New Labor Forum

Submission Requirements

NLF follows the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. The journal uses endnotes (not footnotes), and features article between 3,000 and 3,500 words.

What We Ask Of Authors

Articles should start with a clear and pointed argument. We ask authors to avoid familiar rhetoric, instead making provocative arguments or providing new, concrete information. For book reviews, we ask authors to go beyond summarizing the book to engage with the contents of the book in question. Contributors should avoid jargon, assumptions, technical language, “academese,” and rhetoric. Spell out full titles and put acronyms in parentheses at their first use, including commonly used union acronyms. Where endnotes (please do not use footnotes or references) are necessary, please refer to the Chicago Manual of Style. Submissions must be double-spaced and in 12-point Times New Roman font. Authors are responsible for acquiring permission to reproduce all graphs, charts, illustrations, and other material that they use in their articles. Along with your submission, please submit: 1) a bio of two sentences to publish in the journal; 2) an email address to be published with the bio; and 3) a postal address to which we can mail your complimentary copies of the journal. When submitting manuscripts, upload the document as a Microsoft Word attachment.

We exclusively publish work that has not been previously published, and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, with the occasional exception of specific arrangements made by the author with our editors. Copyright reverts to the author upon publication.

Editorial Process

We use a multi-tiered editing process. Our editors and peer reviewers will read the articles, and comments are returned to the author. This process may call for a second or third round of revisions. After copyediting, the pages will be typeset and we will email authors the electronic proofs of their article for review. We will then incorporate final changes and perform a final proofread to ensure that the article is ready for publication.