Submission Information for Contributors

• Four paper copies of manuscript sent by postal mail to:

Editor
Journal of Southern History, MS 45
Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston, Texas 77251-1892

If postage is included, submission materials will be returned.

• Preferred manuscript length is 8,000 to 12,000 words, exclusive of endnotes, on one side of 8.5 x 11 inch paper.
  
• Please use 12-point type for both text and notes.
  
• Double-space text and notes, with notes placed at the end of the manuscript text.
  
• Author’s name and institutional affiliation on title page only.
  
• Illustrations, tables, and maps that significantly enhance the article are welcome.
  
• Regarding general form and style, please follow the 15th edition of the Chicago Manual of Style or request our house-style guide for examples of specific treatments. [download in .pdf]
  
• Please include a working postal address, with telephone, fax, and e-mail information for home or office, as well as for extensive holiday or sabbatical residences.

The refereeing process for manuscripts is double blind. Referees are members of our editorial board and other specialists in the academy most appropriate to each manuscript. We have no quotas of any kind with regard to authorship, topic, chronological period, or methodology—the practitioners via their submissions determine what we publish. Authors must guarantee in writing that the work is original, that it has not been previously published, and that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere in any form.

Should a manuscript be accepted for publication, the author will be asked to provide a computer disk, clearly labeled with the name of the author, file, and software employed—a Macintosh-compatible disk would be ideal. Our editorial methods currently utilize Microsoft Word software; however, we do have the capacity to translate alternative programs.

Accepted manuscripts undergo a rigorous editing process. As time permits, we will copyedit the manuscript, which includes checking every citation and corroborating every quotation and statement of fact insofar as is possible given our library holdings as supplemented by interlibrary loan. We will also read the manuscript very closely as to style, grammar, and vigor of argument. The edited manuscript will be submitted to the author for consideration before publication. (In the highly unlikely event that, in the process of fact checking, we find so many errors in the footnotes and quotations that in our judgment the evidentiary legitimacy of the manuscript is called into question, we reserve the right to withdraw our offer of publication.)

The Southern Historical Association (SHA) at the University of Georgia holds the copyright for all material published in the Journal. After a work is published in the Journal, the SHA will grant the author, upon written request, permission to republish the work, without a fee, subject to the author giving proper credit of prior publication to the Journal. All other reprintings by third parties require the approval of the author and are subject to any reprint fee that the author requests. The SHA sets a standard fee of $100 in addition to whatever fee, if any, that the author requests. Each author will receive a hundred free offprints of the published article.