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
Richard Whatmore at:
r.whatmore@sussex.ac.uk.
Types of paper
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 at the
above address 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.
Submission details
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.
Ethics in Publishing
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guidelines for journal publication see
http://www.elsevier.com/publishingethics and
http://www.elsevier.com/ethicalguidelines.
Conflict of interest
All authors are requested to disclose any actual or potential conflict of interest
including any financial, personal or other relationships with other people or organizations within three years of beginning the submitted
work that could inappropriately influence, or be perceived to influence, their work. See also
http://www.elsevier.com/conflictsofinterest.
Submission declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously
(except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture or academic thesis), that it is not under consideration for publication
elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and tacitly or explicitly by the responsible authorities where the work was
carried out, 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 copyright-holder.
Copyright
Upon acceptance
of an article, authors will be asked to complete a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' (for more information on this and copyright see
http://www.elsevier.com/copyright).
Acceptance of the agreement will ensure the widest possible dissemination of information. An e-mail will be sent to the corresponding
author confirming receipt of the manuscript together with a 'Journal Publishing Agreement' form or a link to the online version of this
agreement.
Subscribers may reproduce tables of contents or prepare lists of articles including abstracts for internal circulation
within their institutions. Permission of the Publisher is required for resale or distribution outside the institution and for all other
derivative works, including compilations and translations (please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions). 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 preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases: please consult
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.
Retained author rights
As an author you (or your employer or institution) retain certain rights; for details
you are referred to:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
Role of the
funding source
You are requested to identify who provided financial support for the conduct of the research and/or preparation
of the article and to briefly describe the role of the sponsor(s), if any, in study design; in the collection, analysis and interpretation
of data; in the writing of the report; and in the decision to submit the paper for publication. If the funding source(s) had no such
involvement then this should be stated. Please see
http://www.elsevier.com/funding.
Funding body agreements and policies
Elsevier has established agreements and developed policies to allow authors whose
articles appear in journals published by Elsevier, to comply with potential manuscript archiving requirements as specified as conditions
of their grant awards. To learn more about existing agreements and policies please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies.
Language and language services
Please write your text in good English (American or British usage is accepted,
but not a mixture of these). Authors who require information about language editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission
please visit
http://www.elsevier.com/languagepolishing or our customer support site at
http://epsupport.elsevier.com
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Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online. Use the following guidelines to prepare
your article. Via the journal's online submission and tracking tool at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/hei you will be guided stepwise
through the creation and uploading of the various files. 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. All correspondence,
including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail and via the author's homepage, removing
the need for a hard-copy paper trail.
Review and publication policy
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.
Language
Please write your text
in good English (for spelling, follow the Oxford English Dictionary). Use decimal points (not decimal commas); use a space for thousands
(10 000 and above).
Word Limit
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.
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.
Capital letters 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.
Italics
should be employed 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 style of 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.
Use of wordprocessing software
It is important that the file be saved
in the native format of the wordprocessor used. The text should be in single-column format. 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 wordprocessor's
options to justify text or to hyphenate words. However, do use bold face, italics, subscripts, superscripts etc. Do not embed "graphically
designed" equations or tables, but prepare these using the wordprocessor's facility. When preparing tables, if you are using a table
grid, use only one grid for each individual table and not a grid for each row. If no grid is used, use tabs, not spaces, to align columns.
The electronic text should be prepared in a way very similar to that of conventional manuscripts (see also the Guide to Publishing with
Elsevier:
http://www.elsevier.com/guidepublication). Do not import the figures into the text file but, instead, indicate
their approximate locations directly in the electronic text and on the manuscript. See also the section on Electronic illustrations.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the "spell-check" and "grammar-check" functions of your wordprocessor.
Article structure
Subdivision - unnumbered sections
Divide your article into clearly defined sections. Each subsection is given a brief heading. Each heading should appear on its own
separate line. Subsections should be used as much as possible when cross-referencing text: refer to the subsection by heading as opposed
to simply "the text".
Introduction
State the objectives of the work
and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed literature survey or a summary of the results.
Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them. A combined
Results and Discussion section is often appropriate. Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.
Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which
may stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.
Appendices
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc. Formulae and equations in
appendices should be given separate numbering: Eq. (A.1), Eq. (A.2), etc.; in a subsequent appendix, Eq. (B.1) and so on.
Essential title page information
•
Title.
Concise and informative. Titles are often
used in information-retrieval systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae 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, if available, the e-mail address of each author.
•
Corresponding author.
Clearly indicate who will 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.
•
Present/permanent
address.
If an author has moved since the work described in the article was done, or was visiting at the time, a "Present address"
(or "Permanent address") may be indicated as a footnote to that author's name. The address at which the author actually did the work
must be retained as the main, affiliation address. Superscript Arabic numerals are used for such footnotes.
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. For this reason, References should be avoided, but if essential, then cite the author(s) and year(s). Also, non-standard
or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.
Keywords
Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 6 keywords, avoiding general and plural terms
and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, "and", "of"). Be sparing with abbreviations: only abbreviations firmly established in the
field may be eligible. These keywords will be used for indexing purposes.
Acknowledgements
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article before the references and do not, therefore, include
them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise. List here those individuals who provided help during the research (e.g.,
providing language help, writing assistance or proof reading the article, etc.).
Footnotes
Footnotes should be used sparingly. Number them consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Many
wordprocessors build footnotes into the text, and this feature may be used. Should this not be the case, indicate the position of footnotes
in the text and present the footnotes themselves separately at the end of the article. Do not include footnotes in the Reference list.
Table footnotes
Indicate each footnote in a table with a superscript lowercase letter.
Artwork
Electronic artwork
General points
• Make sure you use uniform lettering and sizing of your original artwork.
• Save text in illustrations as "graphics"
or enclose the font.
• Only use the following fonts in your illustrations: Arial, Courier, Times, Symbol.
• Number
the illustrations according to their sequence in the text.
• Use a logical naming convention for your artwork files.
•
Provide captions to illustrations separately.
• Produce images near to the desired size of the printed version.
• Submit
each figure as a separate file.
A detailed guide on electronic artwork is available on our website:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions
You are urged to visit this site; some excerpts from the detailed information are given here.
Formats
Regardless
of the application used, when your electronic artwork is finalised, please "save as" or convert the images to one of the following formats
(note the resolution requirements for line drawings, halftones, and line/halftone combinations given below):
EPS: Vector drawings.
Embed the font or save the text as "graphics".
TIFF: color or grayscale photographs (halftones): always use a minimum of 300 dpi.
TIFF: Bitmapped line drawings: use a minimum of 1000 dpi.
TIFF: Combinations bitmapped line/half-tone (color or grayscale): a
minimum of 500 dpi is required.
DOC, XLS or PPT: If your electronic artwork is created in any of these Microsoft Office applications
please supply "as is".
Please do not:
• Supply embedded graphics in your wordprocessor (spreadsheet, presentation)
document;
• Supply files that are optimised for screen use (like GIF, BMP, PICT, WPG); the resolution is too low;
•
Supply files that are too low in resolution;
• Submit graphics that are disproportionately large for the content.
Color artwork
Please make sure that artwork files are in an acceptable format (TIFF, EPS or MS Office
files) and with the correct resolution. If, together with your accepted article, you submit usable color figures then Elsevier will ensure,
at no additional charge, that these figures will appear in color on the Web (e.g., ScienceDirect and other sites) regardless of whether
or not these illustrations are reproduced in color in the printed version.
For color reproduction in print, you will receive information
regarding the costs from Elsevier after receipt of your accepted article. Please indicate your preference for color in print or on
the Web only. For further information on the preparation of electronic artwork, please see
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Please note: Because of technical complications which can arise by converting color figures to "gray scale" (for the printed version
should you not opt for color in print) please submit in addition usable black and white versions of all the color illustrations.
Figure captions
Ensure that each illustration has a caption. Supply captions separately, not attached
to the figure. A caption should comprise a brief title (
not on the figure itself) and a description of the illustration. Keep
text in the illustrations themselves to a minimum but explain all symbols and abbreviations used.
Tables
Number tables consecutively in accordance with their appearance in the text. Place footnotes to tables below the
table body and indicate them with superscript lowercase letters. Avoid vertical rules. Be sparing in the use of tables and ensure that
the data presented in tables do not duplicate results described elsewhere in the article.
References
Web references
As a minimum, the full URL should
be given. Any further information, if known (DOI, author names, dates, reference to a source publication, etc.), should also be given.
Web references can be listed separately (e.g., after the reference list) under a different heading if desired, or can be included in
the reference list.
References in a special issue
Please ensure that
the words 'this issue' are added to any references in the list (and any citations in the text) to other articles in the same Special
Issue.
Style for footnotes/endnotes
Articles can be submitted with either
footnotes or endnotes but not using Harvard style. A bibliography is not required.
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:
B. Kapossy, '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.
Supplementary
material
Elsevier accepts electronic supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research. 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
your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com. In order to ensure that your
submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data are provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit
the material in electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each file. Video files:
please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or make a separate image. These will be used instead
of standard icons and will personalize the link to your supplementary information. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork
instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Submission
checklist
It is hoped that this list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending it to the journal's
Editor for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following items are
present:
One Author designated as corresponding Author:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone
and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded
• Keywords
• All figure captions
• All tables (including
title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
• Manuscript has been "spellchecked" and "grammar-checked"
•
References are in the correct format for this journal
• All references mentioned in the Reference list are cited in the text,
and vice versa
• Permission has been obtained for use of copyrighted material from other sources (including the Web)
•
Color figures are clearly marked as being intended for color reproduction on the Web (free of charge) and in print or to be reproduced
in color on the Web (free of charge) and in black-and-white in print
• If only color on the Web is required, black and white
versions of the figures are also supplied for printing purposes
For any further information please visit our customer support site
at
http://epsupport.elsevier.com.
Use of the Digital Object Identifier
The Digital Object Identifier (DOI) may be used to cite and link to
electronic documents. The DOI consists of a unique alpha-numeric character string which is assigned to a document by the publisher upon
the initial electronic publication. The assigned DOI never changes. Therefore, it is an ideal medium for citing a document, particularly
'Articles in press' because they have not yet received their full bibliographic information. The correct format for citing a DOI is shown
as follows (example taken from a document in the journal
Physics Letters B):
doi:10.1016/j.physletb.2003.10.071
When
you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, they are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
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http://www.adobe.com/products/acrobat/readstep2.html. Instructions on how
to annotate PDF files will accompany the proofs (also given online). 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
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that all of your corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent
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your article if no response is received.
Offprints
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