media item;
  • Complete title and subtitle, as well as edition (if applicable);
  • Place of publication, name of publisher, and year of publication;
  • Number of pages;
  • Your full name and institutional affiliation, if any. If you are an independent scholar, please state so.

Example:

Mary Ann Caws. To the Boathouse: A Memoir. Tuscaloosa: University of Alabama Press, 2004. 243p.

Joanne Craig
Bishop's University

The primary focus of reviews should be the critical evaluation and framework of the book or media item, not a summary of its contents.

Reviews should be between two and four manuscript pages in length, double-spaced, and should conform to the latest MLA style. Footnotes, endnotes, and lengthy quotations should be avoided.

Because we are a generalist organization with generalist journals, reviews will be printed in the order of the chronology of their subject matter, similar to library cataloging systems. Therefore, a review of a book concerning Classical Mythology will precede one reviewing a CD-ROM on medieval women, followed by a book review on an Edgar Allan Poe biography. Reviews of materials concerned with contemporary cultural studies, linguistics, and bibliographical resources or style manuals tend to appear at the end of the sequence.

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