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Author Guidelines
1. Manuscript Preparation and Submission
(a) All submissions:
Submit manuscripts formatted for standard 8.5 x 11 paper with 1" margins all round.
Use Times New Roman 12 point font throughout, including notes. Double space everything.
Please attach a 200-word abstract, summarizing the manuscript's argument and major contribution.
All manuscripts submitted electronically should be backed up by a hard copy printout. This is for your protection. The printout must be identical to the final version of the electronic file.
(b) Final production drafts of manuscripts already accepted for publication:
Double-space all copy (this includes all notes, indented quotations, etc.)
Use endnotes, not footnotes. (Articles published in the LHR appear with footnotes. Endnotes are required in manuscripts, however, to expedite page estimation and copyediting.)
Title Page:
On the title page include: ms title; author's name and mailing address (and street address, if different, for express delivery services); phone, fax, and e-mail details; and the text of any note identifying the author (affiliation and acknowledgments) to be included. Do not number or asterisk the author note.
Abstract:
Please attach a 200-word abstract, summarizing the manuscript's argument and major contribution.
(c) Word-Processing/Typing Conventions:
Where possible please use Word, which is the LHR's standard word-processing program. (We can, however, convert files from other word processors.)
Use Times New Roman 12 point. Double-space everything.
Turn off hyphenation to eliminate end-of-line hyphens (except for words that contain hyphens). Do not justify the right margin.
Use hard returns to signal the end of a paragraph and the end of a heading and to format tables. In all other instances, use the wraparound feature to allow lines to run on.
Use a single tab to indent paragraphs and notes.
Do not use letters for numbers or numbers for letters (e.g., zero for the letter "oh"; the letter "ell" for one).
Use two hyphens with no space before, between, or after for a dash (even if your software allows you to use a long [em] dash).
Underline any words, and the punctuation that follows, that are to be set in italic type. Please do not use any feature of your software that allows you to print in italic or bold type.
2. Style
General
Style queries are best resolved in the first instance by inspecting The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., and/or a current copy of the Review. We also draw your attention to the following particulars, which address some of the most frequent style issues that arise in Law and History Review manuscripts:
Do not use small capitals. Do not italicize common foreign words and abbreviations (such as ibid., et al., laissez-faire, vis-à-vis). Spell out contractions (do not, cannot) and numbers under 100. Use "see below" or "see above" (not "infra" or "supra"). Do not use academic titles (e.g., "Smith argues in his recent book . . . ," not "Professor Smith argues . . . ").
Cite federal court decisions in the footnotes, at first occurrence, as follows: Bridges v. California, 314 U.S. 252 (1941). Shorten subsequent footnote citations to case title and page reference (or title, reporter, and page reference if more than one reporter appeared in the first cite).
Diacritical marks that do not appear on the author's disk must be marked in the margin of the hard copy at each occurrence.
Do not set off as an extract any quotation shorter than seven lines.
LHR allows only two levels of subheads, except in those rare instances where a third level is essential to the clear presentation of technical argument. Do not use "Introduction" or "Part I" as a subhead. "Conclusion" may be used as a subhead.
Notes
Do not place a footnote number or asterisk on the title, author's name, epigraph, or any section heading.
(a) Books: Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made (New York: Vintage Books, 1976).
(b) Articles: Kenneth F. Ledford, "German Lawyers and the State in the Weimar Republic," Law and History Review 13 (1995): 317-49.
Use inclusive page numbers if referring to the entire article. If the reference is to a particular section, use only that page number(s).
If the pagination of a periodical is continuous throughout the year, it is not necessary to give the number or the season, only the volume and year.
Use the following form for inclusive numbering: 23-25, 100-104, 107-8, 321-25, 1002-6.
(c) Chapter in an edited book (citation of pages same as articles): Thomas Klug, "Employers' Strategies in the Detroit Labor Market, 1900-1929," in On the Line: Essays in the History of Auto Work, ed. Nelson Lichtenstein and Stephen Meyer (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1989), 41-72.
(d) Shortened citations: after the first citation, a shorter form is used in subsequent notes.
Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll, 25.
Ledford, "German Lawyers and the State," 320.
Klug, "Employers' Strategies," 46.
(e) For sources such as archival material, an acronym may be used after the first citation: Archivo General de Indias, Seville, Spain (hereafter AGI).
(f) Citation of on-line sources: Because the LHR is published in an on-line edition as well as in print, any citations to sources that are internet-available should be included in URL format as well as in standard citation format. The on-line edition displays URLs as live links, which permits on-line readers one-click transfer to the source itself. Citations of this nature must provide the full site address and the specific source location within the site. Where the site itself includes "how to cite" instructions, follow those instructions, with particular reference to Chicago Manual of Style settings. The following is an example of citation of an internet-available article according to Chicago Manual style:
First reference
Daniel Klerman, "Settlement and the Decline of Private Prosecution in Thirteenth-Century England," Law and History Review Spring 2001 http://www.historycooperative.org/journals/lhr/19.1/klerman.html (27 May 2001).
Subsequent reference
Klerman, pars 4-6.
For further information on the Chicago Manual of Style citation of on-line resources, go to http://www.bedfordstmartins.com/online/cite7.html.
Due to page constraints in the printed version, LHR publishes only the URLs of material that is available exclusively in electronic form, but not URLs for items that duplicate readily available print originals. All URLs can be accommodated in the on-line version.
Tables and Figures
(a) Tables/Figures should be prepared and supplied as both a separate electronic file and separate hard copy form. All tables/figures in a manuscript can appear sequentially in one electronic "tables" or "figures" file but in hard copy each table or figure should be printed on a separate sheet of paper. The hard copy table should be formatted so that it appears as the author expects it to look in print: columns should be aligned correctly, the heads and subheads clearly set over the appropriate columns. [Double-spacing is not required.] Accurate hard copy is particularly important in the case of tables and figures: the compositor uses the hard copy as the guide to formatting the table or figure electronically for journal production. [The process of conversion of author files to journal production files usually distorts author formatting of tables and figures. This is not a problem since the compositor will simply reformat, using the hard copy guide.] The electronic "tables" or "figures" file is the compositor's data source and should be formatted as simply as possible. Authors should concentrate on ensuring that the electronic file contains all the words and numbers in each table/figure, and in the appropriate sequence, rather than attempt to "lock" the formatting themselves.
(b) Authors should insert instructions in the body of their manuscripts indicating where each table should appear. Please insert instructions in the form of "call-outs" consisting of bold angle brackets enclosing the appropriate notation, i.e.
(c) Citations/notes within a table or figure should not be included in the general note-numbering sequence. Tables/figures have their own notes. Citations/notes particular to a table or figure appear immediately below the table/figure and are designated by letters not numbers (see Chicago Manual of Style 13.43).
3. Other
Please note that, as stated in the journal (see Note to Contributors, among the front matter of each issue), "Accepted manuscripts are copyedited for style but not substance; authors remain responsible for citation accuracy and for all statements of fact or opinion."
Guidelines for Preparation of Book Reviews
(Please Note: Law and History Review does not accept unsolicited book reviews for publication. All book reviews that appear in Law and History Review are commissioned by the book review editor.)
1. Manuscript Preparation and Submission
Submit manuscripts on standard 8.5 x 11 paper with 1" margins all round
Use Times New Roman 12 point font everything
Print on one side of the paper only
Double-space all copy (this includes all notes, indented quotations, etc.)
E-mail:
Please use this website to submit your book review. The Law and History Review also welcomes submission of manuscripts as "attached" files by email. (Send to the editor, not to the Press.) Please indicate the program used to write the manuscript in the body of the accompanying e-mail message. Please do not submit manuscripts by direct e-mail in plain ASCII.
Printout:
All manuscripts submitted electronically should be backed up by a hard copy printout. This is for your protection. The printout should reflect the most recent version of the electronic file.
Word-Processing/Typing Conventions:
Where possible please use Word, which is the LHR's standard word-processing program. (We can, however, convert files from other word processors.)
Use Times New Roman 12 point font for everything. Double-space everything.
Turn off hyphenation to eliminate end-of-line hyphens (except for words that contain hyphens). Do not justify the right margin.
Use hard returns to signal the end of a paragraph. In all other instances, use the wraparound feature to allow lines to run on.
Use a single tab to indent paragraphs.
Do not use letters for numbers or numbers for letters (e.g., zero for the letter "oh"; the letter "ell" for one).
Use two hyphens with no space before, between, or after for a dash (even if your software allows you to use a long [em] dash).
Underline any words, and the punctuation that follows, that are to be set in italic type. Please do not use any feature of your software that allows you to print in italic or bold type.
2. Style
Bibliographic information: At the head of the first page, please list the following information in the order and form and with the punctuation given here (double-spaced):
Author first name last name, Title, Place of Publication: Publisher, date of publication. Pp. roman + arabic. Price $00.00 cloth; $00.00 paper (ISBN).
Referencing:
LHR book reviews do not carry footnotes. References to the work under review should appear simply as page numbers in parentheses. Do not include the abbreviation p. or pp. with page numbers, except where these are in roman in the original: (8) but (p. viii). In the rare instances where it is absolutely necessary to cite other literature, include the citation in the text (in parentheses) where the reference is relevant. For example: "This book reflects Genovese's earlier work (Eugene D. Genovese, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made [New York: Vintage Books, 1976]). References other than to the work under review are very intrusive in this form, so please keep them to an absolute minimum.
Reviewer information: At the end of the last page please give your name and institutional affiliation in the form that you wish to see it appear in print. LHR typically prints name and one-line of institutional affiliation for those with an academic affiliation. Otherwise, we list your city and state or country of residence.
Submission Preparation Checklist
As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
- The submission has not been previously published nor is it before another journal for consideration. It will not be submitted elsewhere while under consideration by the Law and History Review.
- Submission of a manuscript is understood to commit its author to publish the manuscript in the Law and History Review if accepted by the editor.
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
- The text is double-spaced and uses a 12-point font.
- The manuscript is formatted for standard 8.5 x 11 paper with 1" margins all round; uses one font size throughout; includes a 200-word abstract, summarizing the manuscript's argument and major contribution.
- Author identification has been removed. The author's name has been removed from the document's Properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
Copyright Notice
Copyright by the Board of Trustees of the University of Illinois. Accepted manuscripts are copyedited for style but not substance; authors remain responsible for citation accuracy and for all statements of fact or opinion.
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