Submissions will close 11:59pm on January 31st, 2025 for the 28th edition of ARCHIVE. Please email any questions to uwarchive.hist@gmail.com.
2024 Submission Guidelines:
Any original works will be accepted for review by the editorial board of ARCHIVE. We encourage submitting scholarly papers, seminar research papers, articles, book reviews, and historical essays by any undergraduate student. We will also consider works in non-traditional formats (e.g. graphic novel). Non-history majors’ pieces are both accepted and encouraged. Recent graduates are also welcome to submit their work up to a year after their graduation. Authors only submit up one piece for consideration. To submit your work to ARCHIVE for possible publication, please follow the guidelines outlined below:
Please email your paper and the following information to uwarchive.hist@gmail.com with the subject “ARCHIVE Submission 2024”:
- Full Name
- Major
- University
- Year in School
- Title of Paper
- What the paper was written for (e.g. course, independent research, thesis)
- Semester Written
Additional instructions:
Submission Criteria
We advise that the submission make substantial use of a range of primary sources (unless submitting a historiographical review).
Please remove any identifying information from the submission to render it anonymous for the review process.
Who Can Submit to ARCHIVE?
The only requirement for submitting to ARCHIVE is to write a paper with a focus on historical research and inquiry. No matter what school you attend, what year you are, or what major you are studying, as long as your paper is history-oriented, we encourage you to submit your paper. Some examples of appropriate work are: scholarly papers, seminar research papers, articles, book reviews, and historical essays. Recent alumni are welcome to submit work completed during their undergraduate education up to a year after their graduation.
Formatting Expectations:
Your paper should be at least ten pages and up to 60 pages in length. If submitting a longer work, such as a thesis, you may send the entire piece, but identify the section you would like us to consider in our review process. Please note that you may be asked to reduce your page count depending on the needs of the publication. Do not include an abstract.
Plagiarism:
As a formal publication, ARCHIVE is always concerned with the problem of plagiarism. Please avoid any issues of plagiarism, including but not limited to: failure to properly cite sources, failure to differentiate between quotation and paraphrase, copy and pasting words that are not your own, or using someone else’s ideas as your own.
Citation Expectation:
Your paper should conform to the Chicago Manual of Style (CMS), 17th Edition. Please refer to CMS 17 for all citation guidelines and requirements. In addition, please refer to CMS 17 for formatting regarding numbers, names, capitalizations, hyphenations, dashes, and other forms of punctuation. If your paper does not follow CMS 17 guidelines, or uses another citation system, you will be asked to revise your paper per these guidelines upon acceptance.
Commitment to ARCHIVE:
No paper will be revised or published by ARCHIVE if it is also being published by another journal or publication at the same time. If your paper is accepted, we expect that your material will not appear in any other source before it is published in our journal.
Process Following Acceptance
Upon acceptance of your work to ARCHIVE, you will be expected to work with the editorial board to revise and edit your piece for publication. This process has the potential to be extensive; significant revisions may need to occur. Several rounds of revision will occur prior to detailed copy editing. Though we are relatively flexible with our deadlines, we do expect authors to either be compliant with our deadlines or communicate when issues occur. Repeated failure to submit revisions on time will result in removal from the publishing process.
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