• Please use the Chicago Manual of Style format for all footnotes (we do not use endnotes).
• Do not include a "Works Cited."  Instead, please include complete bibliographic information in a footnote the first time you cite a text.  Thereafter, use an abbreviated reference to the text in question, which should include the author's last name, an abbreviated title (italicized or in quotation marks accordingly), and the relevant page numbers.  For example:  O'Neill, With Shakespeare's Eyes.  49 - 67.
• Russian quoted within the main text should be transliterated according the Library of Congress system (without diacritical marks).  Surnames and other words that have entered common usage in English, however, should conform to conventional spellings in the body of the article (e.g. Dostoevsky) but should be transliterated according to the LOC system in the bibliographic information that appears in the footnote.  When citing English-language sources in the footnotes, please retain whatever spellings appear in the publication itself.  
• Block-quotes should be in Cyrillic.
• Unless it is essential to use the original language, quotations should be in English.
• Please include English translations of all quotations in another language.
• Pieces of various lengths are welcome, although generally articles should not exceed 8,000 words (approximately 30 double-spaced pages), including notes.  Reviews should not exceed 1,200 words.
• Please submit all work as an email attachment in one of the following formats:  MSWord Document (.doc or .docx), OpenOffice Document (.odt), or in Rich Text Format (.rtf).
• In order to insure anonymous assessment, the author's name should not appear anywhere in the body, headers or footers of the document in question.  When citing your own work, please refer to yourself in the third person.
• Please include your institutional affiliation at the end of your document.

If you have agreed to write a review, the Review Editor will work out a reasonable deadline with you.  Please also observe the following guidelines:

• Reviews generally should not exceed 1,200 words.  Should you feel that a longer review is appropriate or if you need more time than the deadline allows, please contact the Review Editor.  The Pushkin Review reserves the right to cut or discard excessively long or overdue reviews.
• Please include a brief summary of the material you are reviewing and describe as clearly as possible its argument, methodology, strengths and weaknesses.  If possible, indicate a potential readership.
• Transliteration should follow the Library of Congress system (without diacritical marks).
• Please include both the first and last name, or initials and surname, of any person the first time mentioned.  The names of contributors to collections of articles should also be treated in this manner.
• Do not include footnotes or endnotes.  If you must cite another work, please do so by including an in-text reference in parentheses (author, title, and year of publication).
• Please begin your review with the exact bibliographic details of the material in question.  If you are reviewing a book, refer to the title page / copyright page rather than the cover.  This portion of the review should conform to the following model:
  
  Catherine Theimer Nepomnyashchy, Nicole Svobodny, and Ludmilla A. Trigos, eds. Under the Skies of My Africa: Alexander Pushkin and Blackness. "Foreword" by Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press, 2006. viii + 418 pp. Index. ISBN 0-8101-1970-6 (cloth), 0-8101-1971-4 (paper).
  
  Boris Gasparov. Five Operas and a Symphony: Words and Music in Russian Culture. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2005. xxii + 268 pp. ISBN 0-300-10650-5. Cloth.
• Your name and affiliation should appear at the end of the review.
• Please send your completed review to Sara Dickinson ( This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it ) via email attachment.  In order to avoid difficulties with conversion between different word-processing programs, please be sure to send a version of your review as an .rtf ("rich text format") file and to indicate in your email all words that are italicized or have diacritical marks.
• Before your review goes to press, you will be sent an edited proof for checking.  Please note, however, that only corrections that are absolutely necessary can be allowed at this final stage.