1. SUBMISSIONS

Manuscripts for publication should be submitted to the Review of English Studies Online Submission Site. You may proceed directly to the site, which provides step-by-step instructions, or refer to the separate page of instructions here.

Authors will be notified as soon as possible on the suitability of their submission; the Editors will not enter into correspondence about material considered to be unsuitable for publication. Authors may not submit typescripts which have been submitted for publication elsewhere. No one, including authors, may reprint articles within two years of their publication in The Review of English Studies.

Neither the Editors nor the publisher accept responsibility for the views of authors expressed in their contributions. Securing permission for the reproduction of illustrations and quotations from copyrighted material is the responsibility of the author.

2. PRESENTATION

Articles and Review Articles should be submitted to our online submission system. Please include a title page with your name, the article title and a contact email address. Articles should be prefaced by an abstract of about 200 words summarizing the main points of the piece.

Please number pages consecutively. Notes will appear as footnotes in the published journal, but in typescript should be printed in one double-spaced sequence at the end of the document, beginning on a new page. Number notes consecutively through the document; an initial unnumbered note may be included to give brief acknowledgements. Copies of any illustrations should be supplied clearly labelled ('Fig. 1' etc.), and, if they are to be integrated with the text, the preferred location should be indicated by a textual note.

Type with a minimum of formatting, unjustified on the right, without hyphenation except for compound words. Use the tab key once for paragraph indents. Where possible use Times as the base font and Symbol for special characters. Please take care to ensure thorn and yogh characters are displaying correctly.

Displayed matter Type flush left, with an extra carriage return before and after the whole extract. Use the tab key only to indicate extra indentation (e.g. alternate lines of a poem). Add a note regarding any special display requirements not achieved in the text.
Headings Indicate the hierarchy of any subheadings clearly.
Figures Save any figures generated electronically as separate files, not embedded in the text.

3. STYLE

Contributions will be edited into the journal's house style. In writing your paper, please refer to New Hart's Rules for any style guidance. References should appear in endnotes rather than the body of the text, and be used sparingly.

4. PROOFS

Authors will be sent PDF proofs by e-mail. The Review of English Studies aims to publish articles within 4 weeks of acceptance. Authors are asked to return corrections within 3 working days to ensure that it is possible to meet this target.

5. LICENCE TO PUBLISH

It is a condition of publication in RES that authors grant an exclusive licence to the Journal, which is operated on the Journal's behalf by the Publisher, by completing a Copyright Licence Form. 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. In granting an exclusive licence, Authors may use their own material in publications provided that the Journal is acknowledged as the original place of publication, and Oxford University Press is notified in writing and in advance. It is the author's responsibility to obtain permission to reproduce verbal or visual material from copyright sources.

Authors must therefore complete the Licence Form, which can be found here

6. OFFPRINTS

The publisher will supply authors with free online access to their article, and, on receipt of an offprint order form, 25 free offprints. Further offprints may be ordered when returning proofs.

Orders from the UK will be subject to a 17.5% VAT charge. For orders from elsewhere in the EU you or your institution should account for VAT by way of a reverse charge. Please provide us with your or your institution’s VAT number.

7. AUTHOR SELF-ARCHIVING/PUBLIC ACCESS POLICY

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