Submitting a Book

The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center Press does not accept unsolicited book manuscripts. We do not publish poetry or fiction books. We publish only scholarly books demonstrably related to previous Chicano studies research. If you have questions, please email the press.

For those submitting soliciting manuscripts, please note that authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reprint illustrations or texts from books, journals, or the web, and for paying any royalty fees. It is wise to start applying for permission to reprint as soon as you send the submission to the journal. We will not publish any article with images for which we do not have written permission to reprint. This permission may not be an email communication; we only accept hard copy original signatures. We also do not accept vague authorial assurances of "fair use." Please do not ignore your authorial duties on this requirement; we will postpone or refuse publication of articles if we do not have hardcopy permissions in our hands by press time.

By US copyright law, permission must be asked to reprint any formerly published tables, graphs, maps, or illustrations if they were created in the last seventy-five years. If the material is older than seventy-five years, you must provide proof, such as a photocopied copyright page. Likewise, you do not need to ask permission to reprint works from the U.S. government, but you must provide us with proof that it comes from such a source, such as a photocopied copyright page. If the copyright owner has died or gone out of business, you must still try to find the person or institution authorized to give permission. You must ask permission to reprint a significant proportion of any written work. If citing a paragraph from a book-length text (with a reference to the original, of course), you do not need to ask permission. But, if citing most of an article, you do need to ask permission because you are reprinting a significant proportion of the work. If you need a form to ask reprint permission of an author or artist, click here. If you have never requested permissions for images, please see the Chicago Manual of Style 's excellent section on "Author's Responsibilities."