Article Submission

Each man­u­script should begin with a 100 to 200 word abstract of its con­tent and a 2–3 sen­tence bio of the author.

Sub­mis­sions should range from 500 to 2500 words (excep­tions can be made). Ideal length is approx­i­mately 1500 words.

Man­u­scripts should be sub­mit­ted for con­sid­er­a­tion by email attach­ment using Microsoft Word.

All sub­mis­sions should be acces­si­ble to an edu­cated lay audi­ence; offer orig­i­nal and rea­son­ably well-expressed, focused con­tent; and be fair, accu­rate and just.

All sub­mis­sions should use gen­der inclusive/expansive lan­guage: please note that this can mean the avoid­ance of gen­dered lan­guage alto­gether or the inter­change of male and female lan­guage, except in cases where gen­der is the issue at hand. Depend­ing on con­text, not all quo­ta­tions from his­toric sources need to be edited for inclusiveness.

All sub­mis­sions, includ­ing, but not lim­ited to arti­cles, must be the orig­i­nal, unpub­lished work of the author(s) and must not have been sub­mit­ted for con­sid­er­a­tion by another aca­d­e­mic or prac­ti­cal jour­nal. Con­trib­u­tor must be the sole owner of all copy­rights and intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights to the mate­r­ial sub­mit­ted or have the writ­ten per­mis­sion of the co-author or co-creator of the material.

All sub­mis­sions should con­form to copy­right laws and not repro­duce uno­rig­i­nal mate­r­ial with­out explicit cita­tion and, where nec­es­sary, per­mis­sion to use the mate­r­ial. Con­trib­u­tors are respon­si­ble for obtain­ing (and pay­ing for) copy­right per­mis­sion as nec­es­sary; doc­u­men­ta­tion of copy­right per­mis­sion should be sub­mit­ted with the manuscript.

Notes should be num­bered sequen­tially in the text and listed at the end of the man­u­script. Except in the most obvi­ous instances (e.g. bib­li­cal ref­er­ences), abbre­vi­a­tions should be avoided. Titles of jour­nals should be writ­ten out in full. For fur­ther infor­ma­tion regard­ing for­mat, con­sult the Chicago Man­ual of Style, 15th edi­tion (or Kate L. Tura­bian, A Man­ual for Writ­ers of Term Papers, The­ses, and Dis­ser­ta­tions [6th edn.; Chicago and Lon­don: Uni­ver­sity of Chicago Press, 1996]). For infor­ma­tion regard­ing for­mat for cita­tion of inter­net sources see A Brief Cita­tion Guide for Inter­net Sources in His­tory and the Human­i­ties. For abbre­vi­a­tions of bib­li­cal books, see the com­pre­hen­sive list­ing com­piled by the Jour­nal of Bib­li­cal Stud­ies. Please do not impro­vise on for­mat.

Authors should be will­ing to respond to ques­tions from Inter­net read­ers of their articles.

Review of sub­mis­sions will usu­ally be accom­plished in 6–10 weeks; con­trib­u­tors will be noti­fied by email upon com­ple­tion of the review. Since issues are the­matic, some man­u­scripts may be held for pub­li­ca­tion in the appro­pri­ate the­matic issue.

Please keep in mind that in-between jour­nal issues, plan­ning is rel­a­tively flex­i­ble, while the the­matic jour­nal issues are gen­er­ally planned sev­eral months in advance and may require sig­nif­i­cant advance sub­mis­sion on your part. With that said, themes for advance issues will be announced with the pro­vi­sion that sub­mis­sions related to other pos­si­bly urgent top­ics will be given consideration.

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