LUP publishes original peer–reviewed,
high–quality books in the social sciences and humanities.
With authors from all over the world and distribution in North America,
Japan, Australia, and Europe we truly are a global publisher. If
you would like to submit a proposal or a manuscript please read
the guidelines below.
Submission of Book Proposals/Manuscripts
We would prefer to receive a proposal, rather than a completed
manuscript, in the first instance. Proposals should include:
- A provisional title and a description of the purpose and scope
of the proposed book.
- An analysis of the structure, together with a breakdown of
(sections and) chapters showing the detailed scope of each chapter.
- A copy of the Introduction if available.
- A commentary on your research experience in the field of your
proposed book. A CV would be helpful.
- Consideration of the relationship of your work in the field
to the work of others in the same field, bearing particularly on
the distinctiveness of your proposed book in relation to other
published works.
- The intended readership level (e.g. undergraduate, graduate,
general).
- The intended market (e.g. library, scholars, students).
- Potential geographical sales area (e.g. UK, continental Europe,
North America).
- Provisional timetable for completion of the book or its revision.
If you send a completed manuscript, please also write about points
4–9. Please address proposals (by post, not email) to:
Robin Bloxsidge
Liverpool University Press
4 Cambridge Street
Liverpool
L69 7ZU
Submitting a Manuscript
All manuscripts accepted for publication are copy edited and proofread
by the Press, but it is very helpful if mss have consistent usage
before they arrive. The following guidelines are by no means exhaustive,
but if this is the least that you do it will be very helpful.
1. Manuscripts should be
supplied on disk with hard copy which should match the electronic
file exactly (please check before emailing files). Please indicate
whether the disk is formatted for Macintosh or PC (PC preferred)
and also the word processing software used. The hard copy should
be double spaced, printed on one side of the paper only and unbound.
Please paginate the script continuously throughout, not chapter by
chapter (if we drop it on the floor we won’t know how the pages
run…). Please spell–check the ms before submission.
Do not format the text as if it were a printed book (for instance,
introducing manual page or section breaks, using running heads, formatting
subheads in display fonts) as this is a complete waste of your time
and ours. Italicization or emboldening of text is acceptable. Please
distinguish the different levels of headings by font size.
2. If you wish to include
tables, diagrams or illustrations, please supply these separately
from the body of the text and indicate in the main manuscript where
you would like them to be positioned. Each piece of artwork should
be on a separate sheet or in a separate electronic file. If your
ms includes complicated artwork please contact the Press for advice.
3. Liverpool University
Press accepts the author–short title style of referencing and
the author–date style (specific series have particular conventions,
details of which can be obtained from the Press), but use one or
the other, not both. A reference should be given in full on its first
appearance, and the author’s name and short title used thereafter.
Some examples are given below. Please do not use ibid., op. cit.,
art cit., etc. Elide numbers thus: 11–12, 22–29, 126–27.
Gillian Rose, The Broken Middle (Oxford:
Blackwell, 1992), pp. 110–11.
Friedrich Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morals, trans.
and ed. W. Kaufmann (New York: Vintage, 1989).
I. Soll, ’Reflections on Recurrence’, in R. Solomon (ed.), Nietzsche:
A Reader (New York: Anchor Books, 1973), pp. 25–34.
Hayden White, ’The Politics of Interpretation’, Critical
Inquiry, 9.1 (1982), pp. 3–26.
If you use the author–date convention,
follow this style
(Jones, 1997, 22–34)
Jones (1997, 22–34) comments...
(Jones, 1997, 22–34; Smith, 2003, 15–17)
Please ensure that every single reference
in the text has its precise counterpart in the bibliography.
4. The Press prefers ize spelling
rather than ise, but whichever is used should be
consistent throughout (note that some words must be spelled ise).
Use single quotes rather than double. Avoid excessive capitalization
of titles etc. except where there is a possibility of confusion (thus
prime minister, education department, national security adviser).
