HOW TO SUBMIT AN ARTICLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE WTHA YEARBOOK

HOW TO SUBMITHOW TO SUBMITAN ARTICLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE AN ARTICLE FOR PUBLICATION IN THE

WTHA WTHA YEARBOOKYEARBOOK

GENERAL COMMENTSGENERAL COMMENTS

Submitted papers should be approximately 17-20 pages in length, double-spaced, with endnotes. THE PAPER MUST BE IN MICROSOFT WORD FORMAT.

The initial submission should include a hard copy of the paper and an electronic version sent via e-mail attachment, or on an accompanying floppy disk or CD.

A paper approved by the editorial staff, must be returned with all copyedited revisions made prior to the final publication deadline.

GENERAL COMMENTSGENERAL COMMENTS

The author must submit a one sentence biographical statement with their paper. Include your name, position/occupation, institution, and residence. For example:

H. Allen Anderson is an Archival Assistant at the Southwest Collection, Texas Tech University in Lubbock.

GENERAL COMMENTSGENERAL COMMENTS

Your submission will be acknowledged.

Put endnotes in same font style and point size as the narrative text.

Submit endnotes separately from the story text. Also double space endnotes for each submission.

GENERAL COMMENTSGENERAL COMMENTS

After making any revisions specified by the editorial staff, please return the original editorial staff copy, your revised hard copy, and a revised version via e-mail attachment or on a floppy disk or CD.

GENERAL COMMENTSGENERAL COMMENTS

Depending on the extent of needed revisions, the editorial staff will reserve the right to make minor copyediting changes without author approval.

ENDNOTE REMINDERENDNOTE REMINDER

When in doubt follow Chicago Manual of Style, 15th Edition.

Submit endnotes as a separate document.

Submit both an electronic copy and printed copy in Microsoft Word format.

NOTE FORMAT EXAMPLES:NOTE FORMAT EXAMPLES:BOOKSBOOKS

Basic form:

Robin W. Doughty, Wildlife and Man in Texas: Environmental Change and Conservation (College Station: Texas A&M Univ. Press, 1983), 122-25.

Short form (for subsequent citations):Doughty, Wildlife and Man, 121.

BOOKS BOOKS

Multivolume work:

H. P. N. Gammel (comp.), The Laws of Texas, 1822-1897 (10 vols.; Austin: Gammel Book Co., 1898), 1, 1094.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Gammel (comp.), The Laws of Texas, I, 1094.

BOOKSBOOKS

Edited work:

Euginia Horstman Connally (ed.), National Parks in Crisis (Washington, D. C.: National Parks & Conservation Assoc., 1982), 121.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Connally, National Parks in Crisis, 121.

BOOKSBOOKS

Article in edited work:

Martin Melosi, “Lyndon Johnson and Environmental Policy,” in The Johnson Years, ed. Robert A. Devine (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1987), 121.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Melosi, “Lyndon Johnson and Environmental Policy,” 121.

BOOKSBOOKS

Reprinted work:

Mattie Austin Hatcher, The Opening of Texas to Foreign Settlement, 1801-1821 (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1927; reprint, Philadelphia: Porcupine Press, 1976), 121-123.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Hatcher, The Opening of Texas to Foreign Settlement, 121.

PERIODICALSPERIODICALSInitial Citation:

Dan Flores, “Place: An Argument for Bioregional History,” Environmental History Review, 77, No 4 (Winter, 1994), 121-23.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Flores, “Place: An Argument for Bioregional History,” 121-23.

PERIODICALSPERIODICALS

Use Arabic versus Roman numerals for volume numbers, no matter how the journal prints them.

NEWSPAPERSNEWSPAPERS

Newspapers:

Jim Morris, “Padre Resort Deadly Idea, Critics Fear,” Dallas Times Herald, Sun., July 15 1990, sec.1, p1.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Morris, “Padre Resort Deadly Idea,” p. 1

NEWSPAPERSNEWSPAPERS

Include name, number, or letter of section, and page number as available.

Author’s name and article title should be included as available.

ARCHIVAL MATERIALARCHIVAL MATERIAL Full citation:

“Memorial Civil War Record of Comrade William Randolph McEntire (hereafter “Memorial Record”), July 11, 1920, U Ranch Records, 1846-1996 (hereafter URR), Box 1, Folder 6, p. 6 (Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech Univerisity) hereafter SWC.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

“Memorial Record,” URR, Box 1, Folder 6, p. 6.

ARCHIVAL MATERIALARCHIVAL MATERIAL

List information in the citation in sequence from the specific item to the repository.

ARCHIVAL MATERIALARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Full citation, Letter Example:

[Liquidating Agent, Commonwealth National Bank] to W. R. McEntire, Dallas, Jul. 27, 1917 McEntire Family Papers, 1821-2000 (hereafter MFP) Box 1, Folder 2, (Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library, Texas Tech University) hereafter SWC.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

[Liquidating Agent] to McEntire, Jul. 27, 1917 MFP, Box 1, Folder 6.

ARCHIVAL MATERIALARCHIVAL MATERIAL

Most importantly, be consistent in your abbreviations when citing original archival documents. Place personal comments in brackets.

CENSUS RECORDSCENSUS RECORDS

Full citation:

U.S. Tenth Census (1880), Travis County, Texas, Population Schedules, City of Austin (microfilm; Austin-Travis County Collection, Austin Public Library; hereafter ATCC), 921-923.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

U.S. Tenth Census (1880), Travis County, Texas, City of Austin (ATCC) 921-923.

CENSUS RECORDSCENSUS RECORDS

Cite Record Group Numbers before location of item.

DISSERTATIONS AND THESESDISSERTATIONS AND THESES

Full citation:

Monte L. Monroe, “Lone Star Environmentalist: U.S. Senator Ralph W. Yarborough” (Ph.D. diss., Texas Tech University, 1999), 221.

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Monroe, “Lone Star Environmentalist,” 221.

DISSERTATIONS AND THESESDISSERTATIONS AND THESES

For thesis, merely say (M.A. thesis, Texas Tech University, 1990), 221.

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND INTERVIEWSAND INTERVIEWS

Full citation:

Glenn Biggs to Monte Monroe, April 13, 1990, interview (tapes in possession of author, hereafter cited as author).

Glenn Biggs, San Antonio to Monte Monroe, Lubbock, April 13, 1990 (original in possession of author, hereafter cited as author).

Glenn Biggs to Monte Monroe, Lubbock, April 13, 1999, e-mail (printed copy in possession of author, hereafter cited as author).

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND INTERVIEWSAND INTERVIEWS

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Biggs to Monroe, Apr. 13, 1990 (interview, author).

Biggs to Monroe, Apr. 13, 1990 (letter, author).

Biggs to Monroe, Apr. 13, 1999, (e-mail, author).

PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE PERSONAL CORRESPONDENCE AND INTERVIEWSAND INTERVIEWS

Be consistent in citing original material. Remember to identify for the researcher where they can find the material.

There is no real need to cite tape number and side.

If the interview is located at an archive then cite location of repository as shown under archival material above and place in parentheses).

WEB SITESWEB SITES

Web sites:Robert W. Wilson, “William Daniell,” Rootsweb.com,

http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=rww201&id=I0055 and related links [Accessed Fri. Feb. 22, 2004].

“Abilene, TX,” The Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/hda1.html [Accessed Wed. Mar. 30, 2004].

WEB SITESWEB SITES

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Wilson, “William Daniell,” Rootsweb.com [Accessed Feb. 22, 2004].

“Abilene, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, [Accessed Wed. Mar. 30, 2004].

MAPSMAPS

Published Maps:

Stephen F. Austin, Map of Texas, (Philadelphia: H.S. Tanner, 1830).

Texas, from The Handbook of Texas Online, http://www.tsha.utexas.edu/handbook/online/articles/view/AA/hda1.html [Accessed Wed. Mar. 30, 2004].

MAPSMAPS

Short form (for subsequent citations):

Wilson, “William Daniell,” Rootsweb.com [Accessed Feb. 22, 2004].

“Abilene, TX,” Handbook of Texas Online, [Accessed Wed. Mar. 30, 2004].

CONTACT INFORMATIONCONTACT INFORMATION

For further editorial assistance or information about submitting your papers, please contact Monte at the addresses below:

Monte L. Monroe, Ph.D. Southwest Collection Archivist Texas Tech University Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library Box 41041 Lubbock, TX 79409-1041 (806) 742-3749 WK (806) 742-0496 FAX monte.monroe@ttu.edu