Financial History Review
Editorial Policy
Financial History Review, published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the European Association for Banking and Financial History e.V., is committed to high international scholarly standards and invites scholars doing research on banking, financial and monetary history to submit papers on any subject, historical period and regional area. The Review deliberately seeks to embrace a broad approach to publishing research findings within this growing historical specialism. Articles can address banking, financial and monetary history from different perspectives, including theoretically inspired approaches, advanced empirical analysis, and the interrelations between history, finance, policy, culture and society. The Review particularly encourages submissions from young scholars.
Articles should normally be of 8,000 words including footnotes, tables and any graphical or other illustrative material (a graph occupying an A4 page is deemed equivalent to 300 words).
The journal is published in English and contributions should be submitted in that language. Authors whose native language is other than English are encouraged to send their manuscripts to a professional native translator for a preliminary revision prior to submission.
Submissions
Prior to submission, please ensure you consult the Instructions for Contributors carefully.
Authors are required to deliver:
- a cover page with title, author(s)’ name and affiliation, competing interest statement and full contact information for the corresponding author (email and postal address, telephone, web page);
- an anonymized copy of the manuscript. The cover page of the document should include: the paper’s title, a short abstract (max. 200 words), a short list of keywords (max. 4), and JEL codes. Please note that you should supply a WORD or RTF document for the main text body (including footnotes, bibliographical references, appendices) and a different single document in PDF for Tables and Figures.
Submission of a paper will be taken to imply that it is unpublished (even in a language other than English) and is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Upon acceptance of a paper, the author will be asked to sign a licence to publish form.
Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not own copyright and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.
Preparation of manuscripts
1. Manuscripts should be typed double spaced throughout on A4, i.e. 29cm x 21cm., or 11" x 8". Wide margins should be left on all sides.
2. Pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with the title page, the page number being placed, ideally, at the top right-hand corner of the page.
3. Footnotes should be typed, double-spaced, numbered consecutively and be grouped together at the end of the manuscript. Footnotes will appear in the journal at the bottom of each page. Footnotes should solely be concerned with matters of source citation. Substantive footnotes, involving commentary or argument, should be avoided, such material being more properly contained within the body of the text.
If an elaborate commentary on sources is required, and cannot be incorporated within the body of the article, it should form an appendix to the article (to be included in the total extent of 8,000).
4. Articles may, if appropriate, be divided into subsections designated by Roman numerals centred on the page. Sub-headings within an article should be avoided.
5. Tables, maps and figures should be submitted on separate pages and grouped together in a section at the end of the manuscript. Please number tables/maps/figures consecutively with Arabic numerals, using that reference within the text, e.g. Table 1, Map 5, Figure 24. Their appropriate position in the body of the text should be indicated in the text as {please place Table 1 near here}.
6. All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
7. Contributors should follow exactly the stylistic conventions, set out below, when writing the final version of their articles. Copy-editing is tedious and time-consuming and, as a consequence, the Editors reserve the right to return a contribution accepted for publication solely on the grounds that it does not follow the conventions.
Conventions
1. Spelling: British spelling is preferred, using -ise in words with alternative -ise/ize. However, American spelling will be accepted.
2. Foreign words or phrases in an English sentence should be underlined (for italic), except for proper names, or quotations or words in common usage.
3. Quotations: follow the punctuation, capitalisation and spelling of the original source. Within the body of the text of an article, a quotation should begin, and end, with single quotation marks, with double quotation marks only used for quotations within quotations. Quotations of more than about 50 words should be broken off from the body of the text, by being indented from the left-hand margin as a separate block of text, without quotation marks. Extensive quotations from non-English language sources should be translated into English in the text and (if necessary) the original text supplied in a footnote.
4. Numbers: spell out numbers up to ten, but use Arabic numerals thereafter and standard contractions, as with m for million. Spans of numbers should be elided to the smallest unit, e.g. 41-2, 195-8, 216-18. Percentages should be given in figures, with the words ‘per cent’ spelled out, e.g. 5 per cent; the sign % should be used in footnotes and tables. Standard fractions can be used as numbers.
5. Dates: use 10 December 1948 in the text, 1930s (not 1930's), and the twentieth century (not the 20th century, or C20th). Dates should be contracted in the footnotes, hence 10 Dec. 1948.
6. Ellipsis whether within, or at the end of, a sentence should be indicated by three spaced full stops.
7. References: Bibliographical references should appear at the end of the manuscript after the footnotes, listed by surname of author (in capital letters) in alphabetical order. If more than one text by the same author(s) is cited for a particular year, then the works should be distinguished by a letter, e.g. Levine (1997a) and Levine (1997b). References are limited to the works cited in the manuscript. Please adopt the following style:
SCHNABEL, I. (2004). The German twin crisis of 1931. The Journal of Economic History, 64, pp. 822-71
RAJAN, R. and ZINGALES, L. (2003). The Great Reversal: the politics of financial development in the 20th century. Journal of Financial Economics, 69, pp. 5-50
ACCOMINOTTI, O., FLANDREAU, M., REZZIK, R. and ZUMER, F. (2010). Black man’s burden, white man’s welfare: control, devolution and development of the British Empire, 1880-1914. European Review of Economic History, 14, pp. 47-70
CALOMIRIS, C. (2000). U.S. Bank Deregulation in Historical Perspective. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
PREVEZER, M. and RICKETTS, M. (1999). Corporate governance: the UK compared with Germany and Japan. In N. Dimsdale and M. Prevezer (eds.), Capital Markets and Corporate Governance. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
References should be included in the body of the text in abbreviated form and within parenthesis, i.e.
(Schnabel 2004, pp. 824-5)
(Rajan and Zingales 2003, p. 31)
(Accominotti et al. 2010, pp. 58-9)
8. Sources. If the paper includes extensive references to primary sources such as archives, statistics, periodicals, yearbook and documentary sources, these should appear in a separate section under an additional ‘Sources’ heading, with full references, i.e.
The Economist
Salings Börsenjahrbuch 1910-11 (Berlin, 1911)
International Monetary Funds, International Financial Statistics (Washington DC)
Public Record Office, Kew, London: Colonial Office Papers
9. Footnotes. All notes are to be included as footnotes and numbered in ascending order of appearance in Arabic numbers as superscript after the full stop at the end of the sentence.
References to archival sources must include the name and location of the collection, and the file where the document can be found. In general, citations should follow accepted national styles, always giving an extended version for the first document cited from a source, e.g.
International Monetary Funds, International Financial Statistics [henceforth IMF, IFS];
Public Record Office [henceforth PRO]: Colonial Office Papers [henceforth CO]; 201/614, pp. 87-101, 111-24, and CO 309/139, pp. 150-6, dispatches and minutes, 8 May to 13 Jun. 1893
10. Tables and graphs. Tables, graphs, and maps should be original. They should include a short title, be numbered in order of appearance and provide details of the corresponding sources.
Policy on prior publication
When authors submit manuscripts to this journal, these manuscripts should not be under consideration, accepted for publication or in press within a different journal, book or similar entity, unless explicit permission or agreement has been sought from all entities involved. However, deposition of a preprint on the author’s personal website, in an institutional repository, or in a preprint archive shall not be viewed as prior or duplicate publication. Authors should follow the Cambridge University Press Preprint Policy regarding preprint archives and maintaining the version of record.
English language editing services
Authors, particularly those whose first language is not English, may wish to have their English-language manuscripts checked by a native speaker before submission. This step is optional, but may help to ensure that the academic content of the paper is fully understood by the Editor and any reviewers.
In order to help prospective authors to prepare for submission and to reach their publication goals, Cambridge University Press offers a range of high-quality manuscript preparation services, including language editing. You can find out more on our language services page.
Please note that the use of any of these services is voluntary, and at the author's own expense. Use of these services does not guarantee that the manuscript will be accepted for publication, nor does it restrict the author to submitting to a Cambridge-published journal.
Competing Interests
All authors must include a competing interest declaration in their title page. This declaration will be subject to editorial review and may be published in the article.
Competing interests are situations that could be perceived to exert an undue influence on the content or publication of an author’s work. They may include, but are not limited to, financial, professional, contractual or personal relationships or situations.
If the manuscript has multiple authors, the author submitting must include competing interest declarations relevant to all contributing authors.
Example wording for a declaration is as follows: “Competing interests: Author 1 is employed at organisation A, Author 2 is on the Board of company B and is a member of organisation C. Author 3 has received grants from company D.” If no competing interests exist, the declaration should state “Competing interests: The author(s) declare none”.
Authorship and contributorship
All authors listed on any papers submitted to this journal must be in agreement that the authors listed would all be considered authors according to disciplinary norms, and that no authors who would reasonably be considered an author have been excluded. For further details on this journal’s authorship policy, please see this journal's publishing ethics policies.
Author affiliations
Author affiliations should represent the institution(s) at which the research presented was conducted and/or supported and/or approved. For non-research content, any affiliations should represent the institution(s) with which each author is currently affiliated.
For more information, please see our author affiliation policy and author affiliation FAQs.
ORCID
We encourage authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information. If you don’t already have an iD, you can create one by registering directly at https://ORCID.org/register.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Supplementary materials
Material that is not essential to understanding or supporting a manuscript, but which may nonetheless be relevant or interesting to readers, may be submitted as supplementary material. Supplementary material will be published online alongside your article, but will not be published in the pages of the journal. Types of supplementary material may include, but are not limited to, appendices, additional tables or figures, datasets, videos, and sound files.
Supplementary materials will not be typeset or copyedited, so should be supplied exactly as they are to appear online. Please see our general guidance on supplementary materials for further information.
Where relevant we encourage authors to publish additional qualitative or quantitative research outputs in an appropriate repository, and cite these in manuscripts.
Author Hub
You can find guides for many aspects of publishing with Cambridge at Author Hub, our suite of resources for Cambridge authors.
Use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools
We acknowledge the increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools in the research and writing processes. To ensure transparency, we expect any such use to be declared and described fully to readers, and to comply with our plagiarism policy and best practices regarding citation and acknowledgements. We do not consider artificial intelligence (AI) tools to meet the accountability requirements of authorship, and therefore generative AI tools such as ChatGPT and similar should not be listed as an author on any submitted content.
In particular, any use of an AI tool:
- to generate images within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, and declared clearly in the image caption(s)
- to generate text within the manuscript should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, include appropriate and valid references and citations, and be declared in the manuscript’s Acknowledgements.
- to analyse or extract insights from data or other materials, for example through the use of text and data mining, should be accompanied by a full description of the process used, including details and appropriate citation of any dataset(s) or other material analysed in all relevant and appropriate areas of the manuscript
- must not present ideas, words, data, or other material produced by third parties without appropriate acknowledgement or permission
Descriptions of AI processes used should include at minimum the version of the tool/algorithm used, where it can be accessed, any proprietary information relevant to the use of the tool/algorithm, any modifications of the tool made by the researchers (such as the addition of data to a tool’s public corpus), and the date(s) it was used for the purpose(s) described. Any relevant competing interests or potential bias arising as a consequence of the tool/algorithm’s use should be transparently declared and may be discussed in the article.