Document Layout
- Times Roman 12-point font, double space and left justify, indent new paragraphs
- Do not embed figures in your Word doc. See Images and Captions below.
Spelling
- Canadian spelling (e.g., colour, traveller, organization, analyze)
Punctuation
- Use Oxford comma (a, b, and c)
- Use double quotation marks in general; single quotation marks only for quotations within quotations.
Numbers and Dates
- Spell out numbers that can be written with one or two words (e.g., seven, thirty-eight, and one thousand). Use numerals for all other numbers
- Dates take “day month year” format (e.g., 11 October 1852)
Reference Style: MLA 9
- Use in-text citations and provide a Works Cited list
- Works Cited should include DOIs where available; use https://doi.org/ before the DOI
- Exception to MLA: For online articles, no need to name academic database (i.e., second container). Here’s an example:
Langhamer, Claire. “Love and Courtship in Mid-Twentieth-Century England.” Historical Journal, vol. 50, no. 1, 2007, pp. 173–96, ProQuest, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0018246X06005966.)
Images and Captions
If your essay includes images, please submit them in a high-resolution format where possible: 600 dpi .tiff is preferred, but we can sometimes use lower resolution .jpgs or .gifs if necessary. We cannot accept images in a .png format.
Articles should indicate where to place an image by including an in-line reference at the end of the relevant sentence: “(fig.1).” Do not embed images (including graphs or charts) in the text document; they should be provided separately. Captions, too, should be broken out and provided in a separate document file (multiple captions can be gathered in a single file), and should indicate all appropriate details, including an acknowledgement of the copyright holder’s permission. Here’s an example:
Fig. 1. Frontispiece to William Heath, Monster Soup, Commonly Called Thames Water, Being a Correct Representation of That Stuff Doled Out to Us! (Macmillan, 1828). Courtesy of the Wellcome Collection.
Please upload your images to a file sharing platform, such as Dropbox or Google Drive, ensure that the documents are “shareable” and send the link to Janice.schroeder@carleton.ca. If you are unable to provide a link to a shareable file, please email Janice.schroeder@carleton.ca to arrange an alternative.
Please provide copyright permission forms or email correspondence with copyright holders that you have collected in the course of preparing your manuscript. Most archives, libraries, and other rights holders will have their own forms for this purpose, but you’ll find one for JHUP attached should you need it. If it has the relevant information, a website print out is also acceptable.
Images scanned from books or other print sources published in the United States before 1923 are considered public domain. In Canada, published works pass into the public domain fifty years after the creator’s death. The regulations surrounding copyright, however, can vary substantially from country to country and from one medium to another; the rights to a photograph of a painting or a statue, even if that painting or statue were made before 1923, might belong to the photographer, for example, or to the publisher of the book in which it appears. Please be sure that you have the appropriate permission. If you have questions about copy-right laws, we recommend consulting the following: https://guides.library.cornell.edu/copyright/
publicdomain
The costs for securing the rights to reproduce an image in both the digital and print domains are the responsibility of the author. Images that are not accompanied by the relevant permissions can result in delay of publication.
Abstracts and Contributors’ Notes
Upon acceptance of their essay, authors will be asked to provide the following:
- Abstract (250 words max)
- Keywords (5-8)
- Contributor’s Note (150 words max)
Please send abstracts and keywords in a single Word document to the editor. Please send contributor’s note in a separate Word document.
File naming format: AUTHOR LAST NAME abstract
AUTHOR LAST NAME bio
Self-Archiving
JHUP journal authors are permitted to deposit a digital copy of their final manuscript in their noncommercial institutional repository, provided the repository is not discipline based and does not accept contributions from outside the institution. If required by law, authors may also include their final manuscript in an OA archive such as PubMed Central. This self-archiving policy pertains to the final manuscript version of the article only and not to the final published version in any format, including PDF. Deposits must credit JHUP as publisher and identify the appropriate copyright holder. For the full policy, click here.
Copyright
Johns Hopkins University Press owns the copyright to material published in Victorian Review. JHUP grants permission to authors to republish their article in any book that is solely their own work. See JHUP Rights and Permissions: https://press.jhu.edu/rights-permissions. For other requests, please visit JHUP Author FAQs.
AI Policy
Victorian Review does not accept essay, forum, or book review submissions written with
Generative AI. Similarly, VR staff does not use AI assistance in our email
correspondence or editorial practices. We work collectively to adjudicate, edit, publish,
and promote scholarly writing. Read more about our AI policy here.
Please also see our publisher’s policy statement on Generative AI.
