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Writer's Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

Essays and review articles should present well-focused arguments of approximately 20-30 pages (5,000 - 7,500 words in a Courier 12 font). Conference papers or dissertation chapters must be revised to make fully developed, self-sufficient arguments.

Manuscripts should followed The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (with footnotes kept to a minimum). List name and affiliation on a separate cover sheet, but include only the essay's title on the manuscript itself to facilitate blind reading of submissions.

Electronic essay submissions are preferred. Acceptable file formats include:

  • Word (.doc or .docx)
  • WordPerfect (.wpd)
  • Rich Text Format (.rtf)

We also need complete contact information, including preferred E-mail address, and street address. Please send your essay as an E-mail attachment to clio@ipfw.edu.

Mailing Address

Clio
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne
2101 E. Coliseum Blvd.
Fort Wayne, Indiana 46805-1499

Accepted manuscripts must be made available on computer diskette, but do not send disk with submission. Book reviews are solicited by the book review editors.

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 E-mail address, and street address. Please send your essay as an E-mail 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.

Guide for Book Reviewers

As much as appropriate, please keep Clio 's interdisciplinary audience in mind as you write. This might well involve giving more basic information about the book (including a brief summary) than would be the case in a review for a journal in a particular discipline. You might find it necessary to explain terms and concepts or even the critical context where necessary.

Do not use footnotes or endnotes in reviews. Citation of the book(s) under review should be made by placing page number(s) in parenthesis at the end of the sentence. For outside sources, place complete citation, including all publication information, in parenthesis.

Begin the review with the title, author (or editor), place of publication, publisher, date, and number of pages (preliminary in Roman and main in ‘Arabic' numerals). For example:

The English Historical Novel: Walter Scott to Virginia Woolf. By Avrom Fleishman. Baltimore : The Johns Hopkins Press, 1971. xix + 262 pages.

End the review by giving your name and the name of your institution and its location on the bottom left side in this manner:

Harriet Gilliam
Northwestern University
Evanston , Illinois

Reviews should be 6-8 pages (1,500 - 2,000 words) for a single book, 10-12 pages (2,500 - 3,000 words) for two books. Please use Courier 12 (non-proportional) font. Please consult with an editor for the length of review essays. (Review essays follow the format for articles, not reviews.)

Electronic essay submissions are preferred . Please send a copy of your review to the editor who commissioned the review. Please send the journal's copy to clio@ipfw.edu. Acceptable file formats include:

  • Word (.doc or docx)
  • WordPerfect (.wpd)
  • Rich Text Format (.rtf)

We also need complete contact information, including preferred E-mail address and street address.

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

Format Guidelines

Electronic essay submissions are preferred . Acceptable file formats include:

  • Word (.doc or .docx)
  • WordPerfect (.wpd)
  • Rich Text Format (.rtf)

We also need complete contact information, including preferred E-mail address and street address. Please send your essay as an E-mail attachment to clio@ipfw.edu .

Biographical Note: : With your essay, please provide, on a separate page of your manuscript, a biographical note of approximately 50 words containing your rank, affiliation, specialization, and most significant publications or current research. Include publication date for all books.

Prepare your file in accordance with the following Clio requirements:

  • Font: Use Courier 12 (non-proportional) font.
  • Margins: Set at 1-inch right, left, top, and bottom. Do not justify right margin. Do not set widow/orphan protection.
  • Line Spacing: Double space (2 line spaces) entire manuscript, including notes and block quotes.
  • Page Numbers: Number pages in upper right corner, beginning with page 2 (suppress page 1 number). Otherwise, use no running head.
  • Paragraphs: Use Tab key to indent paragraphs. Use automatic (soft) return within each paragraph (use hard return only for paragraph end). Use only 1 hard return at the end of each paragraph. Use 2 hard returns only between sections (if any).
  • Character Spacing: Use 1 space after periods and colons, 1 space after commas and semicolons. To create a dash, type 2 hyphens with no space between the preceding and following words. To type an ellipsis, type a space between each of the 3 periods and between the preceding and following words. In the case of an ellipsis following a period, do not put a space between the period and the preceding word. Do not worry about an ellipsis breaking at the end of a line.
  • Hyphenation: Do not use automatic hyphenation. Do not hyphenate end-of-line words unless they are normally hyphenated.
  • Special Codes: Do not use italics. Use underlining to indicate italics. Do not underline except to indicate italics. Do not use boldface anywhere. Do not use macros, style sheets, or QuickCorrect Options (e.g., "smart quotes"). Quotations marks must be the “curly” variety. Use of codes may result in printing and formatting errors.

Use the footnote function; do not use the endnote function.