Guidelines for Essays & Review Articles in Clio

 

STYLE AND AUDIENCE . Clio follows, with a few exceptions (refer to recent Clio back issues), the Chicago Manual of Style , 15 th edition (2004). Assume an educated, interdisciplinary readership; avoid approaching your subject for a narrowly specialized audience. A thesis or statement of critical intent should appear somewhere in the introduction. Language throughout should be concise, clear, and jargon-free. Usage should be formal rather than familiar; do not use contractions.

DOCUMENTATION . Use Chicago-style footnotes (not MLA “works cited” format). Avoid discursive notes; instead, place material essential to argument in the text itself.

Always identify authors quoted in the text, but do not repeat the titles of works given in the footnotes. In the first mention of an author in the text, use the author's full name; thereafter, use the last name only. Also use the full name in the first footnote.

For sequential notes citing the same work, use a parenthetical citation after an initial footnote. In subsequent notes citing the same work, use the author's last name, a shortened title, followed by a comma, followed by page numbers: (White, Metahistory , 102-03). Do not use “Ibid.”; instead, place page references (after the first full citation by note) in the text in parentheses following the quotation. Abbreviate “University Press” as “UP” or “U of Chicago P.”

To indicate parenthetical references, please include the following sentence at end of the initial footnote: “Hereafter cited parenthetically as <insert title or shortened title>.”

LANGUAGES . While some foreign words or phrases may be utilized in the text (and should be italicized), the article otherwise should be entirely in English. If your text includes quotations in a language other than English, follow with authoritative translations (or your own), in parentheses. Identify the translators in the footnotes. The titles of books and articles in languages other than English, if needed, should be followed immediately by their English translations in parentheses. Adhere strictly to the conventions of any foreign language you use; we depend on you for accuracy. Please use American rather than British spelling, except in quotations.

FORM . Your title should describe the essay's contents. Do not use headnotes or section titles or numbers. Double-space all lines, including indented matter and footnotes. Do not justify the right-hand margin. Prose quotations of ten or more typed lines and poetry of two lines or more should be inset or blocked. For run-in prose quotations, follow normal practices for initial capitalization regardless of the original; for run-in poetry, retain the original lettering always (with spaces before and after the slashes that separate lines). Double-check the accuracy of all quotations.

Electronic essay submissions are preferred. Acceptable file formats include: Word (.doc or docx), WordPerfect (.wpd), or Rich Text Format (.rtf). We also need complete contact information, including preferred email address, and street address. Please send your essay as an email attachment to clio@ipfw.edu

CONTRIBUTOR'S BIO: Please provide, on a separate page, a biographical note of approximately 50 words containing your affiliation, specialization, and most significant publications.

NB: For further guidance, see Clio webpage link with sample journal pages.