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Home | Others | Journal Subscribers | Minerva Journal of Women and War | Minerva Style Guide Minerva Style Guide |
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General Instructions Submission by e-mail is encouraged. (For submission by regular mail, send two hard copies.) Please format documents double-spaced in Times New Roman 12-point font using Microsoft Word. Please leave generous margins, avoid right-hand justification, and number pages consecutively. Provide your name, affiliation, address, phone number, fax number, and email address. Articles should include a 100-word abstract, six to 12 keywords, and a biographical statement of 75 words or fewer (to be edited and published in Minerva). Tables should be prepared using tabs, not the tabling function in Word, and saved in separate files (on on separate hard copy pages). Figures should be provided in separate files (or on separate hard copy pages), in black and white, and in .tif or .jpeg format of a minimum resolution of 300 dpi. Within the text of the article, indicate the position of the table or figure (e.g., Insert Table 1 here). Articles should be 8,000 to 10,000 words including endnotes and references. Shorter pieces of approximately 2,000 to 4,000 words which report on work in progress or excerpts from diaries or other archival sources will be considered for publication under the heading "research note." Content All submissions should pertain to the relationship of women to war and the role of gender in the armed services around the world. Articles examining these issues from different disciplinary perspectives such as anthropology, conflict and peace studies, cultural studies, history, international relations, politics, public policy, sociology, and women's studies are welcome. The submission of short stories and poetry that involve women's experience of war are also invited. Style This is a scholarly journal. Therefore, develop paragraphs fully; use neither contractions nor first or second person pronouns; avoid repetition, jargon, sexist language and awkward syntactical constructions; do use a limited number of succinct headings and subheadings; and underline or italicize when required. Carefully honed, mellifluous prose is as important as substantive content. A good way to achieve these objectives is to show the manuscript to a colleague whose writing you respect. All accepted material is subject to editorial emendation. Manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed. with the exception of European style for dates (e.g., 23 January 1995). Reference Citations Wherever possible, parenthetical text citations in author-date style should be used, as in the following example: As a result of her war experiences, she decided to read history instead of English. "It's my job, now, to find out all about it," she wrote, "and try to prevent it, in so far as one person can, from happening to other people in the days to come." (Brittain 1933, 471) Headline-style capitalization for the reference list should be used, as in the following example: Brittain, Vera. 1933. Testament of Youth. London: Victor Gollancz. The reference list should appear at the end of the article (as part of the 8,000 to 10,000 word total). If a more substantial explanation is needed, the author may elect to create an endnote as in the following example: "It's my job, now, to find out all about it," she wrote, "and try to prevent it, in so far as one person can, from happening to other people in the days to come."1 If endnotes are used, the list should appear at the end of the article and just before the reference list (as part of the 8,000 to 10,000 word total). See the following example: 1. See Brittain 1933, 471. Testament of Youth was Brittain's attempt "to tell history in terms of personal life" (1933, 11). Refer to the Chicago Manual of Style for further examples. Editorial Contact Information Please forward all materials to the senior executive editor. Please confirm that manuscripts have been submitted for publication solely to Minerva Journal of Women and War. Manuscripts should be submitted as email attachment to: or by post: |
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