Submissions should be sent to the BJHS Editorial Assistant, email [email protected]. They are considered on the understanding that they are unpublished and are not on offer to another journal. Contributions should be submitted as an email attachment, in MS Word format. Please be sure to follow all instructions carefully as failure to do so may impair the Editor’s and Publisher’s ability to treat the submission in a timely fashion. Article length should not ordinarily exceed 10,000 words, including endnotes and references, except by special prior arrangement with the editor.
Authors accepted for publication will be asked to submit their accepted paper through the journal's online submission system. Joint contributors should note that proofs will be sent to the first named author unless the Editor is otherwise informed.
Informal editorial enquiries (not submissions) may be sent to the BJHS Editor, Amanda Rees, Department of Sociology, University of York, York, YO10 5D, UK, email [email protected].
ORCID
We encourage authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information. If you don’t already have an iD, you can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.