Eighteenth-Century Fiction (ECF) publishes four issues filled with peer-reviewed, research articles every year. The ECF editors have been working to reduce the time between submission and publication; the timeline depends on how much time the author requires for the revisions period, if the article or essay is accepted following peer review.

Submit your work to ECF online now.

Submit a manuscript

• Send your academic article to the ECF Editor, Dr. Eugenia Zuroski, for consideration: via this link. Links to the ECF guidelines are provided below; The Chicago Manual of Style formatting is not required at the submission stage. The ECF editors seek research essays of 6,000 – 8,000 words. Please read at least one entire recent issue of the journal, prior to submitting your own work, to discern if your article fits within the journal’s purview: MUSE_Eighteenth_Century_Fiction/.
• Clarification: ECF journal does not publish chapters taken verbatim from completed and filed dissertations. ECF, like most journals in the Humanities, does publish articles that grow out of “dissertations in progress” and that might end up replicating material in the other direction. Please note that journal articles and dissertation chapters are different entities, with different audiences; the ECF editors prefer that authors substantially rework material taken from a “dissertation in progress” and then used in an article submitted to ECF for consideration.
• The editors are also pleased to receive Reflections and flash essays for consideration. Reflections essays are usually 1,500 – 4,500 words long; flash essays range from 500 to 1,500 words.

Guidelines

The ECF editors seek research articles of 6,000 – 8,000 words.

• Please review the ECF style guide prior to submitting your manuscript: ECF house style, revised 2024, including tips on writing an abstract. The Chicago Manual of Style formatting is not required at the submission stage.
• Clarification: ECF journal does not publish chapters taken verbatim from completed and filed dissertations.
• ECF Peer Review Guidelines. NOTE: The ECF editors do not send every submitted manuscript to external peer reviewers; for some submissions, the ECF editors provide in-house peer review.

Submit your work to ECF online now.

Questions? E-mail: ecf@mcmaster.ca

Eighteenth-Century Fiction, Chester New Hall 421
McMaster University, 1280 Main St. W.
Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, L8S 4L9
Tel: 905-525-9140 x 27123 | Fax: 905-777-8316

NOTE: In order to ensure that authors can publish in ECF and still comply with their funders’ open-access requirements, the ECF editors have implemented the following policy. An author may upload the accepted Eighteenth-Century Fiction article or essay document file to his or her own institutional online repository. The ECF editors ask that the date and place of publication of the finalized article be noted and that a link to the ECF website be included with the file that is uploaded to an institutional or disciplinary (subject) repository. The ECF editors require that authors wait until after the date of publication of their articles in the journal Eighteenth-Century Fiction to post their accepted manuscripts to any institutional open-access repositories.

ECF authors are requested to sign a contract with Eighteenth-Century Fiction/McMaster University that states: Eighteenth-Century Fiction (ECF), McMaster University, obtains and owns the copyright on the contents of its journal. To clarify the rights of authors and ECF, and thus insure the protection of both, ECF requires that an author formally assign all rights to ECF before an article is published. Section 6 of the contract includes the right of the author to republish in certain forms: “We will accede to any request by the Author(s) to use part or all of their article in an article or in a book published under either the Author(s)’s exclusive authorship or editorship, provided that acknowledgment of its first appearance is made in a manner approved by ECF, and in such cases no fee for reprinting shall be payable to us.” For the complete text of a standard ECF article contract, please contact ecf@mcmaster.ca.

NOTE to all ECF authors and book reviewers:
Please remember that academia.edu is not an institutional repository; use only the link to ECF on Project MUSE and the abstract of your own ECF article for notices on academia.edu about your recently published work.