ITALIAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY JOURNAL

GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Scope

The journal of the Italian Historical Society is produced for a general readership. Preference will be given to articles which increase an understanding of the history of Italian immigrants and their descendants.

The editors of the IHS Journal accept unsolicited articles. However, we reserve the right to decline publication. We welcome articles from professional and amateur historians and writers. All items submitted are subject to editing. There is no payment for contributions.

The IHS Journal is published twice yearly. Deadlines for articles are:

June issue / 30 April
December issue / 30 October
Manuscript presentation
  1. Send one electronic copy of the article, either as an MWord attachment to an email or on disc/CD to:

Italian Historical Society—COASIT, Melbourne

1st Floor, 54 University Street, Carlton VIC Australia 3053.

  1. Articles should be of no more than 6,000 words, wordprocessed in MWord, 12 point, double-spaced, including endnotes.
  1. Articles should be preceded by an abstract of no more than 100 words.
  1. Illustrative material is to be supplied separately from the text document in the form of black and white, medium resolution jpgs (300 dpi). All images are to be clearly captioned. The author is to supply evidence of copyright clearance.
  1. Authors are to indicate sources and references where appropriate by the use of numbers at the end of the relevant sentence. These numbered endnotes should be grouped at the end of the article.
  1. For general style conventions please refer to AGPS Style manual for authors, editors and printers, 6th edition. All bibliographic citations should follow the Author-Date style as outlined in the above publication. For example:

Citing books (author, followed by year of publication, title of book in italics, edition, publisher, place of publication)

Castles, S et al. (eds) 1992, Australia’s Italians: culture and community in a changing society, Allen & Unwin, North Sydney, New South Wales.

Citing periodicals (author, followed by title of article in single quotation marks, title of journal in italics, volume number, date/year of publication,
page number/s)

Battaglini, AB, ‘The Italians’, The Italian Historical Society Journal, vol. 9, no. 2, July-December 2001, pp. 5-9.

  1. Contributors should retain copies of all materials submitted.
  1. Please provide a 150 word biographical note with your contribution and ensure that this includes your full name, postal address, contact phone numbers and email address.

We look forward to receiving your article. All enquiries can be referred to:

Italian Historical Society—COASIT, Melbourne

1st Floor, 189 Faraday Street, Carlton VIC Australia 3053

Tel: 61+ (0)3 9349 9020 Fax: 61+ (0)3 9349 1063 Email: