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When you are ready to, please email your full manuscript, author CV, as well as a 300 word abstract to the Editorial Assistant, at guiguicje [at] gmail.com.


Submission enquiries

If you would like to inquire about the suitability of a proposed piece prior to full submission please email an abstract for brief feedback to the Editorial Assistant, at guiguicje [at] gmail.com.


Submission statement of intent

By submitting to Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry, you confirm that:

  1. The article is considered under review for possible publication on the condition that it is submitted solely to Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry and that the article, or a substantial portion of it, is not under consideration and has not already been published under another publisher’s imprint.

  2. You agree to the UCL Press Author Contributor Agreement Terms on behalf of yourself and all of your co-authors (if any) and understand that these terms apply to the article when published:
    Author Contributor Agreement Terms

  3. You have read through the journals Editorial policies carefully to ensure the submission follows the required ethical standards for publication, as outlined on the UCL Press editorial policy pages:
    Editorial policies

  4. You are either the the sole author of the article submitting to Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry or, where you are a co-author of the article, you are authorised by all of the article’s co-authors to submit the article on the basis of the UCL Press Author Contributor Agreement Terms:
    Author Contributor Agreement Terms

Acceptable use of AI-assisted technologies in articles

Please refer to UCL Press's Principles on the use of AI-assisted technologies in articles here.

Broadly, the use of AI-assisted technologies and tools should not replace key authoring tasks and applying AI technology should be done with transparency and human oversight. All the work should be reviewed and edited carefully, because AI can generate authoritative-sounding output that can be incorrect, incomplete or biased.


Authorship and author consent

All listed authors must have made a significant contribution to the article in the manuscript and have approved all its claims. Where necessary to clarify this, authors are required to include an authorship statement in their manuscript to outline how each author contributed to the paper, after any acknowledgements in the article – please note that this information should be removed from the main manuscript file for peer review.

UCL Press adheres to the statement of authorship as outlined by the ICMJE statement (https://www.icmje.org/recommendations/browse/roles-and-responsibilities/defining-the-role-of-authors-and-contributors.html), and considers an author of an article to have:


  1. made substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work; AND
  2. drafted the work or revised it critically for important intellectual content; AND
  3. made final approval of the version to be published; AND
  4. agrees to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

For suspected and incorrect authorship, UCL Press journals will refer to the UCL Press Journals Editorial Policy as outlined at https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/site/editorial_policy and follow COPE guidelines.


Anonymisation

Double anonymised peer review

Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry operates double anonymised peer review, where both the reviewers and authors are anonymised during review. Authors are required to submit an anonymised version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review, in addition to the main manuscript word file as described below.

  1. The complete manuscript not anonymised, as a word file (.doc/.docx, etc.) and;
  2. An anonymised PDF version of the manuscript, stripped of all identifying references to the author(s) for peer review (anonymisation includes references to authors, acknowledgements, self references, and any electronic author identification., etc.)

Manuscripts may be returned before peer review if manuscripts are not sufficiently anonymised.


ORCiD

We strongly encourage authors submitting to Jewish Historical Studies: A Journal of English-Speaking Jewry to provide their ORCID identification number during submission. ORCID (http://orcid.org) provides researchers with a unique identifier that can be kept throughout their career and can be used in publications and grant applications. ORCID distinguishes between researchers with similar names, and helps ensure that publications are attributed and recorded correctly. It also helps researchers to comply with funders’ open access requirements. Funders, such as the Wellcome Trust and the UK Research Councils, now require or recommend the use of ORCID alongside systems like Researchfish that can link with ORCID.


How do I get an ORCID?

Researchers should register for an ORCID identification number by going to http://orcid.org and following the registrations instructions.


Submission preparation checklist

  1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for both the print and the online editions of the journal.
  3. The submission file is in Open Office, Microsoft Word, RTF, or Word Perfect document file format.
  4. An abstract (max 250 words) and keyword terms (max 10) are included.
  5. Where available DOIs for the references have been provided (URLs can be used in place where a DOI is not found).
  6. All images should be embedded in the document submitted and cited in-text. Please make sure that all figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred) and that each file is no more than 20MB per file. The file must be in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS. To retain quality, the original source file is preferred.
  7. Authors should use the Notes-Bibliography System (NB) of the Chicago Manual of Style (preferably the 17th edition).
  8. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the journals author guidelines https://journals.uclpress.co.uk/jhs/author-guidelines.