Journal of Colonialism & Colonial History

The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History is an international, peer-reviewed e-journal. It publishes original research from scholars across the disciplines.

Length and Format

 For guidelines concerning this feature, please see Style Sheet

Cover Sheet and Abstract

Please supply a cover sheet with your name, affiliation and email address; your paper title; and an abstract of up to 100 words in length with your submission. Please save this electronically, using your name and abbreviated title (e.g. Smith, colonial visuality Africa.) The cover sheet should also state the current status of the author - i.e. PhD candidate, honorary fellow, professor, etc.

Paper

When submitting your paper, please include the title of your paper only, and not your name, affiliation or email address. When saving your paper electronically, please use an abbreviated title for your file name, NOT your name (e.g. colonial visuality Africa).

Illustrations and Visual Material

As an e-journal, it is possible to publish photographs, sound, animations, and video material along with texts. You will be required to provide appropriate permissions for these and other materials produced by persons other than the author(s) of the submission

Address for Submission

Please send an electronic copy of your submission by e-mail to jcch.editor@le.ac.uk. Be sure to send your submission as a Word document (.docx). You will receive confirmation of receipt and notification of any next steps within 1-3 weeks.

Roundtables/ Special Issues

If you would like to propose a roundtable or special issue, please contact the editor: jcch.editor@le.ac.uk.

Conversations

For guidelines concerning this feature, please see JCCH Conversations, Author Guidelines

The Hopkins Press Journals Ethics and Malpractice Statement can be found at the ethics-and-malpractice page.

Peer Review Policy

The Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History operates a double blind peer review process. All contributions will be initially assessed by the editor for their originality and suitability for the journal. Papers deemed suitable will then be sent to a minimum of two independent expert reviewers to assess the quality of the paper. This process usually takes 3 months. The Editor is responsible for the final decision regarding acceptance or rejection of articles based on these reviews. The Editor's decision is final.

Criteria for Reviewers

Reviewers are asked to consider the following areas in their reports: General structure and organization of the submission, the coherence and general flow of ideas, the sources used and their interpretation, and the articles contribution and originality.

Revision process

If an author is invited to revise and resubmit their article following the peer review process the editor will make the final decision regarding its acceptance (or query where changes are not made or explained). There is no time limit for the revision process as articles are published in strict order of acceptance. Accepted articles are sent to the copyeditor 2 months prior to publication.

Editor

Clare Anderson, University of Leicester

Book Review Editor

Kellie Moss, University of Leicester

Assistant to the Editor

Kellie Moss, University of Leicester

Copyeditor

Karin Speedy

Founding Editor

Patricia W. Romero, Towson University 

Editorial Board

Seema Alavi, University of Delhi  
Tony Ballantyne, University of Otago 
Antoinette Burton, University of Illinois 
Julia Clancy-Smith, University of Arizona 
Margot Finn, University College of London  
Franklin Knight, Johns Hopkins University 
Philip Morgan, Johns Hopkins University 
Paul Nugent, University of Edinburgh 
Steven Phillips, Towson University 
Cassandra Pybus, University of Sydney 
Ben Vinson III, George Washington University 
Lynn Zastoupil, Rhodes College  

PLEASE NOTE: THE JOURNAL OF COLONIALISM AND COLONIAL HISTORY DOES NOT ACCEPT UNSOLICITED REVIEWS OR REVIEW ESSAYS.

Among the features we expect a review to have are an explanation of the basic argument of the book (or books) under consideration, an assessment of its strengths and weaknesses, and a discussion of how the book fits in the scholarly literatures it addresses. Given the large geographical scope of the journal, we hope that you might gesture toward comparative colonial contexts and historiographies.

The guidelines for submission are as follows:

1. Since we are an electronic journal, we ask that you please submit a copy of your review electronically, preferably in Microsoft Word. Files should be sent as email attachments to the Book Review Editor.
2. Preparing the copy. All text must be double-spaced in Times font, and in 12 point type, justified left and right.
3. Heading. Title. By author. Place of publication: Publisher, date.
   For example: The Legacy of Vincente Guerrero, Mexico’s First Black Indian President. By Theodore G. Vincent. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2001.
   Please note that the title should be italicized, not underlined or in quotation marks.
4. Signature. Please sign the review by listing your name flush left. For example:

Janis Joplin,
University of California, Berkeley

Book reviews should adhere to either the University of Chicago’s Manual of Style, thus relying on endnotes. Please follow the guidelines at: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html (click ‘notes and bibliography’ tab). For example: Maurice Boucher, French Speakers at the Cape (Pretoria: University of Pretoria Press, 1981) 109. Please see the style guide here for further information. 

Please keep within the assigned word limit. Quotations should be short and accompanied by page numbers, in the format “(110)”. If you refer to other scholars or historical figures, please include complete names. If you refer to scholarly works other than the book under review please provide a full footnote.

Dr. Kellie Moss
School of History, Politics & International Relations
University of Leicester
Leicester LE1 7RH
UK

Email: jcch.editor@le.ac.uk

Abstracting & Indexing Databases

• EBSCOhost
  • Academic Search Alumni Edition, 1/1/2005-
  • Academic Search Complete, 1/1/2005-
  • Academic Search Elite, 1/1/2005-
  • Academic Search Premier, 1/1/2005-
  • Academic Search Ultimate, 1/1/2005-
  • America: History and Life, 4/1/2001-
  • Current Abstracts, 1/1/2005-
  • Historical Abstracts (Online), 4/1/2000-
  • Middle Eastern & Central Asian Studies, 9/1/2000-
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • TOC Premier (Table of Contents), 1/1/2005-
• Gale
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
• National Library of Medicine
  • PubMed, coverage dropped
• OCLC
  • ArticleFirst, vol.1, no.1, 2000-vol.12, no.2, 2011
  • Electronic Collections Online, vol.1, no.1, 2000-vol.12, no.2, 2011
• ProQuest
  • MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
  • ProQuest Central, 04/01/2008-
  • Research Library

Source: Ulrichsweb Global Serials Directory.

Published three times per year in April, August, and December

Readers include: Scholars of all aspects of colonialism, from pre-colonial societal studies to current post-colonial theory as well as imperialism and colonialism from the tenth century through modern times.

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