Guidelines for Contributors

Preparation of Manuscripts
1. An abstract of no more than 120 words must accompany each manuscript. It should precede the text and be designated Abstract. Please supply four or five keywords at the end of the abstract.

2. Type all copy (including indented material, references, and endnotes) double-spaced, using 1 1/2-inch margins on all sides. Please use 12 pt. type.

3. Type each table on a separate page. Cite each table in the text and indicate where the table should appear.

4. Each map, figure, or graph should be presented on a separate page. Cite each map, figure, or graph in the text and indicate where it should appear.

5. To expedite the review process, e-mail the manuscript as a Microsoft Word file to the Editor, J. Morgan Kousser (kousser@hss.caltech.edu). We encourage the submission of manuscripts electronically because of the substantial savings in turnaround time. All manuscripts are peer reviewed. Please confirm that manuscripts have been submitted solely to HISTORICAL METHODS and are not under concurrent review with another publication.

6. Accepted manuscripts must be submitted electronically as double-spaced Word files with minimal formatting in Times or Times New Roman. Authors should not use word-processing styles, forced section or page breaks, or automatic footnotes. Tables must be e-mailed in one separate file and figures in another separate file. A hard-copy version of text, tables, and figures will be needed as a backup.

References
HISTORICAL METHODS follows the “author-date’’ style described in the fifteenth edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (see esp. sections 16.90–16.120). List all published sources cited in the text and notes in a section at the end entitled “References.’’ (References to manuscript materials need only appear in a note.) Place citations in the list of references in alphabetical order. Give all authors’ names. Endnotes are permitted, but simple bibliographic references should be provided as mentioned below, not in an endnote. Acknowledgment of assistance is not to be numbered as note 1; merely begin the page or pages of notes with the acknowledgments.

1. The basic reference should include the author’s name followed by the year of publication with no punctuation separating them: (Smith 1978). Only the year of publication is placed in parentheses if it follows the name of the author(s) in the text: Smith’s (1983) article on mortality is the definitive work.

2. If page numbers are to be specified, place them following a comma: (Smith 1978, 69–71). References following direct quotations must include the page number(s) of the quote.

3. If the work has multiple authors, use all authors’ names if there are two or three. For text citations, use the first author’s name followed by “et al.’’ for works with four or more authors.

4. When two or more works by the same author are cited together, separate the years by commas and do not repeat the name(s): (Smith 1978, 1983). When citing several references by different authors within parentheses, separate them by semicolons: (Fliess 1989; Smith 1983; Vinovskis 1990).

Examples
Please follow the examples below for the Reference list. Note the absence of capital letters within references, the use of italics, and the use of arabic numerals for volume numbers.

(a) Book, single author:
Kulikoff, A. 1986. Tobacco and slaves: The development of southern cultures in the Chesapeake, 1680–1800. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press.

(b) Book, two authors:
Wrigley, E. A., and R. S. Schofield. 1981. The population history of England, 1541–1871: A reconstruction. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

(c) Book, three authors:
Gordon, D. M., R. Edwards, and M. Reich. 1982. Segmented work, divided workers: The historical transformation of labor in the United States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

(d) Article, single author:
Samuelson, P. 1956. Social indifference curves. Quarterly Journal of Economics 90:1–22.

(e) Article, two authors:
Conrad, A. H., and J. R. Meyer. 1958. The economics of slavery in the antebellum South. Journal of Political Economy 66:95–130.

(f) Chapter in a book:
Watkins, S. C. 1992. Demographic nationalism in Western Europe, 1870–1960. In The European experience of declining fertility, 1850–1970: The quiet revolution, edited by J. R. Gillis, L. A. Tilly, and D. Levine, 270–90.  Cambridge, MA: Blackwell.

(g) Four or more authors:
Doe, J., et al. 1995. . . .