British Scholar Journal: Aims &
Scope
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British Scholar is a journal of British history. The editors invite research articles,
review essays, and book reviews from historians of all ages and ranks, including
graduate students, on the ways in which Britain has interacted with other
societies since 1688. The journal is sponsored by the British Scholar Society
and the British Studies program at the University of Texas.
© Copyright 2007-08 British Scholar. All rights reserved.
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Submission Guidelines
The journal will accept submissions that cover any topic in British history on the
ways in which Britain has interacted with other societies since 1688.
Submissions for publication should be made electronically to the Editor,
Gregory Barton, at editor@britishscholar.org. Submissions should be
between 6,000 and 9,000 words, including citations, for research articles.
There is no stipulated limit for review essays. The British Scholar Journal will be
launched in September 2008. Submissions for publication in the British Scholar
jJournal are currently being accepted.

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Introducing the British Scholar Journal
Books:
Single Author: Linda Colley, Britons: Forging the Nation 1707-1837 (New
Haven: Yale University Press, 1992), p. 327.
Two Authors: Christopher Bayly, and Tim Harper, Forgotten Wars: Freedom
and Revolution in Southeast Asia (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press,
2007), pp. 25-38.
Three or More Authors: Please use “et al.” after listing the names of the first
two authors.
Edition other than the First: Martin J. Wiener, English Culture and the
Decline of the Industrial Spirit, 1850-1980, 2d ed. (Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2004), pp. 14-18.
Work in an Anthology: Vernon Bogdanor, “Constitutional Reform,” in The
Blair Effect: The Blair Government 1997-2001, ed. Anthony Seldon (London:
Little, Brown and Company, 2001), p. 145.
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Article in a Journal: Jennifer Pitts, “Legislator of the World?: A Rereading of
Bentham and Colonies,” Political Theory, 31:2 (2003): 201-2.
Article in a Newspaper: Simon Heffer, “These are no swivel-eyed
xenophobes,” The Guardian, 18 June 2004.
For primary sources provide as much information as possible. Please
see the examples below:
Lister’s minute of 13 March 1884, FO 84/1683.
Memorandum by Macmillan, Top Secret, 7 August 1956, EC (56) 8, CAB
134/1217.
Thompson to Peck, Secret and Guard, 22 April 1964, FO 371/175496.
Guidelines for Citations