Environment and History - Instructions for Authors

An understanding of the history of human interactions with all parts of the cultivated and non-cultivated surface of the earth, and with living organisms, is increasingly seen to be essential to more conventional economic and cultural projects in history, history of science, anthropology, geography and sociology, while 'environmental history' can also help efforts to comprehend the traumatic environmental difficulties facing us today. As an interdisciplinary journal, Environment and History aims to bring scholars in the humanities and biological sciences closer together in constructing long and well-founded perspectives on present day environmental problems.

Contributions are considered on the understanding that they are not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. They should be in English and for refereeing purposes three paper copies should be provided, in addition to an electronic version in Microsoft Word or other agreed format. Notes must placed at the end of the document, not as footnotes. Typescripts will not be returned. Authors whose work is accepted for publication will be asked to supply a final electronic version of the article as an email attachment. To allow blind refereeing, authors are asked to identify themselves only on the title page, which should show their names and full postal address for editorial correspondence. A summary of 100-200 words and four or five keywords should be provided for the use of abstracting services.

Guidelines for article layout

Source citations and notes should be in the form of endnotes, NOT footnotes, and they should be numbered consecutively through the text. Please note that the journal no longer permits citations in the text in 'Harvard' (author, date) style. Try to limit notes to one at the end of each paragraph.

Unless a separate bibliography is provided, give complete citations in endnotes, including place, name of publishing company and date of publication (books); volume number and year (periodicals). Do not use ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’ with page numbers. Use full titles on first reference; shortened titles may be used on subsequent references.: Keith Thomas, Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500—1800 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984).; Thomas, Man and the Natural World, 161—5.; G. Hardin, ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’, Science 162 (1968): 1243—8.; Eleanor Preston-Whyte, ‘The Environmental Debate in Anthropology’, in Progress in Resource Management and Planning, ed. T. O’Riordan and R. K. Turner (New York: Wiley, 1980).; Preston-Whyte, ‘Environmental Debate’, 44—6.; Andrew J. King, ‘Law and Land Use in Chicago: A Pre-history of Modern Zoning’ (Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1976), 32—7.; Sydney Morning Herald, 26 Feb. 1913, 3.; Mahaffy to Sec. of State, 21 Dec. 1908, Western Pacific High Commission BSIP Secretariat Series, National Archives of Solomon Islands (hereafter WHPC) 281/1.
If a separate bibliography is provided, citations in notes may be restricted to the shortened form as above, or to the author’s name and year of publication (Thomas 1984, 161—5). Bibliographic entries should be arranged alphabetically, with the author’s surname first.: Thomas, Keith 1984. Man and the Natural World: Changing Attitudes in England 1500—1800. Harmondsworth: Penguin.; Hardin, G. 1968. ‘The Tragedy of the Commons’. Science 162: 1243—8.; Preston-Whyte, Eleanor 1980. ‘The Environmental Debate in Anthropology’. In Progress in Resource Management and Planning, ed. T. O’Riordan and R. K. Turner. New York: Wiley.
Archival sources should be listed separately.: Western Pacific High Commission BSIP Secretariat Series, National Archives of Solomon Islands (WHPC).
Spelling, punctuation and grammar should conform to British usage and the following conventions:: Spell out numbers one to ten only; 0.301 cubic metres, 38 hectares, 14 mm, 28 degrees; 44 per cent (44% in notes), 14 degrees; #246, #1 10s, 5s 3d, A$256,300, US$10 million; 1 December 1946 (in text), 1 Dec. 1946 (in notes); 1950s, the fifties; Use single quotes, except for quotes within quotes; Italicise foreign words on first appearance; Map 1, Figure 25, Chapter 2, Appendix 1, Volume 1, Note 1 (citations in text); fig. 1, vol. 1, n. 1 (in notes); Omit points after lower-case contractions containing last letter of singular and after plurals. E.g. Dr, St, Mt, Ltd; ed./eds; c. (circa); encl./encls (enclosure/s).; No points for capitalised abbreviations (e.g. UK, USA); Small caps for BC, AD, BP; World War One; the nineteenth century, mid-nineteenth century; the south-east, South-east Asia

For further guidance, see the Chicago Manual of Style.

Environment and History welcomes the use of appropriate maps, graphics, and photographs. Authors should consult with the publisher about the suitability of illustrations for reproduction. If graphic material, including maps or photographs, is taken from a source protected by copyright, the author is responsible for securing permission from the copyright holder for its use.

The editors reserve the right to make alterations which do not involve any change of meaning. Contributors are expected to assign copyright to the publisher; though they remain free to use material in subsequent publications written or edited by themselves, provided Environment and History is acknowledged as the original place of publication. Twenty free offprints of published articles will be supplied.

Contributions and editorial enquiries should be addressed to
Dr Georgina H. Endfield,
School of Geography,
University of Nottingham,
University Park,
Nottingham NG7 2RD, U.K.

Email: Georgina.Endfield@nottingham.ac.uk

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