AIMS AND SCOPE OF THE JOURNAL

The Oral History Review, published by the Oral History Association, is the U.S. journal of record for the theory and practice of oral history and related fields. Its primary mission is to explore the nature and significance of oral history and advance understanding of the field among scholars, educators, practitioners, and the general public. The Review publishes narrative and analytical articles and reviews, in print and multimedia formats, that present and use oral history in unique and significant ways and that contribute to the understanding of the nature of oral history and memory. It seeks previously unpublished works that demonstrate high-quality research and that offer new insight into oral history practice, methodology, theory, and pedagogy. While based in the U.S., the OHR reflects the international scope of the field and encourages work from international authors and about international topics.

SUBMISSION PROCEDURES

Correspondence regarding all editorial matters, including the development of the journal generally and the development of individual submissions specifically, should be directed to: Kathryn Nasstrom, Editor, The Oral History Review, Department of History, University of San Francisco, 2130 Fulton Street, San Francisco, CA 94117-1080.

Actual submissions of articles to be considered for publication should be sent to: Troy Reeves, Managing Editor, The Oral History Review, Oral History Program, Archives & Records Management Services, 430 Steenbock Memorial Library, 550 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706.

Correspondence regarding, and submissions of, solicited and unsolicited book reviews, should be directed to: John Wolford, 2600 Top Hill Road, Louisville, KY, 40206.

Correspondence regarding, and submissions of, reviews of non-print materials (including films, exhibits, performances, and other multimedia and hypermedia formats) should be directed to: Jennifer Abraham Cramer, LSU Libraries Special Collections, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, LA, 70803.

Correspondence regarding the development of multimedia submissions should be directed to: Doug Boyd, Director, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, Margaret I. King Building, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington, KY 40506-0039.

Manuscripts should be double-spaced throughout (including footnotes and quotations) and prepared according to The Chicago Manual of Style. The Oral History Review does its work in the Microsoft Word format, and submissions should be as a .doc or .docx file. (Authors who have concerns about working in this format should contact the Managing Editor.) Article manuscripts should be submitted electronically via email attachment to the Managing Editor (contact information above) and review manuscripts should be submitted electronically via email attachment to the appropriate review editor (contact information above). Article manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words in length. Because article manuscripts are evaluated anonymously, an author’s name should appear only on the title page. (Note that is applies only to article submissions, not to submissions of book or non-print reviews). 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 your figures for publication, go to http://cpc.cadmus.com/da.

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.

Upon receipt of accepted manuscripts at Oxford Journals authors will be invited to complete an online copyright license to publish form.

Please note that 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 email address you have used in the registration process. Please note that OUP does not retain copies of rejected articles.

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.

Download the Offprint Form(PDF).

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.