Notes for Contributors - Labour History Review

Labour History Review (LHR) welcomes contributions in any area of labour history. We are particularly interested in articles which engage with issues of gender and ethnicity or race, as well as class, and which attempt to broaden the traditional subject matter of labour history. The editors welcome informal approaches on proposed articles. To submit papers please contact Don MacRaild, University of Ulster, Coleraine Campus, Coleraine, Northern Ireland, UK. Email: d.macraild@ulster.ac.uk.

Contributors should submit an abstract and three copies of the article in hard copy with a disk containing the abstract and the article in Word or Wordperfect (PC readable). This will facilitate the refereeing process. All articles will be anonymously refereed so personal details (name, institutional affiliation, e-mail address and contact details) should be separated from the article and abstract.

LHR authors are asked to aim for a style which is accessible and free from jargon. Masculine forms used as universals, e.g. `the historian and his sources', should be avoided. Articles should use English spelling, except in direct quotations of American usage.

Main typographical conventions
Format: Articles should normally be no more than 8,000 words, excluding endnotes. The article and the endnotes must be double-spaced. Intending contributors should request a copy of the Notes for Contributors (Style Sheet) from the Editor.

Quotations should be in single inverted commas, with double used only for quotations within quotations. Quotations of more than sixty words should be indented and double-spaced.

Abbreviations: Give names of organisations in full on first mention within the manuscript, followed by initials in brackets. The initials should then be used subsequently. Omit all punctuation from initials: thus TUC not T.U.C. 

Numbers up to ninety-nine are expressed in words, and higher numbers -- from 100 -- in figures. Figures should also be used when small numbers are grouped in a series with high numbers: `he lost by 89 votes to 109'. 

Numbers containing decimal parts should be expressed in figures: thus 10.5 per cent. Employ words rather than figures in the case of a phrase, e.g. `almost a hundred', `over a thousand strong'.

Dates: The following forms should be used: 3 February 1957; nineteenth century -- not 19th century; 1930s -- not nineteen thirties. Hyphens should be used for adjectival compounds. Thus: `the nineteenth-century working class', but `working-class culture'. A hyphen is not used, however, to link an adverb ending in `ly' to a following adjective. Thus: `a recently published study'; `a highly contentious argument'. Capitals should be used for the names of political parties. Thus: Labour Party, British Socialist Party, etc. But lower case should be used when referring to movements and ideologies: thus labour movement, socialism, the socialists. 

Citations
References should be given as endnotes, numbered consecutively through the typescript with superior (superscript) numerals. The notes should be grouped together at the end of the article and double-spaced. Full publication details should be given at the first mention, a short form thereafter:
E. P. Thompson, The Making of the English Working Class, Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1968, pp. 9-14.
J. Bornat, `Lost leaders: women, trade unionism and the case of the General Union of Textile Workers, 1875-1914', in A. V. John (ed.), Unequal Opportunities. Women's Employment in England 1800-1918, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1986, p. 221.
A. Wood, `Social conflict and change in the mining communities of North-West Derbyshire, c. 1600-1700', International Review of Social History, 38, 1, 1993, pp. 31-3.

Short forms:
Thompson, The Making, pp. 9-14.
Bornat, `Lost leaders', p. 221.
Wood, `Social conflict and change', pp. 31-3.

Titles should be underlined to indicate italic where an author is unable to italicise them. 

For unpublished sources, the citation should include the specific details of the item, the collection it is in and the location of that collection (for first citation), the accession number, file number and page number, thus: Lord Astor to Arthur Greenwood, 17 May 1941, Public Record Office, Kew, CAB 117/212.
`An Outline of R. W. Gifford's Plan for Aid to European Industry', Federation of British Industries (FBI) files, Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick, MSS 200/F/3/D3/5/41, p. 1.
M. Tichelar, `The Labour Party's policy towards land reform, 1900-45', PhD, University of the West of England, 2000, pp. 95-130.

Short forms:
Astor to Greenwood, 17 May 1941, PRO, CAB 117/212.
`Outline of R. W. Gifford's Plan', FBI files, MRC, MSS 200/F/3/D3/5/41, p. 1.
Tichelar, `The Labour Party's policy towards land reform', pp. 95-130.

Tables, graphs, maps, illustrations
Tables should be prepared with the size and capacity of the page in mind and should be provided separately in the typescript. Sources should be indicated. Citation will be in the form (Table 1). Contributors should provide good quality illustrations in the form of glossy prints and clearly drawn and lettered maps, line drawings and graphs. Citation will be in the form (Fig. 1). Full details of any illustration source and permission to reproduce copyright material must be obtained. Any necessary acknowledgement should be included in the caption. Authors should indicate where in the text the table, map, etc., should appear with a marginal note. Captions should be supplied on a separate sheet.

Articles and reviews not complying with the above conventions will be returned to the author(s) for amendment.

Submission on disk
On notification by the Editors that a paper has been accepted, a final version of the article should be submitted on PC disk in Word or WordPerfect with two hard copies of the typescript.The filename and software must be indicated on the disk. In preparing the disk version there is no need to format articles: please include italic or bold type where necessary but not style or footnote codes. Automatic foot- or endnote routines should not be used. Endnotes should be either typed at the end of the file as part of the text, or supplied in a separate file. Please use hard returns only at the end of paragraphs. Indents at the start of paragraphs should be indicated by a single tab. Switch auto-hyphenation off; left justify the text. Consistency in spacing, punctuation and spelling is essential. Tables should be keyed horizontally from left to right using a tab between columns, not the space bar, or keyed in Table mode in Word or WordPerfect.

Proofs and offprints
Authors will be asked to correct proofs, confining their corrections to typographical errors. There may be a charge for author's alterations at proof stage. Proofs should be returned to the Editor within 72 hours of receipt. Contributors will receive 25 offprints and one copy of the journal to be shared between co-authors. Additional offprints may be ordered at cost. Offprints are usually despatched three weeks after publication of the issue.

Copyright
Authors will be asked at proof stage to assign copyright to the Society for the Study of Labour History. Submission of an article is assumed to indicate that it has not been published previously, and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Authors should obtain permission to use any material already protected by copyright, and they are asked to provide brief details of any related article or book that they are preparing.