The editors of Cultural and Social History believe that the journal should reflect and encourage a wide range of perspectives, provided that the pieces are not sexist, racist, homophobic, or otherwise discriminatory. Opinions expressed in articles, features and reviews are those of individual authors and do not represent editorial policy. Please avoid excess jargon specific to a particular approach or discipline area, in the interests of accessibility to the widest possible readership. The journal welcomes unsolicited submissions. Manuscripts are reviewed blind: neither authors nor expert readers know one another's identities. Manuscripts do not need to be submitted in English. The journal has a limited budget for translation of works written in other languages. Please send an abstract in English along with the manuscript and electronic copy.
Submissions to Cultural and Social History can be sent in either electronic OR hard copy format. To submit a manuscript electronically, please send it either in WORD or in RICH TEXT FORMAT to the email address below. To submit an article in hard copy, please supply THREE hard copies of the article to the postal addresses provided below. The package should include a 100 word abstract, including also copies of any statistical tables, maps, or illustrations. Provide your name(s), address(es) and contact information on a separate title page. Articles should be between 8 000 and 10 000 words in length (including footnotes), normally, but either shorter or longer submissions may be considered on their merits. Reviews and review articles should be submitted direct to the Book Review Editor.
Cultural and Social History Journal
c/o Joanne Workman
Centre for Contemporary British History
Institute of Historical Research
Senate House
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HU
Book Review Editor
Dr Sean O'Connell
School of History and International Affairs
University of Ulster
Jordanstown Campus
Share Road
Newtownabbey
Co. Antrim
BT37 0QB
Email: sp.oconnell@ulster.ac.uk
The Editors will seek to notify authors about the acceptability of a paper within three months; however since some manuscripts may have to travel the world to reviewers, it may sometimes take longer to get back to you. The Editors will not enter into correspondence about papers considered unsuitable for publication.
Layout of Typescript and Electronic Copy
All material should be on A4 or quarto paper, in double-spaced typing, and on one side of the page only. Ample margins should be left. Each page of the typescript should be numbered.
In Reviews, all material should be incorporated into the text: there should be no footnotes. In articles, please use footnotes, numbered consecutively. Footnotes should be provided, in double spacing, on separate sheets at the end of the article.
Please avoid cross-references as far as possible. In Reviews, the author's name should appear at the end of the review, on the right-hand side, with his/her institution on the left.
Please submit the manuscript pages loose, not stapled or bound together. The total word count, including footnotes, should be added at the end of the manuscript.
Conventions
Quotation marks should be single; double quotation marks should be used only to indicate one quotation within another. Quotations may be given in an original foreign language, but a translation into English must also be provided.
Acronyms should be preceded by the title in full.
Footnote numbering should be in superscript, but not either bold or italic. Footnote numbers should be placed in the text, following the end of a sentence unless there is a need to endnote a particular word. Please try to avoid sentences with numerous footnote numbers within them.
Use italics for titles of books, journals and newspapers (though in typescript submissions for consideration, underlining may be used. However, word-processed copy will normally be preferred).
Quotations of over 50 words should be indented on both right and left margins.
Numbers should be given as follows: one to twelve in words; 13 onwards in figures. Please give dates in figures (ie: 1380, 1900, and in sequence, 1810-16; 1242-3), and refer in both text and footnotes to 1640s. Use words for tenth century, for example, in both text and footnotes. For specific dates please use 12 November 1800 in both text and footnotes. In footnotes, the months are given in the form Jan, Feb, March, Apr, May, June, July, Aug, Sept, Oct, Nov, Dec.
Spelling should be UK English. Normally, the spelling in English language quotations (or the English translations of foreign language quotations) should be in modern English, with standardized spelling, unless the original language, spelling, or punctuation is required for textual discussion. Equally, place names should normally use the standard English form, if one is in common use, otherwise the local modern spelling should be used. Please use italics for non-English words which are not accepted as part of the daily language, thus: mores but vice versa. We prefer UK, USA, Dr, Mrs, Rev. In the text, avoid abbreviations apart from standard accepted ones such as these but in footnote text use: i.e., e.g. (see above for months). Above all, however, be consistent in your usage, especially for conventions of punctuation.
References
These should be kept to a minimum. Book titles are italicised, and you should follow the capitalization pattern of the original, especially with non-English language titles, as well as over the use of first names or initials.
First citations follow this pattern: Judith Butler, Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York, 1990) p. 3 (or pp. 3-4).
Edited collections are indicated by (ed.) for single editors and (eds) for multiple authors.
With multiple authors, please give the first author and indicate the others as follows: et al. Chapters in edited collections follow this pattern: Pauline Stafford, 'La mutation familiale: A Suitable Case for Caution' in J. Hill and M. Swan (eds), The Community, The Family and the Saint. Patterns of Power in Early Medieval Europe (Turnhout, 1998) p. 103.
For articles, please use the following pattern, with the volume number in Arabic numerals, the relevant page numbers, and the page number of any direct citation. Again, you should follow the capitalization pattern of the original: Susanne Davies, 'Sexuality, Performance and Spectatorship in Law: the case of Gordon Lawrence, Melbourne, 1888', Journal of the History of Sexuality, 7 (1997) p. 390.
For subsequent citations of any publication, use the surname of the author(s) and a short title: Butler, Gender Trouble, pp. 88-9; Stafford, 'La mutation familiale', p. 112; Davies, 'Sexuality', p. 390.
For translated texts, please use the following: K. Jaspers, General Human Resource Management, 7th edn, trans. J. Hoenig and M. Hamilton (Manchester, 1983).
For pamphlets or occasional papers which are part of a series, put the name of the series and the number of the paper in brackets after the title, along with the publisher, place and date of publication). British official publications should be listed under the name of the department, or as Parliamentary Papers (abbreviated after first citation to PP), and for foreign official papers, place the name/abbreviation of the country before the department.
For unpublished texts, please follow this pattern: Claude Kanaan, 'The Historical Background to Twentieth Century Cultural Politics in the Lebanon', unpublished PhD thesis, University of London, 1996, or Virginia Smith, 'Grooming as Play', unpublished conference paper, Social History Society conference, Leicester, 4 January 2003.
For web references, use the following patterns. Where there is a title or collection involved: http:/booth.lse.ac.uk/ Charles Booth and the survey into life and labour in London (1886-1903). Where the reference is simply to a website, use: http:/www.ihr.sas.ac.uk, and give also the date of access.
For newsreels, use the following pattern: Visinews Film Library, London, British Gaumont, Issue 269, 27 July 1936 (hereafter GB). For documentary and feature films, Mission to Moscow (Michael Curtiz, Warner Bros, US, 1943). For radio/television broadcasts, use: Women's Hour, BBC Radio 4, 15 January 2000.
For references to newspapers, give the title of the newspaper, followed by the date and the page number (if available): The Times, 7 June 1871, p. 10.
For citation of legal cases, these should be given in the usual English law form with the name of the case and its date in the text and a list of cases in alphabetical order at the end of the article.
For manuscript references, these should always be cited by repository and reference code, with the repository name abbreviated after the first citation. Where all manuscripts are in one repository, the repository title need only be given at the first citation. Reference codes should follow the conventions used in the relevant repository.
Do NOT use Ibid., op. cit. or idem.
Illustrations and Tables
All pictures, maps, diagrams, figures and graphs should be submitted in the form of completed artwork suitable for reproduction. Each illustration, figure or table should be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and should be referred to in the text. They should be separate from the article (with a list of headings, captions or citations on a separate sheet), but their place in the text should be marked. No illustration (including caption) will be given more space than the text area of the journal page, ie 191 mm x 112 mm. Figures should ideally be drawn for a reduction of one-third, ie. 3:2.
Tables should be on separate sheets. Indicate in the margin of the text where the tables should be placed. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data.
All costs for reproducing figures in colour must be met by the author.
Copyrights/offprints
In submitting a paper to Cultural and Social History an author recognises that, on its acceptance for publication, its exclusive copyright shall be assigned to the Social History Society and operated on the Society's behalf by the publisher. In consideration of this provision, the publisher will supply the author with 25 offprints of his/her paper (offprints of reviews are not supplied). The publisher will not put any limitation on the freedom of the author to use material contained in the paper in other published works of which he/she is author or editor. It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to quote material from copyright sources.
Alterations to Articles
Any amendments or corrections should be sent to the Editors (or Review Editor) as soon as possible after any author receives notification of acceptance for publication of his/her article. Because of the high cost of correction, the Editors reserve the right to reject alterations in proof. To avoid delays in the production of the journal, contributors will be asked to return their proofs promptly. Proofs are not sent to authors of reviews.
Submission of Disks
This is for the final versions of accepted papers. The data should be copied onto a clean newly-formatted disk. Each disk should be identified by the first author's name and article title and give details of the hardware and software used. At this stage, authors will also be asked to provide electronic copy of a brief biographical summary, giving institutional affiliation etc.
