FORUM HISTORIAE MANUAL OF STYLE (FOR AUTHORS)

FILE: 		Microsoft Word .doc, .docx
FONT: 	Times New Roman
SIZE AND STYLE: 	
Main title => 14 / bold regular, aligned to center
1. Subtitle => 12 / bold regular, aligned left 
1.2 Subtitle => 12 / bold regular, aligned left

plain text => 12 / regular 
	footnote text => 10 / regular
	
quotes => 12 / regular => e.g. “Peter Burke’s perceptive 2004 claim that full-ﬂedged cultural and linguistic histories of violence have yet to be written is hardly outdated.” (please, always use the Times New Roman font standard double quotation marks “..”, use single quotation marks ʻ..ʼ only to mark a quotation inside a quotation)

DATES AND NUMERALS:
The date notation => day-month-year format => day (numerical) month (month name) year (numerical) (e.g. 1 January 1900)
Years placed at the beginning of a sentence should be written out as words. (e.g. Nineteen twenty-nine brought the Great Depression…)
Numerals: 
-	from 0 to 9 => verbal representation (e.g. “Wehrmacht units executed eight or nine adult males while the remaining 129 inhabitants were murdered by the Einsatzgruppen.”; “fifth century”)
-	10s and higher => numerical representation; thousands separated by a space (e.g. 36 125; 107 085; 2 478 526; 553 457 260; “17th century”) 
-	ten and hundred thousands, millions etc. (base numbers) => combination of numerical and verbal representation (e.g. 12 thousand; 145 thousand; six million; 11 million; five billion, 20 billion)
-	decimal numbers => separated by a decimal point (e.g. 15.7 % )

BIBLIOGRAPHY, REFERENCES, FOOTNOTES:

MONOGRAPH: 
one author:
LATHAM, Michael. The Right Kind of Revolution: Modernization, Development, and U.S. Foreign Policy from the Cold War to the Present. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2010, p. 24.
	two or three authors: 
NEITZEL, Sönke –WELZER, Harald. Soldiers: German POWs on fighting, killing, and dying. New York : Vintage Books, 2013.

STOVER, Eric – PESKIN, Victor – KOENIG, Alexa. Hiding in Plain Sight: The Pursuit of War Criminals from Nuremberg to the War on Terror. Berkeley : University of California Press, 2016, pp. 8–15. 
	more than three authors:
TRENCSÉNYI, Balázs et al. A History of Modern Political Thought in East Central Europe. Volume I: Negotiating Modernity in the ‘Long Nineteenth Century’. Oxford; New York : Oxford University Press, 2016.

EDITED BOOKS, VOLUMES:
	one editor: 
TOTTOLI, Roberto (ed.) Routledge handbook of Islam in the West. London; New York : Routledge/Taylor & Francis Group, 2014.
	two or three editors:
STOVER, Eric – WEINSTEIN, Harvey M. (eds.) My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004.
	more than three editors:
STROEBE, Wolfgang et al. (eds.) The Social Psychology of Intergroup Conflict. Theory, Research and Applications. Berlin; New York : Springer-Verlag, 1988.

EDITIONS OF BOOKS:
BONILLA-SILVA, Eduardo. Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. 4th ed. Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield, 2013, (1st edition 2003).

CHAPTER IN A BOOK:
SEARLE, John R. Language and Social Reality. In SEARLE, John R. The Construction of Social Reality. New York : The Free Press, 1995, pp. 59–78.

LONGMAN, Timothy – PHAM, Phuong – WEINSTEIN, Harvey M. Connecting Justice to Human Experience: Attitudes Toward Accountability and Reconciliation in Rwanda. In STOVER, Eric – WEINSTEIN, Harvey M. (eds.) My Neighbor, My Enemy: Justice and Community in the Aftermath of Mass Atrocity. Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004, pp. 206–225.

EDITOR OR TRANSLATOR IN ADDITION TO AUTHOR:
MACHIAVELLI, Niccolò. The Prince. Translated by George Bull. Penguin Classics. London : Penguin Books, 1999 (1st edition 1532).

SMITH, Adam. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations. Edited by Edwin Cannan. Chicago, IL : University of Chicago Press, 1976.

EDITED SOURCES

ŠOLLE, Zdeněk (ed.) Masaryk a Beneš ve svých dopisech z doby pařižských mirových jednání v roce 1919, 2 Vols. Praha : Práce z dějin České akademie věd, 1994.

PERIODICALS, ARTICLES IN JOURNALS:
	article in journal:
WILSON, Adrian. The Reflexive Test of Hayden White’s “Metahistory”. In History and Theory, 2014, vol. 53, no. 1, pp. 1–23.

	articles in print newspapers:
WHITE, Michael. Russian proposals threaten allies, says US. In The Guardian, 7 October 1985, p. 1
HERBERS, John. Nixon, in Memoirs, Admits Cover-Up on Watergate. In The New York Times, Late city edition, 30 April 1978, p. 1.

url / DOI:
KÚDELOVÁ, Kristína. Gabčík Killed an Architect of the Holocaust. Does it Make him the Greatest Slovak? In The Slovak Spectator, 1 Apr 2019, https://spectator.sme.sk/c/22088076/gabcik-wwii-anthropoid-assassination-heydrich-greatest-slovak.html?ref=av-center [last viewed on 19 October 2020]

SUMMERS-EFFLER, Erika – KWAK, Hyunjin Deborah. Weber’s missing mystics: inner-worldly mystical practices and the micro potential for social change. In Theory and Society, 2015, vol. 44, no. 3, pp. 251–282, DOI 10. 1007/sl 1 1 86-01 5-9250-y

SHORT REFERENCE:
LATHAM 2012, p. 25.
STOVER – WEINSTEIN 2004.
STOVER – PESKIN – KOENIG 2016, pp. 25–26.
In case of one author having two or more items published the same year, add the first words of the title:
SEARLE 1995, Language, p. 61.
SEARLE 1995, The Construction, pp. 12–14

If citing the same author and work consecutively two or more times, always repeat the short reference (do not use: Idem / Ibidem !)

ARCHIVAL SOURCE:
Full name of the archive (acronym of the archive’s name), Location of the archive, Name of the archival unit, Name of the document, other identification of the document cite (date, serial number, signature etc.)

National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), College Park, Maryland, fond (f.) T-1244, Relations with the Soviet Union, 1940–1944, Relations with Poland, 1940–1944.
Short reference: NARA, f. T-1244, Relations with the Soviet Union, 1940–1944, Relations with Poland, 1940–1944.

Literárny archív, Slovenská národná knižnica (LA SNK), Martin, Slovakia, Letter Elena Maróthy-Šoltésová to Terézia Vansová, 30 October 1890, Signature (sign.) 198 Z 8.
	Short reference: LA SNK, E. Maróthy-Šoltésová to T. Vansová, 30 October 1890, sign. 198 Z 8.