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. Three copies should be submitted. Manuscripts can be submitted in print and/or electronically (attached MS Word or Plain Text document). A 150-word abstract should accompany each submission. In general authors should adhere to the usage 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. 

Text 

• Quotations of more than six lines should be indented and double-spaced (and not be opened and closed with inverted commas). For shorter quotations use single inverted commas. All references should appear as footnotes. Use square brackets for interpolations; use three spaced dots to indicate the omission of material within a quotation. Original spelling and punctuation should be retained unless otherwise stated.

• Greek may be used where it is needed, or it may be transliterated (and put in italics). However, long passages, either of Greek or transliteration, should be avoided.
• Capitals should be used sparingly. Capitalize proper names and substantives where they refer to particular individuals. Thus 'the King returned to Sparta', but 'Sparta had two kings'.
• Numbers under 1000 should be spelled out, apart from page numbers or where they appear 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.
• Italics and Abbreviations. Italics should be used for non-naturalised words of foreign origin. Thus Weltanschauung but elite. Italics may be used for emphasis, but sparingly. Omit full stops from common abbreviations and acronyms: MP, USA.

Footnotes 

• Footnotes should be typed separately at the end of the text in double spacing. Numbering should be consecutive throughout the article.

• References to books should take the following form for the first reference:

                G. Vlastos, Socrates, Ironist and Moral Philosopher (Cambridge, 1991), pp. 120-6.
                and subsequently:
                Vlastos, Socrates, p. 140.

• Texts may be referred to by standard abbreviations in the footnotes, but should be written in full in the text.
• Page references should be by the translation or edition cited, or according to the standard system for that text 

(e.g.,  Stephanus pages for Plato, Bekker pages for Aristotle, book and chapter for Herodotus  and Thucydides), or both.

• References to articles should take the following form:
  F. Rosen, 'Obligation and Friendship in Plato's Crito', Political Theory, 1 (1973), pp. 307-16, p. 309.

            and subsequently:
            Rosen, 'Obligation and Friendship', p. 314.

 

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.