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The Proceedings of the Huguenot Society of Great Britain and Ireland is circulated to Fellows and Subscribing Libraries in October. The Society welcomes well-researched contributions to Proceedings, which may be chosen from a wide range of topics related to Huguenot history.  Full-length articles, illustrated where possible, must be unpublished elsewhere and should not exceed 5000 words.  They should be accompanied by source references, in moderation, submitted on a separate page.  Shorter and more informal pieces of up to 500 words are also invited, and all of the above should meet the common deadline of the end of May.  Suitable books will be considered for review, but these must reach the Book Review Editor by the preceding October.

Please send Proceedings copy to editor@huguenotsociety.org.uk, by Word attachment; typescript, disks, or photographs to  Editor c/o The Huguenot Library, University College London, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT.  Text should be unjustified but material otherwise completely ready for the printer, as the costs of any substantial alterations will have to be passed on to the author.  Book review enquiries should be sent to Raingard.Esser@uwe.ac.uk; books to Dr Raingard Esser, University of the West of England, Frenchay Campus, Coldharbour Lane, Bristol BS 16 1QY.

GUIDANCE FOR CONTRIBUTORS TO THE HUGUENOT SOCIETY PROCEEDINGS

Articles should be headed with a title in upper and lower case, with the author’s name preceded by ‘By’, and in upper case, below it, both centred. Authors should provide a very brief autobiographical note, stating current academic post and most recent publication if appropriate, and giving postal and email addresses (for term and vacation), telephone and fax numbers. Reviewers’ names should be placed on the right of the foot of the article, in upper case, with the reviewer’s academic institution, if applicable, below it, in upper and lower case.  A recent number of Proceedings may be used as a guide to style, which follows the conventions of the Oxford University Press, e.g. –ize not –ise, as detailed in New Hart’s Rules, 2005.  The following points should be noted:

1. Numbers and dates

   (a) Numbers up to and including ten should be in words not figures, similarly ordinals (second, tenth, 25th), except with ‘century’, i.e. 8th century, 17th century.
   (b) Sequenced and hyphenated numbers up to and including 99 should be given in full, e.g. 16-99, 94-99. For 100 and upwards use the smallest number of figures compatible with clarity, e.g. pp. 443-5 (not 443-445 or 443-45), but 110-19, 412-16 (not 1l0-9 or 4l2-6).
   (c) In dates: 1897-8 (not 1897-98), 1901-10, 1837-1901 and for a precise date: 1 May 1918, without punctuation. Decades should be: the 1760s, the ’60s, the 1700s.
   (d) Per cent should be written (e.g. 1.5 per cent) and not with % except in tables.

2. Words

   (a) Abbreviate the following without full points: Mr, Mrs, M, Mme, Mlle, Dr, Revd, with full points Prof., Maj. Gen., pp.
   (b) Upper and lower case:   (i) Use upper case initial only for the first word of a title of a book or article and for all proper names within the title, e.g. The aldermen of the City of London; Returns of aliens dwelling in ... London. (ii) Capitalize denominational terms, e.g. Protestant, Catholic, Quaker. (iii) Capitalize all titles, e.g. the King of England, Archbishop Laud, le Duc de Soubise, Cardinal Richelieu. (iv) Use lower case for north, south, east, west, unless part of a proper name, e.g. north-east England but North Dakota. Hyphenate or not on the same principle, e.g. the North West Frontier.
   (c) Italicize words and phrases not in English, as well as names of ships and titles of books.

3. Quotations

   Quoted passages should follow original text exactly. Short quotations should be enclosed in single quotation marks and quotations within a quotation between double quotation marks. Insertions by the author to be within square brackets, e.g. ‘Wagner ... said of this tune [“Rule Britannia”] that the first eight notes expressed the whole character of the British people.’
   Quoted passages in excess of 25 words should start on a new line and be indented from the margin without the use of quotation marks.

4. Footnotes

   (a) Citation of books:  (i) Name of author, preceded by initials with full points, followed by comma. (ii) Title in italics (underlined in typescript), comma. (iii) Number of edition, if much revised. (iv) Place, comma, date of publication, in brackets. (v) Volume number in Arabic figures, comma. (vi) Page number(s), preceded by p. or pp. and ff. if a long sequence of pages.  (vii) Name of series, if applicable, and volume number in Arabic figures in brackets.
   E.g. H.B. Morse, The Chronicles of the East India Company Trading to China 1635-1834, 5th edn (Oxford, 1999) 5, pp.21, 29, 45.
   (b) Citation of articles: (i) Name of author, preceded by initials with full points, comma.
   (ii) Title of article between single quotation marks, comma. (iii) Title of periodical in italics, comma, with volume number in Arabic figures. (iv) Date, in brackets, comma, page number or numbers.
   E.g.
   C.F.A. Marmoy, ‘La Soupe: La Maison de Charité de Spittlefields’, Proceedings of the Huguenot Society, 23 (1979), pp. 134 ff.
   (c) Abbreviations, omissions: The names of societies and their publications and series should be set out in full in the first instance, and subsequently in a shortened form. The abbreviation must be used systematically.  
   E.g.
   First reference: Victoria County History, Wiltshire 1, p. 34.
   Second reference: VCH, Wilts 1, p. 34.
   First reference: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
   Second reference: ODNB
   Long titles of books may be shortened in the first instance by the use of three full points;   in future references an abbreviated form may be used, e.g. Alfred B. Beaven, The aldermen of the City of London ... , afterwards Beaven, Aldermen.

Illustrations

Illustrations can be supplied on CD, flash drive or as email attachments and the specification should be as follows:

Line: drawings or graphs should be saved / exported to EPS by the software used to create them. If unable to save/export to EPS, then save the file to TIFF using a high output resolution (see below)

Tone: scanned images, or those from a digital capture device, should be saved/exported to a TIFF file: colour images should be saved in CMYK format and mono should be saved as greyscale.

Resolution: colour or mono tone images should be 300dpi. Line drawing scans should be saved in bitmap format at 1000 dpi. File size should not exceed 15mb

Proceedings back numbers are available from admin@huguenotsociety.org.uk
£5 Members, £8 Non-members, plus postage and packing.

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