AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL

The Oral History Review, the official publication of the Oral History Association, explores the recording, transcribing, and preserving of conversations with people who have participated in important political, cultural, and economic social developments in modern times.

The journal explores the authentication of human experience and research findings in oral history, considering a wide range of social backgrounds, cultures and nationalities.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Correspondence concerning contributions and all editorial matters other than book reviews and media- and computer-related material should be sent to Kimberly K. Porter, Editor, The Oral History Review, University of North Dakota, Merrifield Hall 221A, 276 Centennial Dr., Stop 8096, Grand Forks, ND 58202-8096. Correspondence pertaining to solicited and unsolicited book reviews should be directed to John Wolford, 912 DeMun Avenue, St. Louis, MO, 63105. Correspondence regarding media- and computer-related material should be directed to Doug Boyd, W.S. Hoole Special Collections Library, Box 870266, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL 35487-0266.

Manuscripts should be submitted in triplicate, double-spaced throughout (including footnotes and quotations), and prepared according to The Chicago Manual of Style. Also, submissions should include a Word .doc version of the manuscript, either on a CD (with only a copy of the manuscript on it) or as an attached document to an e-mail addressed to Kimberly Porter. Manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words in length. Because manuscripts are evaluated anonymously, an author’s name should appear only on the title page. For return of the manuscript, authors are asked to include a self-addressed, stamped, manilla envelope with their submission. Please be aware that manuscripts submitted for publication to other journals should not be sent simultaneously to The Oral History Review, nor should the same or very similar article be published in another journal or periodical if it is to be published in The Oral History Review.

FIGURES

For useful information on preparing figures, visit Sheridan where you can test whether your figures are suitable for production by using the preflight tool at http://dx.sheridan.com/onl/.

Figures should be submitted in the desired final printed size so that reduction can be avoided. The type area of a printed page is 190 mm (height) x 100 mm (width) and figures, including their captions, should not exceed this area. Images should be of sufficiently high quality with respect to detail, contrast, and fineness of grain to withstand the inevitable loss of contrast and detail inherent in the printing process.

Prepare your figures at publication quality resolution, using applications capable of generating high-resolution .tif files (600 dpi for line drawings and 300 dpi for grayscale artwork).

You are required to submit high-resolution images. Electronic images must be a minimum resolution of 600 dpi for line drawings (pure black and white) and 300 dpi for tone figures. Color figures must be supplied in CMYK (printable color in cyan, magenta, yellow, or black) and not in RGB (computer graphics color scheme). Please ensure that the prepared electronic image files print at a legible size (with lettering of at least 2 mm).

Each figure should be relevant to the text and figures should be presented in the order in which they are mentioned in the text. Figures and photographs should be numbered as a single series and should contain the manuscript number and figure number.

A number of different file formats are acceptable, including: PowerPoint (.ppt), Tagged Image File Format (.tiff), Encapsulated PostScript (.eps), Joint Photographic Experts Group (.jpg), Graphics Interchange Format (.gif), Adobe Illustrator (.ai; please save your files in Illustrator’s EPS format), Portable Network Graphics (.png), Microsoft Word (.doc), Rich Text Format (.rtf), and Excel (.xls).

STYLE

The Oral History Review follows The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, strictly for all style points.

ENDNOTE CITATIONS

Journal Citation:
Sherna Berger Gluck, Donald A. Ritchie and Bret Eynon, “Reflections on Oral History in the New Millennium: Roundtable Comments,” Oral History Review 26, no. 2 (1999): 1–27.

Conference:
Sherna B. Gluck, “Pitch, Pace, Performance - And Even Poetry: Returning to Orality: The CSULB Virtual Oral / Aural History Archive Model” (paper presented to the XIIIth International Oral History Conference, Rome, June 2004).

Book:
Paul Thompson and Natasha Burchardt, eds., Our Common History: The Transformation of Europe (London: Pluto, 1982).

Internet:
Karen Brewster, “Internet Access to Oral Recordings: Finding the Issues,” www.uaf.edu/library/oralhistory/brewster1/research.html (accessed November 6, 2006).

SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL

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 material. All text and figures must be provided in suitable electronic formats. All material to be considered as supplementary material 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 the material intended as supplementary material upon submission. Also ensure that the supplementary material is referred to in the main manuscript where necessary, for example as “(see Supplementary Data)” or “(see Supplementary Appendix Figure 1).”

COPYRIGHT

It is a condition of publication in the journal that authors grant an exclusive license to Oxford University Press. Requests for permission to reprint material found in the journal should also come to Oxford University Press. 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. 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.

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OFFPRINT

Authors are urged to order offprints prior to publication to cover anticipated needs; reordering after the issue has been published is considerably more expensive. Offprints are ordered in increments of 50 by filling out the offprint order form, which should be returned to the Journal office with the page-galley proofs.

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AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY FROM MAY 2005

For information about this journal's policy, please visit our Author Self-Archiving policy page.

PERMISSIONS FOR ILLUSTRATIONS AND FIGURES

Permission to reproduce copyright 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. Oxford Journals can offer information and documentation to assist authors in securing print and online permissions: please see the Guidelines for Authors section. Information on permissions contacts for a number of main galleries and museums can also be provided. Should you require copies of this, please contact the editorial office of the journal in question or the Oxford Journals Rights department.