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:

1. A provisional title and a description of the purpose and scope of the proposed book.
2. An analysis of the structure, together with a breakdown of (sections and) chapters showing the detailed scope of each chapter.
3. A copy of the Introduction if available.
4. A commentary on your research experience in the field of your proposed book. A CV would be helpful.
5. 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.
6. The intended readership level (e.g. undergraduate, graduate, general).
7. The intended market (e.g. library, scholars, students).
8. Potential geographical sales area (e.g. UK, continental Europe, North America).
9. Provisional timetable for completion of the book or its revision.

Please address proposals (by email, not post) to:
lup@liv.ac.uk  

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).