Guidelines for Contributors
The Editor welcomes articles for publication in Scottish Local History. Articles from local history societies are particularly welcome. Disks and articles will be returned if requested. Material can also be submitted in typewritten form. Articles should normally be no longer than 4,500 words.
Submitting articles
(a) The Editor can accept a 3.5 inch disk in Microsoft or Macintosh word processing format. Please indicate on a disk label your name, address, title of article, date of preparation and name of the word processing package used.
(b) If it is not possible to send your article in electronic form, a typescript is acceptable.
Presentation of typescripts
Your article should be typed on one side of A4 paper, double spaced. It would be helpful if you could check your typescript carefully before sending it off, both for correct content and typographical errors. It would also be helpful if the title page could contain the following:
- title of the article
- name of the author(s)
- potted autobiography – any publications, membership of societies, research undertaken and current post, if relevant.
- name, address, telephone number (and e-mail or fax, if you use them).
References
Please note that accuracy of references is the responsibility of the author. In the text, any references should state the name of the author and the year of publication (e.g. Brown, 1838). If there are two authors you should give both names (e.g. Brown and Jones, 1838). When a source has more than two authors, give the name of the first author followed by et al.
A list of references in your article should be placed at the end of your typescript, corresponding to numbers in the text. It would be helpful if they could take the following form: Author, title, date, publisher, place of publication – e.g. T.C. Smout, A Century of the Scottish People 1830-1950, 1986, Collins, London. Newspapers should be titled and dated and the author’s name given if available.
Copyright
An article is accepted for publication on the understanding that it has not previously been published elsewhere or submitted simultaneously to another journal. Copyright remains with the authors and with Scottish Local History. The usual restrictions on copying apply, by which multiple copying is illegal. No part of this publication may be reproduced (except for educational purposes) without the permission of the author of the article and the Editor of Scottish Local History.
Illustrations
Illustrations may add to your article. If you have any available, or ideas where illustrations can be obtained, we would be happy to receive them. Line drawings,
black and white or coloured photographs and bromides are acceptable. It would be helpful if possible captions could be added.
Reproduction of borrowed illustrations
Permission to reproduce materials (illustrations and tables) where copyright still exists must be obtained from the original publishers and authors, and should accompany the typescript. Borrowed material should be acknowledged in this style: ‘Reproduced by kind permission of… ’.