GUIDELINES FOR PAPER SUBMISSION AND EVALUATION

AHEA both solicits contributions and accepts unsolicited submissions, both of which should be sent by email to both the Editor (louise.vasvari@stonybrook.edu) and the Technical Editor (Jobbitt@exchange.Frllerton.edu)  Submitted articles should be preceded in the same document with, in this order, a 200-word abstract in English, as well as a 100-200 word bio-blurb of the author, and a list of five keywords/phrases.

Articles should be written in English or Hungarian and are normally restricted to 4,000 to 7,000 words (excluding bibliography), while notes and reviews, which must be in English, are of shorter length.  Submissions should be submitted according to the following formal criteria of the MLA  (http://www.docstyles.com/mlacrib.htm ):

1. Word document in 12 point New Roman, single-space, aligned on the left only
2. Utilizing a modified form of the MLA parenthetical style of citing sources, with works cited in an end bibliography.  The date of publication should follow the author's name and this date should be used (rather than a short title, as in the MLA) for parenthetical citing within the text.
3. No bibliographical footnotes are allowed and other footnotes should be kept to a minimum, for supplemental information and for complex citations.
4. Any dedications or acknowledgments of parts of the research previously published should be cited in a first starred note.
5. All citations not in the language of the article should be translated, with the translation first, followed by the original, as per MLA Guidelines.
6. Paragraphs should be of approximate equal length.

AHEA will return to authors all articles not submitted in appropriate format. AHEA may also ask authors to revise articles before submitting them to referees but please note that a request to make revisions is not necessarily a guarantee of subsequent acceptance.  Articles will be evaluated by at least one general and by one specialized reader, and authors will normally be notified within 60 days of decisions.

BOOK REVIEW GUIDELINES
BOOK REVIEW EDITOR:  Susan Glanz,  St. John’s University, New York.
8000 Utopia Parkway, Queens, NY 11439
GLANZS@stjohns.edu

Out of the many books published every year, we select a small number for review because of the importance of their topics, methods, and theories for scholars working within Hungarian studies.

Book reviews should be addressed to a broad readership of scholars from diverse disciplinary perspectives. Reviewers have the responsibility to summarize authors’ arguments fairly and accurately, to locate books under review within a broad scholarly context, and to emphasize the theoretical and methodological implications of any given work for future research in Hungarian studies. While reviewers have the right to make normative judgments about books under review, personal attacks, ridicule, and distortion are not acceptable. The primary purpose of the book review section, in our view, is to foster a respectful and rigorous scholarly dialogue, rather than to deliver personal judgments or disagreements.

All book reviews must be written in English but items to be reviewed can be in any languages and reviews of Hungarian-language items are particularly encouraged.

Procedure:
All book review essays are commissioned.  A potential reviewer may propose a book review by sending a one page proposal and a current CV to the book review editor via email. The book review editor will review the proposal in light of reviews already commissioned and may suggest alterations accordingly.

Format for Brief Notices:

1. Double-spaced with one inch margins.
2. Give first names of each person cited for the first time in the review and place and the date of publications for other works mentioned in the body of the review.
3. When using quotations in the review, please indicate page numbers from the source.
4. Do not use footnotes.

Length of review: 750 - 1,000 words max.

Format for Longer Reviews: same as above, but may include a bibliography.

Length of review: 1,500 - 2,000 words max.

Due date:

Book info: (example)
Romsics, Ignác. From Dictatorship to Democracy: The Birth of the Third Hungarian Republic, 1988-2001. Translated by Matthew Caples. East European Monographs 722. Boulder, CO: Social Science Monographs, 2007. Pp 471, illus.