For Authors

Overview

Humanity is dedicated to the publication of incisive review essays on recent scholarly books on human rights, humanitarianism, and development in the modern and contemporary world. These essays usually bring together more than one monograph, exploring them in comparison, while also placing them in their larger scholarly framework, and sustain their discussion for at least 5000 words. For an example, please see Pamela Beth Harris’ recent essay on Stephen Hopgood’s The Endtimes of Human Rights and Alison Brysk’s Speaking Rights to Power.

If you are interested in contributing a review-essay to Humanity, please submit a one-page proposal about the set of books you would like to review via e-mail. Your proposal should explain the approach or framework you plan to bring to your review.

Submission requirements

Manuscript Format
A. Please submit a complete set of files for your article to Scholastica, including manuscript, title page, tables, figures, and a full list of captions included in your article.
B. Essays should be a maximum of 10,000 words, including references and endnotes. Please eliminate all references that would identify you, in order to facilitate blind peer review. If you include references to your own work, please avoid using the first person in connection with it. Notes should be used for citation purposes only; please incorporate all discussion and argumentation into the body of the article.
C. On a separate title page, please include an abstract (300 words max), up to 5 key words, and contact details.
D. When finalizing your submission, please bear in mind that reviewers will be asked to evaluate the essay in terms of 1) novelty and significance of argument 2) use of relevant evidence, 3) contribution to and engagement with relevant scholarship, and 4) whether it speaks to Humanity’s interdisciplinary audience.
E. Authors are asked to confirm that the essay has not previously appeared in print or is not currently being reviewed elsewhere for another publication.
F. We encourage authors to engage with and cite sources historically excluded from the academy. Where appropriate, we expect authors to engage with the work of scholars based in the countries about which they are writing.
G. Save each manuscript component (text, figures, tables, captions list) as a separate file labeled with your last name. For each figure and/or table file, please make sure to include figure/table number (e.g., Gismondi_fig1.TIFF, Gismondi_Table1.doc, etc.).
H. Manuscripts should be double-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman font everywhere. Please use one space only after each sentence. Leave one-inch margins on all four sides of the page. Turn off automatic hyphenation and do not justify text; ragged right margins are preferable throughout. Use minimal formatting.
I. Manuscripts should be prepared according to The Chicago Manual of Style, 16th ed., note style.
Please see the full guidelines at https://hum.pennpress.org/media/98453/humanity-submission-guidelines.pdf

Illustrations

We encourage the use of illustrations and can accept 300 dpi TIF or JPG files. Line art should be supplied as 1200 dpi EPS files. Supply each illustration with a caption, accompanied by a source line and such acknowledgments as are required. Authors are expected to obtain permission to reproduce any copyrighted materials.