Book Review Guidelines
Please give your review a title.
Whether you are reviewing one book or more, please follow your title with bibliographical information that follows this format:
Star Power: The Limits of Personality Politics in the Progressive Era
Gorn, Elliot J. Mother Jones: The Most Dangerous Woman in America. New York: Hill Wang, 2001. xi + 303 pp. $27.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-8090- 7093-6. New York: Hill & Wang, 2002, $14.00 (paper), ISBN 0-8090-7094-4.
Slayton, Robert A. Empire Statesman: The Rise and Redemption of Al Smith. New York: The Free Press, 2001. xvi + 480 pp. $30.00 (cloth), ISBN 0-6848-6302-2.
Unger, Nancy C. Fighting Bob La Follette: The Righteous Reformer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2000. xiv + 393 pp. $24.95 (cloth), ISBN 0-8078-2545-X.
Page Numbers within Reviews
All quotations or paraphrasing from the book under review should be indicated parenthetically at the end of the sentence:
Bob Anderson states in his introduction that “this book will change the way scholars think of the Gilded Age” (ix).
According to Helen Jones, “Woodrow Wilson cut a dashing figure” which was quite remarkable in its severity (328).
End Notes
End notes should be kept to a minimum and used primarily to provide bibliographic references to sources other than the one(s) under review. The note number should be placed at the end of the sentence in superscript. Citations formatted as footnotes are preferable, as citations will appear that way in the printed edition.
This new work contradicts Jane Smith’s standard analysis of the period.1
Book Citations
Jane E. Smith, The Gilded Age and Progressive Era (New York, 1999), 6-18.
Essay Citations
John H. Jones, “Amusing Anecdotes of the Gilded Age,” Journal of Popular Culture 15 (Nov. 1995): 367-75, esp. 70.
Essays in Collections
Roger C. Dickens, “The Tortured Legal Justifications of Jim Crow” in The Peculiar Southern Culture, ed. Julie Jenkins and Marybeth Murphy (Chapel Hill, 2001), 58-91.
Edited Work Citations
Julie Jones and Megan Murphy, ed., The Progressive Era Two-Step (Austin, 2001).
Dissertation Citations
Marilyn B. Hawkins, “An Exploration of Progressive Era Fantasies in Juvenile Literature” (PhD diss., University of South Carolina, 2000), 212-13.
Website Citations
PREFACE To The WHOLE WORLD'S TEMPERANCE CONVENTION, Call for the Preliminary Meeting, http://www1.assumption.edu/ahc/WorldTemperanceConvention.html (accessed July 3, 2011).
Newspaper Citations
New York Times, Dec. 3, 1914.
For more specifics and examples, consult the journal style sheet, or refer to a copy of the journal.
For Consistency
The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era generally follows the Chicago Manual of Style.
1. Please spell out the numbers one hundred or less, and use numerals for larger numbers.
“She died at the age of ninety-seven.”
“The death toll for the battle was 1,349 Canadian soldiers.”
2. Please spell out references to particular centuries, and hyphenate when they are used as adjectives:
“At the close of the twentieth century...” “In nineteenth-century politics...”
3. Note that no apostrophe is needed in constructions such as “In the 1870s...”
Content Guidelines and Suggestions
Please refer to the separate Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era Review Content Guidelines and Suggestions sheet. If this has not already been provided, please contact the book review editor, Nancy Unger, nunger [at] scu [dot] edu.
rev 5 July 2011
