期刊名称：JOURNAL OF BRITISH STUDIES
 期刊简介(About the journal)
投稿须知(Instructions to Authors)
编辑部信息(Editorial Board)
About the journal
About the Journal
The official publication of the North American Conference on British Studies (NACBS), the Journal of British Studies, has positioned itself as the critical resource for scholars of British culture from the Middle Ages through the present. Drawing on both established and emerging approaches, JBS presents scholarly articles and books reviews from renowned international authors who share their ideas on British society, politics, law, economics, and the arts. In 2005 (Vol. 44), the journal merged with the NACBS publication Albion, creating one journal for NACBS membership.
The NACBS also sponsors an annual conference, as well as several academic prizes, graduate fellowships, and undergraduate essay contests. While the largest single group of its members teaches British history in colleges and universities in the United States and Canada, the NACBS has significant representation among specialists in literature, art history, politics, law, sociology, and economics. Its membership also includes many teachers at universities in countries outside North America, secondary school teachers, and independent scholars.
Frequency: Quarterly. Volume 46 begins January 2007
Instructions to Authors
MANUSCRIPT SUBMISSION
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts online via the Journal of British Studies Editorial Manager system at http://jbritstudies.edmgr.com. Detailed instructions are available below. If you do not have access to the Web, please send one hard copy of your manuscript and a CD-R containing all relevant electronic files to the editorial office. It is no longer necessary to submit a hard copy in addition to an electronic submission.
Formatting Electronic Files
Please adhere to the requirements below when submitting a new or revised manuscript via Editorial Manager. The system relies on automated processing to create a PDF file from your submission. If you do not follow these instructions, your submission cannot be processed and will not be received by the journal office.
Acceptable Formats
- Microsoft Word (.doc)(any recent version)
- WordPerfect (.wpd)
File Contents
Word documents should be submitted as a single file. Authors should submit any figures as separate files, in TIFF (.tif) or EPS (.eps) (not GIF [.gif] or JPEG [.jpg]) format.
Please note that authors of accepted manuscripts may be required to submit high-resolution hard copies of all figures during production, as not all digital art files are usable.
In addition to the main manuscript file, submit your cover letter as a separate file in the same format as your main file. If you used any revision or editorial tracking tools in your word-processing program, be sure the final version of your manuscript does not contain tracked changes.
Revised and Final Versions of Manuscripts
If you are submitting a revised manuscript, please include your responses to the reviewers' comments as part of the cover letter file. When submitting a revised manuscript with figures, include all figures, even if they have not changed since the previous version. The final version of your manuscript must be submitted in Word (doc.) or Rich Text (.rtf) format, because your keystrokes will be used in publication. For both revised and final versions of manuscripts, please observe the same formatting instructions outlined above.
General Specifications
Research Article Submissions
Manuscripts being submitted for consideration to the Journal should be carefully proofread and fully documented. Notes should appear at the end of the article and be formatted according to The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Manuscripts should not contain previously published material or material that will be published in the next eighteen months. The Journal employs a blind reviewing process: all obvious references by which the referees could identify the author must be removed by the author prior to submission. In particular, do not include a title page. Manuscripts that do not meet these standards will be rejected without consideration by referees.
Manuscripts should not normally exceed fifty typed pages (10,000 to 12,000 words) in length. The manuscript should have 1-inch margins all around and should be double spaced throughout, including the text, all quotations, equations, appendices, references, endnotes, tables, figure legends, and headings. Sometimes manuscripts produced on word processors use less than a true double space; one and one-half space between lines is NOT acceptable.
Citation Guidelines
Follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, with appropriate allowances for reference to manuscript sources that require special forms of reference. Note that all titles, in the text and in endnotes, should be capitalized, and dates should be consistent with the Journal style—for example, 10 January 1856—throughout. The Journal uses the following style for endnote references to printed documents:
First reference to a book
A. James Hammerton, Cruelty and Companionship: Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Married Life (London, 1992), 16.
[Note that publisher is not identified in the reference and that first reference includes the full title, including any material placed after a colon. If the author publishes under his/her full name, the full name must be provided in the first citation.]
Second reference to a book
Hammerton, Cruelty and Companionship, 119.
[Note that only author’s surname, a short title, and page reference are included.]
First reference to a journal article
James Buzard, “The Uses of Romanticism: Byron and the Victorian Continental Tour,” Victorian Studies 35, no. 1 (Autumn 1991): 29-49.
[Note use of double quotation marks and placement of comma inside quotation marks. Note also the inclusion of the issue number and month/quarter of publication.]
Second reference to a journal article
Buzzard, “Uses of Romanticism,” 37.
[Note use of author’s surname and short title of article.]
Contributions to a multi-author work
Anne Carr and Douglas J. Schurrman, “Religion and Feminism: A Reformist Christian Analysis,” in Religion, Feminism, and the Family, ed. Anne Carr and Mary Stewart Van Leeuwen (Louisville, KY, 1996), 11-32.
Archival citations
Copy of Queen Elizabeth’s speech before Parliament, 10 February 1558/9, Lansdowne MS 94, fol. 29, British Library (BL).
[Note that citations to Add. Mss. should include the designation BL prior to Add. MSS. For citations from The National Archives, please refer to The National Archives web site.]
Parliamentary Papers
Churchill, Speech to the House of Commons, 18 January 1945, Parliamentary Debates, Commons, 5th ser., vol, 407 (1944-45), cols. 425-46.
Use “ibid.” when appropriate rather than repeating information from the preceding note.
Do not use “op.cit.” or “passim” in your endnotes.
Accepted Research Articles
Authors of accepted manuscripts are responsible for providing an electronic file, which must adhere strictly to the guidelines outlined below. Accepted manuscripts that depart significantly from the house style will be returned for revision prior to being considered for copy editing by the University of Chicago Press. This may delay publication of your article by three, six, or even more months.
Please do not justify the right margin. Do not use italic or bold face characters. Material that should appear in italics when printed should be underlined in your manuscript; it will appear in italics when printed by the Press. Avoid hyphenating words at the end of lines; be sure to turn off this option in your software package.
Non-American authors should note that except in direct quotations, the Journal uses American spelling (labor, not labour; defense, not defence; color, not colour, etc.) throughout both the text and the endnotes. The Journal also uses American punctuation, which means that double (not single) quotation marks are employed and that punctuation is contained within (not outside) the quotation marks. For illustrations of this style, see the description of endnote form in previous section.
Arrange the manuscript in the following order: text, appendices, endnotes, tables, figure legends, and figures. Of course, not every manuscript will have every one of these divisions. However, each division that is present must start on a new and separate page. Abstracts are not published, and acknowledgments should not be placed within the endnotes. Authors of accepted manuscripts will provide a few sentences indicating their affiliation, but we are unable to include any information on authors' previous publications. Acknowledgments should follow this information, in the same paragraph.
For guidelines concerning the electronic submission of images, please see the Guidelines for Artwork. Captions or legends for the figures should appear on a separate page before the figures.
For information about the preparation of tables, see the Guidelines for Tables.
Each table should appear on a separate page following the endnotes.
Footnotes are not acceptable; use endnotes only, with Arabic numerals rather than Roman numerals. All notes should appear at the end of the article. (The printer will typeset the notes as footnotes, but the manuscripts must be processed with endnotes.)
File Formats and Word-Processing Programs
To ensure proper conversion of the text file for editing, authors should use a recent incarnation of one of the major word-processing programs (e.g., Microsoft Word or WordPerfect—of the two, Word is preferable). Electronic files should be IBM compatible and preferably converted to .doc or .wpd files.
The entire article should be submitted as a single text file.
The order of elements in the electronic manuscript file should be as follows: title page with author name(s) and affiliation(s), the text of the article itself, appendices, bibliography, and figure legends. Please leave the endnotes embedded in the file. Tables should be included in the text file, at the end of the document. Displayed equations should remain in the text file.
To facilitate preparation of your file for typesetting, please keep it as free of formatting codes as possible—unnecessary line spacing, style codes, strange fonts, whatever. All such codes will have to be located and deleted from your file before it is typeset, which can add considerable time to the editing process. When possible, use just the default settings of the word-processing program you are using.
Use hard returns only at the ends of paragraphs or between sections of the manuscript—don’t insert them mid-paragraph when you are unhappy with the way that the line breaks. Use tabs to indent the first line of a paragraph. Do not include section or page breaks.
Most important: Please be consistent! If you use two hyphens to indicate a long dash or a superscript letter “o” for a degree sign, continue to use that system throughout the manuscript.
Please indicate in your cover letter any rare or ambiguous special characters, in case we cannot identify them in the electronic file.
Grammatical Conventions
The JBS adheres to the grammatical conventions outlined in The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. By incorporating these into your initial draft, you will save yourself considerable time during the revision process. Articles published in previous issues of the JBS are an excellent resource for answers to most questions concerning grammar. Listed below are two of the most frequently encountered issues:
- Always insert a comma before the “and” between the last and second-to-last items in a list.
Apples, pears, and oranges are all fruits.
- If a sentence ends in a quotation, always place the period inside the quotation marks, rather than outside.
As Julius said, “Cry havoc, and let slip the dogs of war.”
Finally, please include full contact information with your submission (regular postal address, telephone and fax numbers, and email address).
Editorial correspondence should be sent to the following address:
Brian Cowan and Elizabeth Elbourne
McGill University, Dept. of History
855 Sherbrooke West
Montreal H3A 2T7
Quebec, Canada
E-mail: jbs.history@mcgill.ca
If you have any questions about manuscript preparation that are not fully explained in these guidelines, please contact the editorial office at jbs.history@mcgill.ca.
Online Submission Instructions
Please have the following items readily available before beginning the online submission process:
- Manuscript in an acceptable format as described above
- Cover letter as a separate file
- Information from title page (to be typed into the peer review database): title, short title, list of authors and affiliations, and contact information for the corresponding author
Go to the Journal of British Studies Editorial Manager system at http://jbritstudies.edmgr.com to submit your manuscript. If you do not have access to the Web, please send one hard copy of your manuscript and a CD-R containing all relevant electronic files to the editorial office. It is no longer necessary to submit a hard copy in addition to an electronic submission.
Editorial Board
Brian Cowan and Elizabeth Elbourne
McGill University
BOOK REVIEW EDITORS
Amy M. Froide
University of Maryland Baltimore County
Gail Savage
Saint Mary's College of Maryland
ASSISTANT EDITOR
Dr. Leigh Yetter
McGill University
ASSOCIATE EDITORSJeffrey Collins
Queen's University, Ontario
Brian Lewis
McGill University
Sandra den Otter
Queen's University, Ontario
Shannon McSheffrey
Concordia University, Montreal
Nancy Partner
McGill University
Robert Tittler
emeritus, Concordia University, Montreal
Faith Wallis
McGill University
BOARD OF ADVISORSAlastair Bellany
Rutgers University
Joanna Bourke
Birkbeck, University of London
Callum Brown
University of Dundee
Chris Brown
Columbia University
Laura Gowing
King's College, London
Catherine Hall
University College, London
Deborah Harkness
University of Southern California
Joanna Innes
Oxford University
Krista Kesseling
Dalhousie University
Seth Koven
Rutgers University
Allan MacInnes
University of Strathclyde
Peter Mandler
Cambridge University
Ian McBride
King's College, London
Susan Pedersen
Columbia University
Mary Poovey
New York University
Richard Price
University of Maryland
David Harris Sacks
Reed College
Miles Taylor
Institute of Historical Research, London
Robert Travers
Cornell University
Frank Trentmann
Birkbeck, University of London
Dror Wahrman
Indiana University
Keith Wrightson
Yale University
President
Philippa Levine
The University of Texas at Austin
Vice President
Dane Kennedy
The George Washington University
Immediate Past President
Barbara J. Harris
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Executive Secretary
Andrew August
Penn State University
Associate Executive Secretary
Heather Streets
Washington State University
Treasurer
Lynn Botelho
Indiana University of Pennsylvania
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