Interested in submitting an article to Retrospectives?

Both articles and book reviews are submitted via email. For further queries, or to submit an article contact us at retrospectives@warwick.ac.uk. Please ensure when submitting an article or book review that you conform to our strict ‘blind process’ and format guidelines. For more information on this, see below.

Author Guidelines

Retrospectives uses the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) style guide. This can be downloaded from the MHRA website.

If you have used any images or graphs in your piece, please upload these as supplementary files. Pictures should be in .jpg, .bmp, .png or .gif format, and of sufficient quality to be able to fill an entire page without significant deterioration.

You must obtain permission from any copyright holders or their agents to reproduce any images you wish to include. Retrospectives cannot publish any images without permission from copyright holders.

Ensuring a Blind Peer Review

To ensure the integrity of the blind peer-review for submission to this journal, every effort should be made to prevent the identities of the authors and reviewers from being known to each other. This involves the authors, editors, and reviewers (who upload documents as part of their review) checking to see if the following steps have been taken with regard to the text and the file properties:

1. The authors of the document have deleted their names from the text, with “Author” and year used in the references and footnotes, instead of the authors’ name, article title, etc.
2. With Microsoft Office documents, author identification should also be removed from the properties for the file (see under File in Word), by clicking on the following, beginning with File on the main menu of the Microsoft application: File > Save As > Tools (or Options with a Mac) > Security > Remove personal information from file properties on save > Save.
3. With PDFs, the authors’ names should also be removed from Document Properties found under File on Adobe Acrobat’s main menu.

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission’s compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

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. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
4. The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice

Retrospectives does not seek assignment of copyright from reviewers or authors, and requires only licence sufficient to enable publication to take place.

All articles published in Retrospectives are published under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA license. This license states that:

You are free:

• to Share — to copy, distribute and transmit the work
• to Remix — to adapt the work

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• Waiver — Any of the above conditions can be waived if you get permission from the copyright holder.
• Public Domain — Where the work or any of its elements is in the public domain under applicable law, that status is in no way affected by the license.
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