Submission Policy

The Kent State University Press is especially interested in scholarly works in history, including military, Civil War, U.S. diplomatic, American cultural, women's and art history; literary studies; titles of regional interest for Ohio; scholarly biographies; archaeological research; the arts; and general nonfiction. Always write a letter of inquiry before submitting manuscripts. Send letters to Joyce Harrison, Acquiring Editor. Please, no faxes, phone calls, or e-mail submissions.

Submission Guidelines

For your convenience, the Kent State University Press provides the following downloadable guidelines in PDF format.

Electronic Manuscript Guidelines for Authors
Illustration Submission Guidelines for Authors
Copyright Guidelines for Authors

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Policy on Self-Archiving and Institutional Repositories

KSU Press allows authors of articles published in its journals to post pre-print and post-print versions of their articles on their personal websites and within institutional repositories.

A pre-print is the un-refereed version of an article. We ask authors to acknowledge its future publication and identify the journal, the year of publication, and the publisher. Please indicate that the article is a “working paper.”

A post-print is the final published version of the article. Twelve (12) months after publication, authors may mount post-prints of their articles on their own web sites and/or institutional repositories on not-for-profit servers. Authors may not use the publisher-generated PDF.

For post-prints, please include the following credit line: This article was published as [complete bibliographic citation as it appears in the print journal]. No part of this article may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, transmitted, or distributed, in any form, by any means, electronic, mechanical, photographic, or otherwise, without the prior permission of Kent State University Press. For educational re-use, please contact the Copyright Clearance Center (508-744-3350). For all other permissions, please contact Sandy Clark, KSU Press Journals Manager, sclark1@kent.edu.