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Guidelines for reviewers

Updated: March 2003

The rough length for a TDR review is 500-700 words, but we realize that different books require different lengths of reviews. The wordcount is a guideline only; as an electronic journal, TDR is not constrained by the need to fill up a certain amount of page space the way a print magazine or newspaper is. If you are reviewing two books within the same review, the overall word count per book might be less than average (though the overall length of the review could be about the same).

FORMAT

The review header should be:

[Title]
by [author]
[Publisher], [Year]

Reviewed by [reviewer],

At the end of the review, please include a short (i.e. one or two sentence) bio of yourself.

You should send your review to the reviews editor (fiction or poetry) who sent it to you. Please send reviews:

    1. in the body of an email message, and
    2. attach as a WORD file as well.

QUOTATIONS

Long quotations (more than two sentences) in the body of the review should be set off from the rest of the text, without quotation marks. Short quotations should be marked by quotations and can be included within the regular body of the review.

EDITORIAL REVISIONS

The editors may make changes to your review for grammar, spelling, or clarity. Feel free to discuss changes made to your reviews with the editors.

DEADLINES

Please consider the deadline for the review one month after you receive the book. We recognize that it is not always possible to get reviews done before the deadline. Please discuss extensions with the reviews editor; it helps us to know when we can expect to hear from you.

PUBLICATION

TDR publishes one book review per week (reviews are posted on Friday, Saturday or Sunday each week). In practical terms, this means we often have a backlog of reviews waiting in a queue to be published. We apologize that you may wait a number of weeks before seeing your review posted on the web site.

PAYMENT

TDR does not currently pay for reviews. Reviewers who are sent books are free to keep them.
 

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The Danforth Review is produced in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. All content is copyright of its creator and cannot be copied, printed, or downloaded without the consent of its creator. The Danforth Review is edited by Michael Bryson. Poetry Editors are Geoff Cook and Shane Neilson. Reviews Editors are Anthony Metivier (fiction) and Erin Gouthro (poetry). TDR alumnus officio: K.I. Press. All views expressed are those of the writer only. International submissions are encouraged. The Danforth Review is archived in the National Library of Canada. ISSN 1494-6114. 

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