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Prepare your manuscript for Advances in Nineteenth-Century Research.

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Article types

Review
Research Article
Review Article
Editorial
Book Review
Lectio
Perspective
Commentary
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Letter
Systematic Review

Readiness requirements

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Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 350 words.
  • Use a unstructured abstract.
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  • Should contain an unstructured abstract of 350 words.
  • Please provide a 350-word abstract for each component of the Forums Colloquy proposal, indicating who will write each component and how the sequencing of the material will be managed.
  • Please provide a 350-500-word abstract for the proposed alternative format of the Practicum, with an explanation as to how this will peculiarly address the issues raised in the proposal or enhance the piece for a readership that is international/interdisciplinary/intertemporal.
  • This should include the abstract for a short introduction which unifies and summarises the Forum, written by the lead author.
  • Your abstract should focus on what your research is about, what methods have been used, and what you found out.
  • However, articles should not be focused so much on the theoretical and abstract aspects of pedagogy, adding to existing knowledge, or developing methods for research into the subject, as the working aspects.
  • The instructions for authors for each journal will give specific guidelines on what’s required here, including whether it should be a structured abstract or graphical abstract, and any word limits.

Keywords

  • Provide up to 5 keywords chosen by the author.
  • Should contain no more than 5 keywords.

Reference style

  • Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
  • Should be no more than 10000 words, inclusive of: References.
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  • Should be between 3000 and 6000 words, inclusive of: References.
  • Should be between 6000 and 10000 words, inclusive of: References.
  • Should be between 6000 and 8000 words, inclusive of: References.
  • Each article should not normally exceed 10,000 words inclusive of tables, references, figure captions, endnotes; the introduction, up to 5000 words inclusive of tables, references, figure captions, endnotes.
  • Citations and evidence must be used to substantiate the argument.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors take full responsibility for the integrity of the whole content, including accuracy of references.

Figure and table rules

  • Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript. Keep figures embedded; Articlo also extracts numbered source files for the package.
  • Group figures at the end of the manuscript.
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  • Group tables at the end of the manuscript.
  • Should be no more than 10000 words, inclusive of: Tables.
  • Should be no more than 10000 words, inclusive of: Figure or table captions.
  • Should be between 6000 and 10000 words, inclusive of: Tables.
  • Should be between 6000 and 10000 words, inclusive of: Figure or table captions.
  • Should be between 6000 and 8000 words, inclusive of: Tables.
  • Should be between 6000 and 8000 words, inclusive of: Figure or table captions.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
  • Tables and figures Show clearly in your article text where the tables and figures should appear, for example, by writing [Table 1 near here].
  • Tables, maps and photographs should be provided separately but with their position within the text indicated appropriately.
  • Special care should be taken with the formatting of tables and edited texts.
  • Figures should be saved separately from the text.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • It’s very important that you have been given permission to use any tables or figures you are reproducing from another source before you submit.
  • Figures should be supplied in one of our preferred file formats: PS, JPEG, TIFF, or Microsoft Word (DOC or DOCX) files are acceptable for figures that have been drawn in Word.
  • Check the instructions for authors to see how you should supply tables and figures, whether at the end of the text or in separate files, and follow any guidance given on the submission system.

Funding statement

  • You should declare only the acquired funds and grants that are directly relevant to the work reported in your article; for example, This work was supported by the [Funding Agency #1] under Grant [number xxxx]; [Funding Agency #2] under Grant [number xxxx]; and [Funding Agency #3] under Grant [number xxxx].

Competing interests

  • Include or confirm the competing interests required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Data availability statement

  • Include or confirm the data availability statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Ethics statement

  • Include or confirm the ethics statement required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Blinded manuscript

  • Include or confirm the blinded manuscript required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Cover letter

  • Using Third-Party Material You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • Commentary: Normally, a conference roundtable or an interview will require significant re-fashioning to include commentary, analysis, argument, and observation etc. to serve effectively as a Practicum, but authors may additionally supply embedded links that allow readers to access transcripts and recordings where they have permission to do so.
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  • Review: The use of short extracts of text and some other types of material is usually permitted, on a limited basis, for the purposes of criticism and review without securing formal permission.
  • If you wish to include any material in your paper for which you do not hold copyright, and which is not covered by this informal agreement, you will need to obtain written permission from the copyright owner prior to submission.
  • In instances of limited ICT/digital resource, there may be hardcopy alternatives, but in making recommendations for workarounds, note that copyright law and licensing varies between countries.

Author contributions

  • Submitting authors should be prepared to submit CRediT roles for themselves and their co-authors (where applicable) as part of the submission process.

Title page and author information

  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
  • One author will need to be identified as the corresponding author, with their email address normally displayed in the article PDF (depending on the journal) and the online article.

Article structure and word limits

  • Review: Submission of first draft of review Normally a draft should be submitted withing 6 months.
  • Please provide a 350-word collective biography of the proposed authors.
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  • Margins Margins should be at least 2.5cm (1 inch).
  • Should be between 1000 and 2000 words.
  • It should be a maximum width of 525 pixels.
  • Review: These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
  • Prospective authors should note that as a generalist journal of nineteenth-century studies, Advances expects articles to interest a wide audience.
  • Your research funder or your institution may require you to publish your article open access.
  • Use our APC finder to view the APC for this journal.
  • Research Article: Preparing Your Paper Article Types Research Article Manuscripts should be typed double-spaced.
  • Pages should be numbered consecutively throughout in the upper right-hand corner.
  • Titles of articles should be brief and informative.
  • Reviews should include a summary of the scope, purpose and content of the work and its significance in the literature and cultural understanding of the subject.
  • This should encourage nineteenth-century research questions to be considered against new or underrepresented geographic contexts and/or non-Anglophone academic markets.
  • Roundtables at conferences can provide a good starting point for a Forum but submissions should not comprise a transcription or summary of the event.
  • Provide a timeline for the Forums Colloquy including a realistic date for submission considering the below production timeline: Production Timeline.
  • Practica submissions should offer readers up-to-date reflection and scholarly thinking on their topic and situate it in existing literature.
  • Note, submitted interviews and roundtables etc., should not comprise a transcription or summary.
  • Before you submit your article, make sure you’ve checked the instructions for authors for your chosen journal, so you are aware of everything required.
  • Most journals create image descriptions during the production process, but a minority may require authors to provide image descriptions.
  • Review: Running heads and received dates These aren’t required when submitting a manuscript for review.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Originality and accuracy of content has been confirmed by the authors.
  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable.
  • Authors must retain the original and revised versions which must be shared upon request.
  • The PLSP guidelines for authors must be followed at all times.
  • Anyone listed as an author must approve the final version of the paper, accept responsibility for ensuring that they are familiar with its contents and be able to identify their contribution to it.
  • Insofar as possible, the articles should represent a coherent, unified, and a conceptually interrelated set of essays, rather than a disparate and unrelated set of individual essays pulled together to reflect interest in a larger, single theme.
  • A good themed issue should excite the interest of – and communicate accessibly to – readers not familiar with the topic, at the same time engaging specialists on the topic.
  • Reviews should also evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of the work, paying attention to the use of sources, methodology, and argument considering the work’s stated purpose.
  • Forums should seek to be bold in posing and discussing a topical, controversial, or neglected question which will enable readers to reimagine key issues relating to international nineteenth-century research.
  • Forum discussions should illuminate the global context and challenges of the provocation considered, while reinforcing the need to consider, or reconsider, such issues through a topic which reaches beyond national boundaries.
  • Usually, a conference roundtable will require significant re-fashioning to serve effectively as a Forum so that the proposed ideas respond to a clear provocation in a unified manner.
  • Authors must write bearing in mind a variety of readers including those teaching in different sectors, from museum education, galleries, archives, and libraries (GLAM) to junior or high school settings, to colleges and universities, in different disciplines and in different countries.
  • Editorial: Provide a production timeline including a realistic date for submission, following the guidance below: Receipt of alternative format Practica proposal editorial comments within 2 to 3 weeks.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicized).
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: European accents (Greek, Hebrew, or Cyrillic letters, or phonetic symbols): choose Times New Roman font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Special characters If you are preparing your manuscript in Microsoft Word and your article contains special characters, accents, or diacritics, we recommend you follow these steps: Asian languages (such as Sanskrit, Korean, Chinese, or Japanese): choose Arial Unicode font from the dropdown menu in the “Insert symbol” window and insert the character you require.
  • Please do not embed it in the manuscript file but save it as a separate file, labelled GraphicalAbstract1.
  • Review: We do not normally accept unsolicited Reviews or Review Articles.
  • Editorial: Proposals for a Forum will be assessed by the Forum Editor and at least one member of the Editorial Board.
  • If you are at the early stage of your research, you may also need to read how to start writing a journal manuscript.
  • It is also useful to explain why and in what ways the issue is important for readers who do not necessarily specialise in the topic; i.e., general readers of the long nineteenth century.
  • While a Forum may be written in an informal style, the basics of scholarly writing remain in place: opinions need to be defended, and evidence produced to substantiate strengths and weaknesses of thought and argument in existing literature.
  • Image descriptions are typically used by systems such as pronouncing screen readers to make images accessible to people that cannot read or see the object due to a visual disability.

Reporting guidelines

  • Include or confirm the reporting guidelines required by the journal. Articlo checks this item and flags anything that still needs author input.

Preprints and prior publication

  • If you have shared an earlier version of your Author’s Original Manuscript on a preprint server, please be aware that anonymity cannot be guaranteed.

Artificial intelligence disclosure

  • Add or confirm the author-written Artificial intelligence statement; Articlo flags it if author input is still needed.
  • Please include a statement disclosing whether and how generative AI has been used in the research and manuscript preparation process.
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  • Use of AI tools as part of ethical research studies is permitted.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: The name and version number of the AI tool used.
  • Systematic Review: Use of AI tools as part of ethically conducted literature reviews, systematic reviews, meta-analysis and bibliometrics studies is permitted.
  • Use of AI tool assisted plain language summaries (PLS) of authors own work is permitted.
  • Please read our guidance on using AI tools in your research and manuscript preparation to understand scenarios where their use may be permissible, and the required information that must be disclosed.
  • A declaration must be included within the submission stating: Confirmation the authors have checked terms of use for the specific AI tool used, and therefore confirm suitability for publication.

Study reporting guidelines

  • Authors must provide full methodological details and adhere to relevant reporting guidelines where applicable (e.g. CONSORT-AI, STARD-AI, GAMER, TRIPOD-AI, etc).
  • This does not mean that authors should write in a populist tone, but they should take care to explain specialist data and terms of historiographical debates in a straightforward and clear fashion.

Manuscript structure

  • Should be no more than 10000 words, inclusive of: Endnotes.
  • Should be between 3000 and 6000 words, inclusive of: Endnotes.
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  • Should be between 6000 and 10000 words, inclusive of: Endnotes.
  • Should be between 6000 and 8000 words, inclusive of: Endnotes.
  • Please use the heading style for headings and subheadings.
  • Please submit a proposal to the Forum under these headings: Title / Provocation.
  • Introductions should also highlight the global and intertemporal significance of the discussion, as well as any interdisciplinary perspectives.
  • As with the proposal itself, the introduction should provide a much more extensive research context, theorise methodology, provide a rationale for the themed issue, articulate a thesis insofar as possible, ask clearly articulated research questions, and provide an outline without necessarily simply replicating the abstracts.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: First-level headings (e.g. Introduction, Conclusion) should be in bold, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Authors must retain full records of the methods undertaken, including full descriptions and records of the prompts used, which must be shared with the journal upon request.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Should be written with the following elements in the following order: title page; abstract; keywords; main text; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figures; figure captions (as a list).

Language and text style

  • Please use British (-ise) spelling style consistently throughout your manuscript.
  • Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.
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  • Please note that long quotations should be indented without quotation marks.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fourth-level headings should be in bold italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Fifth-level headings should be in italics, at the beginning of a paragraph.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Second-level headings should be in bold italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
  • Letter: Headings This will show you the different levels of the heading section in your article: Third-level headings should be in italics, with an initial capital letter for any proper nouns.
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What your package checks

Abstract: 350 words
Paper: 5,000 words
Keywords: Up to 5 keywords
Declarations: Artificial intelligence
Format: Times New Roman

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