Submitting a manuscript to History Australia

History Australia is the journal of the Australian Historical Association. It aims to reflect the concerns, publish the research and increase the professional self-awareness of historians making, teaching and applying history, particularly in Australia and New Zealand. We publish refereed articles that draw on new historical research or address ways of teaching, exhibiting or applying historical knowledge. We invite contributions on all geographical regions, not just Australasian; local, national, international, imperial and colonial histories; research using textual, oral and visual sources.

History Australia is published by Monash University ePress, in both print and digital versions. Both versions include a generous number of illustrations, appearing in colour online. The digital version can also carry sound bites and video clips and we encourage contributors to bear these capabilities in mind. Where materials cited in History Australia such as journal articles are already available online, the full text may be accessible directly from the citation in History Australia; articles published in History Australia will be similarly available from the text of other online journals.

For information about submitting book or exhibition reviews to History Australia, please visit the web page http://www.epress.monash.edu/ha/reviewpolicy-ha.pdf.

Submitting the manuscript

Send one hard copy of your manuscript, and an electronic copy, either on disk, or preferably as an email attachment (Word document or rich text format (RTF).

Email address:

history.australia@usyd.edu.au

Postal address:

• History Australia
  c/o Penny Russell and Richard White
  Department of History (A14)
  School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry
  University of Sydney
  NSW 2006
  AUSTRALIA
  
• Phone: +61 2 9351 2362 (Penny Russell)
• Phone: +61 2 9351 4511 (Richard White)
• Fax: +61 2 9351 3918

Manuscripts that exceed 8,000 words in length, including references, are unlikely to be accepted.

The article should be preceded by a brief abstract of no more than 100 words.

Include on a separate sheet your name, email and mail addresses, and details about the manuscript: title, number of words, description of illustrations and tables.

If the manuscript is accepted for publication you will also be required to send in a brief biography, including your professional title and affiliation, as well as a list of keywords that readers might use to find your article doing an online ‘keyword’ search.

Style

In matters of literary style, follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press; 1993.

Spelling and hyphenation should follow the Macquarie Concise Dictionary, 3rd ed. Sydney: Macquarie Library; 1998.

For a more detailed set of instructions see the Monash University ePress Guidelines, available from http://www.epress.monash.edu.au/submissionguidelines.pdf.

References to primary and unpublished sources

History Australia cites unpublished sources in Endnotes, and describes the archival holdings of these sources in a list of unpublished sources at the end of the article in a ‘Primary sources’ list. The Endnotes should be numbered, with the numbers in superscript; use the automatic numbering system in Word or RTF if you are familiar with this feature.

Citation style for Endnotes

In citing unpublished sources History Australia uses the style pioneered by Australian Historical Studies. In the first citation the general rule is to cite the document first, followed by the file number and the name of the collection, then the name and location of the archive:

• ¹ Recorded interview with Mrs Min Hobbs, 21 August 1979, Balmoral, GTMS 71, Glenelg Regional Library Oral History Project, MS 1434, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria.
• ² Entry for Friday 5th September, 1856, Journal of Mr & Mrs Abm. Booth, Tragowell, Lower Loddon River, Victoria; MS 11834 F, Box 2157/2, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria.

Supplementary material in endnotes

Endnotes can include comments and supplementary material. This material can refer to secondary source material when, for example, you wish to direct the reader to secondary sources not directly cited in your article. Note that any reference to secondary source material in the endnotes must follow the author-date system as detailed below. The source referenced here must also be cited fully in the list of references to published sources (see 'References to published sources', below).

• ³ See Anderson (1992: 6) for the concept that communities are distinguished by the style in which they are imagined.

Repeated references to the same source in endnotes

Where a number of references are made to a single source use a suitable short title, such as 'Hobbs interview', or 'Booth Tragowell Journal'. Please avoid the use of ibid.

List of primary and/or unpublished sources

This list can contain both single documents and archival collections, as appropriate. Examples might include:

• Contemporary newspapers:
  The Age, 1910–1916.

  Archived collections:
  Glenelg Regional Library Oral History Project, MS 1434, La Trobe Australian Manuscripts Collection, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne.

  Institutional archives:
  Orbost Shire Council Minutes, 1980–1990, East Gippsland Shire Archives, Orbost.

References to published sources

Monash University ePress – and History Australia – uses a modified Harvard author-date system for all secondary published material: journal articles, book chapters, books and theses. These sources should be briefly cited in-text (author date page) and described in full in a list of published sources at the end of the article.

In-text citations

In-text citations of published references should follow the Harvard 'author-date' system and should not be numbered. There must be no intervening material between the author and the date except a parenthesis, where required:

• Boyd described the Australian home as a 'material triumph and an aesthetic calamity', his first task was to evoke the Australian suburb (Boyd 1977: 13–14). More recently, Patrick Troy (2000) also placed housing history within an urban context.

  Stephen (1984) has shown how the bohemianism of Australian painters and writers of the late nineteenth century conveyed a touch of excitement, glamour, and a little danger to thrill-seeking art patrons. White (1981: 88–96) has demonstrated how bohemianism reinforced claims of late nineteenth century artists and writers to be treated as professional artists.

  This position is at variance with the commonly accepted view of the Menzies government infected with Cold War hysteria and prepared to go to any lengths to meet 'the communist threat' (Cain et al. 1984).

Where more than one reference is made to the same cited source in a paragraph, only the first mention needs to be cited in author-date style:

• French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu 1993 (29–73) has shown how the illusion of artistic independence from economic values can actually make the work more valuable to consumers… By adopting the bohemian identity the artists declared themselves rich in what Bourdieu called cultural capital, innately gifted and déclassé, surmounting their origins and obscuring the humdrum business of earning their daily bread (43, 68–73).

For multiple works by the same author in the same year, in both the inline citation and the reference list, add a letter to the year to distinguish between the cited material:

• In the study of Egyptian literature, later texts that depict social chaos and express pessimism have often been used to reconstruct the earlier First Intermediate Period, thought to be their referent (Wilson 1969a: 441; Wilson 1969b: 405; Wilson 1969c: 467).

Reference list for published material

All sources referred to in in-text citations must be listed in the reference list for published material at the end of the article. In the digital version of articles, there will be a link between the inline citation and the full citation in the reference list.

In the Reference List for published material, book chapters, article titles and dissertations etc. should be within single quotation marks. Use minimal caps – only the first word of the title and subtitle, plus any proper nouns, should be capitalised.

Journal titles should be italicised and have maximum capitals – all words except for articles, prepositions and conjunctions should be capitalised.

Book titles should be italicised and have minimum capitals – only the first letter of the title and subtitle, plus any proper nouns, should be capitalised.

Reference list examples

Below are examples of the formatting and structuring of references to published sources. Please follow them precisely. Do not use 'ibid' or double em dashes in the place of repeated publication titles or author names.

Books

• Berndt, R.M.; Berndt, C.H. 1977. The world of the first Australians. Sydney: Ure Smith.

  Davidoff, Leonore; Hall, Catherine. 1987. Family fortunes: Men and women of the English middle class, 1780–1850. 2^nd ed. London: Routledge.

Book chapters

• Chant, Barry. 1994. 'The nineteenth and early twentieth century origins of the Australian Pentecostal movement'. In Reviving Australia: Essays in the history and experience of revival and revivalism in Australian Christianity, edited by Hutchinson, Mark; Piggin, Stuart. Sydney: Centre for the Study of Australian Christianity: 97–122.

Article

• Cronon, William. 1992. 'A place for stories: Nature, history and narrative'. Journal of American History (March): 1347–1376.

  Hindmarsh, D. 1999. '"My chains fell off, my heart was free": Early Methodist conversion narratives in England'. Church History 68 (4): 910–929.

Dissertation

• Stanley, Peter. 1984. '"Don’t let Whyalla down": The voluntary war effort in Whyalla, 1939–1945'. BLitt dissertation. Australian National University, Canberra.