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Author Guidelines

Author Guidelines

General

All submissions should be made online at the History Australia Online Journal System. If you have not previously been enrolled as an author you will need to contact the editors (history.australia@sydney.edu.au) to notify them of your intention to submit a manuscript for consideration. You will be notified by email when you have been enrolled on to the system. You should then log in and verify and complete your personal details before uploading your submission, following the step by step instructions. Please remember to supply the abstract, five keywords and a brief biographical note in the space provided in the 'Metadata'.

Manuscripts should be double spaced throughout, and any information identifying the author must be removed from the file to enable double-blind peer review. The article should be accompanied by an abstract of approximately 100 words and five keywords (to be entered into the online system where requested).

Manuscripts that exceed 8000 words in length, including references, are unlikely to be accepted.

References should be supplied as footnotes. A separate reference list is not required.

Unless directed otherwise below, follow the Chicago Manual of Style for referencing and literary style, and the Macquarie Dictionary for spelling and hyphenation.

Style

• Numbers

-        Spell out numbers one to nine within body text, unless they are written as a percentage or accompany a symbol or a unit of measurement (such as am or pm, a distance or weight measurement, and so on). Numbers 10 and above, or in decimal point, should be in figures.

-        Do not use commas: 10 000 not 10,000.

-  Show a span of page numbers as eg 45–47; 364–369, NOT 364–9.

-        For percentages write 65 per cent, not 65%.

• Dates

-        Use the form 5 March 2011.

-        Spell out months in full.

-        No apostrophe is used in 1870s, 2000s.

-        Show a span of years as 1845–50, unless the century changes, 1999–2000.

• Quotations

-        Use single quotation marks for quotations; within a quotation use double quotation marks. (Note that this advice reverses the recommended practice in the Chicago Manual of Style).

-        Indent quotations of more than three lines. Do not use quotation marks for block quotes.

-        Always preserve the spelling, grammar and punctuation of the original. Use [sic] sparingly to indicate aberrant usage and make minimal use of square-bracketed interpolations.

-        If omitting material from a quotation, use three ellipsis points ( ... ). Leave a space either side of the ellipsis points. Do not use ellipsis points at the beginning or end of a quotation.

• Hyphens and en dashes

-        Compound adjectives should be hyphenated (eg ‘Chinese-language newspapers’, ‘middle-class women’). The only exception is for centuries as adjectives: ‘nineteenth century mores’. There should be no hyphen between an adverb and an adjective (‘well established precedent’; ‘finely tuned argument’).

-        En dash (not hyphen) links items that retain their separate entities (American–Australian Free Trade Agreement).

-        En dash for a range of numbers (14–35) or dates (1960–61).

-        Use en dashes with a space on each side – rather than hyphens ­– in sentences like this.

References

First reference:

• Books: Maximum capitals for titles. Authors’ names should appear as on the title page. Do not use full stops with initials: E W Cole, not E.W. Cole.

-        Chris Healy and Andrea Witcomb (eds) South Pacific Museums: Experiments in Culture, Melbourne: Monash University ePress 2006.

-        James Jupp (ed) The Australian People: An Encyclopaedia of the Nation, its People and their Origins, 2nd ed, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2001, 245.

• Chapters: Minimum capitals for chapter titles. Maximum capitals for book titles.

-        Taylor Downing, ‘History on television: the making of Cold War, 1998’, in Marcia Landy (ed) The Historical Film: History and Memory in Media, London: The Athlone Press 2001, 294–302.

• Articles: If possible include both the volume and issue numbers. Minimum capitals for article title. Maximum capitals for journal title.

Graeme Davison, ‘Punctuality and progress: the foundations of Australian standard time’, Australian Historical Studies 25 (99), October 1992, 169–191.

• Theses: Maximum capitals for title. Do not place title in italics or quotation marks.

-        Patrick Bertola, Kalgoorlie, Gold, and the World Economy 1893–1972, PhD thesis, Curtin University of Technology 1993.

• Newspaper articles: For feature articles, include author, heading, newspaper, date, page. Otherwise, newspaper, date, page.

-        Kate Cox, ‘Blissfully busy in paradise,’ Sun Herald, Travel supplement, 25 June 2006, 12.

-        Argus, 22 June 1862, 3.

• Websites: Always include an access date.

-        ‘The Bali Bombings 2002 Memorial Collection,’ National Museum of Australia. Accessed 21 August 2009. Available from: www.nma.gov.au/shared/libraries/attachments/friends/archive/bali_bombings_2002_memorial_coll/files/17980/Bali_bombings_rf.pdf.

• Archival sources: In general provide document/item name, date, name of series or collection, file number, name and location of archive. If subsequent references will be made to the same series or archive, provide a useful short form.

-        Agenda Item 1, Citizenship Status, Native Welfare Council, 29 September 1952, Papers of Sir Paul Hasluck (hereafter Hasluck Papers), MS 5271, Box 32, National Library of Australia, Canberra (hereafter NLA).

Subsequent references:

• Where the reference is the same as that immediately preceding, use ‘ibid’. If only the page number is changed, use eg ‘ibid, 72’. (Use a capital ‘I’ for ‘ibid’ only when it is the first word in the footnote.) Otherwise, give author family name, short title, page number (if necessary).
  • Healy and Witcomb, South Pacific Museums, 21; Jupp, The Australian People; Downing, ‘History on television’; Davison, ‘Punctuality and progress’, 169; Bertola, Kalgoorlie, 45; Cox, ‘Blissfully busy’.
• Archival sources: For a second reference to the same item, use a shortened version of its descriptive title. When referring to a new item from the same series, collection or archive, give the item and number in full and an abbreviated description of its location, which should be used consistently throughout the article.
  • Agenda Item 1, Citizenship Status
  • Press release, Aborigines Sunday: Statement by the Minister for Territories, the Hon. Paul Hasluck, 10 July 1958, Hasluck Papers, box 33, MS 5274.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
6. Copyright permission has been obtained to reproduce third party material. Where third party material - such as longer quotes, photographs, images, diagrams, tables, multimedia, etc - has been used, permission must be obtained to re-publish this material online and in print in this journal.
   

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© 2011, Australian Historical Association

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