Wisconsin Magazine of History

Contributors' Guidelines

The Wisconsin Magazine of History publishes widely in the history, biography, and culture of Wisconsin and the Upper Midwest, occasionally ranging further afield. The editors welcome manuscripts that deal with fresh topics or shed new light on older ones.

The editors are looking for articles with a strong narrative component, free of jargon, and well illustrated. Articles should contribute to the need for geographical, ethnic, gender, chronological, and subject matter diversity in any given issue or across a volume. In other words, the magazine can accommodate a broad range of subjects. The topics themselves are often less important than the quality of the presentation. The editors want articles on industry, art, architecture, agriculture, politics, preservation, and science; but the articles need to have people at their core, and they need to tell a story. Authors should let editors know two years in advance if an article is being written to commemorate a specific event. The articles should range from 3,000 to 4,000 words. Documentation should be included, and the editors will decide whether or not that documentation should appear in the magazine. The editors prefer that the text be written in such a way as to make extensive and discursive endnotes unnecessary. The editors will respond to articles with an evaluation and suggested revisions within ninety days of submission. Once articles have been read, evaluated, accepted for publication, revised, and reedited, the editorial staff will schedule the article. Sometimes articles get bumped because of space or timing issues. The Magazine will sometimes publish firsthand memoirs and edited documents such as journals or letters; it does not, as a rule, publish genealogy or narrowly construed local history.

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