Article types

Itinerario publishes research articles of up to 10,000 words in length incl. references. The Editors welcome submissions of original work that has not been previously published and is not under consideration elsewhere. Unsolicited book reviews are not accepted but enquiries regarding book review essays for commission are welcome.

Style Guide

Text conventions

Authors submitting work to Itinerario are advised to follow these guidelines as closely as possible to minimise editorial changes to their work and thus minimise the chance of introducing errors inadvertently into your writing. The guidelines are based on and are similar to the recommendations found in the internationally known and respected Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition, and readers are encouraged to refer to that work should they require clarification.

Likewise, authors can always address any particular questions to the Editors at the address above.

Manuscript preparation

Please submit your manuscript as a Microsoft Word document using the following format: Font: Times or Times New Roman; 12 point; double-spaced; Alignment: flush left. Please remove the field codes if you are using citation management tools.

Fonts: Roman, Italics, and Bold

Titles, subtitles, and section heads should be set bold. Italics are used for titles of books, foreign words, and names of ships. When a word that would normally be set in italics occurs in the title of a book, set it in roman (reverse italics):

David Gleicher, The Rescue of the Third Class on the Titanic: A Revisionist History (St. John’s, Newfoundland: International Maritime Economic History Association, 2006).

Spelling

Itinerario follows British rather than U.S. spelling rules: harbour, not harbor; grey, not gray. Authors using Microsoft Word can help themselves (and the editors) by setting the “language” preference to “English (U.K.).”

Numbers

Spell out numbers one hundred and below, multiples of a hundred, a thousand, a hundred thousand, or a million, and any number beginning a sentence. For other numbers—654, 1,283, 167,000—numerals are used. Itinerario style uses commas to separate hundreds, thousands, and so on, and periods between whole and decimal numbers: 1,987.65. Use the “day month year” form for dates: 7 July 1956.

Punctuation

Double quotation marks are used for quotations and for titles of articles and book chapters. Quotations within quotations are indicated by single quotation marks. Note that this is the reverse of British style. Periods and commas precede closing quotation marks, whether double or single. Please use the Oxford (serial) comma: this, that, and the other.

Capitalisation of titles

Books, articles, and journal titles are capitalised following the “headline” style: the first and last words of the titles are capitalised, as is the first word of a subtitle (following a colon), forms of the verb ‘to Be’ (Is, Are, etc.), and all other words except articles, prepositions, to used as part of an infinitive, and coordinating

conjunctions. The following are always lowercase (except in the first position): the, a, an, and, but, for, or, and nor. Foreign-language titles are rendered “sentence style”— that is only the initial word and proper names are capitalised.

Reference/Footnote Style

In general the style followed is that found in the Chicago Manual of Style for humanities citations for notes (see CMS 14.19–20). Citations will be listed as footnotes appearing with the article, with no bibliography.

• Stuart Shea, Wrigley Field: The Long Life and Contentious Times of the Friendly Confines (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2014), 51–2.
• Shea, Wrigley Field, 138.

Full details must be given in a note at first mention of any work cited; subsequent citations need only include a short form.

Abbreviations: The following abbreviations should be used in the notes. Plurals are formed by adding an ~s except as indicated.

circa	ca.	ibidem	ibid.
chapter	chap.	note(s)	n. (nn.)
compiler/~ed by	comp.	number	no.
editor/~ed by	ed.	section	sec.
et alii (and others)	et al.	translator/~ed by	trans.
figure	fig.	volume	vol.
folio	fol.

Note that none of the abbreviations are set in italic. Commonly recognised abbreviations for institutions and publications should be used in the notes with the full name provided at first use: (Colonial Office [hereafter CO]).

Author names: Give first and last name(s) on first citation, last name thereafter. If there are more than three authors/editors, give only the first name followed by et al. (set in roman).

Page number ranges: When referring to inclusive pages, include in the second number only the changed part of the first (e.g., 10–2 instead of 10–12, 335–46 instead of 335–46, 52000–1 instead of 52000–52001). NB: this is a divergence from the Chicago Manual of Style, which advocates a more complex system for abbreviating the second number.

Figures and tables should be prepared according to the journal's artwork guide. 

Place of publication: List only the major and relevant place of publication: Lanham, Md.: University Press of America. This is usually the first listed on the title page of the source. Please add state or province if needed to avoid confusion. When indicating

U.S. states, use the standard abbreviation (Cap/lc, with periods), not the two letter postal abbreviation: Ala. (not AL) for Alabama. Please specify state for Cambridge,

Mass.; omit for Cambridge in the U.K.. For more information see CMS 14.131–32.

See: When directing the reader to another source either to provide confirmation or to provide an alternative perspective, use see (set roman), qualified if needed by “for a contrary point of view” or other appropriate language.

Ibid.

Ibid. (short for ibidem, “the same,” set roman) refers to the single work cited in the note immediately preceding. It should not be used if more than one work is cited in

the preceding note. It takes the place of the author’s name, the title of the book, and as much of the succeeding material as is identical, including volume and page number(s):

5. Kannangara, History of the Ceylon Civil Service, 56. 6. Ibid., 69.

• Ibid.
• Mottau, Summary of Despatches, 8 February 1805.
• Ibid., 1 January 1804; 5 October 1804. [separate citations in a note with a semicolon]
• Kannangara, History of the Ceylon Civil Service, 69.
  • If there is no volume number or only one volume is cited, simply give the page(s). Do not use p. or pp.
  • Volume and issue numbers are separated by a colon and no space.
  • Follow titles in languages other than English with a short translation in brackets.
  • Give full article page range in first note, followed by a comma and cited page numbers.
  • Titles of theses and dissertations appear in quotation marks, not in italics; otherwise, they are cited like books. The kind of thesis, the academic institution, and the date follow the title in parentheses. For more information see CMS 14.215.

Examples

Book by single author

First note: Michael Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men: Science, Technology, and Ideologies of Western Dominance (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1989), 10–22.

Subsequent notes: Adas, Machines as the Measure of Men, 202–12. Multivolume works

First note: S. D. Goitein, A Mediterranean Society: The Jewish Communities of the

World as Portrayed in the Documents of the Cairo Geniza, 6 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1983–99), 3: 117–8.

Subsequent notes: Goitein, A Mediterranean Society, 6: 208.

·         Indicate the number of volumes in a multivolume work following the title.

Chapter in a book

First note: Jurgis Elisonas, “The Inseparable Trinity: Japan’s Relations with China and Korea,” in The Cambridge History of Japan, vol. 4, Early Modern Japan, ed. John Whitney Hall (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991), 235–300.

Subsequent notes: Elisonas, “The Inseparable Trinity,” 246. Journal article

First note: Maarten Kuitenbrouwer, “Het imperialisme-debat in de Nederlandse geschiedschrijving” [The imperialism debate in Dutch historiography], Bijdragen en

mededelingen betreffende de geschiedenis der Nederlanden 113:1 (1998), 56–73, 71.

Subsequent notes: Kuitenbrouwer, “Het imperialisme-debat,” 60.

Dissertations

First note: Lance Castles, “The Political Life of a Sumatran Residency: Tapanuli 1915–1940,” (PhD diss., Yale University, 1972).

Subsequent notes: Castles, “Political Life,” 37–9.

References to Unpublished Primary Sources:

When referencing unpublished material, care should be taken that the reader be able to retrieve and check the material and that the reader be aware of the nature of the material. The depository (archive, library etc.) should be clearly indicated (by an abbreviation if used more than once) at the head of the reference, followed by the collection and serial or inventory number of the material. For archives whose name is not in English provide the name and location of the archive. If an official translation into English of the name of the archive exists, use the English translation. Collections remain in the original language.

If the matter has a title, the title must be given in double quotation marks, followed by an indication of the nature of the material in brackets (which is, however, not necessary when the nature of the matter is explained in the main text). If the material has no title, another indication of the nature of the matter may be given (letter, speech etc.), preferably with a date.

Examples:

Untitled document

First note: National Archives, The Hague [hereafter NA], VOC 1320: 666v, Letter Masulipatam to Batavia, 23 March 1676.

If it is not clear from the main text what Masulipatam and Batavia refers to, expand to clarify, e.g.:

Subsequent notes: NA, VOC 1320: 666v, Letter from Masulipatam Factors to Governor-General and Council at Batavia, 23 March 1676.

Titled document

First note: Oriental and India Office Collections, British Library [hereafter OIOC], Mss Eur, The Mackenzie general and miscellaneous collections 7: 47–109, “The Annals of Condaved” (Translation ca. 1800 of original ca. 1735).

Subsequent notes: OIOC, “The Annals of Condaved,” 53.

Permissions

Authors are responsible for obtaining permission from copyright holders for reproducing any illustrations, tables, figures, or lengthy quotations previously published elsewhere. A copy of the paperwork granting permission will be required should your article be accepted. Any permissions fees must be paid for by the author. For an example of a permissions request form please see the Cambridge Journals Artwork Guide.

Competing interests

All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their cover sheet. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.

Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.

Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author A is employed at organisation B. Author C is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.

Ethics and transparency policy requirements

Please ensure that you check the journal's Publishing ethics policies when preparing your manuscript.