Notice to Contributors

The editors of the Journal of Women's History invite submission of article-length manuscripts (not exceeding 10,000 words including endnotes, 35 pages in length) accompanied by an abstract that summarizes the argument and significance of the work (not exceeding 150 words). We are interested in articles based on original empirical research as well as reflections on conceptual, theoretical, and methodological issues in women's history. Given the Journal's broad readership and increasingly transnational direction, we encourage reflection on the wider implications of each study. We also welcome letters to the editor in response to recent articles.

Beginning April 15, 2010, all new manuscripts submitted to the Journal of Women's History must be submitted online at: http://history.binghamton.edu/JWH. Peer reviewers and journal staff will also use the system for all communications regarding manuscripts. This new process will allow the Journal's editors to streamline the submission and review processes, speed up acceptance and revision times and automatically track information regarding authors, reviewers, and Journal content. However, any resubmission of manuscripts that were originally submitted before April 15, 2010 should be sent via email to the editorial office at jwh@binghamton.edu.

Recognizing that access to the internet is not universal, the editors will accommodate those who cannot use the on-line submission process. For further instructions, please contact the editorial staff at:

Jean Quataert and Leigh Ann Wheeler, editors
Elisa Camiscioli, book review editor
Journal of Women's History
c/o Department of History
Binghamton University, SUNY
P.O. Box 6000
Binghamton, New York 13902-6000

Phone: 607-777-5060
Fax: 607-777-5100
jwh@binghamton.edu

Style

Each manuscript or letter to the editor must be on one-sided pages and double-spaced throughout, including quoted material. Endnotes should be used and appear double-spaced on pages following the text. The author's name and addresses (department and/or home address and e-mail address) should appear on a separate page in order to facilitate anonymous review.

While the author's preferences will be considered, it is the editors' policy to refer to women by their last names and to use "African American" to designate U.S. citizens of African descent. Gender specific terms should not be used to refer to mixed groups (i.e., using "mankind" to refer to all people) or to personify such groups as male (i.e., "the historian's perception of his role").

Authors should follow the University of Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. Direct quotations in the manuscript (text and endnotes) require corresponding page numbers in the endnotes. Please refer to the following citation examples.

1. Jacqueline Jones, "'My Mother was Much of a Woman': Black Women, Work, and Family under Slavery," Feminist Studies 8 (summer 1982): 235-70. [article in journal with no issue number must have season before date; include inclusive page numbers]

2. Evelyn Blackwood, "Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes," Signs 10, no. 1 (1984): 21-32, quotation on 27. [article in journal with issue number does not require a season before date; include inclusive page numbers]

3. Janet Bard, Women of the Reformation, rev. ed. (New York: Basic, 1963). [most recent edition]

4. Ann D. Gordon and Mari Jo Buhle, "Sex and Class in Colonial and Nineteenth-Century America," in Liberating Women's History: Theoretical and Critical Essays, ed. Berenice A. Carroll (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976), 278-300. [article in collection; include inclusive page numbers]

5. Mary P. Ryan, Women in Public: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), 121-31. [book citation]

6. Ann J. Lane, ed., Mary Ritter Beard: A Sourcebook (1977; reprint, Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988), 1-8. [reprint edition]

Second and later references need only refer to the author or editor, short title of the work, and page numbers. Please do not use op. cit. One should use ibid. to refer to the same work as that cited in the endnote directly above.