Journal of the Riverside Historical Society Submission Criteria

Riverside Historical Society

P. O. Box 246

Riverside, CA 92502

http://www.riversidehistoricalsociety.org

Journal of the

Riverside Historical Society

Submission Criteria

The Journal of the Riverside Historical Society seeks to encourage both established and new historians to research and publish articles on previously unexplored aspects of Riverside’s history. In addition, the Journal is meant to foster among Riverside’s newer residents a lively interest in Riverside’s history and an active concern for Riverside’s historic resources and increase participation in Riverside Historical Society membership and activities among the publication’s readers.

In order to accomplish these goals, the Journal will publish carefully researched and documented articles of broad popular appeal relating to Riverside personalities, events, and institutions of the past, along with personal accounts by witnesses of or participants in significant past events. The latter are to be derived both from manuscripts and from planned oral history interviews.

Information for Contributors

The Journal of the Riverside Historical Society is currently an annual publication devoted to the history of the City of Riverside. It is the stated intention of the Board of the Society to increase the frequency of the Journal.

Contributions of articles, edited documents, and book reviews are welcome on a continual basis. They should be submitted (at the owner’s risk) to:

Publications Committee

Riverside Historical Society

P. O. Box 246

Riverside, CA 92502-0246

The Journal’s Publications Committee will also announce a specific period of solicitation for each issue.

The authority for matters of style will be the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition. The Editorial Committee reserves the right to return accepted manuscripts to authors for required changes. An author whose article is accepted for publication will receive ten gratis copies of the issue in which his or her article appears. Statements and opinions expressed in articles are the sole responsibility of the authors.

Submission guidelines

Articles should generally be no fewer than 400 words, and no more than 5,000 words in length. Longer articles will be considered on a case-by-case basis, but may be divided over multiple issues.

It is highly desirable that all articles be submitted in an electronic format (Wordperfect is preferred, but also Microsoft Word). While scanning is available, an electronic format is preferred for ease and accuracy.

All images MUST BE submitted in one of two ways:

The original photo or printed image can be submitted for scanning. The original will be returned.

The image can be submitted in an electronic format (JPEG or TIFF only - graphics incorporated in Word or Wordperfect format are NOT acceptable). All scanned photos MUST BE scanned at no less than 300 dpi, and no smaller than 20cm wide.

All photos, no matter in which format they are submitted, must be accompanied by a caption and photo credit. If the photo does not belong to the author, then the author must submit either permission to use the image or evidence of expired copyright.