Review Submissions

Review Guidelines

​​With due respect to reviewer intentions, reviewers are asked to consider the following areas (not necessarily all of these, not necessarily only these, and not necessarily in this order):

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• audience

• purpose

• how well purpose is achieved

• use of scholarship

• comparison with similar works in the field

• uses to which this work might be put

• the place this work may eventually assume in the scholarly canon

• authorial style or attitude

• copyediting

• design

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A reviewer may be attracted to or repelled by a title under review, and you are welcome to express (tastefully) your personal response to it, and also to provide personal information if the inclusion of such information will serve to situate the reviewer vis-à-vis the subject matter of the work being reviewed.

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All reviews must provide the following information about the item under review. Except for title and author, enclose all remaining items in a single set of parentheses:

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• Title

• Author(s) or editor(s)

• Place(s) of publication

• Publisher(s)

• Year of publication (if a reprint, include original year in parentheses)

• Number of roman- and arabic-numeral pages (see example below)

• The presence of the following features,as applicable:

  • foreword

  • acknowledgments

  • introduction

  • photographs

  • illustrations

  • maps

  • notes

  • bibliography

  • index

• Price

• Binding (hardbound or paper)​​​