Notes for Contributors

Articles submitted to The Journal of Slavic Military Studies should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission.

Submission of Manuscripts

Manuscripts can be submitted electronically to rzhev@aol.com or by mail:

David M. Glantz
805 Forbes Road
Carlisle, PA 17013
USA

Each manuscript should be submitted in duplicate. Articles should be typewritten on Letter/A4 paper, on one side only, double-spaced (including notes) and with ample margins. All pages (including those containing only diagrams and tables) should be numbered consecutively.

Submission package should also include: a copy of the manuscript on a CD (if mailing manuscript), an abstract (80-120 word summary) of the article preferably italicized and placed between the manuscript title and first paragraph, a short (2-4 line) biographical sketch of the author, and a completed copyright release form.

Details of the author's institutional affiliation, full address and other contact information should be included on a separate cover sheet. Any acknowledgements should be included on the cover sheet as should a note of the exact length of the article.

There is no standard length for articles but 7,000-10,000 words (including notes and references) is a useful target. The article should begin with an indented and italicized summary of around 100 words, which should describe the main argument and conclusions of the article.

All diagrams, charts and graphs should be referred to as figures and consecutively numbered. Tables should be kept to a minimum and contain only essential data. Each figure and table must be given an Arabic numeral, followed by a heading, and be referred to in the text.

Following acceptance for publication, articles should be submitted on high-density 3 inch virus-free disks (IBM PC or Macintosh compatible) in rich text format (.RTF) together with an exactly matching double-spaced hard copy. To facilitate typesetting, notes should be grouped together at the end of the file. Tables should also be placed at the end of the file and prepared using tabs. Any diagrams or maps should be copied to a separate disk separately in uncompressed .TIF or .JPG formats in individual files. These should be prepared in black and white. Tints should be avoided, use open patterns instead. If maps and diagrams cannot be prepared electronically, they should be presented on good quality white paper. If mathematics are included 1/2 is preferred over .

Each disk should be labeled with the journal's name, article title, lead author's name and software used. 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. Confirmation of this should be included on a separate sheet included with the disk.

Authors are entitled to 25 free offprints and a copy of the issue in which their article appears.

Copyright in articles published in The Journal of Slavic Military Studies rest with the publisher.

Style

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. A guide to style and presentation is obtainable from the publisher.

Current Journal style should be followed closely (-ize endings, US spelling but British punctuation including double quotes inside single). Authors should provide brief biographical details to include institution affiliation and recent publications for inclusion in About the Contributors. Subheadings and sub-sub headings should be unambiguously marked on the copy.

Notes

Notes should be numbered consecutively through the article with a raised numeral corresponding to the list of notes placed at the end. Second and subsequent lines of each note should be aligned with the font.

(a) References to books should give the author's name: title of the book (in italics); and the place, publisher and date of publication in brackets, e.g. Ya. Vainer, Takticheskiye Raschety, 2nd ed. (Moscow: Voyenizdat 1982) pp. 119-21. [NB two commas deleted.]
(b) References to articles in periodicals should give the author's initials and surname, and the title of the article in single quotation marks, title of periodical (underlined), the number of the volume/issue in arabic numerals, the date of publication in brackets, and the page numbers: e.g. Col. M. Loginov, 'In the Second Echelon', Soviet Military Review 6 (June 1981) pp. 14-16. [NB one comma deleted.]
(c) Book Reviews should provide full details of the book reviewed including the ISBN number, price, total of pages, illustrations, maps and tables. Index and bibliography, or their absence, should be noted. Reviewers should give their name and full address.