General Guidance for Submissions
The purpose of Ex Historia is to provide a space in which history PGRs can develop as historians, engage debate and establish connections with their peers wherever they may be. To this end, we welcome submissions relating to any approaches, methods, or time periods, but that are also engaging for a variety of other historians. Whilst we hope that debate, both in submitted material and in the comments section will be lively, it should also be professional and respectful.
To create such a space, and to ensure that the material we publish maintains a high standard of academic rigour, all submissions will be reviewed before being uploaded to our website, with any substantial changes being agreed with the original author in advance.
We publish material in a variety of formats:
Between 1000-1500 words.
Original Research
Here, writers can submit original research.
Experience of Research
In this format, writers can submit short pieces discussing the significance of a particular source, or their experiences of research, be it of physical or digital archives.
Book Reviews
We welcome unsolicited reviews. Submissions should be between 1000-1500 words.
Fewer than 1000 words
Research on a Postcard
Submit a photo of a source or item in your current research, accompanied by 100-200 words. Here, writers are challenged to explain their source or research in a manner that would make sense to a non-academic audience, on the back of a postcard.
Due to the brevity of the pieces we accept, it is not necessary to submit an abstract beforehand. Individual authors are responsible for ensuring that any submission they make adheres to relevant copyright standards, including the use and publication of photographs; Ex Historia takes no responsibility for any infringement of copyright by its authors. Any such breach in a piece published by Ex Historia should be reported to the editorial committee, who will liaise with the author regarding amending or removing the piece from our website.
Please submit any material to exhistoria@exeter.ac.uk, following the style guide below.
Style
For ease of editing and publication, we ask that all submissions follow a few simple formatting guidelines, as follows. Submissions should use UK English spelling and punctuation (see Concise Oxford Dictionary) throughout and be sent by email in a Word document, with formatting as follows. Where in doubt, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style.
2.54cm margins. In the header, include authorās name (far left), Ex Historia in Lucida Caligraphy font size 10 bold (centre) and page numbers (right).
At the start of the article should be the title, followed by the author on the line below, and the institution of the author below that. This information should be centred, in Garamond font size 12 and in bold.
Fully justified double spaced text in Garamond font size 12 (body) and 10 (footnotes). Paragraphs indicated by a new line with no indentation. Subheadings underlined, in bold, and aligned to the left. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively in arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc, not i,ii,iiiā¦) with 1.5 spacing.
Quotations must be kept to a minimum, but where included, should be indicated by single quotation marks, or double for quotations within quotations. Punctuation not belonging to the original text to be put outside of quotation marks. Long quotations are simply indented. Spelling and punctuation should be kept as closely as possible to the original source, especially with pre-modern sources where discrepancies are to be expected. For modern sources, the use of sic should be limited to where it might otherwise reasonably be assumed that the mistake is in the transcription rather than the original. Non-English quotations should be translated into English. Single non-English words do not need to be translated, but should instead by italicised.
Dates are spelled out in full, day-month-year (e.g. 22 January 1924), with centuries in lowercase (e.g. twenty-first century). Decades are expressed in numerals (e.g. 1940s). When referring to the first decade of a century, say āthe first decadeā¦ā or spell out the range of years (e.g. 1900-1910). For money, amounts of one hundred or less should be spelled out, with a hyphen if necessary (e.g. twenty pounds or twenty-five pounds). Amounts of 101 or over to be expressed in numerals. Amounts of 1 million or over to be expressed in hybrid form (e.g. Ā£25 million). Otherwise, whole numbers from one to one hundred, or any number ending in hundred, thousand, or hundred thousand to be spelled out.
Footnotes rather than endnotes. Presented according to the Chicago Manual of Style.