Utah Historical Quarterly - Submission and Style Guide
Overview
The Utah Historical Quarterly began publication in 1928 and, except for several years during the Great Depression and World War II in the 1930s and 1940s, has been published continuously since 1928. Each issue of the Quarterly is 96 pages in length and usually contains four articles, book reviews, book notices, and, on occasion, letters to the editor.
Content
The Utah Historical Quarterly publishes articles on all aspects of Utah history from prehistory to the present. Authors are strongly encouraged to review recent issues of the Quarterly for a guide to content, documentation, organization, and style. To view recent issues of the Quarterly online search our online issues. You can also call 801.533-3517 to request a sample copy. In addition, you can receive copies of the Quarterly by joining the Utah State Historical Society.
Length
Manuscripts should not exceed 7,500 words in length (including text and notes), or approximately 25 to 30 double-spaced manuscript pages. Shorter manuscripts are encouraged. Longer manuscripts may be considered, but with the provision that if accepted for publication, authors will revise the manuscript to meet the length requirements.
Format
Manuscripts should follow the Chicago Manual Style as closely as possible. Submit one hard copy of the manuscript and an electronic version, preferably in Microsoft Word, on either a 3 ½ inch disk, or, preferably on a CD disk. Photographs and illustrations can be included with the initial submission or at a later time. Send your submission to:
Dr. Kent Powell
Managing Editor
Utah Historical Quarterly
300 Rio Grande
Salt Lake City, Utah 84101-1182
Photographs, Illustrations, Maps
Usually four to ten photographs/illustrations are published with each article. Authors are encouraged to identify photographs and secure permission for publication. Photographs from the Utah State Historical Society can be submitted as photocopies. All others should be in hard copy with the clearest and best image possible or scanned photographs. Scanned photographs should be at 300 dpi in black and white and in a TIFF format. If published maps are proposed for inclusion, they should be treated as illustrations as noted above. For maps that need to be produced, please provide a sketch of the proposed map. If it is decided to include a map, the editorial staff, working with the author, will arrange with a professional cartographer to produce the map.
Footnotes/Endnotes
Manuscripts should be properly documented using either footnotes or endnotes that conform to the Chicago Manual of Style. Be sure to footnote all direct quotes. It is not necessary to document the generally accepted facts of Utah history, but credit should be given for sources that provide information on unknown or little known topics, events, or ideas. Footnote numbers should come at the end of a sentence. Several references in the same paragraph may be listed, in order, under one footnote number at the end of the paragraph. Headlines and page numbers are not necessary with newspaper references. See footnote samples.
Review Procedures
All manuscripts are reviewed first by the editorial staff for appropriateness, completeness, and adherence to guidelines and standards. Manuscripts are then returned to the authors with recommendations for additional work or sent to the board of editors and other outside readers for their comments and recommendations. The review process usually takes eight to ten weeks.
Publication Schedule
The publication schedule for the Utah Historical Quarterly is:
Number 1—Winter: January
Number 2—Spring: April
Number 3—Summer: July
Number 4—Fall: October
Once accepted for publication, manuscripts are published as soon as possible. However length and subject can affect scheduling priorities. Generally, the editorial staff is working about six months ahead of the publication schedule in finalizing issues for publication. Given the number of manuscripts submitted and accepted, there is usually a lag time of approximately one year from the time a manuscript is accepted until it is published.
Copyright Assignment Agreement and Consent
Authors are required to sign a copyright release (transfer) agreement that warrants that the author is the sole owner of all rights in the work, that the work has never been published, and provides for the copyright to be taken and held in the name of the Utah State Historical Society which grants the author an irrevocable, nonexclusive royalty-free license to use the work in any manner followings its publication in the Utah Historical Quarterly, providing the proper copyright notice is included in each published work.
By signing the copyright release (transfer) agreement, the author(s) grant the right of the Utah Historical Quarterly to publish or reprint in other forms, including digital and online.
Annual Awards
Each year the editorial staff, the Board of Editors, and the Board of State History award cash prizes to Quarterly authors in three categories. These cash prizes are made through the generous contributions of the Helen Papanikolas family, the Nick Yengich family, and the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies.
Questions
Questions regarding submissions and publication in the Utah Historical Quarterly can be directed to:
Dr. Kent Powell, Managing Editor, 801.533-3520
Dr. Craig Fuller, Associate Editor, 801. 533-3538
1 Leonard J. Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom: An Economic History of the Latter-day Saints, 1830-1900 (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1958), 51. OR (1958; reprint ed., Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1968), 84.
2 Kate B. Carter, ed., Heart Throbs of the West, 12 vols. (Salt Lake City: Daughters of Utah Pioneers, 1939-51), 6:342.
3 Miles P. Romney, "Utah's Cinderella Minerals: The Nonmetallics," Utah Historical Quarterly 31 (1963): 221.
4 Ogden Standard Examiner, March 9, 1945.
5 Tony Priano, interview with author, Helper, Utah, July 29, 1975.
6 Arrington, Great Basin Kingdom, 111; Deseret News, August 29, 1944.
7 Richard E. Kotter, "An Examination of Mormon and Non-Mormon Influences in Ogden City Politics, 1847-1896" (M.A. thesis, Utah State University, 1967), 28-30. See also Carter, Heart Throbs, 7:49.
8 Priano interview.
9 C. S. Chapman to James B. Adams, January 31, 1908, Forest Service Operations, Field Offices, Record Group 95, National Archives, Washington, D.C.
10 Theresa Godbe, "Reminiscences of Rowland Hall," undated holograph, Rowland Hall Collection, State History Library, Salt Lake City.
11 Ibid.