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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The contribution has been spell-checked and proof-read.
  • The manuscript complies with the Author Guidelines. Initial submissions do not need to follow the Chronotopos stylesheet. Any necessary adjustments to the stylesheet will be requested after the peer-review process.
  • The contribution has not yet been published and has not been submitted to another journal (if so, please explain in the section "comments for the editors" when submitting).
  • As far as possible, the references include URLs (especially DOIs)
  • Please submit your manuscript in 12-point type with single line spacing and left-aligned text. Do not use full justification or automatic hyphenation. Keep formatting to a minimum and do not use macros. Place illustrations and tables at the appropriate points in the text rather than at the end.
  • By submitting their manuscript, the author(s) agree that, if accepted, their contribution will be published under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). The author(s) retain copyright.

Author Guidelines

Submission and review

Complete contributions can be submitted throughout the year via the journal’s online submission system (OJS). Questions and initial ideas are welcome at julia.richter@univie.ac.at.

Please submit an anonymized manuscript, including anonymized document properties. Provide names, affiliations and contact details on a separate title page for the editors.

The editors first assess the submission. Research articles, including those in special issues, then undergo double-anonymous peer review by two independent reviewers. Book reviews, conference reports and historical documents are assessed by the editors. See Peer review and revisions for the full procedure.

A request for revisions means that the contribution remains under consideration. Upload the revised manuscript to the existing submission unless the editors explicitly request a new submission. Please include a brief response explaining how you have addressed the reports and give reasons for suggestions you have not adopted. Questions can be discussed with the editors. The editorial team makes the final decision; proofs are provided after acceptance.

Chronotopos is fully open access. All published contributions are freely accessible from publication. No submission or publication fees are charged.

Propose a special issue

We welcome proposals for guest-edited special issues on translation history, including theoretical and methodological approaches. Please send a short concept to julia.richter@univie.ac.at, outlining the topic and research questions, its relevance to translation history, the proposed guest editors and affiliations, possible contributions or contributors if already known, languages and an indicative timetable.

The editorial team and guest editors agree on scope, responsibilities, review arrangements and schedule. Research articles in special issues follow the same double-anonymous review procedure as other research articles.

Types of contribution

Chronotopos publishes

  • articles
  • commentaries and peer-review reports
  • documents of translation history
  • book reviews
  • conference reports

The section "documents of translation history" provides space for a variety of contributions. These may be, for example, historical texts that deal with translation and are not, or no longer, available, or translations of paratexts by translators. Depending on the contribution, the text length and form can vary. Text suggestions or ideas can be submitted to the editors at any time. Contributions in this section are not subject to peer review.

Languages

Chronotopos is a plurilingual journal that primarly publishes contributions in

  • English
  • German
  • French

After consultation with the editors, contributions in other languages are welcome only if the editorial board can ensure peer review in the respective language(s).

 Form of manuscript

Please submit your manuscript in 12-point type with single line spacing and left-aligned text. Do not use full justification or automatic hyphenation. Keep formatting to a minimum and do not use macros. Place illustrations and tables at the appropriate points in the text rather than at the end.

Initial submissions do not need to follow the Chronotopos stylesheet. Any necessary adjustments to the stylesheet will be requested after the peer-review process. The stylesheet for the final version is provided below. For questions, contact julia.richter@univie.ac.at.

Only papers with a maximum length between 5000 and 7000 words will be accepted (exception: book reviews and conference reports). Please get in contact with the editors in advance, if your planned contribution would not meet the criteria.

The title page (which has to be handed in alongside the file with the contribution) should include the title of the article, a short version of the title (to appear in the header of the document) an abstract of about 150-200 words, suggested keywords (from four to six) and a short bionote (affiliation, research interests, recent publications). Furthermore it includes the author’s name and affiliation and full address (including e-mail).

 

Templates and review criteria

The following files are hosted on the current journal platform. The stylesheets apply to the final version after acceptance; they are not required for initial submission. Review criteria cover relevance and originality, theoretical foundations, consistency of analysis and research design, and style and clarity. Updated 5 November 2026.

  • English stylesheet: Word · PDF
  • German stylesheet: Word · PDF
  • English review form and criteria: Word · PDF
  • German review form and criteria: Word · PDF

Copyright Notice


This journal and all its contributions are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.
The copyright remains with the author, not with (the editors of) Chronotopos. The journal only has the right of exploitation to publish the contribution and make it available to others.

The author of an article (in case of multiple authors: the corresponding author, responsible for releasing this material on behalf of any and all co-authors) accepted to be published in Chronotopos hereby acknowledges the following Copyright Notice:

  1. The author retains the copyright to the article.
  2. It is the responsibility of the author, not of Chronotopos, to obtain permission to use any previously published and/or copyrighted material.
  3. Publication requires acceptance by the editors following the assessment appropriate to the contribution type. In that case, Chronotopos editors have the right to publish the text.
  4. In case of publication, the article will be assigned a DOI (digital object identifier) number.
  5. The author agrees to abide by the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. The license permits any user to download, print out, extract, reuse, archive, and distribute the article in any non-commercial way, as long as appropriate credit is given to the author and source of the work. 
  6. The license ensures that the author’s article will be available as widely as possible and that the article can be included in any scientific archive. In order to facilitate distribution, the author agrees that the article, once published, will be submitted to various abstracting, indexing and archiving servicesas selected by Chronotopos.
  7. In addition, the author is encouraged to self-archive the article, once published, with reference to Chronotopos as the place of first publication.
  8. After the contribution appears in Chronotopos, it is still possible to publish it elsewhere with reference to the place of first publication.

 

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