Submission Guidelines

Articles should have a maximum length of 7,500 words or 50,000 characters including bibliography and notes. Book reviews and author's summations should have a maximum length of 3,000 words or 20,000 characters including bibliography.

CONTRIBUTIONS is published biannually, with issues coming out in February and September. Manuscripts may be submitted for review at any time.

Please include your full name, address, telephone, e-mail address, and institutional affiliation in the first page of the submitted copy. Also include a 200-300 word abstract if submitting an article.

All texts submitted for review should use Times New Roman font, size 12, and be double-spaced throughout.

Notes and citations should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals and should be placed at the end of the text (endnotes). Complete bibliographical references should be included following the endnotes. In reviews and summations, references to the pages of the book under review should be placed in parenthesis. References to other works should follow the same guidelines as articles.

Titles of books and articles appearing in the body of the text must be italicized . Titles should not be abbreviated, except in the case of frequent reference.

For words and phrases in languages other than English please use italics . Words in Greek can either be left in the Greek alphabet or transliterated. Long quotations in other languages should be translated.

Gender-specific language should be avoided, unless only one gender is intended.

Centuries should be fully spelled out – “the nineteenth century” - and hyphenated if used adjectivally – “nineteenth-century France.”

Double quotation marks should be used to indicate quotations; single quotation marks for quotations within quotations. Periods and commas should precede quotation marks, except when a page number follows the quotation. Placement of other punctuation marks will depend. If they belong to the sentence or phrase being quoted, they should precede quotation marks; otherwise they should be placed outside quotation marks.

For bibliographical references, please conform to the following illustrative examples:

Books

Schaffer, Frederic C. 1998. Democracy in Translation: Understanding Politics in an Unfamiliar Culture . Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

Journal articles

Howland, Douglas R. 2003. The Predicament of Ideas in Culture: Translation and Historiography. History and Theory 42:45-60.

Edited book

Ball, Terence, James Farr, and Russell L. Hanson, eds. 1989. Political Innovation and Conceptual Change . Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Book sections (chapters)

Koselleck, Reinhart. 1996. A Response to Comments on the Geschichtliche Grundbegriffe . In The Meaning of Historical Terms and Concepts: New Studies on Begriffgeschichte , edited by H. Lehmann and M. Richter. Washington D.C.: German Historical Institute.

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