Business History

Impact Factor - 0.427, 5-Year Impact Factor - 0.601

Published By: Routledge

Volume Number: 53

Frequency: 7 issues per year

Print ISSN: 0007-6791

Online ISSN: 1743-7938

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Instructions for Authors

This journal uses ScholarOne Manuscripts (previously Manuscript Central) to peer review manuscript submissions. Please read the guide for ScholarOne authors before making a submission. Complete guidelines for preparing and submitting your manuscript to this journal are provided below.

Business History is a refereed journal. At least three referees are consulted.

Submissions

Articles submitted to Business History should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission. There is no standard length for articles, although 8,000 words including all tables and notes is a useful target.

All manuscripts should be submitted online through the journal's Manuscript Central website. New users should first create an account. Once a user is logged onto the site, submissions should be made via the Author Centre. The “create an account” button can be found at the top right corner of that page.

Submissions should include:

Contact details (obtainable from the Editors or the Taylor & Francis website)
Cover sheet giving name(s) and affiliation(s) of authors, a bibliographical note (one sentence per author), and exact length of the article. (This must be kept separate from the text, as Business History uses blind refereeing.)
Submissions must be on one side only of A4/Letter paper and double-spaced throughout with ample margins. Endnotes and references must also be double-spaced.
Abstract (around 100 words), which should describe the main arguments and conclusions of the article. Precedes main text of article.
Up to twelve keywords or key phrases to be used for web searching. Placed after the abstract.
Acknowledgements (if desired) after the main text and before notes and references. It is not necessary to acknowledge the contributions of anonymous referees.

To facilitate the typesetting process, notes should be grouped at the end of the file. Tables should also be uploaded as separate files.

Any diagrams or maps should be in .TIF or .JPG formats in individual files, and of a resolution of at least 300dpi. These should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided; use patterns instead. Photographs should be supplied as .TIF files of at least 300 dpi. Please see http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/artwork.asp for more information about how to best supply images.

Copyright in articles accepted for publication in Business History rests with the publisher. It is the author's responsibility to ensure that where copyright materials are included within an article the permission of the copyright holder has been obtained.

Style guidelines

All manuscripts should be submitted using Chicago style endnotes and references. Please review the reference style guide below before submitting your paper.

Description of the Journal's article style, Quick guide
Description of the Journal's reference style, Quick guide

Please ensure that all references included in the article references list are cited in their short form in the endnotes. References that are not cited in the article will be queried by the copyeditor.

Please use British spelling (e.g. colour, organise) and punctuation. Use single quotation marks with double within if needed.
This journal requires a short paragraph of biographical details for all contributors.

If you have any questions about references or formatting your article, please contact authorqueries@tandf.co.uk (please mention the journal title in your email).

Word templates

Word templates are available for this journal. If you are not able to use the template via the links or if you have any other queries, please contact authortemplate@tandf.co.uk

Tables should be kept to a minimum, and should be consecutively numbered in a different sequence to the figures. Use Arabic numbers, followed by the heading.

Free article access

As corresponding author, you will receive free access to your article on Taylor & Francis Online. You will be given access to the My authored works section of Taylor & Francis Online, which shows you all your published articles. You can easily view, read, and download your published articles from there. In addition, if someone has cited your article, you will be able to see this information. We are committed to promoting and increasing the visibility of your article and have provided this guidance <http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/beyondpublication/promotearticle.asp> on how you can help.

Reprints and journal copies

Corresponding authors can receive a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Article reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when you receive your proofs. If you have any queries about reprints, please contact the Taylor & Francis Author Services team at reprints@tandf.co.uk. To order extra copies of the issue containing your article, please contact our Customer Services team at adhoc@tandf.co.uk.

Copyright

It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or license the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to Taylor & Francis. This enables us to ensure full copyright protection and to disseminate the article, and of course the Journal, to the widest possible readership in print and electronic formats as appropriate. Authors retain many rights under the Taylor & Francis rights policies, which can be found at http://journalauthors.tandf.co.uk/preparation/copyright.asp. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.

Exceptions are made for certain Governments' employees whose policies require that copyright cannot be transferred to other parties. We ask that a signed statement to this effect is submitted when returning proofs for accepted papers.