Submission Guidelines

The editors welcome innovative contributions from diverse fields of research, both in the form of original articles and analytical overviews of existing scholarship.

Submissions must not have already been published or set for publication elsewhere.

All copyright remains with the contributor, but if contributors wish to republish an article elsewhere which we have already published, they are required to specifically acknowledge its previous appearance in Ex Plus Ultra.

Material from the journal may be freely reproduced on the condition that the source (author and journal) is acknowledged.

The act of submitting constitutes an agreement on the part of the contributor that all content unless indicated is their work.

The opinions of the authors in articles published are theirs alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of either the editors or their affiliated institutions.

We request that contributors consult and adhere to the following guidelines. Please note that if an article does not conform to these specifications, it may not be eligible for consideration and may be rejected outright.

Format
Submissions (in double-spaced Times New Roman 12-point font) should be sent electronically as attachments in word format to the following email address: explusultra@usyd.edu.au

Please note: PDF submissions will not be accepted.

Word Length
Submissions are to be no more than 6000 words in length (including endnotes).

Abstract and Keywords
Contributors must provide a short abstract of 200 words maximum must be provided along with 5 keywords indicating the subject matter of the article.

Spelling
Submissions using either American or British English spelling conventions will be accepted. The editors do, however, strongly insist on consistency.

Abbreviations
Full titles of organizations should be used initially, and subsequent references abbreviated.

Quotations
Single quote marks should surround quotations in running text (double quote marks for quotes within quotations), preceded by a colon in cases where the quotation is a complete sentence. Long quotations should be indented.

References
Endnotes (not footnotes) should be provided and formatted in the Chicago style, see below for basic examples. For further guidelines contributors are invited to consult this online guide

• Referencing a journal article
  Author Name, ‘Article Title,’ Journal Title, Volume and Issue (Date of publication), Page reference(s).
  For example:
  Andrew S. Thompson, 'The Languages of Loyalism in Southern Africa, c.1870-1939,' English Historical Review, vol. 118 (2003), p.617.
• Referencing a book
  Author Name, Book Title (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), Page reference(s).
  For example:
  Kirsty M. Reid, Gender, Crime and Empire: Convicts, Settlers and the State in Early Colonial Australia (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2007), pp.117-21.
• Referencing a chapter within an edited volume
  Author Name, ‘Chapter Title,’ in Editor Name, eds., Book Title (Place of Publication: Publisher, Year), Page reference(s).
  For example:
  Alison Bashford, ‘Gender, Medicine and Empire' in Philippa Levine, ed., Gender and Empire: The Oxford History of the British Empire, vol. 6. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004) pp. 113-33.
• Subsequent references
  The first reference to a work should be cited in full. Subsequent references should state the author’s name, abbreviated title, and page number(s).
  For example:
  Robert Aldrich, Greater France: A History of French Overseas Expansion (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1996), p.128.
  Aldrich, Greater France, p.96.
• Referencing an internet source
  Author Name, Title, (Place of Publication: Publisher, Date), date of website's creation/and revision, the nature of the website, , the date the site was viewed.
  For example:
  Samuel de Champlain, 'The Foundation of Quebec, 1608,' in Oliver J. Thatcher, ed., The Library of Original Sources vol. 5: 9th to 16th Centuries (Milwaukee: University Research Extension Co., 1907), pp. 342-54, created June 1998, http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/1608champlain.html, viewed 8 July, 2008.

Images
The editors welcome the use of images. It is the responsibility of the contributors to ensure that the inclusion of images adheres to general copyright regulations.

Initial process
Every submission is read by at least one member of the editorial committee to ensure that writing and reviewing adhere to consistent standards. All papers will be sent out to two referees for review on the condition that a) they adhere to the submissions guidelines specified by the editors and b) they are submitted before the deadline for final submissions. At the discretion of the editorial collective, articles may be rejected outright if they do not conform to the stated aims and standards of the journal.

Appointment of referees
The editorial board will appoint these referees on the basis of their expertise on the particular subject matter of the submission.

Anonymity
The review process is entirely anonymous - neither reviewers nor authors will be in any way identified to one another during the review process. Contributors are requested to ensure that their name and affiliation appear only on the cover page of submissions.

Feedback from referees
Feedback from referees will normally be received and conveyed to the contributor within two months from the deadline for final submissions. A specific member of the editorial committee will keep contributors regularly informed throughout the refereeing process.

The decisions of the committee are final and will be communicated to authors immediately. In all cases, regardless of whether the articles are accepted or rejected, authors will receive two feedback reports from the referees.

The referees will communicate their assessment of the article to the committee, indicating whether they believe the article should be accepted for publication.

The outcome will be one of the following:

a) Acceptance without revision

b) Acceptance subject to minor/major revisions
Articles accepted subject to minor or substantial revisions will be given a specified time within which to make the changes. These revisions must be made and the revised article submitted by the given deadline or the article will not be published.

c) Rejection