Submit your manuscript to jbh@bighistory.org.

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Big History is an interdisciplinary field. Manuscripts be formatted according to the APA style and submitted in Word format, and emailed to jbh@bighistory.org.  Please see https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition and https://www.grammarly.com/citations/apa  Please contact us at jbh@bighistory.org with any questions.  More information about big history is at https://bighistory.org/.

Style

  • The JBH is flexible on article length; many submissions are about 10,000 words.
  • Authors are encouraged to include their ORCID ID.
  • Authors may wish to consider use of arXiv, SocArXiv, PsyarXiv and / or bioRxiv as a preprint repository. 

Please contact us at jbh@bighistory.org with questions or comments.  Submissions may be emailed to the editor there as well.

Submission Preparation Checklist 

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  •  The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • Article submissions will be in Word format and will follow the APA style.  Please see https://apastyle.apa.org/products/publication-manual-7th-edition and https://www.grammarly.com/citations/apa
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end. The author is responsible for obtaining any needed copyright permssions for images or any copyrighted material.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in Submissions.
  •  If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.

Copyright Notice 

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  • Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  • Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal
  • Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).
  • The JBH routinely screens article submissions for plagiarism.