SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
Submissions should normally be in electronic form and sent as an email attachment. (Articles by authors who do not have access to a computer may sent them in manuscript form for assessment) The preferred format is Microsoft Word, Times New Roman typeface, 12 point font size, lines double-spaced throughout.
Illustrations should be supplied separately as .tiff or .jpeg files. Please supply proof of permission to use.
Paragraphs may have a set indent or be indented with ONE tab. Please do not use extra line space between paragraphs – NEVER with a manual return.
Footnotes (not endnotes please) should be inserted using the formatting system for your word processor.
Tabular matter should be kept to a minimum. Simple tables may be inserted as “Table” complex forms must be created in Excel
Keep manual formatting to a minimum. Do not right justify lines
All indents should be done using tabulation. The use of the spacebar to align text should be avoided at all times.
BOOK REVIEWS
The introduction should be in this style:
Enlightened Evangelicalism: The Life and Thought of John Erskine, by Jonathan M. Yeager. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. xii +321. Hardback, £40.00. ISBN 978-0-19-977255-1.
FOOTNOTES
Footnotes, using the Insert Footnote facility in Microsoft WORD, should be used to acknowledge the sources of information/quotations in your work, and should appear at the foot of the page on which material is cited. Different types of material should be cited in the following manner:
Manuscript references:
Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales, Calvinistic Methodist Archive, Howel Harris’ Diary, no. 24.
Dallas, Texas, Southern Methodist University, Bridwell Library, Charles Wesley Family Materials: Mart Freeman Shepherd to Sarah Wesley, 14 December 1797.
Printed books
Henry D. Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast: John Wesley and the Rise of Methodism (London: Epworth Press, 1989).
Phyllis Mack, Heart Religion in the British Enlightenment: Gender and Emotion in Early Methodism (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008).
Chapters / Essays in books
Ted A. Campbell, ‘John Wesley as diarist and correspondent’, in Randy L. Maddox and Jason E. Vickers (eds), The Cambridge Companion to John Wesley (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 129‑43.
Journal articles
David Hempton, ‘John Wesley and the rise of Methodism’, Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester, vol. 85, nos. 2 and 3 (Summer and Autumn, 2003), 31‑56.
David Ceri Jones, ‘“Like the time of the Apostles”: The Fundamentalist Mentality in Eighteenth-Century Welsh Evangelicalism’, Welsh History Review, vol. 25, no. 3 (June, 2011), 374‑400.
Abbreviations in footnotes
These should be kept to a minimum, apart from:
When quoting from the same source for the second time in the same piece of work a short reference should be used:
Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast, p. 34.
Campbell, ‘John Wesley as diarist and correspondent’, p. 130.
When quoting from the same source in two successive footnotes use the abbreviation ibid.
Rack, Reasonable Enthusiast, p. 34
ibid.
Websites can be cited in footnotes, in full at the end of the reference, separated by a comma.
Zittrain, J. and Edelman, B., ‘Documentation of Internet Filtering in Saudi Arabia’ (2002) Berkman Center for Internet & Society, http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/home/ [Accessed date].
STYLE
Consistency: Authors should check their manuscripts for consistency in such matters as the use of capital letters, italics, spelling, style of headings and subheadings and method and lay-out of citations. Headings should be short and useful.
Quotations should be indicated by single quotation marks. When a quotation is more than five lines long it should be indented as a separate paragraph, without quotation marks and with a line space above and below. Quoted material should be retained in its original form and spelling.
Abbreviations should be used consistently. It may be useful to abbreviate long titles to which frequent reference is made, in which case the abbreviation should be indicated in brackets following the first usage.
Full points should not be used in acronyms or abbreviations (e.g. UK, WTO) but only after initials in names (e.g. Smith, K.L.).
British usage favours omitting the full stop in abbreviations which include the first and last letters of a single word, such as Mr, Mrs, Ms, Dr and St, Ltd, etc.
If the abbreviation consists only of the first part of a word, then you should put a full stop at the end:
Wed. [= Wednesday]
Dec. [= December]
Dates: 1 January 1999; 1997-98
Numbers should be spelt in words from one to nine and thereafter appear as numerals. Numbers within the same paragraph should maintain the same form.
Abbreviated plurals should not be apostrophised (e.g. 1990s, not 1990's)
Capital letters should be used when referring to a specific body, organisation or office (e.g. the UK Government) but not otherwise (e.g. previous governments). In normal use “church” is not capitalised, “the Church” is. Other examples of usage might be Todmorden Methodist Church.
