Author Guidelines

Guidelines for Article Submission

Articles submitted for review must be sent in electronic form (Microsoft Word document), either through the EKT platform or by email to [email protected]. In order to preserve the anonymity of authors, .docx files must not contain the author’s name in the document properties/metadata (“Author”), nor any other information that could reveal the author’s identity

Technical Requirements

I. General Format and Length:

Submitted texts must be formatted in Times New Roman, 12 pt, with 1.5 line spacing. Articles should be 5,000–8,000 words in length, including footnotes and excluding appendixes and the bibliography. Book reviews (when they concern a single work) must not exceed 2,500 words.

Each article must be accompanied by an abstract of 100–130 words in English and Greek. If the author is unable to provide the abstract in one of the two languages, the translation will be undertaken under the responsibility of Mos Historicus. At the end of the abstract, six (6) keywords, selected by the author(s), must be included.

II. References and Footnotes:

References and notes must be provided as footnotes. Each reference is indicated in the text by a superscript footnote number. When a footnoted word is followed by punctuation, the footnote number is placed after the punctuation mark. The only exception is when the reference applies exclusively to the part of the phrase preceding an en dash (–).

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

˃ The first time a reference is made, the full details of the work are listed, according to the following models:

1. i. Books (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.

ii. Contribution within 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.

iii. Later edition of a book:

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

iv. 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).

˃ If the e-book is hosted on a website, the reference must be formatted as follows:
Judith Butler, Bodies That Matter: On the Discursive Limits of Sex, Routledge, New York and London 1993, p. 58. Retrieved from: http://archive.org/details/bodiesthatmatter00butl/2up (accessed: 20.05.2022).

2. Articles
i. 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.

ii. Chapter or article 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.

iii. 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).

iv. Article/paper published in conference minutes:

Roger Swift, “The Historiography of the Irish in Nineteenth Century Britain: Some Perspectives.”, in Patrick Buckland and John Belchem (eds), The Irish in British Labour History, Issue 1 of Conference proceedings in Irish studies, University of Liverpool with the Society for the Study of Labour History, Liverpool 1993, pp. 8–12.

3. 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.

Mimi Goodall, Sugar in the British Atlantic World 1650-1720.”, PhD thesis, University of Oxford, Oxford 2022, p. 65. Available from: https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid%3A3f9fa73b-7fdf-4e68-b92a-02938b328dc3 (accessed: 18.01.2026).

4. Primary sources:

i. 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.

ii. Reference to a newspaper:

"London, Wednesday, July 6, 1897", The Times, 06.07.1897, p. 9.

˃ 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.

˃ 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.

˃ 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.

˃ 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.

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

III. 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

IV. Bibliography:

Each article must conclude with a bibliography; the bibliography’s word count is not included in the overall word count of the article.

The bibliography must be organized as follows:

1. Primary sources, secondary literature, and webography must be clearly separated into distinct sections. Each webography entry must include the date of last access.
2. In the bibliography (unlike in footnotes), the author’s surname precedes the first name, separated by a comma.
3. Entries must be listed in alphabetical order.

Examples:

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

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

V. Additional Specifications for English-language Submissions:

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

Review Procedure

The evaluation of submissions to Mos Historicus is coordinated by the Editorial Committee. Manuscripts shortlisted by the Editorial Committee for a second stage of assessment are subsequently evaluated by the Scientific Committee; the Editorial Committee then reaches its final decision on the basis of the Scientific Committee’s formal opinion. Rejection of a submission may sometimes reflect an unfavorable assessment of content, but other times it may be based on considerations of thematic relevance, editorial planning, and the journal’s overall profile and standards. A submission may likewise be declined when authors do not engage adequately with the revision process, including failure to submit requested amendments or to address required corrections and improvements.

Evaluation is conducted through the double-blind peer review method. For further information, see the section “About the Journal”.

In order to be published in Mos Historicus, an article must not have been previously published and must not be under concurrent consideration by another scholarly journal. Nevertheless, the journal encourages and permits the deposit of a Preprint, an Accepted Manuscript, and/or the publisher’s Version of Record (VoR) in repositories, in accordance with the journal’s policy. 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 4.0 licence and should conform to specific conditions (see “Copyright and Licensing Policy").

Mos Historicus reserves the right to carry out final editorial work on all articles. Accordingly, during the evaluation process and after acceptance, authors may be asked to introduce revisions and/or corrections to the content and/or form of their work.

Further Requirements for Submissions

I. Visual Material:

Any visual material intended for inclusion in an article (maps, images, tables, etc.) must be submitted in a separate Word Document. Each item must be accompanied by a caption conforming to the journal’s copyright policy. The main text must include a clear indication of the placement of each item (e.g., Figure 1). Images must be provided in JPG or PNG format.

II. Author Information Following Final Acceptance:

Following the final acceptance of an article, authors are requested to submit a separate Word document containing:

1. the author’s/ authors’ name(s) and brief biographical note(s), [position, field of teaching and/or research, institutional affiliation (university/research centre), and recent publications relevant to the submitted article];
2. an email address (authors who do not wish their email address to be published must state this explicitly); and
3. an ORCID iD, when available.