Copyright policy
This journal allows readers to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of its articles and allow readers to use them for any other lawful purpose.

Exclusive licence form
Authors will be required to sign an Exclusive Licence Form (ELF) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the ELF is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. Please be advised that signature of the Exclusive Licence Form does not affect ownership of copyright in the material. After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media or circumstances.

Editor in Chief

Remus CREŢAN
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara, Romania
e-mail: remus.cretan@e-uvt.ro; cretan.remus@gmail.com

Editorial advisory board

Prof. dr. Peter JORDAN
Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, University of Wien, Austria
Email: peter.jordan@oeaw.ac.at

Prof. dr. Leo PAUL
Department of Social Sciences, University of Utrecht, The Netherlands

Email:leo.paul@uu.nl

Prof. dr. Paul WOODMAN
Permanent Committee on Geographical Names, The Royal Geographical Society, London, UK
Email: woodman@litstad.u-net.com

Dr. Bogusław R. ZAGÓRSKI
Institut Ibn Khaldun, Piastów, Collegium Civitas, Warsaw, Poland
Email: boguslaw.zagorski@transmontana.pl

Dr. Emilia SARNO
University of Molise, University Online Pegaso, Italy
Email: emilia.sarno@unimol.it emilia.sarno@tiscali.it

Dr. Philip W. MATTHEWS
Independent Researcher, New Zealand

Email: philmatthews19@hotmail.com

Prof. dr. Remus CREŢAN
Department of Geography, West University of Timişoara, Romania
Email: remus.cretan@e-uvt.ro

Prof. dr. Nicolae POPA
Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Email: nicolae.popa@e-uvt.ro

Prof. dr. Petru URDEA
Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Email: petru.urdea@e-uvt.ro

Prof. dr. Ion NICOLAE
Faculty of Geography, University of Bucureşti, Romania

Email: ionnicolae1945@yahoo.com

Conf. dr. Voicu BODOCAN
Faculty of Geography, University “Babeş-Bolyai”, Cluj-Napoca

Email: voicu.bodocan@ubbcluj.ro

Conf. dr. Sorina VOICULESCU
Department of Geography, West University of Timişoara, Romania
Email: sorina.voiculescu@e-uvt.ro

Lect. dr. Ionel BOAMFĂ
Faculty of Geography and Geology, University Al. I. Cuza of Iaşi, Romania
Email: ionel_boamfa@yahoo.com

Lect. dr. Ioan Sebastian JUCU
Department of Geography, West University of Timisoara, Romania
Email: ioan.jucu@e-uvt.ro

Lect. dr. Ana-Neli IANĂŞ
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: ana.ianas@e-uvt.ro; anaianas@yahoo.com

Asist. Dr. Claudia DOICIAR
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: claudia.doiciar@e-uvt.ro

Co-editors
Dr. Ana-Neli IANĂŞ
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: ana.ianas@e-uvt.ro; anaianas@yahoo.com

Dr. Ioan Sebastian JUCU
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: ioan.jucu@e-uvt.ro; sebastianjucu@yahoo.com

Dr. Claudia DOICIAR
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: claudia.doiciar@e-uvt.ro

Technical editors
Drd. Vlad CUMPĂNAȘ
Department of Geography, Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography, West University of Timişoara
e-mail: vlad.cumpanas@e-uvt.ro

Book reviews editor
Dr. Ioan Sebastian JUCU
***The front cover is part of the map made by Fr. Schwanz (18th century), cited by Ion Conea (1938), “Corectări geografice în istoria românilor”

Editorial Committee Address
WEST UNIVERSITY OF TIMIŞOARA
Faculty of Chemistry, Biology, Geography
Department of Geography
B-dul. V. Pârvan, nr. 4
RO-1900 TIMIŞOARA, ROMÂNIA
Fax: 00 40 0256 490333

Submission and correspondance

Articles should be submitted electronically to following adress: remus.cretan@e-uvt.ro.

Instruction for authors

1. Full articles published in Review of Historical Geography and Toponomastics should not exceed 12,000 words (approximately 22 pages in print). Research notes and comments should not contain more than 3,500 words, and book reviews should not be more than approximately 900 words. For manuscripts that that are longer, shortening before submission increases the chances of acceptance.
2. The form and content of the manuscript should be carefully checked to exclude the need for corrections at the proof stage. Manuscripts must be typed on one side of the paper only, with wide margins, and double line spacing. References, tables and figure legends should be typed on separate sheets.
3. The first manuscript page should provide the title, names of all authors, affiliations, any footnotes to the title, address to which proofs are to be sent, a short running title, and the fax number and/or e-mail address of the corresponding author in order to accelerate communication.
4. Each paper is to be preceded by a short abstract, which should not exceed 150 words. Up to five key words should also be furnished as well as The Journal of Economic Literature index number(s).
5. Footnotes to the text should be avoided as much as is reasonably feasible.
6. The list of references should be in alphabetical order and include the names and initials of all authors (see examples below). Whenever possible, please update all references to papers accepted for publication, preprints or technical reports, giving the exact name of the journal, as well as the volume, first and last page numbers and year, if the article has already been published or accepted for publication. When styling the references, the following examples should be observed.
7. Figures are to be numbered consecutively. Preferably, the figures should be professional quality computer graphics, as output by standard office software or plotting packages. If possible encapsulated Postscript graphics should be imported into the manuscript in the places where they are intended to appear. On acceptance, authors will be requested to supply these Postscript files separately. Figures should be captioned informatively, so that they can be understood without referring to the text.
8. Tables are to be numbered separately from the illustrations. Each table should have a short informative title.
9. Formulas should be numbered consecutively on the right-hand side of the page. Matrix and vector symbols should be denoted in boldface type, whereas scalars, elements of arrays, and other variables should be in italics. Abbreviations for mathematical operators (such as in, e, prob, and Max) should be typeset in roman. Ratios and fractions in the main text should be presented using a slash
10. A PDF file of the page proofs will be sent to the corresponding author by e-mail. The provisional page numbers given in the proofs may be referred to during the correction procedure. However, the final page numbers are inserted by the publisher when an issue is ready to go to press
11. A PDF offprint is supplied for each author for his own personel use. Orders for additional offprints at the contributor’s own expense can be placed by returning the order form with the corrected proofs.

Before sending the paper for consideration to be published in RHGT, please be advised to use the RHGT template (download it from here).

Peer-Review

RHGT uses double-blind peer review. This means the identities of reviewers and authors are not known to each other. Papers will be sent to two reviewers, who will be asked to evaluate the extent to which papers make a substantial contribution to advancing theoretical and methodological understanding of historical geography and toponymy. Editor-in-chief or the handling editor checks reviewers not to work in the same institution with the authors. Papers are currently taking approximately 4 months from submission to first decision. Since 2015 the language of the papers is exclusively English.

Link to peer-review form

Publication ethics and malpractice

RHGT’s editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred. RHGT and/or its editors does not encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place. In the event that RHGT’s publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editors shall deal with allegations appropriately. The journal should retract or correct articles when needed. RHGT’s publisher and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

For more details on journal’s ethics, please read RHGT’s Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

Guidelines for Book Reviews

Review of Historical Geography and Toponomastics publishes reviews of recent books and monographs dealing with topics relevant to historical geography scientists. Book reviews are aimed at providing a very useful contribution to scholarship in the field of regional science. Your assistance in accomplishing this goal is deeply appreciated. Avoid a detailed description of the book’s content and lengthy quotations from the book, critically and thoughtfully evaluate the success of the book regarding its stated goals and its contribution to the field, analyze the function, use and content of the book and avoid a detailed description of the book.
The review should be up to 800 words. The header should include the following information: Title. Author(s). Location: Publisher, Year of Publication. Pages, information on diagrams, tables, references, index. Price. ISBN
Please send your review to: sebastian.jucu@e-uvt.ro

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