NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Cold War History is a refereed journal. Articles submitted to Cold War History should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission.

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Authors should prepare and upload two versions of their manuscript. One should be a complete text, while in the second all document information identifying the author should be removed from files to allow them to be sent anonymously to referees. When uploading files authors will then be able to define the non-anonymous version as “File not for review”.

There is no standard length for articles but 7,000-10,000 words (including notes and references) is a useful target. The article should begin with the article abstract, a summary of around 100 words, which should describe the main arguments and conclusions.

A short biographical note of around 50 words (including the author's institutional affiliation, current and forthcoming projects) is also required upon manuscript submission. In addition, full contact details (including postal address), any acknowledgements, as well as a note of the exact length of the article should be uploaded in a separate file. This should be identifies as a “File no for review”.

All diagrams, charts and graphs should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text.

To facilitate the typesetting process, notes should be grouped together at the end of the file. Tables should be placed in a separate file. Tables can be saved as text using the appropriate function within your word processor (no turnovers), or can be prepared using tabs. Any diagrams or maps should be in uncompressed .TIF or .JPG formats in individual files. These should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided, use open patterns instead.

It is the author's responsibility to ensure that where copyright materials are included within an article the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained. Confirmation of this should be included with the submission.

STYLE

Authors are responsible for ensuring that the final version of their article conforms to the journal style. 

The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Further guidance is obtainable from the Editors.

ENDNOTES

Notes should be numbered consecutively through the article with a numeral corresponding to a list of endnotes at the end of the article.

Archival documents:

The journal recommends a 'descending order' of referencing archival documents (e.g. 'Archive/Series/Folder…Item/Date').

Published sources:

The list of references should include all published works mentioned in the notes. They should be written out using the Chicago Humanities Style. Thus:

JOURNAL: Bellworthy, Cartright C. “Reform of Congressional Remuneration.” Political Review 7, no.6 (1990): 87-101.

BOOK: Brett, P. D., S. W. Johnson, and C. R. T. Bach. Mastering String Quartets. San Francisco: Amati Press, 1989.

IN ED BOOK: Kaiser, Ernest. “The Literature of Harlem.” In Harlem: A Community in Transition, edited by J. H. Clarke. New York: Citadel Press, 1964.

ED BOOK: Cline, C. L., ed. The Letters of George Meredith. 3 vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1970.

ELECTRONIC Kulikowski, Stan. “Readability Formula.” In NL-KR (Digest vol. 5, no. 10) [electronic bulletin board]. Rochester, N.Y., 1988 [cited 31 January 1989]. Available from nl-kr@cs.rochester.edu; INTERNET.

DISSERTATION Downright, Alice B. “Narrative Diffusion and the Professional Editor.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago, 1992. Abstract in Dissertation Abstracts International 52 (1993): 3245A-3246A.

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