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Author Guidelines

Winchester University Press waives APCs and submission charges for all its e-journals as part of its commitment to global Open Access publishing.

The Royal Studies Journal publishes one special issue a year, normally in June, and offers the possibility of clusters in our regular issues. For more information, download these guidelines and information for prospective Special Issue or Cluster editors. If you have questions on Special Issues or Clusters or would like to discuss a proposal for one of these formats, please contact the Editor in Chief.

Articles 

• All articles must be original, fully researched and finalized work. They should not have been published before or under consideration elsewhere. (Subsequent re-publication after a period, eg in collected papers, will be considered on its merits and not reasonably refused).
• All articles must advance knowledge and understanding of a particular period/ aspect of royal studies and will normally contribute to understanding of royal studies beyond the particular example studied.
• Review policy: All articles will be subject to a double-blind peer review process by two readers.
• Article length: Excluding book reviews, articles should have an optimal length of 6,000-10,000 words including notes and a bibliography. Maximum length is subject to negotiation but should not normally exceed 20,000 words (including notes and bibliography). Shorter items, conference reports and notices may be sent to the journal for inclusion in the journal's accompanying blog.
• Languages: The journal will accept articles in the following languages-English (preferred), Spanish, Portuguese, French and German.
• Output: The journal will be published bi-annually with the possibility of occasional thematic issues.
• Format: All articles must be submitted in either a Word document (.doc/.docx) or in rtf format and should conform to the house style guidelines of the journal for the text and references. Please download the style guidelines.
• Accompanying Information: Along with their article, authors should submit an abstract (in English) and indexing terms.
• Please send all submission related queries to info.rsj@winchester.ac.uk.

Book Reviews

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.

1. The submission has not been previously published, in part of in whole, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
3. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal. Every effort has been made to ensure that author names are removed from the manuscript (following the instructions to ensure blind peer review).
4. Tables are all cited in the main text and are included within the text document.
5. Figures are all cited in the main text and are uploaded as supplementary files. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).

Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms. If a submission is rejected or withdrawn prior to publication, all rights return to the author(s):

1. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY-NC-ND-4.0) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
2. 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.
3. 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).

Submitting to the journal implicitly confirms that all named authors and rights holders have agreed to the above terms of publication. It is the submitting author's responsibility to ensure all authors and relevant institutional bodies have given their agreement at the point of submission.

Note: some institutions require authors to seek written approval in relation to the terms of publication. Should this be required, authors can request a separate licence agreement document from the editorial team (e.g. authors who are Crown employees).

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Publication Fees

Winchester University Press is pleased to be able to announce that it does not charge authors any Author Processing Charges.