Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist
NB: THIS PAGE
WAS UPDATED IN JULY 2023 (please disregard any previous versions of these instructions)

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

  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
  • Authors should be responsive to the broad coverage of this journal in their terminology: please avoid acronyms, define technical terms and theoretical concepts carefully, and explain regional specifics.
  • If your first language is not English, please make sure that your article has been proofread for style, expression and grammar prior to submission.
  • We only consider material that has not been published previously and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
  • Articles should be submitted by email to the Managing Editor at mts@rub.de.

 

Author Guidelines

FORMAT

Format: please submit your contribution as a word document.

Length: articles should be approx. 66.800 characters long, including footnotes and spaces (approximately 9500 words). This number can be check under "word count" in Microsoft Word. [For special issues, please check with your guest editor, as they might request a shorter length to accomodate more contributions.]

Abstract: please include an abstract (approx. 200 words) with your submission.

Keywords: please provide 5-10 keywords 

Author bio: please include a very short bio  of the author(s) (approx. 75 word below your article.

Headers: MTS only uses substantive headers (e.g. no: Introduction, Conclusion, Review, Epilogue etc). Please include informational headers where appropriate. In place of “Conclusion,” a short form of the article title can be used instead.

Graphics, photos, illustrations, maps, tables etc.: if you wish to include these please make sure that the images are transparent, printable and the sources are clearly stated. They should be at 300 dpi in the size in which they are meant to be printed. Send images, graphs etc. as separate documents. Indicate the location in which they are meant to be inserted in your text, along with the authorised credit line: [insert image 1 here] [credit line]

Permissions to use and publish images, tables etc. have to be acquired by authors at their own cost. You bear full responsibility for determining whether the contribution you submit contains matter that requires permission for publication in Moving the Social. This includes any material that is supplementary or ancillary to the publication. Documentation of permissions has to be submitted to the Editorial Office prior to publication.

References: Moving the Social uses only footnotes, formatted in Chicago style (see below).

Publication Agreement: authors will have to sign the publication agreement and to return a signed original by post to the editorial office prior to publication.

 

STYLE GUIDE:

For any questions not covered by this quick guide, see Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition.

Spelling: Moving the Social only uses UK spelling, with -ize, -ization, -izing (but not -yze). [Direct quotations should be kept in whatever form of English they were published in.]

Use Second World War, not World War II.
Percent not per cent or %.
Spell out all abbreviations on first usage. (Abbreviations shoudl only be included if they reappear more than once in the text).

For any foreign language words, include a translation in parentheses, without quotation marks or italics. (Example: The Betäubungsgesetz (Narcotics Law) came into force in 1920.)

Contractions (don’t, can’t etc.) should not be used, unless they are part of a direct quotation.

Capitalization: avoid the use of capital letters unless they appear in abbreviations, headlines and proper names.

Quotations: In case of quotations, the punctuation should be kept inside the quotation marks. Quotations longer than three lines should be indented, single-spaced, without quotation marks.

Use only English “double” quotation marks (not: ‘x’ or „x” or « x »), including to emphasize a word or phrase (please do not use ‘single’ quotation marks in that case.)

The foonote number should be placed after the closing quotation mark.

Names / Places should be anglicized if common, including in citations (Munich, Cairo). East Central Europe (no hyphen) and Southeastern Europe. East and West should be capitalized if they refer to a specific geographical or cultural space (“in the West” but “eastern France”).

Use the singular they instead of he or he/she when the gender is not specified. (Example: When someone cries, they are expressing their sadness.)

Numbers: 1 to 100 should be spelled out. Do not use superscripts (2nd). Spell out centuries (twentieth century).

Dates should be styled: 28 March 2023 (no punctuation).

 

REFERENCES:

Footnotes should only contain direct citations or references. Please avoid including additional text in the footnotes; if essential, incorporate it into the main text.

It is essential that notes are added using the “insert footnote” functionality within Word. This allows for the numbering to be dynamically changed if the text is reordered. Guidance on how to use this feature is widely available.

The referencing style used for footnotes is Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. Please, include full details of everything cited. For publications with more than one location, please include only one city name.

For example:

  1. Zadie Smith, Swing Time (New York: Penguin Press, 2016), 315–16.
  2. Brian Grazer and Charles Fishman, A Curious Mind: The Secret to a Bigger Life (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2015), 12.

After a first reference, the shortened note can be used. There is no need to provide a full bibliography at the end.

For more information on Chicago Style and more examples, please see the citation guide with numerous examples.

 

For the citation of archival material, please use the suggested citation style provided by the archive in question or your best judgment.

Please note the location of the archive on first reference (city / country is sufficient). For example: UN Archives (Geneva, Switzerland), Bundesarchiv-Lichterfelde (Berlin, Germany).

 

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