IMMEDIATIONS STYLE GUIDE 2016 TEXT

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1 IMMEDIATIONS STYLE GUIDE 2016 TEXT Spelling: British, rather than American, words and spelling should be used o centre, colour, programme, pavement; not center, program, sidewalk Use of Oxford Commas is permitted if there is some reason why the final sub-clause is to be separated or given emphasis. For instance: o Unusually the artist gained some experience across the Channel, having traveled to Rome, Paris, and London. Punctuation: Apostrophes to indicate the possessive case should be thus for singular nouns ending in s : the bass s stripes. Apostrophes to indicate the possessive case should be thus for plural nouns ending in s : the puppies bed. It is now conventional to put an s at the end of proper nouns, thus: Jones ; apart from Classical names (so it would be Vitruvius ). Dates: Dates follow European order o 26 March 1688 Dates should be written out in full o eighteenth century, not 18 th century Dates should be hyphenated if used as adjectives (please use the - hyphen). o in the nineteenth century or in nineteenth-century art, but not in the 19th century Cardinal numbers should not be abbreviated with th or st o the twentieth house not the 20 th house Numbers that identify decades do not take an apostrophe and can be abbreviated in the second instance o 1970s or in the 1970s and 80s, but not 1970 s Inclusive dates are given as , not nor (please us the en dash ). Italian dates are italicised and capitalised when used as a noun o in the Quattrocento or in quattrocento art Numbers: Whole numbers from zero to one-hundred should be spelt out in full, numerals should be used for numbers over one-hundred o Three new galleries will provide display space for over 205 paintings and drawings Exceptions include page numbers, dates and round numbers over a hundred o More than a thousand copies are known to exist, rather than More than a 1000 copies are known to exist Commas should be used to separate thousands o 40,123 Roman numerals should be converted to Arabic, unless citing original pagination Page numbers should be given in full (please use the en dash ). o 1 2; 53 54; ; Quotations Please use single quotation marks throughout For quotations within quotations use double quotation marks Block quotations (three lines of text or more) should be indented with no quotation marks Indicate a break in the text thus (ellipsis) with a single space on either side. Do not use at the beginning or the end of a quotation Punctuation should be placed outside quotation marks 1

2 Lines of poetry are separated by slashes (/) or double slashes (//) for stanzas Quotations from Foreign Languages: All quotations should be translated into English in the body of the text. Where necessary the original text can be provided in the endnotes, unless a short non-english phrase is necessary in the text. In this case, it should be cited in the original and immediately followed by a translation in brackets o coram papa (in the presence of the pope). Thereafter it can be used in the original Passages of exceptional length should appear in an Appendix Citations from non-roman alphabets should be transliterated Direct quotations of early texts should try preserve the spelling, punctuation or abbreviations of the original with any alterations explained Italics: Italics, rather than underlying or bold-type, are used for emphasis. Any such emphasis in a quotation should be indicated as such in the endnote. o See Smith, 1936, at n.36 above, p.22, my emphasis. Any foreign words that appear in the text, but are not directly quoted, should appear in italics. Foreign place names, locations or proper nouns are not italicized. Subheadings: Please use sparingly. Subheadings should be as short as possible. Subheadings should appear as capitalized titles, without numbers o THE MONA LISA Locations: Where more than one location has the same name, this should be clarified. In citing American cities or place names, use the standard postal style for identifying the state. In the event that none is given, the town will be assumed to be European o Cambridge alone will indicate the town in England; Cambridge, MA, for the US city Standard English names for foreign cities should be used o Florence, not Firenze Acknowledgements: Acknowledgements should be kept to a minimum and precede the endnotes. Miscellaneous i.e., e.g. and etc. should be avoided When separating a word or sub-clause with a dash, the em-dash ( ) should be used with a space between the words. Colons and semi-colons should be used sparingly. Truncations are followed by a full stop, but abbreviations are not, unless the abbreviation is the plural of a truncation o Mr is not followed by a full stop but Prof. is; ed. is followed by a full stop, as is its plural eds. ). Saint should be spelt out. Acronyms should be spelt out in the first instance, with the acronym in brackets o The United Nations (UN) introduced Thereafter they can be abbreviated. Scholars names should always be cited in full in the text when they are first mentioned, thereafter just the surname will surface. 2

3 IMAGES In the body of the text: title (Fig. 1, date) unless the date is given in the sentence. Please give titles in English. Illustrations captions: Should follow the following format: Artist, title, date, materials, dimensions, location, copyright/ courtesy (if necessary). o Office of John Soane, Goose-Pie House, Whitehall, c.1815, pencil, ink and watercolour, 19cm x 38cm, Sir John Soane Museum. Courtesy of the Trustees of the Sir John Soane s Museum. REFERENCES References should be kept to a minimum and should not introduce additional information. All references should appear as endnotes rather than footnotes, with no separate bibliography Books One author: Michael Pollan, The Omnivore s Dilemma: A Natural History (New York: Penguin, 2006), Pollan, 3. NB: If there is more than one book by the same author to be cited, give the date of the text s publication in brackets after the author s surname and before the comma: Pollan (2006), 3. If there is more than one book by the same author with the same publication date distinguish between them with a letter from a in alphabetical order, given in the first reference and thereafter: Pollan (2006a), 3. Pollan (2006b), 87. (If there is no page number, for instance in an exhibition catalogue, please write n.p. ). Two or more authors: Geoffrey C. Ward and Ken Burns, The War: An Intimate History, (New York: Knopf, 2007), 52. Ward and Burns, If there is more than one book by both authors give the publication date as above; if (unlikely) necessary distinguish with alphabetical letters as above. [Editor, translator, or compiler instead of author to be used in rare cases, e.g. the exceptional case of Homer below:] Richmond Lattimore trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951), Lattimore, 24. If there are more than one books by the same editor/translator give the date of publication, as above. Follow the above rules too in the case of multiple articles by the same editor/translator with the same publication date. Editor, translator, or compiler in addition to author 3

4 Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera, Edith Grossman trans. (London: Cape, 1988), García Márquez, 33. If there are more than one books by the same author give the date of publication, as above. Follow the Chapter or part of a book John D. Kelly, Seeing Red: Mao Fetishism, Pax Americana, and the Moral Economy of War, in John D. Kelly ed., Anthropology and Global Counterinsurgency (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2010), 61-89, 77. Kelly, Preface, foreword, introduction, or similar part of a book James Rieger, introduction to Mary Wollstonecraft, Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), xx xxi. Rieger, xxxiii. Book published electronically Please make every effort to cite a hard-copy edition of a book if a hard-copy edition has been published. If a book is available in more than one format, cite the version you consulted. For books consulted online, list a URL; include an access date. If no fixed page numbers are available write n.p.. There is no need to cite Pride and Prejudice as an online book. If no hard-copy edition exists: Philip B. Kurland and Ralph Lerner eds., The Founders Constitution (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012), Accessed 28/2/2010, Kurland and Lerner, 3. (If there is no page number, please write n.p. ). Journal article Article in a print journal Joshua I. Weinstein, The Market in Plato s Republic, Classical Philology, 3, 104 (2009), , 440. Weinstein, If there are more than one articles by the same author give the date of publication, as above. Follow the Article in an online journal Include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) if the journal lists one. A DOI is a permanent ID that, when appended to in the address bar of an Internet browser, will lead to the source. If no DOI is available, list a URL. Include an access date. Gueorgi Kossinets and Duncan J. Watts, Origins of Homophily in an Evolving Social Network, American Journal of Sociology, 17, 115 (2009), , 411, Accessed 28/2/2010, doi: /

5 Kossinets and Watts, Origins of Homophily, 439. If there are more than one articles by the same author give the date of publication, as above. Follow the Article in a newspaper or popular magazine If you consulted the article online, include a URL and access date. If no author is identified, begin the citation with the article title. 1.) John Bloggs, Masturbation will kill you, The Daily Mail (Published 4/5/14, Accessed 5/6/17, 2.) John Bloggs, Masturbation will kill you, The Daily Mail (4/5/14), 4. 1.) Bloggs. 2.) Bloggs, 69. If there are more than one articles by the same author give the date of publication, as above. Follow the Book review Edwin Coomasaru, review of From Armed Struggle to Political Struggle: Republican Tradition and Transformation in Northern Ireland by Graham Spencer, Irish Studies Review, 24, 2 (2016), 5-6, 6. Thereafter Coomasaru, 6. David Kamp, Deconstructing Dinner, review of The Omnivore s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan, New York Times, (Published 23/4/2006, Accessed 31/5/2016, Kamp. Thesis or dissertation Mihwa Choi, Contesting Imaginaires in Death Rituals during the Northern Song Dynasty (PhD thesis, University of Chicago, 2008). Choi, 91. Paper presented at a meeting or conference Rachel Adelman, Such Stuff as Dreams Are Made On : God s Footstool in the Aramaic Targumim and Midrashic Tradition at The Annual Meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature (New Orleans, Louisiana, 21/11/2009). Adelman. (And as before). Website A formal citation is required. A publication date must always be given, but if one is not available write n.d.. An access date must always be given. If there is no author begin the reference with the title. Google Privacy Policy, Google (Published n.d., Accessed 31/5/2016, 5

6 Google Privacy Policy. Blog entry or comment A formal citation is required. A publication date must always be given, but if one is not available write n.d.. An access date must always be given. Use pseudonyms where applicable and if there is no author begin the reference with the title. Richard Posner, Double Exports in Five Years?, Becker-Posner Blog (Published: 21/2/2010, Accessed: 31/5/2016, (Where possible give the link to the comment). Jack, comment on Richard Posner, Double Exports in Five Years?, Becker-Posner Blog (Published: 21/2/2010, Accessed: 31/5/2016, Jack, comment on Posner. (If more than one author and/or date, the same applies as above). , text message, phone call, interview between the author and subject These must all be given in the same format. Jeremy Deller in conversation with the author (30/5/2016). Deller (30/5/2016). 6