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Author Guidelines

The Historical Review / La Revue Historique is an annual refereed journal of historical research in the human sciences published by the Institute for Neohellenic Research (INR) of the National Hellenic Research Foundation (NHRF) since 2004.It was established as a medium of communication and exchange of ideas with colleagues around the world. We invite original papers and critical perspectives from a wide range of fields within Modern Greek studies, but are not limited to it. Our intention is to provide a medium of dialogue and reflection in the broad field of historical study in the human sciences.

 

In the effort to intensify scholarly dialogue the INR has decided to take advantage of electronic publishing to provide open access to the full content of the journal. A fully electronic publication management system ensures a speedy process, and offers authors the ability to follow the progress of their manuscripts through the publication process. Revised manuscripts of accepted articles are published immediately upon submission of the final version. Each volume comprises the total of the articles published during the year. The print edition appears at the end of every year.

 

The Greek Documentation Center (EKT), also part of the NHRF, provides publication management and technical support for the electronic publication of The Historical Review / La Revue Historique.

 

 

Sections

Articles

Critical Perspectives

Occasional Special Thematic Sections or Symposia

Peer review process: blind

Publication frequency: Yearly

Editorial Committee / Comite de redaction

Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Leonidas Kallivretakis, George Tolias.

International Advisory Board / Conseil Scientifique International

Spyros Asdrachas, Institute for Neohellenic Research / NHRF

Richard Clogg, St Antony's College, Oxford

Georges Dertilis, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris

Loukia Droulia, Institute for Neohellenic Research / NHRF

Mark Mazower, Columbia University

Antony Molho, European University Institute, Florence

Vassilis Panayotopoulos, Institute for Neohellenic Research / NHRF

Andrei Pippidi, Universite de Bucarest

Fred Rosen, University College London

 

 

Instructions to authors

The Historical Review / La Revue Historique accepts submissions in English and French. The following guidelines are valid for both languages.

The submission process in brief

All articles that fall within the scope of the journal are considered on condition that they are original and that they have been submitted only to The Historical Review / La Revue Historique. Articles must be submitted electronically via the journal's webpage (www.revuehistorique.org). Articles are accepted for publication solely on the basis of merit according to the results of a blind peer-review process. Revised articles are published in the journal's webpage as soon as editing and layout is over and on condition that they are accompanied by all necessary documentation (e.g. permissions to reproduce images and copyrighted texts). The final form of an article should take into consideration the changes requested by the reviewers and should comply with the formatting standards set by the journal and described below. Articles are published in pdf format. The author is responsible for editing the article to a level acceptable for publication. By submitting an article for publication to The Historical Review / La Revue Historique the author assumes responsibility for adhering to intellectual property rights law, and assures that no indemnity is caused to anyone.

 

Initial submission

Manuscripts of no more than 25000 words should be submitted electronically via the journal webpage in Microsoft Word format (images, tables, references included in one file). Longer articles will only be considered exceptionally. At this time The Historical Review / La Revue Historique does not accept submissions in Microsoft Word 2007. Submissions should include an abstract of no more than 150 words. The name of the author(s) should not appear anywhere in the document, and references to previous work by the author(s) should be in the third person. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject a manuscript before the review process begins. Manuscripts are sent to two reviewers, who are asked to submit their reviews within one month. Upon receipt of the reviews, authors are informed in writing of the Editor-in-Chief's decision to accept, reject or request changes to the article, and the contents of the reviews are made known to the authors. In case of conflicting reviews, the manuscript is sent to a third reviewer.

Revised submission

Upon notification that an article is accepted for publication the author is asked to submit the final version within two months. The final version should take into consideration the changes requested by the reviewers. No major changes to the text are permitted after the final submission. The final submission should conform to the journal guidelines. Artwork and copies of all relevant permissions should be submitted to the journal at this time. Revised versions of articles will be forwarded to the final publication stages (i.e. editing, layout) only upon receipt of all necessary documentation and permissions (i.e. images, plans, reproduction permissions), and on condition that the revised article conforms to the journal's guidelines. Authors have the opportunity to examine the proofread copy of their articles and provide their comments on changes within three working days upon notification. In lack of response the article is published according to the changes proposed by the copyeditor. Authors can follow the progress of a manuscript at all publication stages through his/her account with the journal's website.

 

Final submission files

A. The following should be submitted as separate electronic files:  (the name of each file should consist of the author's last name and the type of document it contains according to the examples shown below):

  1. Revised article and footnotes in Microsoft Word and in pdf format, a total of two files (example: PapadopoulosText.doc and PapadopoulosText.pdf). Currently the journal does not accept articles typed in Microsoft Word 2007.The following should be included in this file in the following order: The title, the author(s)' name(s), affiliation, full mailing address, e-mail and telephone number, the abstract of the paper, the main text and the footnotes. If there are changes in the title and/or abstract of the paper it should be noted in the letter addressed to the Editor (see below).
  2. Illustrations: each as a separate TIFF file, and numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals in the order they appear in the text (see below on the format of images; example: PapadopoulosFigure1.tiff or PapadopoulosPlan1.tiff).
  3. List of captions in Microsoft Word. List separately in consecutive numbers in Arabic numerals the captions of all the figures in the text (example: PapadopoulosCaptions1.doc).
  4. Appendixes or catalogues (where applicable) in Microsoft Word and in pdf format, a total of two files (example: PapadopoulosCatalogue1.doc and PapadopoulosCatalogue1.pdf)
  5. Tables (where applicable) in Microsoft Word and in pdf format, a total of two files per table submitted (example: PapadopoulosTable1.doc and PapadopoulosTable1.pdf). Each table should be accompanied by a self-explanatory caption below it. Tables should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals in the order they appear in the text.

 

B. The following should be faxed to the journal at 2107246212:

  1. A signed letter to the Editor that must include the following:
  • a. An account of all the changes brought by the author(s) to the initial manuscript and the reasons for them.
  • b. An account of how the reviewers' comments and suggestions were dealt with and why.
  • c. A list of all the electronic files submitted together with the final version of the paper and their content.
  • d. A list of the programs used to create digital artwork, including the specific version.
  1. Permissions for reproduction of copyrighted material (such as images). The author is responsible for paying any fees involved. Production of an article will begin only after all permissions have been received.
  2. The Author's Warranty and Agreement form signed

 

Image specifications:

Illustrations can only be submitted digitally with the journal's webpage and should be in TIFF format. Authors should inform the Editor-in-Chief of the program s) used to create digital images including the version of the program(s). Illustrations should be submitted in the desired orientation, and images of objects should have a scale indication whenever possible. All illustrations should be numbered consecutively and cited in the text in order of discussion. Illustrations will not be embedded in the text, but will appear at the end of the article. The Editor-in-Chief reserves the right to reject digital images of poor quality that do not conform to the journal's standards.

 

  • Black-and-white scans
    • Black-and-white scans should be in grayscale mode in TIFF format, and should be produced from originals of high quality. Resolution should be at 350 dpi at 100% of the desired print size.

 

  • Color scans
    • Color scans should be submitted in RGB mode in the TIFF format. Resolution should be at 350 dpi at 100% of the desired print size.

 

  • Line drawings, maps, and plans
    • Digital line art should be a minimum of 1200 dpi and at 100% of the desired print size. It should be submitted in TIFF format as line art or bitmap. Large files should be saved using the LZW compression provided in the application.  All plans should be accompanied by a north arrow and a scale.

 

Permissions

The author is responsible for securing permissions to publish copyrighted material, such as photographs, drawings or translations of original works. He/she is responsible for paying any fees involved. Production of an article will not begin until all relevant permissions have been received by the Editor-in-Chief.

 

Copyright Notice

The copyright for articles in this journal is retained by the author(s), with first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use (with the exception of the non-granted right to make derivative works) with proper attribution for non-commercial uses. NHRF retains the worldwide right to reproduce, display, distribute, and use articles published in THE HISTORICAL REVIEW/LA REVUE HISTORIQUE in all formats and media, either separately or as part of collective works for the full term of copyright. This includes but is not limited to the right to publish articles in an issue of the Journal, copy and distribute individual reprints of the articles, authorize reproduction of articles in their entirety in another NHRF publication, and authorize reproduction and distribution of articles or abstracts thereof by means of computerized retrieval systems.  

Privacy statement

 The names and e-mail addresses entered in this journal site will be used exclusively for the stated purposes of this journal and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other party.

 

Style

Authors are advised to follow current conventions used in each language for capitalization and punctuation, and adhere to them with consistency throughout the article. Polytonic Greek is used selectively, where necessary, for citations and quotations from earlier Greek texts. It is used for quotations from ancient Greek. Monotonic Greek is used for all twentieth century Modern Greek imprints, regardless of the system used in the original edition of the work. Both British and US English are acceptable as long as consistency is maintained. Authors should consult The New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors for matters of style in British English and the Chicago Manual of Style in American English.

 

Foreign Words

Foreign words or phrases that are not commonly used in the language of an article should be italicized.

Fonts

Use Unicode fonts for typing in any languages that do not use the Latin alphabet, e.g. Greek or Arabic. Unicode fonts are available for most languages for free at various sites in the internet.

Transliterations into Latin characters

  • Transliteration is used sparingly an only if absolutely necessary
  • Authors may follow their preferred system of transliteration, to be used consistently throughout the article.
  • In references to modern Greek publications only the title of the work is typed in Greek. Author names and places of publication are transliterated. The names of modern Greek authors appear in the form used by the authors themselves if they have published work in a foreign language. The location of the publication of the work should be provided in the standard form in English or French. A translation of the title in brackets should be provided after the first citation of the word (cf. below section on footnotes).
  • In references to publications in non-Greek characters (.e.g Cyrillic) the entire entry should be transliterated.
  • The following transliteration rules are proposed to Contributors:

The only standard system for the transliteration of the Greek alphabet into languages written in Latin characters is that used for the transliteration of Classical Greek. The transliteration of ancient Greek, however, is quite inappropriate for rendering the spelling and especially the phonetics of Modern Greek. Accordingly the following modifications are suggested to make transliteration of Modern Greek conform more to the modern morphology and sound of the language. Diphthongs should generally be retained, except in those cases where the modern pronunciation of Greek requires a consonant sound to be adequately rendered (e.g., "aftou," not "autou"). The Greek vowels

E and E should be uniformly rendered with "i", and similarly O and ˆ should be rendered with "O". The Greek ˘ should be rendered with "y", except when it forms part of a diphthong; then it is rendered by "u" (e.g., "tou"). The rough breathing should be dropped.

Consonants are generally rendered phonetically. Thus the Greek ‚ should be rendered by the Latin "v" rather than "b". The Greek consonant E should be rendered by "ph" in all words with an ancient Greek root. Conversely Greek names with Latin roots (e.g., Constantinos) should be transliterated as closely

as possible to their original form.

 

Specific spelling preferences

Aristotle University of Thessaloniki

Ermis [publisher] (not Hermis, Hermès)

Ioannina

nation-state

Neohellenic, Neohellenist, néohellénique

OEuvre, oeuvre

Phanariot, Phanariot princes

philhellene, philhellenic, philhellenism (lower case)

Philiki Etaireia (not italic)

Romania

South-East Europe

the Cyprus Question, the Language Question, the Eastern Question

Thessalonique, Institut d'Études Balkaniques

tsar (not czar)

 

Quotations

  • Quotations of ancient or medieval phrases are italicized.
  • Quotations of modern authors should be placed inside quotation marks.
  • in all languages, "double quotes", ‘single' within a quotation, not «double-sharp»
  • quotations of c. 50 words or more should be extracted from the main text and indented, no quotation marks

 

Illustrations and Captions

  • Illustrations should be submitted in accordance to the guidelines provided below.
  • Numbering of figures, drawings or maps in the text should be consecutive and given in Arabic numerals.
  • References to figures, drawing or maps of the texts should follow consecutive numbering in the order of appearance in the text
  • All figures, drawings or maps must include a caption. If they appear in another publication, the credit should include the work and the figure and/or page number on which the work appears.
    • Example of Caption: Reliquary of the True Cross (Staurotheke), late 8th-early 9th century A.D., The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Inv. No. 17.190-715ab (photo courtesy of the Metropolitan Museum of Art).

 

Catalogues

Catalogue entries should be numbered consecutively, and consistency should be maintained in the presentation.

 

Tables

Numbering of tables in the text should be consecutive in Arabic numerals. Tables should be accompanied by self-explanatory captions below.

 

Numerals and Dates

  • Numbers from one to nine are spelled out. Larger numbers are given in Arabic numerals, except at the beginning of a sentence or unless consistency with the surrounding text demands it. In bibliographic references Arabic numerals are preferable to Latin or Greek for references to journal numbers, series numbers etc.
  • Centuries are spelt out in English (nineteenth century, not 19th century).
  • Centuries are given in Latin numbers in French, e.g. XVIIè siècle
  • World Wars are also numbered in Latin numerals: World War I/II, not the First/Second World War

Measurements

Numerals should be used when units of measurement are abbreviated (e.g. 2 m). The metric system should be used for measurements in all cases.

 

Footnotes

References are provided in footnotes and not endnotes. The Historical Review / La Revue Historique follows the Oxford system of citation: complete bibliographical details of the work cited are given in the first reference to the work in each article. Abbreviated form (author surname and short title) is used thereafter.

 

 

 

Article

Peter Topping, "Greek Historical Writing on the Period 1453-1914", Journal of Modern History 33 (1961), pp. 157-173.

 

Article in Edited Volume

Leonidas Kallivretakis, "A Century of Revolutions: The Cretan Question between European and New Eastern Politics", Eleftherios Venizelos: The Trials of Statesmanship, ed. By P.M. Kitromilides, Edimburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006, pp. 11-35.

 

Book by one author

C. Th. Dimaras, La Grèce au temps des Lumières, Genève: Droz, 1969.

 

Book in Greek

P.M. Kitromilides, Νεοελληνικός Διαφωτισμός: Οι πολιτικές και κοινωνικές ιδέες [Modern Greek Enlightenment: The Political and Social Ideas], Athens 1996.

 

Translation

S. Vryonis, Η παρακμή του μεσαιωνικού ελληνισμού της Μικράς Ασίας και η διαδικασία του εξισλαμισμού (11ος έως 15ος αιώνας), trans. K. Galatariotou, Athens 1996.

 

New Edition

D. A. Zakythinos, Le despotat grec de Morée, rev. Chryssa Maltézou, London 19752

 

Entry in encyclopedia or corpus

ODB, τ. 2, entry Germanos I, patriarch of Constantinople (A. Kazhdan).

Abbreviations of Journals

Abbreviations of journals should generally be avoided because The Historical Review / La Revue Historique is addressed to a wide audience.

Abbreviations of ancient and medieval authors

Ancient and medieval author abbreviations should follow the Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, Oxford 1991 or in the Oxford Classical Dictionary, Oxford 1998, respectively.

Abbreviations of modern words

In general abbreviations are followed by a full stop (ed.), while contractions are not (eds). The following abbreviations are used:


et.al.

et. Sequ.

ibid.

id.

in situ

inter alia

op.cit.

cf.

(ed.)

(eds.)

(éd.)


 

Miscellaneous stylistic requirements

  • Proper nouns ending in -s: Leonidas' book, not Leonidas's book

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. The submission file is in Microsoft Word format, text, footnotes, images in one file.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  5. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review) have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

The copyright for articles in this journal is retained by the author(s), with first publication rights granted to the journal. By virtue of their appearance in this open access journal, articles are free to use with proper attribution in educational and other non-commercial sectors. The Historical Review/La Revue Historique retains the right to publish papers that appear in the journal in collective volumes published by the Institute for Neohellenic Research/National Hellenic Research Foundation. Sample acknowledgement: Reprinted with permission from the author. Original publication in the The Historical Review/La Revue Historique www.historicalreview.org

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