Notice to Contributors

Notice to Contributors The editors invite submission of article-length manuscripts (not exceeding 35 pages Hi length). We also soHcit reports on international trends in women's history, and women's history sources. The JOURNAL welcomes letters to the editor in response to recent articles and reports. Please send four copies of manuscripts and reports to: Leila J. Rupp, Editor, The Journal of Women's History, c/o Department of History, The Ohio State University, 230 West 17th Avenue, Columbus, OH 432101367 . We regret that we are unable to return manuscripts. Those manuscripts accepted for pubHcation wiU require a computer file on disk (word processing file on a 3 Ve" 720K or 5 V4" 360K MS-DOS IBM-compatible disk). Style Each manuscript, report, or letter to editor must be double-spaced throughout, including quoted material. Endnotes should be used and appear double-spaced on pages foUowing the text. The author's name and address should appear on a separate page in order to facilitate anonymous review. While authors' preferences will be considered, it is the editors' poHcy to refer to women by their last names and to use "African Americans" to designate U.S. citizens of African descent (hyphenate "African-American" when used as an adjective). Gender-specific terms should not be used to refer to mixed groups (e.g., using "mankind" to refer to all people) or to personify such groups as male (e.g., "the historian's perception of his role..."). Authors should follow the University of Chicago Manual of Style. Here are some examples: 1 Jacqueline Jones, " 'My Mother Was Much of a Woman': Black Women, Work, and FamUy under Slavery," Ferninist Studies 8 (Summer 1982): 235-270. [article in journal with no issue number must have season before date] 2 Evelyn Blackwood, "Sexuality and Gender in Certain Native American Tribes," Signs 10, no. 1 (1984): 27. [article in journal with issue number does not require a season before date] 3 Janet Bard, Women of the Reformation, rev. ed. (New York: Basic Books, 1963). [latest edition] 1996 Notice to Contributors 213 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 a collection] 5 Mary P. Ryan, Women Hi PubHc: Between Banners and Ballots, 1825-1880 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1990), 122-131. [book dtation] 6 Ann J. Lane, ed. Mary Ritter Beard: A Sourcebook (Boston: Northeastern University Press, 1988; reprint of New York: Schocken Books, 1977), 1-8. [reprint edition] Second and later references need only refer to the author, short title of the work, and page numbers. Do not use op. cit. One should use Ibid, to refer to the same work as that cited immediately above. ...