Cambridge University Press

Urban History Template

Write in a clean editor, then format for Urban History in one click — DocuGuru applies the official Cambridge University Press template with numbered references and exports a submission-ready PDF plus the editable LaTeX source. Free to start.

About the Urban History format

Urban History is a peer-reviewed journal published by Cambridge University Press, covering Historical Economic and Social Studies, Scottish History and National Identity, Urbanization and City Planning.

PublisherCambridge University Press
Reference styleNumbered
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Urban History 12 (2023) 45–58.

Formats any DOI in the closest standard style — Urban History has no published style definition, so this is an approximation. No sign-up.

Publishes research inHistorical Economic and Social Studies Scottish History and National Identity Urbanization and City Planning Diverse Scientific and Economic Studies Financial Crisis of the 21st Century
ISSN0963-9268
Citation impact (2-yr)0.1
h-index42
i10-index277
Total citations9,880
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Leicester
Journal websitewww.cambridge.org
You getA submission-ready PDF and the editable LaTeX source — ready to submit.

Papers published in Urban History per year

73
2014
92
2015
73
2016
63
2017
74
2018
88
2019
103
2020
107
2021
85
2022
87
2023
84
2024
83
2025

Citation impact of Urban History by publication year

219
2014
330
2015
320
2016
93
2017
230
2018
252
2019
223
2020
135
2021
56
2022
48
2023
14
2024
5
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Urban History

Sounds of the city: the soundscape of early modern European towns

David Garrioch · 1 May 2003

In European towns of the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the sounds people heard were very different from those of today. Yet the difference goes much deeper: whereas today we try to escape city noise, for the inhabitants of early modern towns sound served as a crucial source of information. It formed a semiotic system,…

Municipal Socialism, Enterprise and Trading in the Victorian City

John Kellett · 1 May 1978

By the closing decades of the nineteenth century the continued and rapid growth of cities had given rise to acute problems of municipal policy on both sides of the Atlantic. America had come to its urban experience relatively late – the population of Chicago at the time the Liverpool & Manchester Railway opened was 50…

Suburbs in transition: new approaches to suburban history

Ruth McManus, Philip J. Ethington · 20 Jun 2007

The history of suburbs has received so much scholarly attention in recent decades that it is time to take stock of what has been established, in order to discern aspects of suburbs that are still unknown. To date, the main lines of inquiry have been dedicated to the origins, growth, diverse typologies, culture and politics…

The Black Death in English towns

Richard Britnell · 1 Oct 1994

It seems likely that historians in the past have seriously underestimated the number of English townsmen in the early fourteenth century. In London alone there may have been 80–100,000 around 1300. The population of Norwich in the early fourteenth century was higher than used to be thought, and it was growing: Rutledge proposes 17,000 for…

Urban History template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Urban History format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Urban History template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official Cambridge University Press format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Urban History use?
Urban History uses Numbered references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, and C. Lee, A representative article title, Urban History 12 (2023) 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Urban History?
No. DocuGuru generates the null LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a Cambridge University Press-ready Urban History document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Urban History template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Urban History format with correct headings, figures, tables, and numbered citations.
Who publishes Urban History?
Urban History is a multidisciplinary journal published by Cambridge University Press. DocuGuru's Urban History template matches Cambridge University Press's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready Urban History PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Urban History template (the null class) that is ready to submit to Cambridge University Press, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
How much does the Urban History template cost?
You can start writing in the Urban History template for free. Exporting the final submission-ready Urban History PDF and LaTeX source is part of DocuGuru's paid plans — see the app for current pricing.
Use the Urban History template