Preparing a Manuscript
Formatting (miscellaneous)
* Do not use all caps for authors' names in notes.
* To indent paragraphs, use only the tab key—not the space bar, your word processor’s automatic indent feature, or a “style sheet” of any sort.
* Use only one space after periods, colons, semi-colons, and quotation marks at the end of sentences.
* Never use letters for numbers or vice versa; in other words, do not type the lowercase “L” for the number one or the capital letter “O” for zero.
Spelling, punctuation, and other matters of style
* Please spell-check and proofread your text, including endnotes.
* For spelling and word division, follow Webster’s Third International Dictionary or the latest edition of Merriam-Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary.
* For capitalization, hyphenation, use of numbers, punctuation, and other matters of style, follow The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition (2003).
* Please capitalize all references to “South” but not to “southern” or “southerner” (as opposed to our own informal capitalization of each of these terms in correspondence, advertising, and website text).
* Do not capitalize black and white; do capitalize African American, Asian American, American Indian, etc., none of which take a hyphen.
Names
* Give the complete name on first reference to an individual; last name only thereafter.
* Do not use honorifics (Ms., Mrs., Mr., etc.)
* Neither “Jr.” nor “III” are preceded by a comma (Joe Doe Jr.; Joe Doe III)
* Initials indicating first and middle names are separated by a space (W. R. Valentiner).
Endnotes
* Number consecutively from 1, but if you are providing a note to your title (e.g., “This paper was originally presented at a conference . . .”), begin numbering after that note. Place the notes at the end of the manuscript (not at the bottom of the page), using the endnote function in Microsoft Word. Please double space.
* All references must be complete. (Please, no “author will supply information with proof.”)
* Please streamline and consolidate notes as much as possible. There should be no more than one note per paragraph. The primary purpose for endnotes is to provide the source citation for direct quotations in the text. We generally edit out textual material in the notes. If that material is integral to your essay, please incorporate it into the text.
* Once a work has been cited in full, subsequent references to the work should be in short form. Short reference form consists of author’s last name, a logically shortened title of the book (or journal article title), and page number(s) of reference.
* Ibid. refers to a single work cited in the note immediately preceding. Ibid. takes the place of the author’s name, title of the work, and as much of the succeeding material as is identical.
* Do not use p. or pp. to indicate references to page numbers unless the use of the number would be unclear without it.
* Use Arabic numerals for volume numbers, even if the title page of the work carries a roman numeral.
* Use en-dashes between series of numbers (1860–1865, 12–18).
* Book reviews should not have endnotes.
* Consult The Chicago Manual of Style (chapters 16 and 17), visit The Chicago Manual of Style Citation Quick Guide (refer to humanities style, “N,” guidelines), and/or see below for additional guidance on formatting specific sources in endnotes.
For a book
* Author’s full name
* Complete title of the book
* Editor, compiler, or translator, if any
* Series, if any, and volume or number in the series
* Edition, if not the original
* Number of volumes
* Facts of publication—location of publication for little-known presses, publisher, and date of publication
* Volume number, if any
* Page number(s) of the particular citation
Richard Wright, Black Boy (Harper and Row, 1966), 201.
Valeria Gennaro Lerda and Tjebbe Westendorp, eds., The United States South: Regionalism and Identity (Bulzoni Editore, 1991);
Allen Wardwell, Objects of Bright Pride: Northwest Coast Indian Art from the American Museum of Natural History, 2nd rev. ed. (American Federation of the Arts, 1988), 30.
For a chapter/essay in an edited book (example)
Michael Heale, “Writings in Great Britain on United States History: Some Reflections on a Liberal Moment,” in Guide to the Study of United States History Outside the United States, 1945–1980, ed. Lewis Hanke (Krause International Publishers, 1985).
For a journal article
* Author’s full name
* Title of the article
* Name of the periodical
* Volume of the periodical
* Date of the volume or of the issue
* Page number(s) of the particular citation
James F. Powers, “Frontier Municipal Baths and Social Interaction in Thirteenth-Century Spain,” American Historical Review 84 (June 1979): 655.
Cornelius C. Vermeule, “The Rise of the Severan Dynasty in the East: Young Caracalla, about the Year 205, as Helios-Sol,” North Carolina Museum of Art Bulletin 14, no. 4 (1990): 30–49.
Unpublished material
* Author’s name
* Title of document, if any, and date
* Folio number or other identifying number
* Name of collection
* Depository, and city where it is located
Stephen Walsh, “Black-oriented Radio and the Campaign for Civil Rights in the United States, 1945–1975” (Ph.D. diss., University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1997).
Timothy Habick, “Sound Change in Farmer City: A Sociolinguistic Study Based on Acoustic Data” (Ph.D. diss., University of Illinois, 1980), Cabell Greet Papers, Columbia University Library Special Collections.
Interview
* Interviewee
* Date
Interview with Janis Joplin, February 2, 1962.
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