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The special features of ABFH include:

• an on-going record and analysis of past developments in business and finance history
• explanations for present structures and practices
• a platform for solving current problems and predicting future developments

Notes for Contributors

Authors are encouraged to submit their papers electronically to edwardsjr@cardiff.ac.uk. Should they prefer to submit hard copies then authors should send three complete copies of their text, tables and figures, with any original illustrations, to: John Richard Edwards, Accounting and Business History Research Unit, Cardiff Business School, CF10 3EU, UK. Submission of a paper to the journal will be taken to imply that it presents original, unpublished work not under consideration for publication elsewhere. By submitting a manuscript, the authors agree that the copyright has been assigned to Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

The submission should include a cover page showing the author's name, the department where the work was done, an address for correspondence (including email), if different, and any acknowledgements.

Submissions should be in English, typed in double spacing with wide margins, on one side only of the paper, preferably of A4 size. The title, but not the author's name, should appear on the first page of the manuscript.

Articles should normally be as concise as possible and preceded by an abstract of not more than 100 words and a list of up to 6 keywords for on-line searching purposes.

Tables and figures should not be inserted in the pages of the manuscript but should be on separate sheets. They should be numbered consecutively in Arabic numerals with a descriptive caption. The desired position in the text for each table and figure should be indicated in the margin of the manuscript.

Style guidelines
Description of the Journal's article style
Description of the Journal's reference style, Quick guide
Any consistent spelling style is acceptable. Use single quotation marks with double within if needed.
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If you have any questions about references or formatting your article, please contact authorqueries@tandf.co.uk

On acceptance for publication, authors will be requested to provide a copy of their paper in exact accordance with the conventions listed in the preceding notes. If the final version of the paper is not submitted in accordance with these conventions then publication may be delayed by the need to return manuscripts to authors for necessary revisions. Authors should note that, following acceptance for publication, they will be required to provide not only a hard copy of the final version, but also a copy on a virus-free disk, preferably in MS-Word format, if possible. Authors will also be required to complete a Publishing Agreement form assigning copyright to the Publisher. Page proofs will be sent for correction to a first-named author, unless otherwise requested. The difficulty and expense involved in making amendments at the page proof stage make it essential for authors to prepare their typescript carefully; any alteration to the original text is strongly discouraged.