Author Guidelines

Authors interested in publishing in the journal must follow the guidelines outlined below. Submissions that do not conform to these guidelines will not be considered for publication.

For English manuscripts, follow Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed.) and Oxford Canadian Dictionary (2nd ed.) or Concise Oxford Dictionary for spelling. Text and endnotes should be written in Times New Roman font, size 12, and must be double-spaced (1.5 lines). Please use endnotes rather than footnotes. Titles, subtitles, and heading styles have a standard format. Please consult the last issue and conform to this style. Authors are required to obtain reprint permission from the copyright holder for images included in articles. Only MS Word files are accepted.

Endnotes

In general, follow Chicago Manual of Style for citations. In particular, keep the following in mind.

• CMOS now discourages the use of Ibid. and suggests using the author surname, a short form of the titles, and the page reference instead. See example 3 below. If multiple notes in a row cite the same work, only include the author and page reference. See example 4 below.
• In references to journal articles, there is no comma after the journal title and before the volume number and the abbreviation no. is included before the issue number. For journal articles, the date is followed by a colon in the first reference, not a comma. See example 1 below. For subsequent short-form citations, a comma is used after the title and before the page reference. See example 3 below.
• En dashes are used to bridge ranges of dates or page numbers, for example 1829–1989 or pages 20–48.
• For page ranges the second term should generally have two digits, for example, pages 30–39 or 100–10. (Certain number ranges may require a different treatment, for example, 1094–2011.)
• Dates follow the month-day-year form (that is, April 14, 2021).
• The order of archival documents is: author, title, file, record group, archives. For multiple citations from the same archives, include (hereafter XXX) after the first reference to that archive.
• There is no bar space in a journal article title that contains a phrase set off with single quotation marks. See example 10 below.

Format for endnotes (samples):

1. Jean-Pierre Proulx, “L’évolution de la législation relative au système électoral scolaire québécois (1829–1989),” Historical Studies in Education/Revue d’histoire de l’éducation 10, no. 1 & 2 (1998): 20–48.
2. Neil Sutherland, Growing Up: Childhood in English Canada from the Great War to the Age of Television (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1997), 24.
3. Proulx, “L’évolution de la législation,” 24.
4. Proulx, 25.
5. Sutherland, Growing Up, 106–07.
6. Ruby Heap and Alison Prentice, eds., Gender and Education in Ontario: An Historical Reader (Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 1991).
7. Mossie May Waddington Kirkwood, transcript of her interview with Elizabeth Wilson, 27 March 1973, 57, B74-0020, University of Toronto Archives (hereafter UTA).
8. Cathy L. James, “Gender, Class and Ethnicity in the Organization of Neighbourhood and Nation: The Role of Toronto’s Settlement Houses in the Formation of the Canadian State, 1902 to 1914” (Ph.D. diss., University of Toronto, 1997), 115–16.
9. Office of the President (Falconer Papers), Gordon to Falconer, 24 April 1928, A67-0007/112, file 19, “Matriculation Conference,” UTA.
10. Elizabeth Smyth, “‘A Noble Proof of Excellence’: The Culture and Curriculum of a Nineteenth-Century Ontario Convent Academy,” in Gender and Education in Ontario: An Historical Reader, ed. Ruby Heap and Alison Prentice (Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 1991), 273–75.
11. Mona Gleason and Tamara Myers, “History of Childhood in Canada,” in Oxford Bibliographies in Childhood Studies, ed. Heather Montgomery (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014), https://doi.org/10.1093/OBO/9780199791231-0071.

Authors must submit electronically by uploading to the HSE/RHÉ website (OJS). Registration and login to the Historical Studies in Education website are required to submit items to the journal and to check the status of current submissions. 

Each article should be accompanied by an English or French abstract of 100–150 words, a list of six keywords in French and English, and an author biography of not more than 100 words in English for English articles or in French for French articles. Supplementary files such as data sets, graphics, research instruments, and so on may also be submitted. Supplementary materials should be submitted as separate files, clearly marked and referenced with short descriptive titles. Additional information (such as legends) should be added as a note. Their placement in the text must be clearly marked.

Manuscripts must typically adhere to the following size limitations:

• 9,500 words maximum for articles, including endnotes but excluding the abstract/résumé;
• 2,500 words maximum for submissions to the section “Growing Up In”
• 1,000 words maximum for book reviews.

Articles must report original work. The submission of a manuscript to the journal implies that it has not been submitted or accepted for publication elsewhere, and that the work contained therein is the author’s own.

All article submissions must pass a peer review process following blind review protocol. Authors must therefore ensure that steps are taken to preserve author anonymity by removing names and other identifying information from manuscripts and from document/file properties.

This journal supports the elimination of sexual, racial, and ethnic stereotyping.

AI Policy

General principles

HSE/RHÉ distinguishes between generative AI and assistive AI. Generative AI authors the work itself. Assistive AI assists the author to author their own work.

Authors

No artificial intelligence (AI) authorship. HSE/RHÉ does not accept AI-authored articles, book reviews, or other submissions. By submitting your work to the journal, you certify that you are the author/co-authors, that you carried out all core research and writing tasks, and that you did not assign any of these tasks wholly to generative AI.

AI assisted authorship permitted. HSE/RHÉ does accept articles, reviews and other submissions where the author has used AI tools to assist with research and preparation of the manuscript.

Disclosure. The journal requires that authors fully disclose their use of AI tools to the editors in [a cover letter] that specifies the tools used and how the author used them.

The journal encourages authors to disclose their use of AI tools to their readers in the text of their article. This may be done in the body of the article, where methods are discussed, or in a discursive endnote or endnotes.

Authors who use AI to assist with research and preparation of their manuscript must always follow their own institution’s research ethics policies concerning AI use. They must follow any funder’s AI use policy as well (for ex. Tri-agency or SSHRC).

The journal’s editors and peer reviewers

No AI editorial review. HSE/RHÉ editors will not use AI for preliminary or other review of author submissions.

No AI peer review. HSE/RHÉ peer reviewers are not permitted to use generative AI for peer review. Peer reviewers may, however, use assistive AI to help them to prepare their review (for example, to format or spellcheck their reviewer comments).

HSE/RHÉ does not permit reviewers to upload article manuscripts they review to any AI tool (including AI detection and screening tools). Uploading manuscripts to such tools may breach copyright, confidentiality, and data security policies and legislation.

In selecting reviewers, HSE/RHÉ asks reviewers who accept a request to review, before they begin that review, to certify that they will not use generative AI for peer review and to certify that they will not upload manuscripts for review to any AI tool (including AI detection and screening tools).

AI detection and screening

No AI detection and screening. The journal does not use AI detection and screening tools.

By submitting their work to the journal, authors certify that they have followed the journal’s policy and requirements. Authors are responsible for breaches of those policies and requirements.

HSE/RHÉ editors may reject a submission because the editors reasonably believe the author(s) has/have used generative or assistive AI in a manner that contravenes this policy.