Style Sheet and Guide to Authors
General Points
Contributions should be clearly typed in double spacing leaving a wide
(c. 2 inch) margin at the left hand side of the page for editorial marking.
Copy should be submitted as an email attachment to the relevant editor
(see below). A short 100 word abstract should
accompany each submission. Copies should not contain any information that
identifies the author. In general authors should adhere to the usages and
conventions in Fowler’s Modern English Usage (second revised edition, Oxford,
1968), which should be consulted for all questions not covered in these
notes.
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Despatch of accepted manuscripts by Email
Authors are encouraged to email the text of an article (once it has been
accepted for publication) in native wordprocessor or RTF format (retaining
italics, accents, superscripts, footnotes etc.).
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Text
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Quotations of more than six lines should be indented and double spaced.
For shorter quotations use single inverted commas. All references should
appear as footnotes. Use square brackets for interpolations; use three
dots to indicate the omission of material within a quotation. Original
spelling and punctuation should be retained unless otherwise stated.
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Capitals should be used sparingly. Capitalize proper names and substantives
where they refer to particular individuals. Thus, ``the King fled to Dover'',
but ``kings do not habitually depart in haste''; ``The Parliament refused
to be threatened'', but ``parliaments are malleable''.
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Dates and numbers should take the following form. For dates the form is,
``14 July 1789''. Write ``seventeenth century'', not ``C17th''. Numbers
under 100 should be spelled out, apart from page numbers, dates and month,
or where they occur as part of a series. The second or subsequent number
of a pair or series may be abbreviated as appropriate, thus, 253-6, and
254-61.
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Italics, abbreviations. Use italics for non-naturalised words of foreign
origin. Thus Weltanschauung but elite. Omit full stops from common
abbreviations and acronyms, thus, MP, USA.
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Footnotes
Footnotes should be typed separately at the end of the text in double spacing.
Numbering should be consecutive throughout the article.
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References to books should take the following form for the first reference:
J.P. Sommerville, Politics and Ideology in England (London and New
York, 1986), pp.120-6, and subsequently: Sommerville, Politics and Ideology,
p. 140.
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Reference to articles should take the following form: Q.Skinner, `The Ideological
Context of Hobbes's Political Thought', The Historical Journal,
IX (1966) pp. 286-317, p.2 90, and subsequently: Skinner, `Ideological
Context', p. 290.
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Use Ibid. only to refer to the preceding footnote and taking care
to avoid any ambiguity. In all other cases use the name and short title;
do not use op. cit.
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MSS sources, Tracts, Ephemera. Where such material is quoted the standard
catalogue number (e.g. Wing) should be given, or the source library's accession
or reference code, thus, The Afflicted Man's out-cry (1653), British
Library, E711 (7).
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Articles for publication and books for review (pre-1600)
These should be sent to j.coleman@lse.ac.uk
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Articles for publication and books for review (post-1600)
These should be sent to: hpt@exeter.ac.uk
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