Preparing manuscripts for blind review

LARR's policy is to perform double-blind reviews, in which the names of the author(s) and reviewers are not known to one another. In preparing your main document for electronic submission, we ask you to delete your name and any inadvertent self-identification, e.g., “as this author has described elsewhere [cite]”; avoid multiple self-citations or citation of your unpublished materials (dissertations, etc.); delete acknowledgments of colleagues, institutional affiliations, or funding sources that could make identification of authorship likely; delete any reference to previous presentations of the paper in earlier draft form (at conferences or public seminars, etc.).

Structure

Submit your article in document format, such as Microsoft Word, RTF, or OpenOffice. Articles must not exceed 10,000 words including notes and references.

Abstract and keywords

Preface the text of articles and research notes with an abstract of about 150 words describing the main arguments and conclusion of the article in language comprehensible to a wide audience.

List up to five keywords below the abstract.

The abstract and keywords should also be added to the metadata when making the initial online submission.

Main text

Headings may be used up to three levels may be used and must be clearly identifiable using different font sizes, boldface, or italics. Please do not number headings or subheadings. We suggest using Headings 1, 2, and 3 in Microsoft Word.

Acknowledgments (optional)

Omit acknowledgments from the initial submission for the purpose of blind review. Any acknowledgments may be added to the final version if the article is accepted for publication.

Notes and references

All references cited within the submission must be listed at the end of the main text file. This journal follows author-date style according to guidelines in The Chicago Manual of Style (18th ed., chapter 13-14). See detailed examples below.

Use the automatic footnote function in your word processing program. Notes should be used only where crucial clarifying information needs to be conveyed. Notes may contain parenthetical citations if needed. Citations of interviews, archival sources such as manuscript collections, legal documents, and personal communications such as emails and social media posts are usually placed in notes. Citations of blog posts and newspaper articles are also often placed in notes rather than in the reference list. Note reference numbers follow closing sentence punctuation.

Language and text

LARR considers manuscripts in English, Spanish, and Portuguese. LARR does not translate manuscripts for publication and publishes the version that passed through peer review. Therefore, authors should make their original submission in the language in which they wish to publish.

Capitalization

For titles in English use headline-style capitalization: capitalize the first and last word and all nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, and some conjunctions. Use lowercase for all articles, prepositions, and conjunctions and, but, for, or, and nor.

For titles in other languages use sentence-style capitalization: Capitalize the first word in a title, the first word in a subtitle, and any proper names.

Spelling

For spellings and hyphenation in English, refer to Merriam Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary. When referring to proper nouns and normal institutional titles, the official, original spelling must be used, e.g., World Health Organization, not World Health Organisation.

Acronyms and abbreviations

Spell out the first instance of all acronyms, e.g., Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).

Commonly used Latin abbreviations, such as e.g. and i.e., are usually restricted to parenthetical text and notes and are set in roman type, not italics. Commonly used abbreviations include cf., ed. (eds.), e.g., esp., et al., etc., fig. (figs.), fol. (fols.), i.e., l. (ll.), n. (nn.), no. (nos.), p. (pp.), pt. (pts.), ser., trans., vol. (vols.).

Italics

In English submissions, italicize first instances of individual foreign words that do not appear in Merriam-Webster’s 11th Collegiate Dictionary. Sentences or longer quotations should appear in roman, not italic.

Proper names and names of institutions or organizations in any language should appear in roman font, not italic.

All book and journal titles appear in italics.

Lists

Use bullet points to denote a list without hierarchy or order of value. If the list indicates a specific sequence then a numbered list should be used.

Lists should be used sparingly to maximize their impact.

Quotations

Use double quotation marks for quotations except for quotes within quotes, in which case single quotation marks are used.

Place quotations longer than eighty words in an indented paragraph separate from the main text.

Roman, not italic font must be used for all quotations.

The source of the quotation must be clearly cited, including page number where applicable.

Numbers and dates

Spell out cardinal and ordinal whole numbers from one to ninety-nine (and such numbers followed by hundred and thousand), any number at the beginning of a sentence, and common fractions. Whole numbers used in combination with million, billion, and so forth usually follow the general rule.

• no fewer than six of the eight victims
• no more than fifty-two hundred gallons
• as many as 187 students
• One hundred and eighty-seven students graduated.

Numbers that express decimal quantities, dollar amounts, and percentages are written as figures. Use zero before the decimal point for numbers less than zero. For example:

• an average of 2.6 years
• now estimated at 1.1 billion inhabitants
• more than $56, or 8 percent of the petty cash
• a decline of $0.30 per share

Dates appear in the following form: August 11, 2014; August 2014. Centuries are spelled out: e.g., the twenty-first century.

Inclusive page numbers are given in full: 3–11, 74–75, 100–103, 104–109, 112–115, 414–532, 505–516, 600–612, 1499–1500.

Data and symbols

Symbols are permitted within the main text and data sets as long as they are commonly in use or are defined or explained at first use.

Formulas must be proofed carefully by the author. Editors will not edit formulas. If special software has been used to create formulas, they will be published as they appear in the manuscript.

Authors presenting quantitative results are encouraged to upload replication data sets and replication code as supplementary files or to post data in approved repositories. Replication data sets must allow readers to reproduce all results presented in the article. Please upload your replication data set in a standard format (Excel, SAS, SPSS, Stata, R). Ancillary replication files must provide codebook information and estimation procedures to conduct the analysis.

Figures and tables

Figures

Figures, including graphs and diagrams, should be supplied in our preferred file formats: TIFF, EPS, or PDF. For more information see the Journals artwork guide.

All figures should be supplied as separate files.

Ensure that every figure is cited within the article, in consecutive order using Arabic numerals. We will try to place your figures as close as possible to their citations in the text, but because of the limitations of page layout, it may not always be possible.

For the best reproduction possible, please ensure that any fonts used to create or label figures are embedded, and we also recommend that you use the following Cambridge approved fonts (in 9 pt):

• Arial
• Courier
• Symbol
• Times
• Times New Roman

Figure captions

Supply captions at the end of the text of your article, and not as part of the figure files.

Tables

Tables must be created using a word processor’s table function, not tabbed text.

Tables should be included in the main document. The final layout will place the tables as close to their first citation as possible.

All tables must be cited within the main text, numbered with Arabic numerals in consecutive order (e.g., table 1, table 2, etc.).

Each table must have an accompanying descriptive title. Titles should be as succinct as possible and should not suggest any interpretation of the data.

Tables should not include:

• Rotated text
• Color or shading to denote meaning (it will not display the same on all devices
• Images
• Vertical or diagonal lines
• Multiple parts (e.g. table 1a and table 1b). These should either be merged into one table or separated into table 1 and table 2.

References

In-text citations

Use in-text citations keyed to a reference list (see Chicago Manual of Style, 18th ed., chapter 13-14). Each textual reference should correspond to a complete reference in the reference list. In-text citations include the author’s last name (with first initial if ambiguous), year of publication, and pages referred to. For works by more than three authors, only the surname of the first author is used, followed by “et al.” “Cf.” is used when a comparison of sources is intended. Op. cit., loc. cit., ibid., infra, supra, and the like are not used.

If the author is already mentioned in the main text then the year should follow the name within parentheses.

1. Both Jones (2013) and Brown (2010) claim …

If the author’s name is not mentioned in the main text then the surname and year should be inserted in parentheses after the relevant text. Multiple citations by different authors should be separated by semicolon.

1. The statistics clearly show this to be untrue (Brown 2010; Jones 2013).

If specific pages are being cited then the page number should follow the year, after a comma.

1. (Brown 2004, 65; Jones 2013, 143)

Please do not include URLs in parenthetical citations, but rather cite the author or page title and include all details, including the URL, in the reference list (or notes).

Reference lists

Each textual reference should correspond to a complete reference in the reference list.

Entries in the reference list are arranged alphabetically by author, then chronologically from earliest to most recent. List all authors using their full names (not initials). For works with more than ten authors, list the first seven followed by et al. If multiple works by the same author are being listed, please repeat the author’s name for each entry, rather than using a long dash. Arrange multiple works by the same author in the same year alphabetically by title and distinguish them by a, b, c, etc. placed after the year.

For online sources, an access date is required only if no publication date is provided.

Citations of unpublished sources, such as interviews by the author, legal documents, and archival sources or manuscript collections are usually placed in notes.

See below for examples of formatted references.

Books

1. Degregori, Carlos Iván, ed. 1996. Las rondas campesinas y la derrota de Sendero Luminoso. Instituto de Estudios Peruanos.
2. Power, Margaret. 2002. Right-Wing Women in Chile: Feminine Power and the Struggle against Allende, 1964–1973. Pennsylvania State University Press.
3. Rappaport, Joanne, and Thom Cummins. 2012. Beyond the Lettered City: Indigenous Literacies in the Andes. Duke University Press.

Chapter in a collection

1. Guerra, Lillian. 2010. "Beyond Paradox: Counterrevolution and the Origins of Political Culture in the Cuban Revolution, 1959–2009." In A Century of Revolution: Insurgent and Counterinsurgent Violence during Latin America's Long Cold War, edited by Greg Grandin and Gilbert M. Joseph. Duke University Press.
2. Villa Rivera, William. 2004. "El territorio de comunidades negras, la guerra en el Pacífico y los problemas de desarrollo." In Panorámica afrocolombiana: Estudios sociales en el Pacífico, edited by Mauricio Pardo Rojas, Claudia Mosquera, and María Clemencia Ramírez. Instituto Colombiano de Antropología e Historia.

Journal articles

1. Drinot, Paulo. 2012. "Creole Anti-Communism: Labor, the Peruvian Communist Party and APRA, 1930–1934." Hispanic American Historical Review 92 (4): 703–736. DOI: 10.1215/00182168-1727981.
2. Duquette-Rury, Lauren, and Xochitl Bada. 2013. "Continuity and Change in Mexican Migrant Hometown Associations: Evidence from New Survey Research." Migraciones Internacionales 7 (1): 65–99. DOI: 10.17428/rmi.v7i1.686
3. Durand, Jorge, William Kandel, Emilio A. Parrado, and Douglas S. Massey. 1996. "International Migration and Development in Mexican Communities." Demography 33 (2): 249–264.
4. Guerra, Lillian. 2010b. "Gender Policing, Homosexuality, ann the New Patriarchy of the Cuban Revolution, 1965–70." Social History 35 (3): 268–289. DOI: 10.1080/03071022.2010.487378.
5. Seidman, Sarah. 2012. "Tricontinental Routes of Solidarity: Stokely Carmichael in Cuba." Journal of Transnational American Studies 4 (2). http://escholarship.org/uc/item/0wp587sj.

NOTE: Please include DOIs for all journal articles where possible.

Newspaper articles

1. Malkin, Elisabeth, and Victoria Burnett. 2015. "Cuba Frees 53 Prisoners, U.S. Says." New York Times, January 15.
2. Bacab Chulim, Jesús. 2012. "Constatan obras del '3x1': Mejorarán la casa ejidal y harán casetas policiacas." El Diario del Yucatán, May 4. http://yucatan.com.mx/yucatan/constatan-obras-del-3-por-1.

Organizational publications

1. World Health Organization. 2010. The World Health Report: Health Systems Financing; The Path to Universal Coverage. Geneva: World Health Organization.

Conference papers and working papers

1. Gooren, Henri. 2010. "The Pentecostalization of Religion and Society in Latin America: First Findings from Paraguay." Paper presented at the meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Baltimore, MD, October 29.
2. Schiavon, Jorge, and Rafael Flores. 2010. "La incidencia de la opinión pública en la política exterior de México: Teoría y realidad." Working Paper No. 197, Centro de Investigación y Docencia Económicas, Mexico City.

Theses and dissertations

1. Vergara Figueroa, Aurora. 2013. "Race, Gender, Class, and land Property Rights in Colombia: A Historical Ethnography of the Afro-Colombians' Struggles over Land, 1851–2011." PhD dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Web pages

For website content include as much of the following as can be determined: the title or description of the page, the author of the content (if any), the owner or sponsor of the site, and a URL. Also include a publication date or date of revision or modification; if no such date can be determined, include an access date. Website content may be cited in notes rather than reference lists.

Authors are responsible for securing all permissions for reuse of copyrighted material. You can find guidance from Cambridge University Press here.

Please be sure to review the journal's ethical requirements here.