The Thoresby Society has been producing academic publications
since its inception in 1889. Its editors are always happy to consider
submitted material or to discuss possible subjects for publication.
EDITORIAL POLICY
The work must be original and relate to Leeds and district. Relevant
illustrations, maps and tables may be used where necessary but it
is the author’s responsibility to clear any copyright with
the owners of such material. The editors would hope to make a decision
within two months.
CONTENT
The length of an article should usually be no more than 10,000
words but this can very after
discussion with the editors. Monographs may also be considered
as are transcriptions of original
documents relevant to the history of Leeds.
INITIAL SUBMISSION
This can be done by post or through our website. Should an author
chose to use the website, an abstract of the article/monograph should
be sent to The Editors on the Thoresby Society website.
Full manuscripts cannot be accepted by e-mail. Alternatively the
author may wish to submit the
complete script by post to The Editors, The Thoresby Society,
Claremont, 23 Clarendon Road,
Leeds LS 9NZ.
COPY PREPARATION
Copy should be typed on one side only of A4 paper, using double
or 1.5 spacing for text and
footnotes, and allowing for ample margins (at least 1" ).
Authors should present their text on a
PC disk in either Word or Word Perfect or as an RTF but hard copy
is also required as text has
been known to be corrupted in converting from one system to another.
There is no need to format articles submitted on disk: but please
include bold type where necessary and italics (or underline relevant
words where this is not possible). Pages (text and footnotes) should
be numbered serially throughout.
FOOTNOTES
These should be typed on separate sheets following the last page
of the article or monograph. In monographs they should be numbered
consecutively within each chapter (i.e., each chapter starting with
footnote 1); in articles, consecutively throughout. Please DO NOT
USE AUTOMATIC FOOTNOTES. Use superscript for numeration.
Footnotes should not be typed in a smaller size than the text. Corresponding
references in the text must be clearly marked.
QUOTATIONS
Use single quotations marks for a simple quotation. Where there
is a quotation within a quotation then double quotation marks
should be used.
Quotations of more than sixty words (which will eventually be
printed in small type) should be indented, typed in single-line
spacing, and have no quotation marks.
When a quotation forms a complete sentence in itself: the full
point at the end should appear before the closing quotation mark.
Similarly, when the whole of a sentence or phrase is within curved
or square brackets, the point should also appear inside the closing
bracket.
CAPITAL LETTERS
Capitals should be used sparingly. Clarity of meaning and consistency
should always be aimed at.
Use initial capitals for parts of recognized geographical/political
areas: Northern Ireland, New England; but northern England.
Use initial capitals for recognized historical eras, events: the
Industrial Revolution; the First/Second World War; Vicar Haddon.
In book titles use initial capitals for the first and all subsequent
important words. Where there is a sub-title, use lower-case throughout,
except for personal names and proper nouns.
Please leave a space between the initials of proper names (i.e.
M. W. Green, not M.W.Green.)
ITALICS
Words intended to be printed in italics should be formatted as
such If no such formatting is possible then the relevant words
should be underlined.
Use italics for: book titles, titles of articles and poems, films,
plays, names of newspapers and periodicals, works of art, operas,
ballets, ships. Not for hotels and public houses.
NUMERALS
In descriptive (i.e., not statistical) matter numbers up to 100
should be in words.
Time, numbers at the beginning of sentences, and approximate numbers
should be expressed in words: e.g. He arrived at six forty-five.
Two hundred and forty-seven pages were written. The fire destroyed
about five thousand books.
For fractions, use words: three-quarters, two-thirds etc. For
percentages in the text, use, e.g. 10 per cent. In tabular matter,
use 10%.
Pre-decimal currency should be expressed: £9 14s. 4d. Decimal
(post -1971) should be expressed £14.75.
Pagination references: inclusive numbers falling within the same
hundred, give the last two figures: 13-15, 44-49, 398-99, 1934-98.
DATES
Use the form: 25 June 1978; 25 June; June 1978 (no commas). In
footnotes the names of all months except May, June, July should
be abbreviated e.g. Oct., Nov., Dec..
In citing years, use 1815-16; 1841-42; 1960-61.
References to centuries, decades etc., should be expressed in
words: nineteenth century (not 19th century); use the form 1960s
(not the 1960's).
ABBREVIATIONS
A contracted form of a word ending with the same letter as the
full form, including plurals, is not followed by a full stop:
e.g., Mr, Mrs, Dr, the Revd, vols, St, Rd, Snr, Jr. Other abbreviations
take the full stop: e.g.; Esq., vol., p., no.
No full stop in between abbreviations consisting of upper-case
initials, e.g. DNB, BBC.
PRINTED MATERIAL
Titles of articles in periodicals should appear in lower case
except for proper nouns. Likewise, sub titles of books.
First mention, use the form, e.g., T. Fenteman, An Historical
Guide to Leeds and its Environs (Leeds, 1858). If place of
publication is other than London, cite before date of publication:
(Leeds, 1913).
If the work is in two or more volumes, give volume number (in
small cap. Roman numerals), followed by the page number. Where
a volume number is part of a citation, ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’
should be omitted.
Subsequent references to a work should be, for example, to: Fenteman,
p. 2. When more than one work by the same author is cited, a shortened
form of the title(s) must be used. e.g Fenteman, Guide to Leeds.
Do not use ‘op. cit’, ‘loc. Cit’. Ibid.,
can be used for the second of two consecutive references.
References to an edited work should take the form: (first mention)
J. Morgan, ‘Demographic Change, 1771-1911’ , in A
History of Modern Leeds, ed. by D. Fraser (Manchester, 1980)
then Morgan, p. 49; E. Baines, History, Directory and Gazetteer
of the County of York II (Leeds, 1823), 267 then Baines,
II, 256.
PERIODICALS
W. G. Rimmer, ‘The Evolution of Leeds to 1700’, P(ublications
of the) Th(oresby) (S)ociety, L (1967), 91-129. Further references,
Rimmer, 34; but if another publication by Rimmer has also been
used Rimmer, PThS, L (1967), 34. ‘Wills, Inventories
and Bonds of the Manor courts of Temple Newsam, 1612-1701’,
ed. by G. E. Kirk, P(ublications of the) Th(oresby) (S)ociety,
XXXIII (1935) 260; Further references, either Kirk, 261 or Kirk,
PThS, XXXIII, 261; for a monograph, Terry Friedman, Church
Architecture in Leeds 1700-1799, P(ublications of the) T(horesby)
S(ociety), 2nd ser., 7 (1997), 125. Further references Friedman,
28 or Friedman, Church Architecture, 28.
NEWSPAPERS
Use the form: L(eeds) I(ntelligencer), 4 Nov. 1837 for
first reference; for subsequent references: LI, 4 Nov. 1837.
UNPUBLISHED THESES AND DISSERTATIONS
Use the form: A. F. Taylor, ‘History of the Birmingham School
Board, 1870-1903’ (unpublished MA thesis, Univ. of Birmingham,
1955), p. 86; subsequently: (Taylor, Thesis), p. 86.
OFFICIAL PUBLICATIONS
Hansard: 3rd ser. (1832), col. 602.
MANUSCRIPT MATERIAL
Names of repositories and collections should be given in full
in the first instance, with
abbreviations indicated for subsequent references e.g. B(ritish)
L(ibrary), Additional MSS 2787,
f.50; subsequent references: BL, Add, MSS 2787, .50.
T(he) N(ational) A(rchives), Home Office, HO 42/196: subsequent
references:TNA, HO.
42/196.
In the case of a collection of documents to which reference is
made repeatedly, the first
reference should read: e.g., W(est)Y(orkshire) A(rchaeolgical)
S(ociety), Fawkes MSS, DD >
161; for subsequent references the form used should be: WYAS,
Fawkes MSS, DD .161,
Letters: State name of repository (and collection, if appropriate),
followed by names of
correspondents and date: John Goodchild Collection (Wakefield),
Aldam MSS, James Cousen
to Robert Baker, 18 May 1841.
GENERAL
Contributors are asked to retain a copy of their original typescript,
incorporating any amendments.
PROOFS
Authors will receive the first proofs of contributions for checking;
they are asked to return these
as quickly as possible. All corrections at this stage must be
limited to what is essential. The Hon.
Editors reserve the right to reject extensive author’s corrections,
or to charge the author for the
cost of implementing them.
All correspondence should be with the Hon. Editors, and under
no circumstances must
contributors communicate directly with the printers.
COMPLIMENTARY COPIES
Authors of monographs will receive six complimentary copies. Authors
of articles in Miscellanies will receive three complimentary
copies. Additional copies may be ordered at cost price. Further
copies of an author’s own article may be had electronically
from The Editors. These are for private use and cannot be used
commercially.
Revised October 2007
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