Urban History occupies a central place in historical scholarship. Contents include research based articles, historiographical and methodological surveys, interdisciplinary research and surveys of urban development in individual countries. Each issue features articles covering social, economic, political and cultural aspects of the history of towns and cities.

In addition, the journal hosts innovative multi-media websites - - including graphics, sounds and interactive elements - - to accompany selected print articles or stand alone as digital articles. For submissions of this nature please contact the Editor.

Submissions

Submissions from authors on all aspects of urban history are invited. Articles of a comparative or thematic nature are encouraged, as are articles which raise methodological issues, and those which seek to place the development of individual towns or cities in a wider framework. No historical period is excluded.

Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished and is not being considered for publication elsewhere.

Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not hold copyright and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.

Manuscript preparation

Articles should normally be no longer than 8,000 words, inclusive of footnotes and tables. The typescript should be 1.5 spaced throughout (including lists and references), with adequate top, bottom and side margins, and each page must be numbered. Authors should not repeat the paper title at the top of each page. A summary of 100 words, which will go on to form an abstract if the paper is accepted for publication, should also be provided alongside the submission.

Tables should be sent as separate files and should be numbered consecutively throughout. They should be provided with a full explanatory caption and source details. Use horizontal rules only. If a table consists of a large number of columns and rows, leave an extra space between every fifth row. Indicate where tables should appear in the text by noting in the margin 'Table 5 near here'. Ensure the table is directly referred to in the text, thus: (see table 5).

Line illustrations should be submitted in digital form. They should be produced to a standard reduction factor, ideally 1:1. They should be drawn to fit a page image of 115mm by 185mm. Do not caption or number illustrations on the artwork, but provide a separate caption list. As far as possible, avoid lettering on line illustration but use Helvetica, Avant Garde or a similar sans-serif typeface for labelling. Identify each piece of artwork lightly with its number in pencil on the reverse. Indicate the preferred position of the illustrations by noting in the margin of the text ‘Figure 5 near here’. Ensure figures are referred to in the text.

Charges apply for all colour figures that appear in the print version of the journal. At the time of submission, contributors should clearly state whether their figures should appear in colour in the online version only, or whether they should appear in colour online and in the print version. There is no charge for including colour figures in the online version of the Journal but it must be clear that colour is needed to enhance the meaning of the figure, rather than simply being for aesthetic purposes. If you request colour 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.

Formats should be as follows:

Line artwork: Format: tif or eps; Resolution 1200 dpi

Combination artwork (line/tone): Format: tif or eps; Res 800 dpi

Halftone artwork: Format: tif; Res. 300 dpi

Photographs may also be submitted as clear, sharp-contrast glossy prints.

Tables, line illustrations and photographs should be numbered in arabic and provided with a separate caption thus: Table 1 etc., Figure 1 etc., Photograph 1 etc.

If you require any further guidance on creating suitable electronic figures, please visit www.cambridge.org/core/services/authors/journals/journals-artwork-guide. Here you will find extensive guidelines on preparing electronic figures.

Text conventions

British English spelling should be used with the following alternative forms -ize, judgment. Where foreign language words have achieved common currency, accents should be omitted e.g. elite. Foreign language words in text should be italicized; however longer foreign language quotations should not be italicized. Serial commas should not be used, e.g. 'red, white and blue' (rather than 'red, white, and blue'). Apostrophes at the end of possessive forms should appear as s', e.g. Jones' (rather than s's, Jones's).

Numbers up to ten should be spelled in full, and where quantities are described figures should be used, as in 2 tons. Percentages should be in figures, with the words ‘per cent’ spelled out (25 per cent) in the text but ‘%’ should be used in the notes, tables and figures (25%).

Dates such as 2 February 1670 should appear in full in the text, but abbreviated as 2 Feb. 1670 in the notes (months abbreviated to the first three letters). Centuries should be written out, e.g. eighteenth century. In citations, dates should be given as 1924–25, not as 1924-5, but pages and other numbers should be given as 240-5, except for the numbers 10–19 which should be cited as, e.g., 12–13, not as 12–3, and 112–13, not as 112–3. Numbers should be elided by n-rules not hyphens if possible. The n-rule shortcut in Word for Windows on a PC is Ctrl + NumMinus and for Mac OPTION + NumPad Hyphen. For other word-processing packages, please consult your handbook. .

Contractions should have no full points (Mr, St, Jr, Revd,), though abbreviated words, which do not end with their final letter, and their plural form, should (vol., vols., ed., eds.). Acronyms and lettered abbreviations should be rendered with no stops ,(BBC, NATO, USA, EU, BC, AD) but stops should be used for authors' initials (H.J. Dyos).

Capitals should be kept to a minimum, but should always be used where individual people or places are referred to specifically.

The use of the terms ‘black’ and ‘white’ along with other terms signifying racial or gender identity should be in keeping with the discourses during the period under review.

Sub-headings in the text should be clearly identified but should use lower case.

Use single 'quotation' marks, reserving ''double" marks for 'quotes "within" quotes'. Long quotations of more than 60 words should be separated out from the text and typed indented six spaces, without quotation marks, with one blank line above and below.

References and footnotes should be numbered in one sequence and cited in the text by a superior number References should take the following form:

Books: (note upper case)

M.J. Miller, The Representation of Place: Urban Planning in Protest in France and Great Britain 1950–80 (Aldershot, 2003), 227–53.

Contribution to edited book: (note lower case for chapters and articles)

C.R. Friedrichs, 'Artisans and urban politics in seventeenth century Germany', in G. Crossick (ed.), The Artisan and the European Town 1500–1900 (Aldershot, 1997), 41–55.

Article: (note: do not abbreviate journal titles).

R. Tittler, 'Capitalism and culture: the functions of the European city', Urban History, 25 (1998), 231–6.

Theses:

J.N. Hyson, ‘Urban jungles: zoos and American society’, Cornell University Ph.D. thesis, 1999, 78–81; L.J. Faire, ‘Making home: working class perceptions of space, time and material culture in family life 1900–55’, University of Leicester Ph.D. thesis, 1999, 240–2.

Websites:

http://www.le.ac.uk/emoha/catalogue.html accessed 15 Oct 2006.

Subsequent citations:

Miller, Representation of Place, 7–12.

Friedrichs, 'Artisans and urban politics', 44.

Tittler, 'Capitalism and culture', 232.

Hyson, 'Urban jungles', 15.

Note: Ibid should be italicized and only be used to refer to the immediately preceding citation; do not use op. cit. or loc cit.; do not abbreviate journal titles.

Primary sources, government publications, newspapers:

On first citation, provide name of archive document series in full, with future abbreviations noted:

National Archives of Scotland (NAS), Housing and Local Government files (HLG) 52/771, letter from Sheepshank to Moir, 24 Nov. 1924;

House of Commons Debates, (HC Debates) vol. 179, cols. 858–9, 16 Dec. 1924;

Leicester Mercury (LM), 7 Jul. 1919, col. 5a

For subsequent citations:

NAS/HLG 48/132, D. Wood to Pritchard, 10 Jul. 1920;

LM, 29 Oct. 191, col. 3b; HC Debates, vol. 179, cols. 858-9, Dec. 1924.

Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools

We acknowledge the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the research and writing processes. To ensure transparency, we expect any such use to be declared and described fully to readers, and to comply with our plagiarism policy and best practices regarding citation and acknowledgements. We do not consider artificial intelligence (AI) tools to meet the accountability requirements of authorship, and therefore generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and similar should not be listed as an author on any submitted content.

In particular, any use of an AI tool:

• to generate images within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, and declared clearly in the image caption(s).
• to generate text within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, include appropriate and valid references and citations, and be declared in the manuscript’s Acknowledgements.
• to analyse or extract insights from data or other materials, for example through the use of text and data mining, should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, including details and appropriate citation of any dataset(s) or other material analysed in all relevant and appropriate areas of the manuscript.
• must not present ideas, words, data, or other material produced by third parties without appropriate acknowledgement or permission.

Descriptions of AI processes used should include at minimum the version of the tool/algorithm used, where it can be accessed, any proprietary information relevant to the use of the tool/algorithm, any modifications of the tool made by the researchers (such as the addition of data to a tool’s public corpus), and the date(s) it was used for the purpose(s) described. Any relevant competing interests or potential bias arising as a consequence of the tool/algorithm’s use should be transparently declared and may be discussed in the article.

Acknowledgements

Authors can use this section to acknowledge and thank colleagues, institutions, workshop organisers, family members, etc. that have helped with the research and/or writing process. It is important that that any type of funding information or financial support is listed under ‘Financial Support’ rather than Acknowledgements so that it can be recorded separately (see here).

We are aware that authors sometimes receive assistance from technical writers, language editors, artificial intelligence (AI) tools, and/or writing agencies in drafting manuscripts for publication. Such assistance must be noted in the cover letter and in the Acknowledgements section, along with a declaration that the author(s) are entirely responsible for the scientific content of the paper and that the paper adheres to the journal’s authorship policy. Failure to acknowledge assistance from technical writers, language editors, AI tools and/or writing agencies in drafting manuscripts for publication in the cover letter and in the Acknowledgements section may lead to disqualification of the paper. Examples of how to acknowledge assistance in drafting manuscripts:

• “The author(s) thank [name and qualifications] of [company, city, country] for providing [medical/technical/language] writing support/editorial support [specify and/or expand as appropriate], which was funded by [sponsor, city, country]."
• “The author(s) made use of [AI system/tool] to assist with the drafting of this article. [AI version details] was accessed/obtained from [source details] and used with/without modification [specify and/or expand as appropriate] on [date(s)].