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Final Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for The Medieval Globe

This document provides details on typesetting and layout requirements pertaining to final manuscript submission to The Medieval Globe.

Formatting

  • Essays accepted and submitted for publication should have minimal manual formatting throughout. It is especially important not to insert additional hard returns between bibliography entries. Essays – text and footnotes – should be formatted in Times New Roman 12-point font, double-spaced.
  • Submit your manuscript, including tables, figures, appendices, etc., as a single Word file .
  • Page size should be 8.5 x 11-inches.
  • If figures are included, use high-resolution figures, preferably encoded as encapsulated PostScript (eps).

    • Technical Terms

    A technical term is defined as a word not found in Merriam–Webster’s Collegiate Dictionary or a multiword phrase, excluding titles and proper nouns.

    All technical terms from languages other than English should be italicized. Those from languages in non-Roman alphabets must be italicized and fully transliterated with diacritical marks.

    Words that are found in Merriam–Webster’s will be spelled as they appear there and not treated as technical terms. They should have no diacritics, nor should they be italicized.

    Typesetting and Transliteration of Languages Other Than English

    The Medieval Globe is committed to reproducing quotations from original languages in their own scripts.

    When citing transliterated words, phrases, proper names, and titles from languages not rendered in Roman script, we will follow policies that accord with standard practices in relevant fields. In the case of languages using the Roman alphabet augmented with diacriticals or special characters (for example French, Polish, Anglo-Saxon), these markings will be maintained.

    Arabic: following the policy of the International Journal of Middle East Studies, non-technical terms (see above) – for example, mufti, jihad, shaykh – should not be italicized or carry diacritics, with certain exceptions that preserve‘ayn and hamza: Qur’an, shari‘a, ‘ulama’. Diacritics should not be added to personal names, place names, the names of political parties, or titles of books and articles; however, ‘ayn and hamza should be preserved in all these cases, and should be clearly distinguished from one another.

    Hebrew: TMG follows ISO 259 guidelines for Romanization.

    Ge'ez: TMG follows the conventional system used by the Journal of Ethiopian Studies..

    Japanese: TMG uses the Revised Hepburn system.

    Citation Style

    TMG uses a slightly modified Chicago Manual of Style (CMS) format for footnotes and bibliographies. Works cited in footnotes should give only the author, short title, and relevant page, verse, and/or chapter numbers. Full information will be provided in the bibliography.

    Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced rather than at the end of the paper. Footnote numbers should follow, rather than precede, punctuation.

    Bibliography

    Bibliographies may be divided into sections if the editor and author agree that this is advantageous.

    There should be no additional spacing (hard returns) between bibliography entries.

    Bibliographical information must be full and complete, including information on editor(s) and translator(s), where relevant, date and place of publication, number of volumes (where applicable), unique url and date of access for online sources, and so forth.

    The information to be given with each citation in the references is as follows:

    Articles in traditional journals:

    Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of article, name of journal, year of publication (or "n.d." if no date), volume number, page numbers.

    Optional (but desirable): issue number and month/season of publication. For forthcoming (in press) articles, put expected year of publication and substitute "forthcoming" for the volume and page numbers.

    Optional(but desirable): A hyperlink to the article.

    Books:

    Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of book, year of publication (or "n.d." if no date), publisher, publisher's address, edition (if not first). For forthcoming (in press) books, put expected year of publication and add "forthcoming."

    Chapters in collections or anthologies:

    Required: Name(s) of author(s) of chapter, name(s) of editor(s) of book, title of chapter, title of book, year of publication (or "n.d." if no date), publisher, publisher's address, and edition (if not first). For forthcoming (in press) books, put expected year of publication and add "forthcoming."

    Working papers:

    Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of working paper, year (or "n.d." if no date), location (e.g., "Department of Economics Working Paper, University of California, Berkeley" or "Author's web site: http://www.someurl.edu/author." If the working paper is part of series, then the series name and the number of the working paper within the series must also be given.

    Other works:

    Required: Author's (authors') name(s), title of work, year (or "n.d." if no date), and information about how the reader could obtain a copy.

    Author's Biography

    Each author should supply a brief (100-word) academic biography, including a contact e-mail address.

    Abstract and Keywords

    Authors should supply a 50-word abstract and up to ten keywords (to facilitate online searches and tagging).