Guide for Authors
History of European Ideas is devoted to the intellectual history of Europe from the Renaissance onwards. It is interdisciplinary in that it aims to publish papers on the history of ideas in a number of different fields: political and economic thought, philosophy, natural philosophy and science, theology and literature. Treatments of the history of ideas which cut across these categories or which trace connections between them in different European countries are particularly welcome. Proposals for special issues devoted to historical themes or to proceedings of conferences are also encouraged.
If you are uncertain whether your paper fits within the journal's remit please consult the Editor.
History of European Ideas rarely carries reviews of individual books. Rather, it publishes historiographical essays, 'state of research' articles, and review articles which place new research in context or cover a number of related works. Please contact the Editor to make arrangements for publishers to provide relevant books for review articles.
We are also interested in publishing editions of texts in electronic or print format. If you have a proposal concerning a text edition please contact the Editor.
History of European Ideas publishes articles of varying length, depending on content and subject-matter. The normal
Maximum Length for an article is
10,000 words plus footnotes, and for a review article 5,000 words plus footnotes. In special cases, where subject-matter and treatment justify it, the editors may accept articles exceeding the above limits.
Submission of Manuscripts From
1 September 2007 authors are requested to submit their articles electronically to the Editors by using the journal's online submission and tracking tool at
http://ees.elsevier.com/hei This site will guide authors step by step through the submission process. Authors should upload the source files of their articles in the preferred format of Microsoft (MS) Word, RTF, WordPerfect, or LaTeX for text and TIFF or EPS for figures. The system automatically converts source files to a single Adobe Acrobat PDF version of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even though manuscript source files are converted to PDF at submission for the review process, these source files are needed for further processing after acceptance. Authors, reviewers, and editors send and receive all correspondence by e-mail.
The text should be in single-column format. Please keep the layout of the text as simple as possible. Most formatting codes will be removed and replaced on processing the article. In particular, do not use the word-processor's options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts,etc. To avoid unnecessary errors it is strongly advised to use the "spellchecker" function of the word-processor.
All submissions are sent out anonymously to at least two referees, who may or may not include members of the International Advisory Board. It usually takes between three weeks and three months for the refereeing process to be completed. The time between acceptance and publication may vary, but articles and reviews normally appear within eight months of acceptance. The journal has four issues per annum. In general, order of publication is determined by date of submission, although this is at the discretion of the Editor. Once copy editing has been carried out and proof corrections have been received, articles will appear online as articles in press. Each article will be assigned a digital object identifier (DOI) which may be used to cite the article until it appears in an issue.
Note: electronic articles submitted for the review process may need to be edited after acceptance to conform to journal style. For this an "editable" file format is necessary.
Submission of a paper implies that it has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and that if accepted it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, in English or in any other language, without the written consent of the publisher.
Upon acceptance of an article, Authors will be asked to transfer copyright (for more information on copyright see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright). This transfer will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. A form facilitating transfer of copyright will be provided.
If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the Author(s) must obtain written permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has pre-printed forms for use by Authors in these cases: contact Elsevier's Rights Department, Oxford, UK: phone (+44) 1865 843830, fax (+44) 1865 853333, e-mail
permissions@elsevier.com. Requests may also be completed online via the Elsevier homepage (
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/permissions).
Text Preparation Follow this order when typing manuscripts: Title, Authors, Affiliations, Abstract, Keywords, Main text, Acknowledgements, References. The corresponding author and their e.mail address should be identified with an asterisk and footnote at the beginning of the paper. All other footnotes should be identified with superscript Arabic numbers.
Articles should be written in good English (for spelling follow the Oxford English Dictionary).
Ensure that each new paragraph is clearly indicated and number all pages consecutively.
Provide the following data on the
title page (in the order given).
Title. Concise and informative. Titles are often used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations where possible.
Author names and affiliations. Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly. Present the Authors' affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names. Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the Author's name and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation, including the country name and the e-mail address of each Author.
Corresponding Author. Clearly indicate who is willing to handle correspondence at all stages of refereeing and publication, also post-publication.
Ensure that telephone and fax numbers (with country and area code) are provided in addition to the e-mail address and the complete postal address. Abstract. A concise and factual abstract is required. The abstract should state briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is often presented separately from the article, so it must be able to stand alone.
Preparation of supplementary data. Elsevier accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance the article. Supplementary files offer the Author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications, movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of the article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com.
House style It is very helpful if articles are submitted in house style at the outset. Articles accepted for publication must be revised by authors using the correct style. The Editor reserves the right to make changes to articles in order to ensure clarity and conformity with house style.
Italics should be indicated in the text by underlining for the titles of books, poems, plays and periodicals, and for technical terms or phrases in languages other than English (but not for quotations or complete sentences).
Roman Type should be used for the body of the text and notes.
Quotations in the text running to 50 words or more will normally be printed in small roman as insets, without quotations marks. They should be indicated by inset single spacing in the typescripts.
Single inverted commas should be used for quotations, for words or phrases used in a special or technical sense, and for titles of articles, etc.
Double inverted commas should be used only to indicate a quotation or title
within another quotation or title, etc.
Dates should follow the 1 January 1987 (in footnotes, 1 Jan. 1987) (no comma between month and year). Unless otherwise indicated, it is to be assumed that the date refers to the year beginning on the 1st January. Where the year began on 25 March, events between 1 January and 24 March can be dated e.g. 17 March 1516/17 (and should be so dated if the original author used this style). Double dates in Old and New style should be: 3/14 September 1752. The era, when required, should be in small capitals and, except with B.C., precede the figures. Centuries should be spelt out as follows: twentieth century (or twentieth-century, when used adjectivally),
not 20th century, XXth century, C20th, etc. Decades may be referred as follows: the 1950s (not 1950's), or the 'fifties'. Months, when abbreviated in footnote references, should be in the form: Jan. Feb. Mar. Apr. May June July Aug. Sept. Oct. Nov. Dec.
Figures. In narrative passages, numbers under one hundred and round numbers (e.g., two thousand) should be expressed in words, except e.g., percentages (using 'per cent' not % in the text), and monetary sums etc., for which figures should normally be used. Date sequences should be thus: 1816-17, 1858-9, 1854-64, and page sequences, pp. 11-15, pp. 121-9, pp. 121-35, pp. 213-19, 234-9, 391-5, etc.
Style for footnotes/endnotes Articles can be submitted with either footnotes or endnotes but not using Harvard style. A bibliography is not required.
Capitals should be used at the beginning of titles of books and articles, and for words that are commonly capitalised, e.g. names of persons, countries and certain events.
On first mention of a
book, you should give full details as follows:
•initials of author or first name followed by surname (guided by author's preference)
•title of book, italicised
•place and date of publication in brackets.
Examples:
L. Stephen,
History of English Thought in the Eighteenth Century, 2 vols. (London, 1876), ii, 163-4.
W. Stubbs,
Constitutional History of England, 4th edn, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1906), ii, 62-5.
On subsequent mention, you should use a short title.
Example: Stephen,
History of English Thought, ii, 37.
On first mention of an
edited work, you should give full details as follows:
•title of work in italics, followed by a comma
•ed. followed by names of editors. There is no need to use eds.
•number of volumes if relevant
•series if relevant, place and date of publication, all within brackets
Examples:
Monarchisms in the age of enlightenment, ed. H. Blom, J. C. Laursen, L. Simonutti (California, 2007).
Philosophy in History, ed. R. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind, Q. Skinner (Cambridge, 1984).
Republicanism. A Shared European Heritage, ed. M. Van Gelderen, Q. Skinner, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 2002).
For subsequent references use short title, repeating the editor's name if there is any possibility of confusion, and inserting volume number as vol. followed by arabic numeral:
Examples:
A Shared European Heritage, ii, 55.
On first mention of an
article, you should give full details as follows:
•initials of author or first name followed by surname
•title of article between single inverted commas, with comma following closing inverted comma
•title of journal in full, and italicised, followed by a comma, and the volume number in arabic numerals
•date of publication in brackets
•the page range may be given if you wish
Example:
'The Sociable Patriot: Isaak Iselin's Protestant Reading of Jean-Jacques Rousseau',
History of European Ideas 27 (2001), 153-70.
On subsequent mention, you should use a short title:
Kapossy, 'Sociable Patriot', 155.
On first mention of an
article in a collection you should give full details as follows:
•initials of author or first name followed by surname
•title of article between single inverted commas, with comma following closing inverted comma
•in followed by colon
•title of work
•ed. followed by editor's name
•place and date of publication in brackets
•the page range may be given if you wish
Example:
C. Taylor, 'Philosophy and its history', in
Philosophy in History, ed. R. Rorty, J. B. Schneewind, Q. Skinner (Cambridge, 1984), 17-30.
On subsequent mention you should use a short title:
Example: Taylor, 'Philosophy', 24.
Citations from
unpublished theses and typescripts should always give details of the degree and, in the case of other typescripts, the place of deposit:
Example:
R.Scurr, 'The Social Foundations of the Modern Republic: P.-L. Roederer's Cours d'orginisation sociale (University of Cambridge Ph.D. thesis,2000), 3.
In all cases:
•Ibid., id., op.cit., loc. cit., ff. should be avoided
•Do not use p. or pp.
•Page ranges should be given in shortest form possible, eg 345-7; 21-2; 123-235.
Citations from the
Bible should be made as follows:
Genesis xv.24
Archival references Archival references should use roman type, with the place name first:
Genoa, Archivio di Stato, Cartolare notarile 1, f. lr. Paris, Archives Nationales, P1354', no. 800, f. lr. Use f. for folios, p. for page numbers (of manuscripts only), r. and v. for recto and verso.
Manuscripts in libraries Give the location, and then the name of the library: London, British Library, Additional MS 25691. Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, MS Chigi E. VI. 182, perg. 40.
Illustrations Colour illustrations may be included in the on-line version free of charge, but the printed edition will reproduce images in black and white. In the printed version there will normally be a cost to the author for colour illustrations.
Tables and charts should be clearly arranged and easily readable. They should where possible be submitted as computer files. Diagrams and maps should be of such quality that the printer can reproduce them without redrawing.
Authors are reminded that it is their responsibility to seek and pay for permission to reproduce copyright material. Written permission should accompany the final, accepted manuscript. The publisher cannot print the article without proof of such written permission.
All original illustrative material will be destroyed one month after publication unless its return is requested in writing at the time of submission of the final version of the article.
Proofs One set of page proofs in PDF format will be sent by e-mail to the corresponding author (if we do not have an e-mail address then paper proofs will be sent by post). Elsevier now sends PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe Reader version 7 available free from
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Instructions on how to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs. The exact system requirements are given at the Adobe site:
http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/acrrsystemreqs.html#70win. If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return to Elsevier in an e-mail. Please list your corrections quoting line number. If, for any reason, this is not possible, then mark the corrections and any other comments (including replies to the Query Form) on a printout of your proof and return by fax, or scan the pages and e-mail, or by post.
Please use this proof only for checking the typesetting, editing, completeness and correctness of the text, tables and figures. Significant changes to the article as accepted for publication will only be considered at this stage with permission from the Editor. We will do everything possible to get your article published quickly and accurately. Therefore, it is important to ensure that all of your corrections to the PDF proof are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading of the PDF proof is solely your responsibility. Note that Elsevier may proceed with the publication of your article if no response is received.
Offprints The corresponding author, at no cost, will be provided with a PDF file of the article via e-mail. The PDF file is a watermarked version of the published article and includes a cover sheet with the journal cover image and a disclaimer outlining the terms and conditions of use.
Author Enquiries For enquiries relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission) please visit this journal's homepage at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/hei. You can track accepted articles at
http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle and set up e-mail alerts to inform you of when an article's status has changed, as well as copyright information, frequently asked questions and more. Contact details for questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are provided after registration of an article for publication.
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