Notes for contributors
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Caricature of a female street vendor, 1805
(Volume 80, no. 2)
- Papers are considered for publication on the strict understanding that they have not previously been published nor are concurrently on offer to any other journal.
- Two clean copies of each article (the original and a good photocopy) should be sent to Dr D.J. Clayton (the General Editor) at the subscriptions address. It is regretted that they cannot be returned to authors unless a stamped addressed envelope or international reply coupons accompany them. If an article is accepted for publication, the author should be prepared to provide a copy of the text on disk.
- Contributions should not normally exceed 8,000 words inclusive of references. They should be typed, double-spaced throughout and with first lines of paragraphs indented, on one side of good-quality A4-size paper and with generous margins on all four sides. Footnotes should be numbered consecutively in superscript and appear on separate sheets at the end of the main text.
- Articles should be prepared so as to conform as much as possible to the typographical and stylistic conventions laid down in the current (thirty-ninth) edition of Hart's rules for compositors and readers at the University Press, Oxford (Oxford/New York: Oxford University Press, 1983). Prospective authors are particularly asked to note that:
- English spellings should be used throughout, with -ize being preferred to -ise as a verbal ending in cases where both forms are current.
- Capitalization within the text must be kept to an absolute minimum and ordinarily reserved for proper names only.
- Gender-specific language should be avoided wherever possible.
- Short quotations (under five lines) should appear in the main text and be contained within single quotation marks (double marks should here be used only for quotations within quotations).
- Lengthier extracts should be broken off and indented from the text without any quotation marks (in the event of a quotation occurring within a quotation, single marks should be employed). Omissions should be indicated by three points, and interpolated material should be enclosed within square brackets.
- Dates and figures within the text should be given in the form 117 BC, nineteenth century (but nineteenth-century when used adjectivally), 27 February 1875, 1960-61, forty-four [whole numbers under 100 to be in words], 0.62, 9 per cent, 6.35 p.m.
- Source references should be cited as follows:
J.M. Cavendish, A handbook of copyright in British publishing practice, second edition (London: Cassell, 1984), 131 [note page numbers are not prefixed with p. or pp.].
Peter Borsay, '''All the town's a stage'': urban ritual and ceremony, 1660-1800', in The transformation of English provincial towns, 1600-1800, ed. Peter Clark (London: Hutchinson, 1984), 228-58 [note: contract page numbers except for the group 10-19 in each hundred].
J. Greatrex, 'Monk students from Norwich Cathedral Priory at Oxford and Cambridge, c. 1300 to 1530', English Historical Review, cvi (1991), 555-83 [note: the volume number is given in lower case if in Roman and is not preceded by vol.].
3 & 4 Will. IV, c.15.
British Library, Add. MS 4413, fos 79v.-81r. [note: no point after MS or MSS, and no comma to divide manuscript numbers; it should be fo. but fos].
W.B. Maynard, 'The ecclesiastical administration of the archdeaconry of Durham, 1774-1856' (University of Durham Ph.D. thesis, 1973).
For repeated references to the same source, use a clearly explained abbreviated title in preference to op.cit.
- Authors will receive proofs which they are expected to correct and to return, by airmail or fax if necessary, within ten days of receipt. Alterations which go beyond the correction of typesetting errors may be disallowed entirely or charged to the contributor.
- Contributors will automatically receive one free copy of the issue of the Bulletin in which their paper appears together with twenty offprints. Additional copies, which will be charged for, may be ordered at the proof stage.
- The copyright in all articles published in the Bulletin resides with The John Rylands University Library. Authors wishing to republish their contribution(s), whether in whole or in part, should contact the General Editor in the first instance.