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Prepare your manuscript for Social History.

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Article types

Review
Editorial
Clinical Trial
Protocol
Systematic Review
Letter
Lectio

Readiness requirements

Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.

Abstract length

  • Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
  • Use a structured abstract.
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  • A non-structured abstract of no more than 200 words.

Keywords

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

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.
  • Immediate subsequent reference should be cited as ibid., 81. (This is always lower case).
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  • Abbreviations used in the text should be easily identifiable and consistent throughout after the first reference giving the full title, etc. Dates should be typed without commas as follows: 29 August 1974.
  • References: in the footnotes should be set out as follows: Books.
  • Citation of pamphlet material should include details of source where known and author.
  • Readers should be able to interpret the table without reference to the text.
  • Footnotes should be used in the main to give necessary references (although technical details that cannot be easily incorporated into the text may also be given).Footnote numbers should always be positioned at the end of the sentence to which they apply and after the full-stop.
  • 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.
  • Figures and numerals: units of measurement and all numbers of 10 and over should be given in figures; 10,000 and above with a comma, i.e. 5000 but 50,000.
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  • Numbers below 10 should be given in words (e.g. nine schools), except in passages where many statistics are discussed where it is obviously desirable to use figures.
  • Figures should be high quality (1200 dpi for line art, 600 dpi for grayscale and 300 dpi for colour, at the correct size).
  • Tables of whatever length should be included as part of the text, and not in footnotes.
  • Tables should have a title, be numbered if more than one, and indicate at the bottom the source of the data used.
  • Tables should present new information rather than duplicating what is in the text.
  • 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.

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.

Ethics statement

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

Cover letter

  • Using third-party material in your article You must obtain the necessary permission to reuse third-party material in your article.
  • 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.
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  • 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.

Title page and author information

  • Provide the author, affiliation, and correspondence details for the separate title page; Articlo creates the editable companion file.
  • All authors of a manuscript should include their full name and affiliation on the cover page of the manuscript.
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  • 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: Books for review and related correspondence should be sent to the Reviews Editor, Kesewa John, Department of History, Goldsmiths, University of London, New Cross, London SE14 6NW, socialhistoryreviews@gold.ac.uk.
  • These instructions will ensure we have everything required so your paper can move through peer review, production and publication smoothly.
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  • 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.
  • Ellipsis: use three full points, except where the part omitted includes a full stop, when four points should be used.
  • All nouns ending in –s should have their possessives in –s’s.
  • Authors must submit manuscripts electronically.
  • Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments using a standard word-processing program.
  • Queries Should you have any queries, please visit our Author Services website or contact us here.
  • 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.
  • Please use SI units (non-italicised).
  • Articles for consideration and related correspondence or queries should be sent by email attachment to the journal’s Editors Louise Jackson and Gordon Johnston using the following email address: socialhistory@ed.ac.uk.
  • 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.
  • At point of initial submission, authors must clearly acknowledge use of Generative Artificial Intelligence through a statement on the title page or in the Acknowledgements section which includes: the full name of the tool used (with version number), how it was used, and the reason for use.
  • 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.

Article type and manuscript length

  • Preparing your article Structure Manuscripts should be compiled in the following order: title page (including Acknowledgements as well as Funding and grant-awarding bodies); abstract; keywords; main text; acknowledgements; references; appendices (as appropriate); table(s) with caption(s) (on individual pages); figure caption(s) (as a list).

Manuscript structure

  • A typical manuscript for this journal should be no more than 10000 words; this limit includes footnotes.
  • The Social History style and convention is to keep footnote comments to a minimum.
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  • 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.

Language and text style

  • Long quotations of 40 words or more should be indented without quotation marks.
  • Spelling should be standardised as far as possible to follow Oxford English Dictionary usage.
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  • Please use single quotation marks, except where ‘a quotation is “within” a quotation’.

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).
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What your package checks

Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 10,000 words
Title page: separate file
Declarations: Acknowledgements, Artificial intelligence

Source transparency

This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.

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