Author Guidelines

Article publishing guidelines for Mos Historicus: A Critical Review of European History:

All submitted articles are reviewed first by the Editorial Committee and subsequently by the Scientific Committee, which communicate their decision within approximately three months. A decision not to accept an article does not necessarily reflect an unfavourable evaluation; the Committee may determine that the submission does not fit the journal’s thematic planning or overall profile.

For publication in Mos Historicus, submissions must be original: the text must not have been previously published and must not be under concurrent review by another scholarly journal. Nevertheless, the journal encourages and permits the deposit of a preprint, an accepted manuscript, and the final publisher’s version of record (VoR) in non-commercial repositories, in accordance with its policy on self-archiving and repositories. Moreover, by submitting and publishing an article in the journal, authors agree that their work may be reproduced, in whole or in part, under the terms of the CC BY-NC 4.0 licence and should conform to specific conditions (see “Copyright and Licensing Policy")

The Committee may request revisions and/or corrections to the content and/or the style and form of the accepted texts. Mos Historicus reserves the right to carry out final editorial work on all texts.

The final version of each article can be submitted electronically (as a Microsoft Word Doc), either via the EKT platform or by email to [email protected].

Please use the following format: Times New Roman font, 12 pt and 1.5 line spacing.

The target length of the articles submitted to Mos Historicus should be between 5,000 and 8,000 words; including references and excluding bibliography and appendixes. Book reviews, when they concern no more than one work, should not exceed 2,500 words.

Each article must be accompanied by an abstract of 100-130 words in Greek and in English (if author is unable to provide the abstract in one of the two languages, Mos Historicus will assume the responsibility of its translation). Six (6) keywords must be included at the end of the abstract.

Certain biographical information will be displayed under the authors’ name such as: area of specialisation, research interests, institution (university/research centre), recent publications related to the submitted article, and an e-mail address. Authors who do not wish their e-mail address to be published must state this explicitly.

The references and notes must appear as footnotes. The number indicating a footnote should be placed after the punctuation mark if the text requires so.

All references must follow the examples below exactly, in both the order of information and punctuation, as well as in the use of roman and italic type. Please note that submissions will be considered only if references adhere strictly to this format:

A. The first time a project is mentioned, its full details are listed, according to the following models:

i. a. Reference to a book (monographs, edited volumes):

Michelle Perrot, The Bedroom: An Intimate History, trans. Lauren Elkin, Yale University Press, New Haven and London 2018, p. 142.

William Sewell, Work and Revolution in France: The Language of Labor from the Old Regime to 1848, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 1980, pp. 75-77.

Jacques Le Goff and Pierre Nora (eds.), Constructing the Past: Essays in Historical Methodology, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011, p. 185.

Titles in languages other than English (e.g. Greek) should be cited in the original language:

Eric John Hobsbawm, Η Εποχή των Επαναστάσεων, 1875-1914, trans.: Κωστούλα Σκλαβενίτη, Μορφωτικό Ίδρυμα Εθνικής Τραπέζης, Athens 2012, pp. 211-215.

Guglielmo Cavallo and Roger Chartier (eds.), Ιστορία της Ανάγνωσης στον Δυτικό Κόσμο, trans. Αφροδίτη Θεοδωρακάκου et. al., Μεταίχμιο, Athens 2006, p. 346.

b. Chapter in a multi-volume work:

Martin Segalen, "Kinship Tied in European Families", in David I. Kertzer and Marzio Barbagli (eds.), The History of the European Family, vol. 3, Yale University, New Haven and London 2003, p. 360.

Gilles Feyel, "Théophraste Renaudot", in Jean Sgard (ed.), Dictionnaire des journalistes: 1600-1789, vol. 2, Voltaire Foundation, Oxford 1999, pp. 838-848.

c. Later edition of a book:

Jeffrey Weeks, Sex, Politics and Society: The regulation of sexuality since 1800, Routlegde, London and New York ³ 2012, p. 67.

d. E-books (epub, Kindle, etc.):

Gareth Stedman Jones, Outcast London: A Study in the Relationship between Classes in Victorian Society, Verso, London ⁴ 2014, chapter 11, p. 257 (ebook).

e. E-books available online:

Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, Routledge, New York and London 1993, p. 58. Available from: http://archive.org/details/bodiesthatmatter00butl/2up (accessed: 20.05.2022).

ii. Article references:

a. Journal article:

Natalie Zemon Davis, "The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France", Past & Present, 59 (1973), p. 85.

Titles in languages other than English (e.g. Greek) should be cited in the original language:

Αντώνης Λιάκος, «Δοκίμιο για μια ποιητική της ιστορίας», Τα Ιστορικά, 16:31 (1999), pp. 259-261.

b. Article or chapter in an edited volume:

Heidi Stoner, "Heaven and Hall: Space and Place in Anglo-Saxon England", in Meg Boulton, James Hawkes and Heidi Stoner (eds.), Place and Space in the Medieval World, Routledge, New York and London 2018, p. 163.

Titles in languages other than English (e.g. Greek) should be cited in the original language:

Jeffrey Weeks, "Ζητήματα Ταυτότητας" in Κώστας Γιαννακόπουλος (ed.), Σεξουαλικότητα: Θεωρίες και Πολιτικές της Ανθρωπολογίας, Αλεξάνδρεια, Athens 2006, p. 150.

Joan Wallach Scott, "Το φύλο: μια χρήσιμη κατηγορία της ιστορικής ανάλυσης", in Έφη Αβδελά and Αγγέλικα Ψαρρά (eds.), Σιωπηρές ιστορίες: Γυναίκες και φύλο στην ιστορική αφήγηση, trans. Κωστούλα Σκλαβενίτη, Αλεξάνδρεια, Athens 1997, p. 300.

c. Online article:

Geoff Eley, "No Need to Choose: History from Above, History from Below", at https://viewpointmag.com/2014/06/27/no-need-to-choose-history-from-above-historyfrom-below/ (accessed: 18.11.2021).

d. Article/paper published in conference minutes:

Triantafyllos Ε. Sklavenitis, "Η δυσπιστία στο έντυπο βιβλίο και η παράλληλη χρήση του χειρογράφου", Το βιβλίο στις προβιομηχανικές κοινωνίες, Πρακτικά Α' Διεθνούς Συμποσίου ΚΝΕ/ΕΙΕ, Athens 1982, pp. 290-293.

iii. PhD thesis:

Harriet Phillips, Uses of the popular past in early modern England, 1510-c.1611, PhD thesis, University of Cambridge, Cambridge 2013, p. 45.

Maria-Konstantina Leontsini, Θεωρήσεις της γυναικείας φύσης και εκπαίδευσης στην πρώιμη νεότερη Ιταλία, 16ος-18ος αιώνας, PhD thesis, National and Kapodistrian National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Athens 2020, p. 50. Available from: https://pergamos.lib.uoa.gr/uoa/dl/frontend/el/browse/2916839 (accessed: 10.07.2023)

iv. Primary sources:

a. References to archival material, such as documents and collections, ought to follow the templates and the organizing principals of the holding institution:

Cardwell to Russell, 3 Nov. 1865, London, The National Archives (TNA), Russell papers, 30/22/156, fo. 23.

b. Reference to a newspaper:

"London, Wednesday, July 6, 1897", The Times, 06.07.1887, p. 9.

B) In subsequent notes, abbreviated reference to a book, where the full reference appears much earlier and is not easy for the reader to locate:

Perrot, The Bedroom, ibid., p. 172.

C) In subsequent notes, abbreviated reference to an article, where the full reference appears much earlier and is not easy for the reader to locate:

Davis, "The Rites of Violence", ibid. p. 85.

D) In subsequent notes, abbreviated reference to a book or an article, where the previous reference is relatively close:

Perrot, ibid., p. 176 or Davis, ibid., p. 87.

E) In subsequent notes, abbreviated reference to a book or article when the immediately preceding note cites the same work (and no other works):

Ibid., p. 178.

F) Multiple bibliographical references within the same footnote should be separated by a semicolon ( ; ).

G) Abbreviations:

ibid. = ibidem / in the same place ( or as above)

cf.= compare; see

intro. = introduction

ed. = editor; edited by; edition

eds. = editors

ad.= addendum

et al. = and others

ff.= and so on / following

trans. = translation; translated by

op. cit. = in the work cited above

abstr. = abstract

p., pp. = page, pages

n. = note

passim. = passim / in various parts of the text

n.p. = no place / no publisher / no pagination (as applicable)

n.d. = no date

vol. = volume

app. = appendix

For articles submitted in English, use double quotation marks (“ ”) for the main quotation, and single quotation marks (‘ ’) for quotations within quotations.

A bibliography must be included at the end of each article. The bibliography word count is not included in the article’s total word count.

Bibliography entries should conform to the format below:

1. Separate primary sources from secondary literature, and list web sources (webography) in a distinct section. Each webography entry must include the date of last access.
2. In the bibliography (unlike in footnote references), list the author’s surname first, followed by their given name, separated by a comma.
3. Arrange all entries in alphabetical order.

Zemon Davis, Natalie, "The Rites of Violence: Religious Riot in Sixteenth-Century France", Past & Present, 59 (1973), pp. 51-91.

Images, figures and tables should be submitted as separate files, with their placement clearly indicated in the text.