Submissions

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 (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

If you have any queries, please contact the Editors.

Length	6,000 to 8,000 words including references. Shorter or longer pieces may be acceptable; please contact the editors to discuss.
Font	Calibri 11
Spacing	1.15 for text but double-spaced between paragraphs (i.e. hit return/enter twice) Justified except for title and author, which should be left aligned All margins to be 2.54cm
Page Numbers	Insert at the top right of each page in Calibri 11
Article type (when needed)	REVIEW ESSAY (above title) or INTRODUCTION: Title of Introduction
Title	Capitals for All Main Words
Authors	First Name Surname Up to three authors: First Name Surname, First Name Surname and First Name Surname More than three authors: First Name Surname et al
Affiliation(s) and Contact Details	Precedes first footnote First Name Surname, Affiliation, Email Address
Acknowledgements	Precede first footnote but follow affiliation(s)
Abstract	Italics, no heading, 150 words maximum
Keywords	After abstract, please include a maximum of six keywords as follows: Keywords: keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword, keyword
Headings	Bold, Capitals for All Main Words
Paragraphs	Not idented but double-space between (i.e. hit return/enter twice)
Tables	Justified as text Above the table: Table 1. Title of Table Below the table: Source: Source of table. In text: Table 1
Figures	Justified as text Above the figure: Figure 1. Title of figure. Below the figure: Source: Source of figure. In text: Figure 1
Displayed quotations	Four lines and over: indented left only
Spelling and Punctuation	Either British or American spelling and punctuation are acceptable but please do NOT mix the two Please note that if using the British system then single quotation marks should be used (‘ and ’) and full stops and commas should go outside of the quotation marks. If using American spelling and punctuation, please ensure that double quotation marks are used (“ and ”), with full stops and commas within the quotation marks. Use of punctuation in references is given below.
Initials	Please use full stops after any initials used, e.g. S. Jay Kleinberg NOT S Jay Kleinberg
Numbers and units	In text, spell out numbers one hundred and below, e.g. twenty-two, except for percentages, e.g. 30 percent (do not use %)
Dates	Eighteenth century; 1950s; 19 July 1982
Book reviews	Book Review Title of Book Capitals for All Main Words AUTHOR’S NAME Place: Publisher, Year Pp xiii + 366, £14.99. ISBN 0 8223 3795 9 (hardback). REVIEWER NAME Affiliation © Year, Reviewer’s Name

References and reference style

Use footnotes numbered in Arabic numerals (1, 2, 3).

Please do not use op. cit. However, ibid. can be used to refer to the same work as cited immediately above.

The first reference should be full and complete as below. Additional references to the same work should consist of the author’s surname followed by the title, which can be shortened if it is long. For example, Widows and Orphans First: The Family Economy and Social Policy, 1880-1939 would appear in later references as Kleinberg, Widows and Orphans First.

Please follow the Turabian style as in the following examples:

· For books

Susan Faludi, Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women (New York: Crown Publishers, 1991), 43.

· For four or more authors

Ros Ballaster et al., Women’s Worlds – Ideology, Femininity and the Woman’s Magazine (Basingstoke Macmillan, 1991), 43.

· Chapter in an edited collection

Elizabeth J. Clapp, “The Woman Suffrage Movement, 1848-1920,” in The Practice of U.S. Women’s History: Narratives, Intersections, and Dialogues, eds. S. Jay Kleinberg, Eileen Boris and Vicki L. Ruiz (London: Rutgers University Press, 2007), 242.

· Journal articles

Annelise Orleck, “‘We Are That Mythical Thing Called the Public’: Militant Housewives during the Great Depression,” Feminist Studies 19 (1993): 150.

For articles in online journals, please add a hyperlink to the article and the date accessed.

· Thesis or dissertation

Rachel Ritchie, “The Housewife and the Modern: The Home and Appearance in Women’s Magazines, 1954-1969” (PhD diss., University of Manchester, 2011), 43-44.

· Paper presented at a meeting or a conference

Madisson Brown, “‘A Voice From Across the Atlantic’: the Double-Standard, Prostitution Reform and Feminism in the Transatlantic Women’s Movement 1830-1850” (paper presented at the annual conference of the Society for the History of Women in the Americas, London, U.K., 14 March 2012).

· Website

ESRC Women in the 1950s Seminar Series, “Women in the 1950s”, University of Manchester, http://www.socialsciences.manchester.ac.uk/disciplines/sociology/about/events/esrcseminars/, (accessed 15 April 2010).

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