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Author Guidelines
The History of Education Quarterly strictly adheres to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (University of Chicago, 2003). Authors should consult this manual if they have further questions.
1. Manuscripts should be double-spaced, including between and within footnotes. Allow approximately a one-inch margin on all four sides of the page.
2. Manuscripts should be no more than 35 pages including footnotes (or, no more than 9,000 words).
3. Font should be in 12 point.
4. The author's name should appear only on the title page of the article.
5. Footnotes should be listed in a separate section at the end of the article. The following formats should be used for references:
Book
Lawrence A. Cremin, Transformation of the School: Progressivism in American Education, 1876-1957 (New York: Vintage Books, 1964), 25.
Edited Book
Linda M. Perkins, "The History of Blacks in Teaching: Growth and Decline Within the Profession," in American Teachers: Histories of a Profession at Work, ed. Donald Warren (New York: MacMillan Publishing Co., 1989), 351.
Journal Article
Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr., "The Struggle Against Separate and Unequal Schools: Middle-Class Mexican Americans and the Desegregation Campaign in Texas, 1929-1956," History of Education Quarterly 23 (Fall 1983): 343-359.
Popular Magazine Article
Caspari and R. E. Marshak, "The Rise and Fall of Lysenko," Science, 16 Aug. 1965, 275-78.
Unpublished Work
Marjorie Murphy, "From Artisan to Semi-Professional: White-Collar Unionism among Chicago Public School Teachers, 1870-1930" (Ph.D. diss., University of California-Davis, 1981), 106.
Manuscript Part of an Archival Collection (include the box and file/folder number)
Hiram Johnson to John Callan O'Laughlin, 16 July 1916, file 6, box 20, O'Laughlin Papers, Roosevelt Memorial Collection, Harvard College Library.
Second and Subsequent References
Cremin, Transformation of the School, 320.
San Miguel, Jr., "Struggle Against Separate and Unequal Schools," 350.
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.
- 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).
- The style adheres to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (University of Chicago, 2003).
- The submission file is in Microsoft Word or RTF file format.
- The submission does not exceed the 35 page limit, including footnotes.
- The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- All URL addresses in the text (e.g., www.ed.uiuc.edu/hes) are activated and ready to click.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
- To preserve the advantages of anonymous reviewing, the author has avoided and removed all self-identification in the text as well as in the footnotes of the manuscript. The author's name has also been removed from the document's properties, which in Microsoft Word is found in the File menu.
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