Title

For example:

Limp parchment bindings in early-modern France: A preliminary assessment

Authors name and affiliation

For example:

Charles Hunnicutt, Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Pierre-Yves Rameau, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris.

Heading 1

Heading 2

Heading 3

Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text.

Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text. Main text.

Captions

For example:

Fig. 1. Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 1687, c. 1470, spine and left board of binding. Photo: Henk van der Ecke.

Footnotes and bibliographical references

The first time a work is cited, full bibliographical information should be given in the notes.

The authors’ names should appear in natural order (first name followed by surname, not surname first). Authors should be referred to by their full names as they appear in the publication; forenames should not be reduced to initials (other than in cases where that is the form used in the publication). The names of up to three authors should be given in full; for works by more than three authors the name of only the first should be given, followed by ‘et al.’. Where multiple authors are given, use an ampersand (&) rather than the word ‘and’ between them.

Titles of articles in journals or anthologies are placed in single inverted commas (quotation marks), while book and journal titles should be italicised. Titles of unpublished material, even if book-length, such as doctoral theses, should be in roman with inverted commas. Please note that capitalisation in titles should be ‘sentence style’ (i.e. only proper nouns capitalised), rather than ‘headline style’ (except for titles in languages such as German, where other rules apply).

Place and year of publication should be given for books, separated by a comma and placed within round brackets (parentheses). Note that the place of publication should normally be given in the form it has on the title page: ‘København’, ‘Copenhagen’. Names of publishers are not required. For multi-volume works, please give the date-range for the entire work, not just the volume being cited. Note that date-ranges should be given in full, e.g. ‘1954-1961’, not ‘1954-61’.

When a book is part of a series the series title and volume number (in roman numerals) can be given. Journal numbers should be given in Arabic numerals, without a preceding comma, as in the fourth example below. The year alone is sufficient for journals, placed in round brackets after the number of the issue.

Please refer to all works in their original languages (rather than in English translation). Non-Latin-based writing systems such as Greek or Cyrillic should not present a problem. Translations of titles will normally not be necessary.

1. Referring to a monograph:

Fergus Anderson, Sir Archibald Petrie as book-collector (London, 1965).

2. Referring to a specific page or range of pages in a monograph:

Fergus Anderson, Sir Archibald Petrie as book-collector (London, 1965), pp. 135-140.

3. Referring to an article in a book:

Alexander Pickwick, ‘Thoughts on medieval bookbinding’, Interpreting medieval books, ed. Louise Brownlap & Marcellus Smythe (Cambridge, 2000), pp. 1-20.

4. Referring to an article in a journal:

Boris Valentine & Henrietta Schwartz, ‘A new database of early French watermarks’, Journal of paper conservation 29 (2001), pp. 59-75.

5. Referring to a specific page or range of pages within an article in a book or journal:

Boris Valentine & Henrietta Schwartz, ‘A new database of early French watermarks’, Journal of paper conservation 29 (2001), pp. 59-75, at p. 65.

6. Referring to a multi-volume work:

J. D. Flores, ed., Catálogo de los códices manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional, 3 vols. (Montevideo, 1966-1968).

7. Referring to a specific page or range of pages in a multi-volume work:

J. D. Flores, ed., Catálogo de los códices manuscritos de la Biblioteca Nacional, 3 vols. (Montevideo, 1966-1968), I, pp. 77-78.

8. Referring to a book in a series:

Margarita Fuchs, ed., Farben und Pigmente, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Buchwesens V (Heilbronn, 2007).

9. Referring to an article or chapter in a book in a series:

Heather MacPherson, ‘The use of cinnabar in eighteenth-century Scotland’, Farben und Pigmente, ed. Margarita Fuchs, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Buchwesens V (Heilbronn, 2007), pp. 276-298.

10. Referring to a specific page or range of pages in an article or chapter in a book in a series:

Heather MacPherson, ‘The use of cinnabar in eighteenth-century Scotland’, Farben und Pigmente, ed. Margarita Fuchs, Quellen und Studien zur Geschichte des Buchwesens V (Heilbronn, 2007), pp. 276-298, at p. 290.

Subsequent references should include only the author’s surname and a short title:

Anderson, Sir Archibald Petrie, p. 207.

Pickwick, ‘Thoughts’, p. 13.

Valentine & Schwartz, ‘A new database’, pp. 60-63.

Flores, Catálogo, II, p. 60.

MacPherson, ‘The use of cinnabar’, p. 290.

Idem /Ead., Ibid., op. cit. and loc. cit. should not be used.

References to on-line resources should include as much information as possible concerning authorship (the person or organisation responsible for the site), location (URL) and availability (date accessed), as in the following:

Irish Institute for Conservation, Dublin, ‘Removing sellotape’, http://www.iic.ie/sellotape.html [accessed 20.02.2021].

Wherever necessary, references to manuscripts may contain the location (normally the city), repository and shelfmark the first time they are mentioned, e.g.:

Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Boreal. 354

Utrecht, Universiteitsbibliotheek, MS 1687

If several manuscripts from the same repository are listed it is not necessary to repeat the information.

Please provide full references for any manuscripts referred to; ‘the Beowulf manuscript’, ‘Four Slavonic Gospels’ or ‘a birchbark manuscript at Johns Hopkins University Library’ are not sufficient.

Please supply a separate list of all manuscripts referred to in your article, including location, repository and shelfmark (for purposes of indexing).