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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • Student is paired with a faculty advisor that is familiar with Chicago writing style and willing to guide
    the student through the entire writing process, as they see fit, to make the initial
    submission and to help with revisions and resubmission.
  • The submission file is Microsoft Word.
  • The text is double-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining; and all illustrations, figures, and tables must include appropriate citations that are placed within the text at the relevant points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the Chicago Manual of Style.
  • The submission employs footnotes rather than endnotes, and citations are in FOOTNOTE format, not bibliography format.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided to the Editor).

Author Guidelines

Formatting Instructions

  1. Open the submission and save on your desktop (or wherever you save things) as a Word document.
  2. Delete title page, page numbers, and bibliography
  3. Use the following format for title and author:

Mesoamerican Perspectives on Mexican Conquest History: Using Digitized Indigenous Primary Sources in the Undergraduate Classroom

Ashley Stevens

Start article text here…

NEXT

Make sure that the tool bar is pinned down and open the “Home” ribbon, click “Editing,” then click “select” dropdown, click “select all.” Then put the essay in the following layout:

Time New Roman font, size 12

One-inch margins

Half-inch paragraph indent

Double-spaced; remove paragraph above and below; justified

Then put the cursor in the footnotes area, and “select all” like you did for the body and do the following:

Time New Roman font, size 10

Half-inch paragraph indent

Single-spaced; remove paragraph above and below; justified

Footnotes as Arabic numerals.

Footnote format of Chicago Manual of Style citations in footnotes

Click “save”

Footnotes format: 

     1. First name Last name, Title of Book (Place of publication: Publisher, Year of publication), page number.

Images

      Figure #: Description of the image. Title of work. (Medium of the image) provided by (distributor).

Graphs/charts

      Figure #: Description of the image. Title of work. (Medium of the image) provided by (distributor).

Please note the following timetable:

  1. After you submit your paper, it will be sent out to at least one peer reviewer. These are single-blind peer reviews; the authors don't know who's reading their essay.
  2. You should hear back within 4-6 weeks with the reviewer's comments. Please revise and rewrite your paper, incorporating the reviewers' comments and cleaning up any lingering issues regarding argument, grammar, footnotes, etc.
  3. The deadline to resubmit your paper will be listed along with the reviewers' comments.

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