Journal Details
Journal of the Society of Archivists
Instructions for Authors
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The views expressed are the responsibility of individual contributors and do not represent the views or opinions of the Society of Archivists, its Officers or Council.
Manuscript Submission
Papers for consideration should be sent to the Editor, Elizabeth Shepard at uczcw09@ucl.ac.uk
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts electronically. Electronic submissions should be sent as email attachments using a standard word processing program. If email submission is not possible, please send an electronic version on disk.
This journal does not accept Microsoft Word 2007 documents. Please use Word's "Save As" option to save your document as an older Word file type.
References. Endnote numbers should be placed in the text, following the end of a sentence unless there is a need to endnote a particular word.
Printed Works. These should have a full bibliographic reference at the first citation, following the style below:
H. Gee, The Elizabethan Clergy and the Settlement of Religion, 1558-1564 (Oxford, 1898), pp 35-36.
H. Robinson (ed.), The Zurich Letters (Cambridge, 1842-45), vol 1,
p 23.
P. Hair, 'The chapel in the English landscape', The Local Historian,
vol 21 (1991), p 7.
Subsequent citations should use short titles and not ibid.or op. cit.
The Journal of the Society of Archivists should always be cited as in the following example:
E. Higgs, 'Household and work in the nineteenth-century censuses of England and Wales', JSA, vol 11 (1990), pp 75-76.
Manuscripts. These should be cited by repository and reference code. The repository name should be abbreviated after the first citation. Where all manuscripts are in one repository, the repository title need only be given at the first citation. Reference codes should follow the conventions used in the relevant repository.
Quotations. These should be in modern English, with standardised spelling and punctuation, unless the original language, punctuation, etc. is required for textual discussion.
Place names should use the standard English form if one is in common use; otherwise the local modern spelling should be used. Surnames should adopt the standard modern form.
Acronyms should be preceded by the title in full.
Proofs will be sent to authors if there is sufficient time to do so. They should be corrected and returned to the Editor within three days. Major alterations to the text cannot be accepted.
Free article access: Corresponding authors can receive 50 free reprints, free online access to their article through our website (www.informaworld.com) and a complimentary copy of the issue containing their article. Complimentary reprints are available through Rightslink® and additional reprints can be ordered through Rightslink® when proofs are received. If you have any queries, please contact our reprints department at reprints@tandf.co.uk
Copyright
It is a condition of publication that authors assign copyright or licence the publication rights in their articles, including abstracts, to The Society of Archivists . 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 www.informaworld.com/authors_journals_copyright_position. Authors are themselves responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce copyright material from other sources.
