Editorial Guidelines:
Is your article suitable for Management & Organizational History?
Manuscripts should be submitted by email to the Editors as an attachment in Microsoft Word to: SBM-MOH@qmul.ac.uk
All manuscripts are reviewed initially by the Editors and only those papers that meet the editorial standards of the journal, and fit within the aims and scope of the journal, will be sent for outside review. Papers should be written in English and should not have been published already, nor be currently under consideration elsewhere. Articles sent out for review are refereed anonymously by at least two referees.
The editors hope that referees will provide developmental feedback to authors so that papers can be published after one round of revisions.
Manuscript Preparation
As articles are refereed anonymously, please ensure that you remove any identification from your manuscript. Please ensure that you remove citations or acknowledgements that would allow you to be identified by referees as these can be added later if your paper is accepted for publication. Please give all your contact details in the email to which your manuscript is attached.
Manuscript pages should be numbered and double spaced throughout. This includes not only the text but also the notes, references, displayed quotations, tables and all other material.
The title page should include: the full title of the paper, an abstract of 100-150 words, between 5 and 8 keywords, in alphabetical order for searching online, preferably not words already in title, and a word count.
Articles should normally be about 8,000 words.
Style Guide
In general, manuscripts submitted to M&OH should conform to the advice given by The Chicago Manual of Style (15th or subsequent editions). This provides extensive guidance on grammar and usage, punctuation, names and terms, numbers, abbreviations, citations, and so on. However, where there is a conflict between Chicago and the guidance contained in this note, please follow this advice.
M&OH accepts papers with U.S. or U.K. spelling variants, providing usage is consistent. Similarly, we accept two (consistently) different citation and referencing styles; the notes/bibliography system and the author/date system.
Notes/Bibliography System:
In this system, an abbreviated reference is given in a note, while the reference list at the end of the paper contains the full reference. An example of a note (single reference first with p. no., then multiple references, without pp. nos.) would be as follows. The full citation is then given in the bibliography:
Note version:
1. Kieser, "Historical Analysis", 612.
2. Hawthorn, Plausible Worlds; McKnight, "Alternative History"; Roese & Olsen, What Might Have Been; Weber, "Counterfactuals".
Notes may include discursive as well as bibliographic material. Please note that the publisher recommends that you do not present them as embedded footnotes to the page of citation as they may well get lost in the conversion process. If you have used this style in preparing your article, please disembed the footnotes and present them as a unified list between the end of your text and the start of your references section or bibliography.
Full Version in Bibliography:
Kieser, A. "Why Organization Theory Needs Historical Analyses - and How This Should be Performed". Organization Science 5 (1994): 608-620.
Hawthorn, G. Plausible Worlds: Possibility and Understanding in the Human Sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
McKnight, E.V. "Alternative History: The Development of a Literary Genre". PhD diss., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2004.
Roese N.J. and J.M. Olsen, eds. What Might Have Been: The Social Psychology of Counterfactual Thinking. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum, 1995.
Weber, S. "Counterfactuals, Past and Future". In Counterfactual Thought Experiments in World Politics: Logical, Methodological, and Psychological Perspectives, edited by P.E. Tetlock and A. Belkin, 268-288. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Name/Date System:
In this system, the name and date (and p. no. if quoting) are given, usually parenthetically, in the text and the full citation in the Reference list at the end of the paper. Notes should not normally be used except in unavoidable circumstances, and should not in any case be used for citation purposes. In the case of the references above, examples of this system are as follows:
Kieser (1994, 612) argues that
or
It has been argued (Hawthorn 1991; McKnight 1994; Roese and Olsen 1995; Weber 1996) that
The full reference is then given in the References section at the end of the paper:
Kieser, A. 1994. Why organization theory needs historical analyses - and how this should be performed. Organization Science 5:608-620.
Hawthorn, G. 1991. Plausible worlds: Possibility and understanding in the human sciences. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
McKnight, E.V. 1994. Alternative history: The development of a literary genre. PhD diss., Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Roese N.J. and J.M. Olsen, eds. 1995. What might have been: The social psychology of counterfactual thinking.
Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Weber, S. 1996. Counterfactuals, past and future. In: Counterfactual thought experiments in world politics: Logical, methodological, and psychological perspectives, ed. P.E. Tetlock and A. Belkin, 268-288. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Please note the differences in full reference format between the two systems. Please consult Chicago or the M&OH editor for advice on referencing other types of materials in either system.
In all cases please ensure that whichever system chosen is used consistently. Please double-check that all references in the text are identified in the reference list; that all works listed in the references are mentioned in the text; and that publication dates and author spellings are consistent throughout. Corrections and queries are time-consuming and may delay acceptance or publication of your article. References should be part of the normal word-processing style, not embedded in the text.
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