SPHR:
Guidelines for Contributors 2020/21
Submission
Submission deadline: 14 January 2021
Please send your article in digital form
to Heather Jack.
Include with your paper:
·
The
illustrations, supplied as high resolution .tif or .jpg files. These files
should have a descriptive name and be numbered in the order they appear in the paper.
·
A
list of captions, numbered in the order they appear in the paper.
NB Do not insert the illustrations into
the text, but mark the position where you would like them to appear, eg [Figure
1 here]. The designer will place them as close to that point as possible.
Submission
checklist
· Article text,
double spaced
· Illustrations
· Caption
list
·
Word
count (for text, not including notes and references)
Preparation
Endnotes: SPHR uses endnotes (not footnotes) and
a list of notes and references will appear at the end of the paper. Within the
text, the number referring to the note or reference should be placed at the
appropriate point, preferably at the end of a sentence and always after any adjacent
punctuation mark, e.g. ‘saltglazed stoneware.1’ Use arabic
for endnote markers.
References: please include all references to:
published works (books, articles, papers); unpublished works; oral information
acquired (interviews, conversations); information taken from online sources; references
to material in collections; any other sources of data.
References should be set out as in the
following examples:
Books: J. Arnold Fleming, Scottish Pottery (Wakefield: EP
Publishing, 1973), 142.
Chapters in edited volumes: G. Lansbury, ‘Early Stoneware’, in C.
Lewis (ed.), Scottish Industrial Pottery
(London: Batsford, 1987).
Journal articles: Susan Mills, ‘New Light on Alloa
Pottery’, SPHR, 22 (2002),
43–7.
Online
journals: articles in online
journals are styled the same as printed journals. Please add the access date in
parentheses at the end, eg (accessed October 2011).
Other online
sources: please cite as in the following example, www.london-gazette.co.uk, 23
February 1886, 871 (accessed April 2012).
Manuscripts: follow the style of the institution,
eg National Library of Scotland, MS 638, fol. 10r.
Copyright: if you plan to use illustrations or
photographs of which you do not hold the copyright you must obtain permission,
in writing, to publish the image from the copyright holder. Please note that
the copyright holder has the legal right to specify the wording of the
acknowledgement.
General
style
Capitals
for the names of specific
potteries and patterns
Dates
Use
nineteenth century, not 19th
1930s,
not 1930’s
1932–1940
(not 1932-40)
Numbers
spell
out numbers under ten
%
not percent.
Measurements
In
metric with imperial measurements in parentheses, e.g. 2.5 cm (1″).
Quotations
Short
quotes can be incorporated in the text inside single quotation marks.
Longer
quotes (>60 words) should be set as an extract, without quote marks, and
indented on a new line.
Omissions
from quotes should be indicated by an ellipsis (…).
Author’s
explanatory insertions should appear inside square brackets.
Remember
to attribute all quotes to their original source.