Author Guidelines

Style Sheet

OeZG - Austrian Journal of Historical Studies

1.    General Information

The Austrian Journal of Historical Studies (OeZG) is a peer-reviewed journal. OeZG invites unsolicited contributions to the editors (please send as email attachments). The editors will check if the paper is appropriate for the journal and is of sufficient originality and scholarly interest. Assuming the editors give initial approval to the article, it will move onto peer review. OeZG uses a system of double-blind review (i.e. the author’s identity is concealed from the reviewer, and vice versa). After the peer review process, the article is sent back to the author for either major or minor revision. Please do not hesitate to contact the editors if you have any further questions concerning your submission.

The size of the manuscript should not exceed 60,000 characters (including spaces, notes and illustrations; for each full page illustration, 3,000 characters should be taken into account). Authors should secure all rights before submitting illustrations. However, the editors and the publisher reserve the right to make the final selection of any illustrations provided.

All submissions should include:

• title (not exceeding one line)
• subtitle (optional)
• abstract (approx. 100 words)
• 3–6 key words
• author name and institutional address, including email address
• images, illustrations, figures, and tables (as separate files) (optional)

2.    Style Guide: Text

Language editing

Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This is not a mandatory step, but it may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the editors and any reviewers. Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense.

Spelling should follow the Oxford English Dictionary or the Concise Oxford Dictionary.

Footnote style

In the text, footnote indicators should come after - and not before - punctuation. Please use the footnote function of your text-processing software. Semi-colons should be used to separate several references in one note. If a footnote contains not only the source for a fact or a quotation in the text, but relevant substantive material as well, then the source should be cited first. A full stop usually separates the reference from the commentary. Comments such as “my emphasis” are usually placed in parentheses.

Quotation

Always follow the punctuation, capitalization, and spelling in the original text or source. Use double quotation marks, with single quotation marks only being used for quotations within quotations ; mark missing parts or ellipses using [...]. If a sentence ends in a quotation, always place the full stop inside the quotation marks, rather than outside (“[...].”).

Quotations exceeding three lines should be broken off from the text and indented from the left-hand margin as a separate block of text.

‘Single inverted commas’

Single inverted commas should be used for words or phrases used in a special or technical sense, and for quotations within quotations.

Italics

Use italic type for titles of books, articles, periodicals, poems, plays, films and artworks.

Foreign words not commonly found in English usage are set in italic type.

Names of institutions or organisations not commonly found in English usage are also set in italic type.

Italics can also be used to emphasize a particular word.

Numbers & Dates

In narrative passages, numbers up to twelve and any round numbers (e.g., two thousand) should be expressed in words, except where they are attached to percentages, units or sums of money; use Arabic numerals thereafter.

The order in dates should run “20 July 1940” (Australian date format).

Date sequences should be compressed as follows (with the figures separated by an en-space dash): 1858–1859, 1854–1864; page sequences are expressed as 12–15, 121–129, 121–135, 213–219, etc.

Give eras in small capitals. bc follows dates (70 bc, between the eighth and the fourth centuries bc); ad precedes dates (ad 600–1700); there is no year 0; abbreviate circa as ca. (ca. 1650).

Decades: the 1950s (not ‘the 1950’s’ or ‘the fifties’); except for decades which have become metaphoric: the Roaring Twenties or the Hungry Thirties.

Percentages and monetary sums, etc., are usually expressed in figures. Percentages should be expressed in the following format: “ten per cent”, except when used very frequently within the article, in which case use of the percentage symbol (%) is acceptable.

When using numbers greater than 100, format them as follows: 1,000; 100,000; 1,000,000.

Decimal places are divided from the whole number with a comma, without leaving a space.

Use a period after a genealogical number (“Emperor Joseph II.”)

Abbreviations

Only use abbreviations or acronyms if the term is used five or more times in your article, and spell out the term in full on first usage, unless it is universally known (such as DNA or GPS).

Avoid general non-scientific abbreviations (for example: eg, ie, etc) in running text; such abbreviations are acceptable in parenthetical phrases, in figures (but not figure legends), and in tables (but not table footnotes).

Languages in non-European scripts

We ask that authors render languages in Cyrillic and non-European scripts in Roman script, and that diacritical marks and other special marks are kept to the minimum required.

3.    Style Guide: References

General comments

Note that references should supply enough bibliographical information to allow easy identification of works, even by persons unfamiliar with the subject. Notes should be kept brief. They are primarily for the citation of sources and should only be used in a limited manner to provide additional commentary or information.

In the case of rare or uncommon works, the place of deposit of a book, pamphlet, typescript, etc., should be stated in brackets.

If a reference comprises more than one author, editor or place of publication, they should be separated by a slash (/) without spaces in between. For titles with multiple authors, give in in full the names of up to three authors or editors, as on the publication.

Give first author/editor followed by et al. if the authors/editors number more than three.

Provide precise page numbers (for page ranges use en-space dash).

Anglicise foreign places of publication (Cologne rather than Köln).

Books

[First name] [Last name], [Title]. [Subtitle], [Number]. edn., [Place]/[ Place] [Year], [Page number if relevant].

Leslie E. Anderson, The Political Economy of the Modern Peasant. Calculation and Community, Baltimore/London 1994.

David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity. An Enquiry into the Origins of Cultural Change, New York, 1989.

Fernand Braudel, La Méditerranée et le Monde méditerranéen à l'Époque de Philippe II. [The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II.], 2. edn., Paris 1966, 90–165.

Jürgen Kuczynski, Geschichte des Alltags des deutschen Volkes, 5 vols., Berlin 1981–1983.

Jürgen Kuczynski, Geschichte des Alltags des deutschen Volkes, vol. 3: 1810–1870, Berlin 1981.

Edited Volume

[First name] [Last name] (ed.), [Title]. [Subtitle], [Place]/[ Place] [Year].

[First name] [Last name]/[First name] [Last name] (eds.), [Title]. [Subtitle], [Place]/[ Place] [Year].

Guido Alfani/Cormac Ó Gráda (eds.), Famine in European History, Cambridge 2017.

Maxine Berg (ed.), Markets and Manufacture in Early Industrial Europe, London/New York 1991.

Theses and unpublished manuscripts

Jennifer Leigh Mittelstadt, The Dilemmas of the Liberal Welfare State, 1945–1964. Gender, Race, and Aid to Dependent Children, Ph.D. thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2000.

Arno Fitz, Die Frühindustrialisierung Vorarlbergs und ihre Auswirkungen auf die Familienstruktur, unveröffentlichte Diplomarbeit, Universität Wien 1981.

Catarina Kratzer/Detler Fetchenhauer, Der Chatroom als neuer Tatort für Bullies. Ein Vergleich von Chatbullying und Schulbullying aus der Täterperspektive, unpublished project report, University of Cologne 1990.

Gernot Hutschenreiter/Hannes Leo, Empirical Evidence on the Schumpeterian Hypothesis for Austria, unpublished project report, Austrian Institute of Economic Research 1994.

Internet-Sources

[URL] [(d month yyyy)]

[URL] [(dd month yyyy)]

http://www.eseh.org/ (28 June 2000).

Sam Roberts, Barbara Lewalski, 87, Milton Scholar and Barrier Breaker, Is Dead, in: The New York Times online (29 March 2018), https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/29/obituaries/barbara-lewalski-87-milton-scholar-and-barrier-breaker-is-dead.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FResearch&action=click&contentCollection=science&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=17&pgtype=collection (23 May 2018).

Edward B. Westermann, Stone-Cold Killers or Drunk with Murder? Alcohol and Atrocity during the Holocaust, in: Holocaust and Genocide Studies 30/1(2016), 1–19, doi: 10.1093/hgs/dcw003.

Chapter within an edited volume

[First name] [Last name], [Title]. [Subtitle], in: [First name] [Last name]/[First name] [Last name] (eds.), [Title]. [Subtitle], [Place]/[Place] [Year], [Page range], [Page number if relevant].

Richard Hoyle, Britain, in: Guido Alfani/Cormac Ó Gráda (eds.), Famine in European History, Cambridge 2017, 141–165.

Marnie Hughes-Warrington, Writing World History, in: William McNeill (ed.), Berkshire Encyclopedia of World History, vol. 5, Great Barrington 2004, 2095-2103.

Journal Article

[First name] [Last name], [Title]. [Subtitle], in: [Journal title] [Volume]/[Issue] ([Year]), [Page range], [Page number if relevant].

Eric Hobsbawm, Peasants and Politics, in: Journal of Peasant Studies 1/1 (1973), 3–22.

Gudrun Axeli-Knapp, Traveling Theories. Anmerkungen zur neueren Diskussion über „Race, Class, and Gender“, in: Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften (OeZG) 16/1 (2005), 88–110.

Westermann Edward B., Stone-Cold Killers or Drunk with Murder? Alcohol and Atrocity during the Holocaust, in: Holocaust and Genocide Studies 30/1(2016), 1–19, doi: 10.1093/hgs/dcw003.

Subsequent references

If referring for a second time to a previously cited work, it is not necessary to repeat all details in full. Include enough information to identify the work and any other relevant information, such as page numbers.

[Last name], [first noun of the title], [Year], [Page].

journal article: [Last name], [first noun of the title], [(Year)], [Page].

Hoyle, Britain, 2017, 143.

Hobsbawm, Peasants, (1973), 15.

Ibid.

The abbreviation “ibid.” refers to a single work cited in the note immediately preceding. It must never be used if the preceding note contains more than one citation.

Archival sources / Primary sources

The referencing style of archival sources depends on the citation method of the respective archive. Use abbreviations for archive repositories only if the abbreviation has been explained in the initial reference.

Newspaper and magazine articles

Time, 28 October 2013.

The New York Times, 4 December 2017, 3.

Jewish Telegraph Agency Bulletin, 4 April 1938, 2.

Das Deutsche Wunder, in: Deutsche Zeitung (DZ), 9 March 1933, 1.

Abbreviations commonly used in referencing

and others > et al.

Edition > edn.

Editor(s) > (ed.) or (eds.)

No date > n.d.

No place > n.p.

No pagination > n.pag.

Volume(s) > vol. or vols.

Number > no.

Supplement > suppl.

ibidem> ibid. (only to be used in citations to refer again to the last source previously referenced)

compare> cf. (Only use ‘cf.’ when it really does mean ‘compare’; otherwise use “see” or “see also”)

4.    Illustrations, images and tables

Tables, maps, figures and images should each be submitted as a separate file.

Images: resolution is 400 dpi (dots per inch) at least; the format is eps, tiff, jpg.

Indicate table/image/illustration placement in the text as follows: “Insert table 1 / image 1 about here”.

Permission to reproduce copyright material must be obtained by the author and sent to the editors.