万维提示：
1、投稿方式：在线投稿。
2、期刊网址：
https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/toc/isis/current
3、投稿网址：
https://www.editorialmanager.com/isis/default.aspx
4、官网邮箱：IsisJournal@history.msstate.edu（书评）
5、期刊刊期：季刊，逢季末月出版。
2020年10月29日星期四
投稿须知【官网信息】
GUIDELINES FOR AUTHORS
Substantive recommendations for article submission
Scope. The journal Isis has a responsibility to not only facilitate scholars’ efforts to push the boundaries of the field of history of science, but also to engage the common interests of the journal’s readership. The editors especially encourage the submission of manuscripts that examine periods and places beyond modern North America and Europe. Isis has the entire length and breadth of the history of science for its province, so it is not to be expected that your essay will appeal equally to every reader. But do not confine your audience to your fellow specialists. Please strive to give the reader a sense of the wider significance of the point or points you are seeking to make. Most fundamentally, your manuscript should raise and engage with broad historical and/or methodological questions of interest to historians of science.
The reader at the center. Please write your manuscript with your potential readership in mind. How can you persuade a reader to continue reading beyond the abstract and the first paragraph? How can you best catch his or her attention, and how can you keep it? Also, keep in mind that the average Isis reader, although in most cases a professional historian of science, will need somewhat more background, context, and guidance than your fellow specialists require.
Title and abstract. Think hard about a title that gets across the gist of your argument while also being attractive to your potential readership. Be sure to include a summary of your argument in an abstract of approximately 150 words.
Minimal criteria for judgment. Cultivation of the history of science involves certain scholarly standards, expressive of such tools of the historian’s trade as have been developed and maintained over more than a hundred years. Referees will minimally hold each contribution to such basic professional standards.
Length and writing style. The length of Isis articles varies. The average length is about 12,500 words, including notes. The maximum length is 15,000 words, including notes. This unusual maximum length is meant to give needed space to arguments of considerable complexity and substantive breadth, not to encourage repetitiveness. Please express yourself as clearly, distinctly, crisply, and energetically as you can and avoid all needless technical vocabulary.
Language. Use good judgment when using non-English terms. Quoted passages should be translated to English in the text but can be included in their original language in footnotes for curious readers.
Special sections
For proposals for a Focus, Second Look, Notes and Correspondence, or Viewpoint section, click these guidelines for special sections.
Letters to the editor
Letters to the editor should be written in a professional manner that does not engage in personal attacks. They are restricted to no more than 500 words. Please understand that if your letter is in response to a published article or book review, the editors may contact that author to inquire whether they would like to respond to your letter. In the editors’ view, it is more important to facilitate a professional dialogue than publish all letters to the editor in a timely fashion, so please be patient.
Book reviews
Book reviews complement the scholarly articles of Isis and are a crucial mechanism through which the field engages in intellectual exchange. As the journal of record for the History of Science Society, Isis aims to review all scholarly works — monographs, edited volumes, digital humanities projects, documentary films, podcasts, and more — relevant to the ever-expanding interests of historians of science. If you are interested in contributing a review, please contact the editorial office (IsisJournal@history.msstate.edu).
Conditions
Copyright. Manuscripts should be submitted to Isis with the understanding that upon publication copyright will be transferred to the owner of Isis, the History of Science Society. That understanding precludes Isis from considering material that has been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere.
Publisher’s Open Access policies. The University of Chicago Press permits authors to post an electronic version of their manuscript to a personal or institutional website after it has appeared in print in Isis, under the following conditions: the site is noncommercial and appropriate credit is given to the journal. Authors also have the nonexclusive right of republication of their paper, in whole or in part, in any book for which they are an author or an editor, provided that they give credit to the journal. See further the guidelines for journal authors’ rights.
Format requirements
File. Your manuscript should have the format of a Word document (.doc or .docx) or equivalent (no pdf, please). Make sure to include title in the file name.
Layout. Please take care to make your manuscript easy reading for the editor and the referees. Factors to consider include letter font, letter size, spacing, page numbers, a wide left margin for comments, and a ragged (not justified) right margin.
Typos, botched sentences. Please ensure prior to submission that your manuscript contains no ungrammatical sentences or typos. Sloppily prepared manuscripts will be returned for correction.
Special features. Please mark clearly for the typesetter all unusual alphabets, special characters, mathematics, and chemical formulas and include all diacritical marks. For guidance in preparing mathematical elements see “Manuscript preparation—math.”
Figures. A small number of figures may be used to illustrate an article. See “Manuscript preparation—artwork” for requirements. It is the responsibility of the author to assure that copyright permission has been obtained whenever applicable.
Tables. Prepare tables with the Word (or equivalent) table editor only; because they must be edited, they cannot be pasted into the paper as image files. See “Manuscript preparation—tables” for further requirements.
Notes. Bibliographic information should be given in endnotes, typed separately from the main body of the manuscript, numbered consecutively throughout the article, and keyed to reference numbers typed above the line in the text.
a. References to books should include author’s or authors’ full name or names; complete title of the book in italics; place of publication and publisher’s name for books published after 1900; date of publication, including the original date when a reprint is being cited; page numbers cited. Example: Joseph Needham, Science and Civilisation in China, 5 vols., Vol. 1: Introductory Orientations (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1954), p. 7.
b. References to articles in periodicals should include author’s name; title of article, in quotes; title of periodical, italicized; year; volume number, Arabic and italicized; number of issue if pagination requires it; page numbers of article; DOI (if available); number of particular page cited. Journal titles are spelled out in full on first citation and abbreviated subsequently according to the list provided in the annual Current Bibliography. Example: John C. Greene, “Reflections on the Progress of Darwin Studies,” Journal of the History of Biology, 1975, 8:243–273, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00130440, on p. 270; Dov Ospovat, “God and Natural Selection: The Darwinian Idea of Design,” J. Hist. Biol., 1980, 13:169–174, https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00125743, on p. 171.
c. Succeeding citations of books and articles should use an abbreviated version of the title with the author’s last name. Example: Ospovat, “God and Natural Selection,” p. 170.
How to submit your manuscript
Preliminary blinding of manuscripts. Isis uses double-blind refereeing; therefore we want to receive your manuscript “blinded.” Please follow the easy guidelines listed below under “Ensuring a blind review.” Make sure that the file name does not contain your name.
Corresponding author. If there are several authors, please appoint one of them as corresponding author, responsible for all exchanges with the Isis office.
Submission procedure. To upload your manuscript, please go to the website of our submission & tracking system: https://www.editorialmanager.com/isis. If you are a first-time user, please register first; if not, just log in as “Author.” Submission requires a couple of easy steps, and none of the information entered will get lost if you have to interrupt the procedure. If you nonetheless run into problems that strike you as insurmountable, just send an email message to the editorial office (IsisJournal@history.msstate.edu), and we will respond as quickly as we can to assist you. Once you have successfully uploaded your manuscript, the system will confirm receipt.
Ensuring a blind review: How to remove identifying information from your manuscript
Authors are responsible for removing any information from their manuscripts that might lead a reviewer to discern their identities or affiliations. We suggest the following masking procedures. Identifying information that will require masking is typically found on the title page, conclusion, acknowledgments, in location names, in IRB statements, and in authors’ self-citations of prior work.
1. Mask the title page attached to manuscript
Masking the title page is simply a matter of omitting identifying information.
2. Mask location and university affiliation
Referring to the research site or the university’s review board by proper names is likely to be second nature for most researchers/writers; therefore, we suggest that authors perform a word search of their manuscript for location, and when found, make revisions accordingly.
3. Mask university affiliation in statements of IRB approval
For example, instead of writing “This research was approved by the University of North Carolina Institutional Review Board,” give the region of the university or research site:
“This research was approved by the Institutional Review Board of a large Southeastern public university.”
4. Mask authors’ self-citations of published work
Most researchers’ current work builds from previous investigations, requiring self-citation of published findings. Self-citations are best masked by leaving the names but ensuring that you use third person to discuss the work.
5. Mask authors’ self-citation of unpublished findings, manuscripts, or conference presentations
Authors rarely have access to materials that are “in press,” “under review,” “unpublished, on file with author,” or a “manuscript in preparation” unless they are affiliated with the research in some way. In cases when you are citing unpublished materials, masking follows the standard course of replacing your name or co-authors’ names with “Author” in both the in-text citation and the reference entry.
6. Mask acknowledgments
Acknowledgments often contain personal thank yous, recognition of funding sources, and institutional affiliation that must be masked.
Open Access policy
Isis authors have the option to make their accepted paper freely available online immediately upon publication. The fee for Open Access is $2,500. Contact aseagram@uchicago.edu for more information. UK authors should note that this option cannot be used to comply with RCUK regulations for Gold OA, as the University of Chicago Press requires permission for commercial reuse. UCP does comply with the RCUK regulations for Green OA.
"Green" Open Access
The University of Chicago Press supports Green Open Access for all articles, as defined by the RCUK Open Access Policy, under the Press’s guidelines for journal authors’ rights.
