Author Guidelines

SUBMISSION INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS

The editors welcome contributions. Authors should submit articles as Microsoft Word or Rich Text Format (RTF) files. All submissions should be based on the author’s original, unpublished research. Aspasia does not accept translations of articles previously published in other languages. Any submissions based on previously published works in any language must be substantially revised from the original version.

Please submit articles and questions about submissions to the Aspasia editors at aspasia.editor@gmail.com or to Sharon Kowalsky at Sharon.Kowalsky@tamuc.edu.

For book reviews, please contact Krassimira Daskalova at daskalova@phls.uni-sofia.bg.

Articles should be 6,000 to 9,000 words (including notes), although longer texts may be considered. Reviews essays must review a minimum of two titles and be 2,000 to 4,000 words.

 

FORMATTING

The document must be set at the US letter standard size. The entire document (including notes and references) should be double-spaced with 1-inch (2.5 cm) margins on all sides and no extra spaces between paragraphs. A 12- point standard font such as Times New Roman is required for all text, including headings, notes, and references. Unusual characters or diacritics should be retained and flagged by placing the word in red type.

 

COVER PAGE

The cover page should provide the title of the article, complete contact information for each author (mailing address, phone number, and email), biographical data of approximately 100 words for each author (including an ORCID if applicable), a total word count, the number of tables and/or figures included, and any acknowledgments. Affiliations and email addresses will be posted online for indexing/abstracting purposes.

 

ABSTRACT/KEYWORDS

The article must include an abstract of 125 words and 5 to 8 keywords. The abstract should not duplicate the text verbatim but rather include the research question or puzzle, identify the data, and give some indication of the findings. Keywords should be drawn from the content and not duplicate the article title, listed in alphabetical order, and separated by commas; only proper nouns should be capitalized.

 

COPYRIGHT/PERMISSIONS

Upon acceptance, authors are required to submit copyright agreements and all necessary permission letters for reprinting or modifying copyrighted materials, both textual and graphic. The author is fully responsible for obtaining all permissions and clearing any associated fees to reproduce copyrighted materials.

 

ARTWORK

For optimal reproduction, figures or photos should be submitted as high-resolution JPGs or TIFFs (300 ppi), or as EPS files with all fonts embedded. All images should be at least 4 x 4 inches at the resolution indicated. Tables should be made and submitted in Microsoft Word or rtf. All figures and tables should be in separate files and numbered consecutively; only placement indicators and captions (with source/copyright information) should be included in the articles themselves. For more details, please see our Artwork submission webpage.

 

PROCESS FOR REFEREEING AND ACCEPTING ARTICLES

Aspasia is a refereed journal. Submissions are considered on the understanding that the article is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Articles are sent to at least two scholars with relevant experience and expertise. Referees are asked to advise the editors whether the article should be published and if so, with what recommended changes. The editors respond to the author with their decision and a list of any changes needed for the article to be accepted for publication. They also send the anonymous referees' comments to the author, or a summary thereof.

 

PUBLICATION

Manuscripts accepted for publication that do not conform to the style guide may be rejected or returned to the author for amendment. The editors also reserve the right to alter usage to conform to the style guide issued by the publisher. Authors cannot supply new materials or request major alterations following the copyediting stage, so please ensure that all text is final upon acceptance. Contributors of research articles will receive one free copy of the relevant issue and may purchase additional copies at a reduced price or purchase offprints.

 

Have other questions about submitting your manuscript? Please refer to Berghahn’s Journal Author FAQs for additional information.

 

STYLE GUIDE

The Aspasia style guide is based on The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). Please note that the journal uses US punctuation and spelling, following Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.

 

CITATION SYSTEM

Aspasia uses the endnote system. Endnotes must include full bibliographic information on first citation, including a full page range for the work and the exact page for a quotation. Subsequent citations should provide last name(s) and a short-title form.

 

REFERENCE EXAMPLES

Book

First note citation

1. Joyce Stevens, A History of International Women’s Day in Words and Pictures (Sydney: IWD Press, 1985), 6.

Later citations

4. Stevens, A History of International Women’s Day, 112. 5. Ibid., 145–169.

 

Two authors/editors

First note citation

8. Frederique Apffel-Marglin and Stephen A. Marglin, eds., Decolonizing Knowledge: From Development to Dialogue (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996), 45.

Later citations

11. Apffel-Marglin and Marglin, eds., Decolonizing Knowledge,

 

Chapter or other part of a book

First note citation

12. Gerhard L. Weinberg, “‘Gray Zones’ in Raul Hilberg’s Work,” in Gray Zones: Ambiguities and Compromise in the Holocaust and Its Aftermath, ed. Jonathan Petropoulos and John K. Roth (New York: Berghahn Books, 2005), 70–80, here

Later citations

18. Weinberg, “‘Gray Zones’ in Raul Hilberg’s Work,”

 

Article in a journal (always include the doi)

First note citation

19. Elizabeth C. Macknight, “Archives, Heritage, and Communities,” Historical Reflections: Réflexions Historiques

37, no. 2 (2011), 105–122, here 109, https://doi.org/10.3167/hrrh.2011.370208.

Later citations

21. Macknight, “Archives, Heritage, and Communities,”

 

Translations

First note citation

22. Tatyana Kuzminskaia, Tolstoy as I Knew Him: My Life at Home and at Yasnaya Polyana, trans. Nora Sigerist (New York: Macmillan, 1948), 81–82.

Later citations

24. Kuzminskaia, Tolstoy as I Knew Him,

 

Translated titles

First note citation

25. Florence Hervé, Brot und Rosen: Geschichte und Perspektiven der demokratischen Frauenbewegung [Bread and roses: Stories and perspectives of the democratic women’s union] (Frankfurt: Verlag Marxistiche Blåtter, 1979).
26. Moshe Bernet, A Nation Like Any Nation: Toward the Establishment of an Israeli Republic [in Hebrew] (Jerusalem: Carmel, 2009).

Later citations

28. Hervé, Brot und Rosen, 15.
29. Bernet, A Nation Like Any Nation,

 

Reprints and editions

First note citation

25. André Bazin, Buñuel, Dreyer, Welles, trans. Teresa Renales (1991; repr., Madrid: Fundamentos, 2008), 47.

Later citations

28. Bazin, Buñuel, Dreyer, Welles, 52.

 

Article in a newspaper or popular magazine

First note citation

30. Eric Fontanelle and Valerie Mandible, “Iron Despair: Postwar Bewilderment,” World Spectator, 6 April 1951, 12.

Later citations

35. Fontanelle and Mandible, “Iron Despair,”

 

Paper presented at a meeting

First note citation

36. Stacy D’Erasmo, “The Craft and Career of Writing” (public lecture delivered at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 26 April 2000).

Later citations

38. D’Erasmo, “Craft and Career of Writing.”

 

Thesis, dissertation or unpublished manuscript

First note citation

40. Adrienne Marie Harris, “The Myth of the Woman Warrior and World War II in Soviet Culture” (PhD diss.,

University of Kansas, 2008).

Later citations

51. Harris, “The Myth of the Woman Warrior,” 228.

 

Archive materials

Materials in archives may be cited according to the particular kind of archival material being cited. Note that public documents might be cited differently than private documents in archives.

First note citations

52. Patrick Scott to Duchess of Atholl, 15 July 1706, Blair Castle Archives Manuscripts 45.(6).73, Blair Atholl, Scotland (hereafter cited as Blair MSS).
53. Claudia Dedyk, Linguistics Memos, Rossiskii Gosudarsvenyi Isoricheskii Arkhiv (RGIA), fond 1129, opis 1, delo 491 (11 February 1933), 74–83.

Later citations from the same collections

54. Duke of Atholl to Duchess of Atholl, 19 October 1706, Blair MSS 45.(6).121. 55. RGIA 1129-1-491:

 

Websites and blogs

Access dates are only required when no date of publication or revision can be determined from the source.

 

First note citation

56. WHO (World Health Organization), “Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade—Notification—Mexico— Tequila,” http://docsonline.eto.org/TBT/Notif.00/168 (accessed 9 April 2000).
57. Ruth Marshall, “Falling on the Sword of the Spirit,” Immanent Frame, 28 February 2011, https://tif.ssrc.org/2011/02/28/falling-on-the-sword-of-the-spirit.

Later citations

58. WHO, ‘Committee on Technical Barriers to Trade’.
59. Marshall, ‘Falling on the Sword of the Spirit’.

 

Online video

First note citation

60. Arthur Rubinstein, “Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2, Op. 18, I Moderato,” Video, 10:12, uploaded 8 November, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Vv0Sy9FJrc&list=PLDB11C4F39E09047F.

Later citation

62. Rubinstein, “Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 2.”

 

ARTICLE SUBMISSION CHECKLIST

• Copyright assignment form is signed and submitted (no later than the final revised article submission);
• Cover sheet is included and provides:
  • Title of the article;
  • An abstract of 125 words that is a summary or overview of the entire article, and does not duplicate verbatim sections of the main text;
  • Five to eight keywords in alphabetical order and separated by commas (with only proper nouns capitalized);
  • Complete contact information for each author (mailing address, phone number, and email);
  • A bio of approximately 100 words for each author (including an ORCID if applicable);
  • Total word count, the number of tables and/or figures included
• For any tables, figures or images, ensure that:
  • Placement indicators and captions (with source/copyright information) have been provided in the main text for all figures and tables;
  • Separate files are provided (clearly named and consecutively numbered) and in the required format with all accompanying permissions.
• Anonymized manuscript that meets submission requirements.

 

PLEASE ENSURE THAT:

• The style guide has been followed;
• All text, including headings, notes, and references, is in a standard 12-point type, such as Times New Roman, and double-spaced with a 1-inch margin on all sides and no extra spaces between paragraphs;
• US spelling is used throughout, and a spellcheck has been performed;
• Different levels of headings are indicated by varying the typeface. Use bold type for an A head (a main text heading). Use bold italic for a B head (a first-level subheading). Use non-bold italic for a C head;
• Superscript note reference numbers and/or asterisks are not placed on article titles, headings, epigraphs, or the contributor’s name;
• Contributions are referred to as articles (not essays or papers);
• Numbers 0–100 are spelled out (as are large whole numbers, e.g., fourteen hundred), and all number ranges are non-abbreviated;
• Foreign-language words that are not common in US usage are italicized on every instance;
• Double quotation marks are used for all quotations and terms, except for quotes or terms within quotes, and quotations of more than 100 words are indented as extracts with no quotation marks;
• URLs are not located in the main text when used in a bibliographical sense (although names such as Amazon.com are acceptable). Any URLs have been relocated to endnotes or the reference list;
• Abbreviations such as e.g., i.e., etc., and et al. are not used in the main text except within parentheses;
• Every author mentioned in the reference list is cited in the main text or notes, and every author cited in the main text and notes is listed in the reference.