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Journal PoliciesManuscript Preparation Instructions
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Manuscript format and structure
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Advance Access
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JOURNAL POLICIES
Scope of Environmental History
Environmental History is devoted to the history of human interaction with the nonhuman world. We define our field broadly, and we welcome submissions from scholars in all disciplines that provide insight into important issues in environmental history. We are happy to consider manuscripts about any time and any part of the world.
When we evaluate manuscripts, we consider the significance of the topic, the originality of the argument, and the quality of the research and writing. We also consider the potential readership for each piece, and authors should give careful thought to the question of audience. What kind of readers will find your work compelling? If a manuscript is likely to appeal only to a few specialists in one subfield of environmental history, we probably will not be interested.
Conflict of Interest
Potential financial interests must be disclosed to the Editor in the form of a statement in the covering letter. This statement will be published at the Editor's discretion. The conflict of interest test is simple: is there anything that would embarrass you or any of your co-authors if it were to emerge after publication and you had not declared it? All sources of funding must be disclosed as an acknowledgement in the text.
Self-Archiving Policy
For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.
Book reviews
Publishers submitting books for review should send them to the Book Review Editor at
Book Review Editor, Environmental History
Forest History Society
701 William Vickers Avenue
Durham, NC 27701-3162
Material Disclaimer
The opinions expressed in Environmental History are those of the authors and contributors, and do not necessarily reflect those of the Forest History Society, the American Society for Environmental History, the editors, the editorial board, Oxford University Press, or the organization to which the authors are affiliated.
MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION INSTRUCTIONS
Please read these instructions carefully and follow them closely to ensure that the review and publication of your paper is as efficient and quick as possible. The Editors reserve the right to return manuscripts that are not in accordance with these instructions.
Beginning August 4, 2010, Environmental History will accept submissions online; please see the online submission instructions for more information.
Some manuscripts are rejected immediately because they are too narrowly focused or more suited to another journal. Most manuscripts are sent to two referees for review. Usually, the first referee is an expert on the subject of the manuscript, and the second referee is a specialist in a related sub-field. Occasionally we send a manuscript to a third referee. The review process is blind: we do not identify authors when we send manuscripts to referees, and we do not identify referees when we share their evaluations with authors. We hope to respond to submissions within 4 months.
CORRESPONDENCE (EDITORIAL)
The Editorial Office can be contacted contacted by email.
MANUSCRIPT FORMAT AND STRUCTURE
Please prepare your typescript text using a word-processing package (save in .doc or .rtf format). Typescripts should be double-spaced. Please number each page.
Please include the files for any supplementary material to be submitted with your manuscript. It is recommended that authors spell-check all files before submission.
Please use short, simple filenames when saving all your documents, and avoid special characters, punctuation marks, symbols (such as &), and spaces. If you are a Macintosh user, you must also type the extension at the end of the file name you choose (.doc, .rtf, .jpg, .gif, .tif, .xls, .pdf, .eps, .ppt, .mov or .qt).
Other helpful hints are: (i) use the tab key once for paragraph indents; (ii) where possible use Times New Roman for the text font and Symbol for any Greek and special characters; (iii) use the word processing formatting features to indicate Bold, Italic, Greek, Math, and superscript and subscript characters; (iv) please avoid using underline: for cases use italic; for emphasis use bold; (v) clearly identify unusual symbols and Greek letters; (vi) differentiate between the letter O and zero, and the letters I and l and the number 1.
Articles in Environmental History are no longer than 8,000 words, not counting notes, so you should not submit a manuscript that greatly exceeds that length. You will need to include an abstract of 150 to 250 words that explains clearly what you argue and why your work is significant. The first page of the text should begin with the title of your manuscript but should NOT include your name or contact information. To ensure your anonymity, you also should avoid personal references in the text and notes. Cite your own work just as you would cite the work of another author. Do not include acknowledgements. The manuscript should be double-spaced.
Headings should be to journal style and must not be longer than 40 characters. Compound words should be hyphenated.
Authors are responsible for checking the accuracy of all footnotes and references.
Style
Submitted articles should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition.
Spelling
We use Merriam-Webster's Eleventh Collegiate Dictionary (2005) as a guide to spelling (including hyphenation, closed or unclosed compounds, etc.), although other modern U.S. dictionaries are usually valid. All spellings are Americanized where appropriate. For plants, trees, and animals mentioned in the text, use common names rather than scientific names (unless there is no common name in English); scientific names may be included in an endnote if warranted.
Capitalization
See chapter 7 in the Chicago Manual of Style. Generally, minimize the use of capital letters, especially in titles of people and government organizations.
Quotations
Use block quotations only for quotes longer than ten typed lines. Do not begin or end quotations with ellipses. Avoid putting quotation marks around a single word, especially for purposes of irony.
Numbers
Spell out numbers less than 101, and any round numbers (hundred, thousands, millions, etc.). For percentages and decimal fractions, always use numerals (43 percent [never "%"], 7.6 meters). In listing several quantities of comparable items, if any of the numbers normally take numerals, use numerals for all; e.g., "The purchase included 18 box cars, 4 passenger cars, a caboose, 125 box cars, about 175 flat cars, and 346 tons of coal." If a number (except for a year) begins a sentence, always spell it out. For other number usage, refer to the Chicago Manual of Style, especially chapter 9.
Money
See the Chicago Manual of Style, chapter 9. If the currency symbol isn't available, write it out, e.g., 100 yen, seventy-five rubles, 3,000 lira, 4.55 francs.
Dates
Use month-day-year or month-year formats for dates in text or notes, unless date is given otherwise in a title or direct quotation. Examples: "March 24, 1936," "April 1967."
Language editing
Particularly if English is not your first language, before submitting your manuscript you may wish to have it edited for language. This is not a mandatory step, but may help to ensure that the academic content of your paper is fully understood by journal editors and reviewers. Language editing does not guarantee that your manuscript will be accepted for publication. If you would like information about one such service please click here. There are other specialist language editing companies that offer similar services and you can also use any of these. Authors are liable for all costs associated with such services.
Abbreviations
Non-standard abbreviations should be defined at the first occurrence and introduced only where multiple use is made. Authors should not use abbreviations in headings. See the Chicago Manual of Style, Chapter 15, for general usage. EH frequently abbreviates titles or ranks before a name, on first and subsequent references. Common nouns or short phrases are sometimes preferable to abbreviations or acronyms, especially if the latter are long and obscure. If an acronym or abbreviation is needed, be sure to use the full name or title on first reference, followed by the abbreviation in parentheses, e.g., "National Park Service (NPS)."
References
Full references should be provided in accordance with the style of Environmental History; they should be presented as footnotes and formatted according to the Chicago Manual of Style. Your article should have no more than 100 notes, and they must be numbered consecutively. Try to limit notes to one at the end of each paragraph; strings of references to a single source, for example, can be combined into one note for a whole paragraph. Use periods and semi-colons to separate different source citations in the note. For source citation styles, see the Chicago Manual of Style, chapters 16–17. Be sure to give complete citations for books and periodicals, including place and date of publication AND name of publishing company (books), and volume numbers and publication dates (periodicals). Do not use "p." or "pp." with page numbers. Be very specific about citing archival sources; your note should be adequate so that a reader can find the same source for his or her own use. Use full titles on first reference; short titles may be used on subsequent references, but be sure to include name(s) of author(s) in short references. Always give full names of authors on first reference, even if the author’s name is mentioned in the text. Examples of full and short citations are given below.
- Fred Q. Jones, The Book I Wrote (Philadelphia: Popular Press, 1986), 8-13, 25-78, 101-103, 107-13, 118-57, 178-217.
- Jones, Book I Wrote, 12-13, 18-45, 99-107, 109-26. Fred W. Jones, My Long Book, 3 vols. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1987), 1:1-35.
- Fred W. Jones, Long Book, 2:28.
- Fred X. Jones, Adolescence, vol. 2 of The Life and Times of Fred X. Jones (Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 1936), 23-337.
- Fred Y. Jones, The Book I Wrote in 1873 (1873; reprint, Savannah, Tenn.: Old Timey Press, 1988), 237-69.
- Fred Z. Jones, The Book I Wrote in Secret (Privately published, 1917, copy in North Carolina Collection, Wilson Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), 802-807.
- Fred A. Jones and A. Fred Green, The Book We Wrote Together and Rewrote Later, rev. ed. (Cambridge, Mass.: Cambridge University Press, 1995), 246-89.
- Fred B. Jones, ed. and trans. by Gloria Sforth, The Book Fred Wrote and Gloria Edited (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, forthcoming), 407-13.
- Jane A. Smith, "The Article I Wrote," The Quarterly Journal 10 (April 1976): 11-13. [NOTE: DO NOT give issue number; DO give volume number and date of publication.]
- Smith, "Article I Wrote," 12-13.
- Alfred Peterson, "The Abominable Snowman At 40," National Enquirer, 17 July 1992, 12-14.
- Daily Gleaner (Beltsville, Md.), 23 November 1883, 3.
- New York Times, 18 April 1932. VII, 7. [Section VII, Page 7.]
- Catherine Parr, "City Says No to New Greenways," Durham (N.C.) Sun, 18 February 1985, 1-B.
- John L. Brown, "Hoots and Hollers: Appalachian Topography and the Development of Country Music," (Ph.D. diss., North Carolina State University, 1993), ch. 3.
- John L. Brown, "Hollerin' in the Holler: The Musical Life of Fancy Gap, Virginia, 1748-1935," (paper presented at the bimonthly meeting of the American Academy for Creative Stuff, Peru, Vt., March 1996).
- U.S. Congress, House Committee on Agriculture, Hearings on Forest Management, 88th Cong., 2d sess., 1964, House Report 28, 1-3.
- Frank Stanley to Alfred White, 24 August 1934, Division of Timber Management Reading File, Record Group 95, Box 1320 [hereafter, DTM Reading File], National Archives, Washington, D.C. [hereafter, NA].
- Mary Carter to Alfred White, 26 August 1934, DTM Reading File [hereafter, "Carter-White letter"], NA.
- Janet P. Bushwhacker, interview with author, 14 May 1995, Chapel Hill, North Carolina (tape recording and handwritten notes in possession of the author).
FIGURES AND ILLUSTRATIONS
For reproduction in the journal, you are required to submit high-resolution .tif files (600 d.p.i. for line drawings and 300 d.p.i. for colour and half-tone artwork). We advise that you create your high-resolution images first as these can be easily converted into low-resolution images for submission for review. All figures submitted to the journal in color will be published in color online at no cost and in black and white in print (unless the author specifically requests that their figures be in black and white online).
For useful information on preparing your figures for publication, go to http://cpc.cadmus.com/da. Figures will not be relettered by the publisher. The journal reserves the right to reduce the size of illustrative material. Wherever possible, photographs should fit within the print area.
When you create figures, please make sure any embedded text is large enough to read. Many figures contain very small characters such as numbers on a chart or graph. If these characters are not easily readable, they will most likely be illegible in the final version.
ADVANCE ACCESS
Advance Access articles are published online soon after they have been accepted for publication, in advance of their appearance in a printed journal. Appearance in Advance Access (in either of the models below) constitutes official publication, and the Advance Access version can be cited by a unique doi (digital object identifier). When an article appears in an issue, it is removed from the Advance Access page.
Articles posted for Advance Access have been copyedited and typeset and any corrections included. This is before they are paginated for inclusion in a specific issue of the journal. Once an article appears in an issue, both versions of the paper continue to be accessible and citable.
COPYRIGHT AND LICENCE
It is a condition of publication for all Oxford Journals that authors grant an exclusive license to Oxford University Press or the sponsoring Societies. This ensures that requests from third parties to reproduce articles are handled efficiently and consistently and will also allow the article to be as widely disseminated as possible. No article will be published unless the signed license has been received at Oxford Journals. Submitting the copyright license agreement when requested will assist in the rapid publication of your article. As part of the license agreement, Authors may use their own material in other publications provided that the journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication and Oxford University Press as the Publisher. As the Author(s), copyright of the Article remains yours (or your employer’s if your employer claims copyright in your work). See here for full details of Oxford Journals' copyright policy.
Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright license to publish form.
By submitting an article for publication you confirm that you are the corresponding/submitting author and that Oxford University Press ("OUP") may retain your email address for the purpose of communicating with you about the article. You agree to notify OUP immediately if your details change. If your article is accepted for publication OUP will contact you using the e-mail address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.
OFFPRINTS
Authors will receive electronic access to their paper free of charge. Printed offprints may be purchased in multiples of 50, and copies of the issue may be ordered at a discount. Rates are indicated on the order form, which must be returned with the proofs.
PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE FIGURES AND EXTRACTS
Permission to reproduce copyrighted material, for print and online publication in perpetuity, must be cleared and if necessary paid for by the author; this includes applications and payments to DACS, ARS and similar licensing agencies where appropriate. Evidence in writing that such permissions have been secured from the rights-holder must be made available to the editors. It is also the author's responsibility to include acknowledgements as stipulated by the particular institutions. Please note that obtaining copyright permission could take some time. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for http://www.oxfordjournals.org/access_purchase/rights_permissions.html. Should you require copies of this then please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or else the Oxford Journals Rights department on journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.
For a copyrighted prose work, it is recommended that permission is obtained for the use of extracts longer than 400 words; a series of extracts totalling more than 800 words, of which any one extract is more than 300 words; or an extract or series of extracts comprising one-quarter of the work or more. For poetry: an extract of more than 40 lines; series of extracts totalling more than 40 lines; an extract comprising
SUPPLEMENTARY DATA
Supporting material that is not essential for inclusion in the full text of the manuscript, but would nevertheless benefit the reader, can be made available by the publisher as online-only content, linked to the online manuscript. The material should not be essential to understanding the conclusions of the paper, but should contain data that is additional or complementary and directly relevant to the article content. Such information might include more detailed methods, extended data sets/data analysis, or additional figures.
It is standard practice for appendices to be made available online-only as supplementary data. All text and figures must be provided in suitable electronic formats. All material to be considered as supplementary data must be submitted at the same time as the main manuscript for peer review. It cannot be altered or replaced after the paper has been accepted for publication, and will not be edited. Please indicate clearly all material intended as supplementary data upon submission. Also ensure that the supplementary data is referred to in the main manuscript where necessary, for example as '(see supplementary data)' or '(see supplementary figure 1)'.
PROOFS
Authors are sent page proofs by email. These should be checked immediately and corrections, as well as answers to any queries, returned to the publishers as an annotated PDF, a list of corrections via email, or a marked-up copy via fax within 2 working days (further details are supplied with the proof). It is the author's responsibility to check proofs thoroughly.