Guidelines for Contributors

Manuscripts in Czech, Slovak and English are accepted throughout the year.

The standard length of a submitted article is 8,500 words, while it should not be shorter than 5,000 words and longer than 20,000 words. Articles exceeding 18,000 words will be rejected. The reviews should be 1,000 to 3,000 words long. Short reviews (annotations) are 1,500 to 3,500 words long.

The Czech Journal of Contemporary History follows the Oxford handbook in terms of spelling: uses -ize (rather than -ise) and standard British spelling for everything else.

The authors are welcome to use first person pronouns (I, me, we, my, etc.) in their articles.

Use footnotes rather than endnotes and include a list of references at the end of the text. List references in alphabetical order according to the author’s surname.

For archival sources, please use the following form of reference:

The name of the archive, location [if quoting from the same source repeatedly, the abbreviation commonly used for the archive is sufficient], name of the fond [collection], document number, name and/or description:

The National Archives, London [hereafter TNA], Foreign Office [hereafter FO] 371/20375, R 5216/32/12, Addison to Foreign Office, 25 August 1936.

For secondary sources, please use the following form of reference:

1. Monograph: SURNAME of the author [in capital letters], first name of the author / initial(s) if quoted more than once / for co-authors follow the same pattern: Title: Subtitle [in italics]. Place of publication, publisher year of publication, page(s) quoted [if applicable]:

MEAD, Margaret: Coming of age in Samoa: A psychological study of primitive study of primitive youth for western civilisation. New York, William Morrow & Company 1928.

Subsequent references: SURNAME [in capital letters], initials for the first and middle names: Short title [in italics], page quoted.

MEAD, M.: Coming of age in Samoa, p. 21.

You can also use Ibid. to refer to the work cited in the note immediately preceding.

You can also use IDEM in place of the author’s surname when his/her works are cited successively in the same note.

2. Book chapter: Author(s) of the chapter [written as above]: Title: Subtitle. In: Editor(s) of the volume [same as for the author of a monograph] (ed.): Title: Subtitle of the volume [in italics]. Place of publication, publisher year of publication, pagination, page quoted.

GOLDSTEIN, Erik: Neville Chamberlain, the British Official Mind and the Munich Crisis. In: LUKEŠ, Igor – GOLDSTEIN, Erik (eds.): The Munich Crisis 1938: Prelude to World War Two. London, Frank Cass 1999, pp. 276–292.

3. Journal article: Author of the article [written as above]: Title: Subtitle. In: Name of the journal, volume, number (year), pagination, page(s) quoted.

WHEELER, Kathryn: The Moral Economy of Ready-Made Food. In: The British Journal of Sociology, Vol. 69, No. 4 (2018), pp. 1271–1292.

4. Newspaper article: Author of the article [written as above]: Title: Subtitle. In: Name of the newspaper/magazine, date of issue, pagination, page quoted:

SVOBODA, Jiří: Co bylo, co bude? In: Rudé právo (15. 5. 1969), p. 3.

5. Web references: Author of the article [written as above]: Title: Subtitle. In: Name of the online journal/newspaper/magazine [in italics], platform etc. [online], date. [Accessed 0000-00-00.] Available from: URL address.

KYOSEV, Hristo: Putevoditel na nay-dobrata shkembe chorba v Bulgaria. Vuzhvala na ambroziata [Guide to the best tripe soup in Bulgaria. A song to the ambrosia]. In: Frog News [online], 29. 7. 2011. [Accessed 2021-11-15.] Available from: https://frognews.bg/kultura/art-jungla/patevoditel-nai-dobrata-shkembe-chorba-balgariia.html.

TONN, Jenna: Gender. In: Encyclopedia of the History of Science [online]. Pittsburgh, Carnegie Mellon University 2021. [Accessed 2021-11-15.] Available from: https://lps.library.cmu.edu/ETHOS/article/id/42/

Please enclose an abstract of 15–30 lines together with your article.

For reviews, please include additional information about the author(s) of the publication under review: translator(s), editor(s), author(s) of preface and afterword, illustrator(s). Please include also additional publication data: publisher, edition/series, indexes, bibliographies etc. The authors of reviews, annotations, conference reports and similar texts are remunerated.

In the author bio, please include the following information about yourself: institutional affiliation, research focus, your key publications with the place and year of publication (if applicable).

The authors of texts published in the Soudobé dějiny/CJCH are entitled to receive a complimentary copy (two copies if they have published an article) of the relevant issue of the journal. The complimentary copy will either be sent by mail or can be picked up in the editorial office of the journal.

Please submit your manuscript through the online submission system of the journal Soudobé dějiny/CJCH, following your registration.