Guide for Authors
A well-established international quarterly, the
Journal of Historical Geography publishes
articles on all aspects of historical geography and cognate fields, including environmental history. As well as publishing original research
papers of interest to a wide international and interdisciplinary readership, the journal encourages lively discussion of methodological
and conceptual issues and debates over new challenges facing researchers in the field. Each issue includes a substantial book review
section.
Themes covered in the Journal include:
•The geographies of places and environments in the past
•The
dynamics of place, space and landscape
•Historiography and philosophy of historical geography
•Methodological challenges
and problems in historical geography
•Landscape, memory and environment
Types of paper
Paper
Length: Standard articles should generally not exceed 10,000 words or their equivalent (including notes, tables, maps, diagrams and photographs).
Longer papers may occasionally be accepted for publication. Papers for Historical Geography at Large should be in the region of 2-3,000
words. The length of Commentaries, Conference Reports, Obituaries and Review Essays are subject to discussion with editors.
Contact details for submission
Authors of Reviews and Review Articles should email copy direct to the appropriate
regional Book Review Editor: Christian Brannstrom [
cbrannst@geog.tamu.edu] for North American authors or Elizabeth Baigent
[
elizabeth.baigent@wycliffe.ox.ac.uk] for the rest of the world. Book Reviews should NOT be submitted via the online system.
Authors who are unable to provide an electronic version or whose circumstances prevent online submission must contact the journal
Editorial Office prior to submission to discuss alternate options, email:
jhg@elsevier.com
Papers submitted to the
Journal of Historical Geography will normally be evaluated by three referees. Authors and referees will remain anonymous, though
some referees may opt to submit 'open' reports. Referees are asked to pay particular attention to the originality of the paper's empirical
research, the skill with which the author(s) present and analyse their evidence, and the importance of their research to wider theoretical
debate. To be accepted, therefore, a paper must make an original and significant contribution to the general field of historical geography
and be properly grounded in the relevant literature.
Ethics
in publishing
For information on Ethics in publishing and Ethical 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 including electronically in the same form, in English or in any other language,
without the written consent of the copyright-holder.
Changes to authorship
This policy concerns
the addition, deletion, or rearrangement of author names in the authorship of accepted manuscripts:
Before the accepted manuscript
is published in an online issue: Requests to add or remove an author, or to rearrange the author names, must be sent to the Journal
Manager from the corresponding author of the accepted manuscript and must include: (a) the reason the name should be added or removed,
or the author names rearranged and (b) written confirmation (e-mail, fax, letter) from all authors that they agree with the addition,
removal or rearrangement. In the case of addition or removal of authors, this includes confirmation from the author being added or removed.
Requests that are not sent by the corresponding author will be forwarded by the Journal Manager to the corresponding author, who must
follow the procedure as described above. Note that: (1) Journal Managers will inform the Journal Editors of any such requests and (2)
publication of the accepted manuscript in an online issue is suspended until authorship has been agreed.
After the accepted manuscript
is published in an online issue: Any requests to add, delete, or rearrange author names in an article published in an online issue
will follow the same policies as noted above and result in a corrigendum.
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 article 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.
Open access
This journal offers you the option of making your article freely available to all via the ScienceDirect
platform. To prevent any conflict of interest, you can only make this choice after receiving notification that your article has been
accepted for publication. The fee of $3,000 excludes taxes and other potential author fees such as color charges. In some cases, institutions
and funding bodies have entered into agreement with Elsevier to meet these fees on behalf of their authors. Details of these agreements
are available at
http://www.elsevier.com/fundingbodies. Authors of accepted articles, who wish to take advantage of this
option, should complete and submit the order form (available at
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/openaccessform.pdf). Whatever
access option you choose, you retain many rights as an author, including the right to post a revised personal version of your article
on your own website. More information can be found here:
http://www.elsevier.com/authorsrights.
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://webshop.elsevier.com/languageservices or our customer support
site at
http://support.elsevier.com
for more information.
Submission
Submission to this journal proceeds totally online and
you will be guided stepwise through the creation and uploading of your files. The system automatically converts source files (the individual
files you are required to submit) to a single PDF file of the article, which is used in the peer-review process. Please note that even
though manuscript source files are converted to PDF files 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 removing the need for a paper trail.
Submission Site for
Journal of Historical
Geography
To submit your paper please click here:
http://ees.elsevier.com/yjhge
Papers should be set out in the manner of recent numbers of the
Journal of Historical Geography. For matters of
style, The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (
Oxford University Press, 1981) should be consulted. Spelling can conform
either to British usage (following The Shorter Oxford English Dictionary) or to American usage (following Webster's New International
Dictionary) though care should be taken to ensure consistency. Single quotation marks should be used throughout the manuscript.
Paper
Length Articles should not normally exceed 10,000 words or their equivalent (including notes, tables, maps, diagrams and photographs).
Units Measurements should, where possible, be expressed in metric units. Manuscripts should be arranged in the following order of
presentation.
First page: short title, subtitle (if desired), acknowledgements (if any), corresponding author's name, affiliation,
E-mail address, full postal address and telephone and fax numbers. Affiliations and addresses of co-authors should be clearly indicated.
Second Page: a self-contained abstract of 150 to 250 words; keywords (up to six); article title abbreviated appropriately for use
as a running headline.
Subsequent Pages: main body of text, list of references, appendices; tables; footnotes (numbered consecutively).
The text should be organized under appropriate section headings. Section headings should be marked as follows: primary headings should
be typed in capitals and underlined; secondary headings should be typed with initial capital letters and underlined; tertiary headings
should be typed in lower case and underlined. Any subsequent headings should be preceded by a Roman numeral (I, ii, iii etc.) placed
on the first line of text and underlined. All headings should be placed on the lefthand side of the text.
Notes
Notes should
be numbered sequentially through the paper. Authors should consolidate Notes to avoid excessive repetition of the same reference or source.
Wherever possible, superscript numbers indicating Notes should appear at the end of sentences, rather than in mid-sentence. The notes
themselves should appear, double-spaced, at the end of the paper under a major subheading.
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. 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).
Note that source files of figures, tables and text graphics will be required whether or not you embed your figures in the text. See also
the section on Electronic artwork.
To avoid unnecessary errors you are strongly advised to use the 'spell-check' and 'grammar-check'
functions of your wordprocessor.
Vitae
When submitting your paper you will be provided
with an author biography page. Here authors must supply a short note (no more than 50 words per author) stating their current research
interests. There is no need to state professional affiliations or other publications. This page will not be included in the final, published
paper.
Highlights
Highlights are mandatory for this journal. They consist of a short collection
of bullet points that convey the core findings of the article and should be submitted in a separate file in the online submission system.
Please use 'Highlights' in the file name and include 3 to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet point).
See
http://www.elsevier.com/highlights for examples.
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.
If your electronic artwork
is created in a Microsoft Office application (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) then please supply 'as is'.
Please do not:
•
Supply files that are optimised for screen use (e.g., 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
Reference
Style
The
Journal of Historical Geography uses a footnote system of reference. As stated above, notes should be
numbered sequentially through the paper. Authors should consolidate Notes to avoid excessive repetition of the same reference or source.
Wherever possible, superscript numbers indicating Notes should appear at the end of sentences, rather than in mid-sentence. The notes
themselves should appear, double-spaced, at the end of the paper under a major subheading.
References should be given in the following
form:
Journal article: S. Daniels and G. Endfield, Narratives of climate change: introduction,
Journal of Historical Geography
35 (2009) 215-222.
Chapter in an edited book: R. Edmond, Returning fears: tropical disease and the metropolis, in: F. Driver, L.
Martins (Eds),
Tropical Visions in an Age of Empire, Chicago, 2005, 175-194.
Book: M. Ogborn,
Indian Ink: Script and
Print in the Making of the English East India Company, Chicago, 2007.
Repeated references to the same source should be
provided in shortened form: thus a repeat reference to page 50 in the above book would be cited as Ogborn,
Indian Ink, 50; and
to the above article would be Daniels and Endfield, Narratives of climate change. (The original note number need not be added by the
author as this will be added at production stage). Please note that the phrases
op cit,
loc cit and
ibid should
all be avoided.
For Notes containing more than one citation, references should be separated by a semi-colon.
Reference
to manuscript materials: full reference must be given for the sources of manuscript and other unpublished materials cited for the first
time. In subsequent references to the same material, an abbreviation can be used for the source (as indicated in the first reference).
Names may also be shortened in repeat references. For example:
First reference:
John Brown to Lord Elgin, 15 Sept. 1839, State
Library of Western Australia, Brown Collection, State Library of Western Australia, Perth [hereafter SLWA].
Subsequent reference:
Brown to Elgin, 15 Sept. 1839, SLWA.
Reference to web materials: full URLs should be cited as well as the date when the reference
was last accessed, alongside any relevant additional information on authors, dates, source material, etc.
Citation of a reference
as "in press" implies that the item has been accepted for publication.
Responsibility for the accuracy of bibliographic citations
lies entirely with the authors.
Video data
Elsevier accepts video material and animation
sequences to support and enhance your scientific research. Authors who have video or animation files that they wish to submit with their
article are strongly encouraged to include these within the body of the article. This can be done in the same way as a figure or table
by referring to the video or animation content and noting in the body text where it should be placed. All submitted files should be properly
labeled so that they directly relate to the video file's content. In order to ensure that your video or animation material is directly
usable, please provide the files in one of our recommended file formats with a preferred maximum size of 50 MB. Video and animation files
supplied will be published online in the electronic version of your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect:
http://www.sciencedirect.com.
Please supply 'stills' with your files: you can choose any frame from the video or animation or make a separate image. These will be
used instead of standard icons and will personalize the link to your video data. For more detailed instructions please visit our video
instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions. Note: since video and animation cannot be embedded in
the print version of the journal, please provide text for both the electronic and the print version for the portions of the article that
refer to this content.
Supplementary data
Elsevier accepts electronic supplementary material
to support and enhance your scientific research. Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting
applications, 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 provide the data 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.
For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.
Google Maps and KML files
KML (Keyhole Markup Language) files (optional): You can enrich your online articles
by providing KML files which will be visualized using Google maps. The KML files can be uploaded in our online submission system. KML
is an XML schema for expressing geographic annotation and visualization within Internet-based Earth browsers. Elsevier will generate
Google Maps from the submitted KML files and include these in the article when published online. Submitted KML files will also be available
for downloading from your online article on ScienceDirect. For more information see
http://www.elsevier.com/googlemaps.
Submission checklist
The following list will be useful during the final checking of an article prior to sending
it to the journal for review. Please consult this Guide for Authors for further details of any item.
Ensure that the following
items are present:
One author has been designated as the corresponding author with contact details:
• E-mail address
• Full postal address
• Telephone and fax numbers
All necessary files have been uploaded, and contain:
•
Keywords
• All figure captions
• All tables (including title, description, footnotes)
Further considerations
•
Manuscript has been 'spell-checked' and 'grammar-checked'
• References are in the correct format for this journal
•
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://support.elsevier.com.
Additional information
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.2010.09.059
When you use the DOI to create URL hyperlinks to documents on the web, the DOIs are guaranteed never to change.
Proofs
One set of page proofs (as PDF files) 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) or, a link will be provided in the e-mail so that authors can download
the files themselves. Elsevier now provides authors with PDF proofs which can be annotated; for this you will need to download Adobe
Reader version 7 (or higher) available free from
http://get.adobe.com/reader. 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/reader/tech-specs.html.
If you do not wish to use the PDF annotations function, you may list the corrections (including replies to the Query Form) and return
them 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 – please let us have all your
corrections within 48 hours. It is important to ensure that all corrections are sent back to us in one communication: please check carefully
before replying, as inclusion of any subsequent corrections cannot be guaranteed. Proofreading 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. For an extra charge, paper offprints can
be ordered via the offprint order form which is sent once the article is accepted for publication. 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.
Additional information
For inquiries
relating to the submission of articles (including electronic submission) please visit this journal's homepage. Contact details for questions
arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, will be provided by the publisher. You can track accepted
articles at
http://www.elsevier.com/trackarticle. You can also check our Author FAQs (
http://www.elsevier.com/authorFAQ)
and/or contact Customer Support via
http://support.elsevier.com.
