Instructions for authors can be found here.

The target length for manuscripts is between 8,000 and 10,000 words, including notes—with one-inch margins and 12-point type. If the manuscript exceeds 12,500 words including notes, please inquire before submitting it.

Please review all of the instructions and do not assume that your manuscript is already properly formatted to meet the Journal and Publisher’s formatting standards. We ask you carefully follow JGAPE’s citation styles, described below.

Competing Interest Declaration

            All authors will be asked to submit a competing interest declaration in the online submission site. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article. Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual, or personal relationships or situations. If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.

Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author A is employed at company B. Author C owns shares in company D, is on the Board of company E and is a member of organisation F. Author G has received grants from company H.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none.”

Open Access Policies

Please visit www.cambridge.org/core/services/open-access-policies for more information on our open access policies, compliance with major funding bodies, read and publish agreements, and guidelines on depositing your manuscript in an institutional repository. 

Title Page

You will need to upload a separate title page document in ScholarOne. The title page should include the title of manuscript, your name, your academic affiliation (including country), the five keywords for your manuscript, the abstract for your manuscript, and a brief biographical blurb on yourself.]. The keywords should be separated by a comma. A “keyword” can contain a short phrase (e.g., “African American voting rights,” “Foreign Relations,” “World War I,” etc.). Please do not include any extra keywords, CUP has a limit of five keywords. Your abstract should be between 150 and 200 words in length. Your bio blurb must be 100 words or less. 

Figures (includes pictures, photographs, maps, tables, and graphs)

The editors welcome the inclusion of illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, and figures in your manuscript (hereafter simply referred to as “figures”). 

General Formatting Guidelines

            Please submit the final version of your manuscript to ScholarOne as a Microsoft Word document (.doc or .docx file). We cannot forward Adobe Acrobat (.pdf) files to Cambridge University Publishing. What follows are some basic formatting guidelines. For other matters, contact the editor or consult the 17###sup/sup### edition of The Chicago Manual of Style (CMS). The journal departs in a few minor ways from the CMS. Cambridge University Press has its own copyediting guidelines, but all relevant points are covered in the journal's own guidelines or will be familiar to authors with a working knowledge of CMS.

Style within Text

• One space between sentences rather than two.
• Use a for all indefinite articles preceding a word starting with a hard consonant sound and an for words starting with a vowel sound (including abbreviations and no matter how the word is spelled).
  • a historian, a eulogy
  • an LSAT exam, an hour ago.
• Follow American spelling conventions.
  • favor, defense, realize.
• Please utilize the “Oxford comma” regarding serial commas.
  •  hop, skip, and jump.
• Italicize book, journal, magazine, and newspaper titles.
  • To Kill a Mockingbird, New York Times, The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era
• Italicize foreign-language words.
• Format dates according to American practice.

  
  

  • September 16, 2011
  • Do not abbreviate months in text or figure captions
  • In endnotes, do abbreviate all months except May, June, and July.

• Follow American practice regarding quotations. Double quotation marks and most punctuation (i.e., periods/commas) inside the quotation marks. Place semicolons, colons, exclamation points, and question marks outside, unless part of quoted material.
  • The teacher said, "Take your book." Or: "Take your book," said the teacher.
• Hyphenate compound adjectives with "century" as follows:
  • Nineteenth-century politicians; early twentieth-century feminists; late nineteenth-century fashion.
  • However, do not use hyphens in nouns: "In the late nineteenth century, people began to bicycle."
• Ethnic/Racial compounds: A debate is currently underway as to whether this should be an exception to the rule of hyphenating compound adjectives. CMS expresses ambivalence about the matter. For consistency's sake among this journal's authors, please omit the hyphen:
  • African American literature; Italian American neighborhoods.
  • Of course, no hyphen in noun form: Irish Americans.
  • Capitalize Black, Latino/Latina/Latinx, and Indigenous when referring to individuals, social groups, or matters associated with individuals or social groups.
• Unless there is a reason to do otherwise, use "U.S." as an adjective and "United States" as a noun:
  • "Blundering U.S. diplomacy" versus "The United States sometimes engages in diplomacy."
• Permutations of populist and progressive: Over time, the journal has adopted the practice of capitalizing only the proper noun forms of these pervasive terms.
  • The Progressive Era, the Progressive Party, but progressivism, progressive ideas
  •  "James Weaver was the Populist candidate in 1892," but "The Farmers' Alliances formulated numerous populist proposals."
• For em dashes use – rather than --
• Ellipses: leave one space on both sides when the ellipse is within the quote.
  • e.g., "said … nothing."
• Numbers: spell out numbers up to 100; use numerals for numbers greater than 100; and use numerals for percentages (e.g., 5 percent).
• Do not use superscripts for ordinals in the text or notes.
  • 108th rather than 108^th
• If ordinals can be spelled out in one or two words, do so.
  • second or twenty-second

 

Citations

Please ensure that your citations are in the form of endnotes in accordance with The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th edition. You may add acknowledgements in your final draft which should be placed before the first endnote in the “Notes” section. The editors request that you not mention them in your acknowledgements.

 As you check to ensure that your endnotes follow house style, please pay special attention to your citations of journal articles. As described in more detail below, JGAPE prefers volume numbers followed by month/season and year rather than volume number, issue number and year.  (For ex: Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 21 (July 2022): page numbers.)  If you are unable to find a month or season, you may include the issue number. 

Style within Notes

Regarding place names in book citations: Like most people, if not the CMS, we now use "MA" as opposed to "Mass." For smaller cities with well-known universities, omit the state (e.g., Chapel Hill, Urbana, New Haven, Princeton). On the other hand, include state abbreviations where needed to differentiate (e.g., Bloomington, IL, vs. Bloomington, IN). When the publisher’s name includes the state name, the abbreviation is not needed. Cambridge, England can stand alone as “Cambridge,” but you should use “Cambridge, MA” for the American city in Massachusetts.

 

Book with a single author:

• First citation: Christine Stansell, American Moderns: Bohemian New York and the Creation of a New Century (New York: Metropolitan Books, 2000), 120–37.
• Subsequent citations: Stansell, American Moderns, 47, 309.

Book with an author and editor/translator:

• First citation: Randolph Bourne, The History of a Literary Radical and Other Papers, ed. Van Wyck Brooks (New York: S.A. Russell, 1956), 127–29.
• Subsequent citations: Bourne, History of a Literary Radical, 134.

Book with multiple authors:

• First citation: Walter Muir Whitehill and Lawrence Kennedy, Boston: A Topographical History, 3rd ed. (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000), 18–19.
• Subsequent citations: Whitehill and Kennedy, Boston, 243–47.
• For books (or articles) with more than three authors/editors, list only the first, followed by et al.—e.g., Smith et al., Book Title (City, year).

 

Citations with multiple sources. Treat such notes as a complete sentence. When listing many citations in a row, separate each with a semicolon. An exception: Several books from one author may be separated with a comma. Restate only the author's last name:

• See esp. Stephen Ambrose, Undaunted Courage (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1998), and Ambrose, Band of Brothers (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2004).

Multivolume works. Always use Arabic numerals to indicate volume numbers. Omit the word vol. if the volume number is immediately followed by a page number. To cite a particular volume:

• First citation: Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, A History of the National Capital, vol. 2 (New York: Macmillan, 1916), 574; or, alternatively: Wilhelmus Bogart Bryan, A History of the National Capital (New York: Macmillan, 1916), 2:574.
• Subsequent citations: Bryan, History of the National Capital, 2:574.

 

Journal articles: Give the volume number, month (or, if applicable, the season in upper case: Spring, Summer, etc.) of publication, and the year. For the first citation, use a colon after the close parentheses and then give the page number. In general, omit the issue number. If, however, you accessed the article via an online service that does not provide the month of publication, and that information is not evident from the online version of the article, then issue numbers are acceptable in the format: Vol.:no. (Year): pp; for example, 8:3 (2009): 367.

• First citation: Kyle E. Ciani, "Hidden Laborers: Female Day Workers in Detroit, 1870–1920," Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era 4 (Jan. 2005): 23–51.
• Subsequent citations: Ciani, "Hidden Laborers," 29–32. {Note: Use a comma, not a colon, between abbreviated title and page number.}

 

Article from an edited collection:

• First citation: Thomas J. Schlereth, "Burnham's Plan and Moody's Manual: City Planning as Progressive Reform" in The American Planner: Biographies and Recollections, ed. Donald A. Krueckeberg (New York, 1983), 75–99. Note: no comma before "in"
• Subsequent citations: Schlereth, "Burnham's Plan," 88.

 

Dissertations/Theses:

• First citation: Melissa McLoud, "Craftsmen and Entrepreneurs: Washington, D.C.'s Late Nineteenth-Century Builders" (PhD diss., George Washington University, 1988), 87–104.
• Subsequent citations: McLoud, "Craftsmen and Entrepreneurs," ch. 4.

 

Website and electronic citations: When a URL begins with "www," omit the prefix "http://" The date in parentheses is the access date. Be aware of the decay of online sources:

• Timothy Mahoney, "Gilded Age Plains City: The Great Sheedy Murder Trial and the Booster Ethos of Lincoln, Nebraska," http://gildedage.unl.edu/ (accessed Sept. 17, 2011).
• The 1877 Strike at "Railroads and the Making of Modern America," http://railroads.unl.edu/topics/strike.php. (accessed May 24, 2010).
• The 17th Edition of the CMS contains updated information regarding citation of electronic sources. In addition, The College of William & Mary offers detailed examples of online citations here. However, please note that while both the CMS and The College of William & Mary website can help with what type of information to include in citation, authors should follow as closely as possible the format and style of the above examples.

 

Newspaper citations: Omit The from the names of newspapers. For newspapers from before World War I, in almost all cases authors may omit section and page numbers but should indicate when an article comes from a supplement. If there is a reason to think specificity necessary, then do add, for example, B, 7. In most cases, a newspaper may be cited without author, article name, or page:

• New York Times, Dec. 3, 1914.
• Occasionally, one will want to cite a newspaper article by author and title: Monica Davey and Jodi Wilgoren, "Signs of Danger Were Missed in Troubled Teenager's Life," New York Times, Mar. 24, 2005, B, 1.

• When the city is not on the masthead, add the city in parenthesis after the title. e.g., Oregonian (Portland), Dec. 21, 1913, Sun (New York), July 26, 1901.
• When the paper comes from a smaller or lesser-known city: Aberdeen (South Dakota) Daily News, Dec. 15, 1913.
• For a string of articles from the same newspaper: New York Times, Apr. 2, 1875, June 3, 1876, and May 25, 1892.

 

Mass-Circulation Magazines: Treat similarly to newspapers, omitting volume information.

• Harper's Monthly, June 1896, 372–76; Nation, Nov. 7, 1872, 24.

Professional or organizational publications: These can be a judgment call in terms of treating them as magazines or as specialized periodicals.

• James H. Eckels, "The Association of Credit Men as Viewed by the Banker," The Lawyer and Credit Man 8 (May 1898): 8; or
• James H. Eckels, "The Association of Credit Men as Viewed by the Banker," The Lawyer and Credit Man, May 1898, 8.

 

Manuscript collections: These have no hard or fast citation rules. The CMS requires only that a subsequent researcher should be able to find the item. Folder numbers are preferred. At a minimum, supply a box number, reel number, or similar locating information for unpublished documents. Use common sense and streamline where possible.

• First citation from a collection: Lewis Hine to Frank Manny, Aug. 7, 1910, folder 6, box 3, Lewis Hine Collection, George Eastman House.
• Subsequent citations: Lewis Hine to Alfred Stieglitz, Nov. 9, 1911; Hine to Frank Manny, Dec. 12, 1912, folder 7, box 4, Hine Collection.

 

Documents from the National Archives:The National Archives is a fertile source of convolution and inconsistency. After the first citation from any National Archives collection in an article, please abbreviate citations from all other collections as NA or NA–College Park. After the first citation of a record group, omit the collection name and abbreviate as RG x. For example, Records of the District of Columbia, RG 351, can simply become RG 351. If you have all the information, a full citation from a National Archives document may take the form:

• Division of Venereal Diseases to Oregon Social Hygiene Society, Nov. 25, 1918, folder 1918–19, file 235.4, box 90, entry 42, U.S. Public Health Service, Record Group 90, National Archives, College Park, MD.
• At a minimum, this will suffice: Charles Brand to Samuel Harrison, Feb. 17, 1917, box 285, Records of the Office of the Secretary of Agriculture, Record Group 16, National Archives, College Park, MD.

 

Congressional Globe or Congressional Record:

• Congressional Record, 61st Cong., 2nd sess. (May 5, 1910), 5823–30.

 

Congressional Serial Sets: For shorter Serial Set documents

• "Expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia," 66th Cong., 2nd sess. (Jan. 5, 1920), H rept. 531.

For full-length reports or books published in the Serial Set

• Charles Moore, ed., Improvement of the Park System of the District of Columbia, 57th Cong., 1st sess. (Jan. 15, 1902), S rept. 166, 44–45; or Charles Moore, ed., Improvement of the Park System of the District of Columbia (Washington, 1902), 44–45. Note: In the second case, the Government Printing Office serves as the publisher.

 

Citing Elders and Knowledge Keepers: There has been a lot of discussion around how to cite Indigenous Elders and Traditional Knowledge Keepers in academic literature. Recently, librarians have begun to develop new guidelines (https://eos.org/articles/academic-citations-evolve-to-include-indigenous-oral-teachings?fbclid=IwAR3ogLlGIpF9s_fHo2Ic9PdXcP1wVVeS8__B0APlMaT0WoszdH6In99L4YM). We suspect this will continue to be a dynamic space, but we would like to establish a JGAPE standard for citing Elders and Knowledge Keepers. We will update this when CMS publishes formula guidelines, hopefully in their next edition.

·         Unlike other personal communications, Elders and Knowledge Keepers should be cited in-text and in the reference list.

·         First citation: First Names Last Name (Elder), Nation, Topic/subject of communication if applicable, Personal communication, Territorial acknowledgement of where the information was shared, Month Date, Year. Example: Lekeyten (Elder), Kwantlen First Nation, Community Justice, Personal communication, Shared on the traditional unceded territory of the Kwantlen, Musqueam, Katzie, Semiahmoo, Tsawwassen, Qayqayt, and Kwikwetlem Peoples, April 9, 2019.

·         Subsequent Citations: Last Name, Month Date, Year. Example: Lekeyten, April 9, 2019.

 

Figures (includes pictures, photographs, maps, tables, and graphs)

The editors welcome to inclusion of illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, and figures in your manuscript (hereafter simply referred to as “figures”). If you have previously embedded figures in your manuscript, you will need to remove them from the final version of the manuscript that you submit to ScholarOne (this includes tables or graphs). At the end of the paragraph (after the last punctuation) nearest the location you would like the figure to appear, you should put in what we refer to as a “call out.” The call out takes the following form “[Figure X].” Where “X” is the figure number. Here is what it would look like:

·         “This is the last sentence of a paragraph. [Figure 1]”

Your call outs should all use this format regardless of the type of figure it is (i.e., do not label some “[Map 1]” or “[Table 1]”). Cambridge University Press will do its best to locate your figure as close to your call out as possible given the layout of the journal.

You will need to upload each figure individually to ScholarOne. When you upload them, please name the file according to the corresponding call out in the text of your manuscript. For example, [Figure 1] should have a file such as “figure1.tif.” This ensures that CUP can put the correct figures in the correct spot. For tables or graphs that you originally created in your manuscript, we recommend recreating the table in a separate document and uploading that document to ScholarOne.

 

Image Captions

You will also need to create a separate word document that contains the captions for all your figures. Your captions should include the figure number (please ensure that this corresponds to the call out in your manuscript), a description of the figure, the citation for the figure, and permissions for your figure, if required (see instructions on permissions below). When complete, upload this document to ScholarOne. If you previously created a footnote/endnote that included the citation for a figure in your manuscript, please remove that note from the manuscript and include that information in the caption.

 

File Formats for Image Figures and Formatting Issues.

Cambridge University Press prefers that image figures are upload in one of the following formats: Tagged Image File Format of TIFF (.tif files), Encapsulated PostScript or EPS (.eps files), or Portable Document Files or PDF (.pdf files). In almost all cases, you can save an image file in another format to one of these formats. Cambridge considers the following formats usable but not preferred: JPEGs, Microsoft PowerPoint Files, Images created in Microsoft Word, GIF images downloaded from the internet. Your images must have a resolution of at least 300 dpi to ensure that they will show up clearly in print. If your current image is not of this quality, you will need to either seek out a better version of the image or remove it from your article.

Please keep in mind that Cambridge prints the Journal in black and white. Cambridge can print color images, however there is an additional cost for this that you would have to cover. Please contact the editorial assistant if this is the case. That said, Cambridge publishes the Journal’s articles online in color, and there is no fee for this. We suggest that you first view color images that you want printed in black and white/grayscale to ensure that the images transitions to this format well (i.e., is there enough contrast to discern the image?). This can be especially true for maps and maps where you may have added lines, arrows, etc. to highlight part of the map. If the image does not translate well from color to black and white, you may want to reach out to the original holder of the photograph to see if they have a black and white copy that will work better.

As you prepare your images for upload, you should crop out any borders in the image and straighten the image as well. Cambridge often sends back image files for correction for these reasons. This often happens for images based on photographs taken from archival materials where it is clear that the image was taken at an angle. If you have any questions or concerns about your images, please contact the editorial assistant for more guidance and help.

 

Figure Permissions

Authors should be prepared to secure permission for images from the copyright owner unless the material is public domain. Long quotations and quotations from poetry or song lyrics may also require permission. Government documents are generally considered in the public domain and do not need permissions. For materials that you obtained from a repository (e.g., an archive, library, or database like ProQuest), you should first contact that repository. They may have a required form for you to complete to grant you permission to reproduce that image in the journal. If they reply to you stating that they have no rights to the image (and they know of no other potential rights issues), you should upload a copy of that email as proof of permissions. Be mindful that repositories may have a specific format for citing them in your caption. Please also be aware that repositories may have fees for reproduction. Any fees associated with this will be at your expense. You may also need to approach the original publisher. They will tell you if you will need permission or if you need to approach the author (or someone else). If in doubt, please consult the editorial assistance. Below are two example letters that you can submit to a publisher or repository if they do not have their own permission to reproduce form.

 

1. For permission request to use extract/illustration/table from another publisher’s work for which no permission fee is expected to be charged: 

 

Dear <rightsholder>  

<article title>  

 

I am writing/contributing to an academic work under the provisional title above, to be published by Cambridge University Press in The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era, in <month (if known) and year of publication>.  

 

I request your permission to include the following material in this work: 

Author: 

Title: 

Date of publication: <volume and issue if applicable>: 

ISBN <ISSN if journal>: 

Page no.(s): 

Illustration no.(s): 

Table no.(s): 

 

Unless otherwise informed, permission will be assumed to grant the nonexclusive right to use the material in print and electronic editions of the work throughout the world, in all revised editions of the work and as part of a sample of the work made available online for promotional purposes only.  

 

I further request permission for the material to be included in any reprint published under licence from Cambridge University Press. 

The source of the material will be fully acknowledged in the usual way. Please indicate below if you have any special requirements:  ......................................................................................................................................  ...................................................................................................................................... 

 

Please indicate your agreement to this request by signing and returning one copy of this letter. The duplicate is for your own records. By your countersignature, you warrant that you control these rights and are authorised to grant this permission.  

 

If this is not the case, I would be grateful if you could let me know to whom I should apply. 

 

Yours sincerely 

<signature lines> 

 

I/we hereby grant the permission detailed above. 

Signed:....................................... Date: ......................... 

 

 

2. For permission request to a museum, agency etc. for the use of an illustration for which a permission fee is expected to be charged:  

Dear <rightsholder>  

 

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era

I am writing/contributing to an article entitled <article title> to be published by Cambridge University Press in the above journal. Cambridge University Press is a not-for-profit organisation, and my article is intended principally for scholars and their libraries.  

 

I request your permission to include the following material in this work: <details of illustration(s)> 

 

I require the nonexclusive right to use the material in print and electronic editions of the work in all languages throughout the world, in all subsequent reprints and as part of a digitised extract from the work made available online for promotional purposes only.  

 

Please advise me of your terms and conditions. In accordance with normal publishing practice, any permission fee will be paid on publication of the work.  

 

Yours sincerely  

<name>