JHET considers for publication original research not published elsewhere in any language. The journal accepts submissions of part(s) of Ph.D. theses or Master’s dissertations as well as works stemming from larger research projects that may end up producing books or other monographs. In both cases it is crucial that authors acknowledge this situation and cite the relevant works (the thesis or the monograph being produced).

1. The JHET is committed to the Cambridge University Press’s publishing ethics guidelines, which apply to authors, peer reviewers, the editorial office and the journal as a whole. Moreover, the journal is deeply committed to fostering long-run efforts aiming at both curbing the ingrained patterns of exclusion and inequalities in academia and publishing high quality research independently of who or where it is produced.

2. Please register and submit your manuscript on our website: http://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jhet. Manuscripts should be submitted preferably as a Word file. You may submit your manuscript as a pdf file, but if it gets accepted it will be published only if you provide the final version as a Word file.

3. The first page of the manuscript should include the author(s)’s name(s) and affiliation(s), and an abstract of 150 words or fewer.

4. Articles published in JHET will normally be less than 11,000 words (including footnotes, tables, figures, references and any appendices). Papers in excess of this length, if accepted for publication, are likely to be subject to a requirement of significant reduction in length.

5. Manuscripts should have 1.5 spacing between lines, including indented quotations, notes, and references. The right margin should be ragged, and the authors should use Times New Roman 12 pt, black font throughout, including notes.

6. Notes should be in the form of footnotes, not endnotes. They should be embedded in the article with numbers indicated by superscripts in the text.

7. Double quotation marks should be used for any quoted material that appears within the body of the text. Single quotation marks should be used for quotes within quotes.

8. American spelling should be used throughout: e.g., color not colour, maximize not maximise.

9. Numbers from one to ninety-nine should be spelled out in the text unless they denote percentages or currency units: e.g. thirty-five books, but 35% of book inventory and £35 per book.

10. The layout of papers, including title, section (sub-) headings, notes, and references should conform to the style evidenced in the JHET. Note that section headings are numbered with Roman numerals and are capitalized.

11. Use italics rather than underlines for book titles and to give emphasis.

12. Mathematical equations and formulas:

• All symbols indicating variables, like a, b, … z should be in italics.
• Functions, like f(.), should be in italics.
• Numbers in equations and formulas are not italicized, even if they are superscripts or subscripts.
• Operators, like =, +, ~ are not italicized.
• Vectors and matrices, like v, M, are usually bold.

13. The first time that a person’s name is used in the text, his or her first name and middle initial, or an alternative appropriate form of reference beyond the surname, should also be given, no matter how well known the individual may be: e.g., John Maynard Keynes, H. Gregg Lewis.

14. Citations in the text must be in round parentheses. The page numbers should be preceded by p., or by pp. if multiple pages are cited: e.g., (George [1886] 1941, pp. 286-287).

15. All figures and tables should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numbers and cited in the manuscript. Numbered figures and their descriptive captions should appear as a unit following the tables at the end of the manuscript. All figures should be supplied as electronic files. Please supply diagrams and other line drawings as 1200 dpi TIFF or EPS files. Please supply photographs as 300 dpi (or higher) TIFF files. There is no charge for including color figures in the online version of the article, but charges apply for all color figures in the print version of the journal. At the time of submission, contributors should clearly state whether their figures should appear in color in the print version. If you request color figures in the printed version, you will be contacted by CCC-Rightslink who are acting on our behalf to collect Author Charges. Please follow their instructions in order to avoid any delay in the publication of your article.

16. References should appear immediately after the text of the paper, and in the following format:

REFERENCES

Blaug, Mark. 1990. “On the Historiography of Economics.” Journal of the History of Economic Thought 12 (1): 27-37.

George, Henry. [1886] 1941. Protection or Free Trade: An Examination of the Tariff Question, With Especial Regard to the Interests of Labor. New York: Robert Schalkenbach Foundation.

Mirowski, Philip. 1990. “Smooth Operator: How Marshall’s Demand and Supply Curves Made Neoclassicism Safe for Public Consumption But Unfit for Science.” In Rita McWilliams Tullberg, ed., Alfred Marshall in Retrospect. Aldershot: Edward Elgar, pp. 61-90.

Laskaridis, Christina. 2021. “Debt sustainability: towards a history of theory, policy and measurement.” PhD diss., SOAS University of London.

17. In the reference list, journal titles should generally come without “the”: the JHET style adopts the usage of Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, European Journal of the History of Economic Thought, or Review of Austrian Economics (and not The Quarterly Journal of Economics, The Economic Journal, etc.). Few journal titles will have the use of “the”, such as The Manchester School. The use of “the” is more common in the titles of newspapers and magazines: the correct is to refer to The Times, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal.

18. Language Editing Services: Contributions written in English are welcomed from authors of all nationalities. Authors may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission, to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the editor and reviewers. Cambridge offers an optional service which is voluntary and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge published journal.

19. If your paper or book review is accepted for publication, it will be published only after you sign an online license to publish agreement. The corresponding author will receive emails with such instructions. Please check our publishing agreement page for further details.