STYLE SHEET

Late Antique History and Religion

Please submit the first version of your book in hard copy or PDF. On the basis of this
version, we or the referees may propose changes. Eventually you will be asked to
submit a second version in electronic format (MS Word).
Enclose details of your mailing address, telephone number and email for the next 12
months; please keep us informed of any changes. Retain an electronic and a hard copy
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Manuscripts should be in English or French; English is preferred, though. English
texts should follow British spelling conventions.
Please proofread your text carefully before submitting it. If you are writing in English,
and this is not your native language, have a native English speaker working in your
subject area proofread it carefully or rewrite it for you. Contact us if you have any difficulty in arranging this.
Please note that all books in this series are published subject to peer review.

Layout
Throughout use Font: Times New Roman. Point size: 10 in titles, subheadings, and
main text, 8 in long quotations and in footnotes. All text to be printed justified, apart
from titles and subheadings.
Chapter Title
Centred, chapter number in small caps, title all caps, 10 points. The whole should appear as follows:
CHAPTER ONE
ALEXANDER AT ACTIUM
Subtitles (i.e. secondary phrases in titles, not subheadings) should be identical to titles
in format.
Subheadings
Level 1: italics, centred, caps for first letter of principal words,10 points.
Before: two blank lines; after: a single blank line. See the heading Style above.
Level 2: italics, flush-left, caps for first letter of principal words, 10 points.
Before: single blank line; after: no blank line. See the heading Subheadings above.
When two types of heading occur together do not print a blank line between them.
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Main text
Justified, 10 points. The first line of a paragraphs following another paragraph should
be indented. When indenting, use a tab rather than spaces.
Short quotations should be set within single quotation marks. Long quotations
running to several lines (more than three) should not be enclosed within quotation
marks, but should be indented, downsized to point size 8 and separated from the preceding and following lines of typescript by a double space.
Footnotes
Justified, 8 points. Footnotes should be embedded in the main text, in superscript.
Please use automatic system-generated footnotes, numbered consecutively throughout
your paper. Place note reference numbers after punctuation marks, for example:
published in full in 1930.4 Please check that your footnotes are numbered consecutively (i.e., no notes of the type 18a, 18b) and that note reference numbers in the text
actually correspond to a footnote.
Footnotes should be brief and limit themselves to what is necessary to document
an argument.
Italics and Bold Face
Distinguish italicized text by using italics rather than underlining. Bold face should
not be used.

Bibliography
Please give full references in the footnotes (rather than giving a list of full references
at the end of the article). Second and subsequent references to the same publication
within the same article should be given in an abridged form: name of the author without initials and short title. Do not use Harvard notation.
Please try to comply as much as possible with the following examples (note the
use and non-use of capitals, italics, punctuation, quotation marks, etc.).
Book: Michael E. Stone, A History of the Literature of Adam and Eve (Society of
Biblical Literature, Early Judaism and Its Literature 3; Atlanta, 1992), pp. 9098.
Short: Stone, Literature of Adam and Eve, pp. 90-98.
Article in periodical:
Sebastian P. Brock, Jewish Traditions in Syriac Sources, JJS 30 (1979), pp.
212-32.
Short: Brock, Jewish Traditions, pp. 212-32.

Article or chapter in collective volume:

Robert Murray, The Characteristics of the Earliest Syriac Christianity, in
Nina G. Garsoan, Thomas F. Mathews, and Robert W. Thomson (eds.), East
of Byzantium. Syria and Armenia in the Formative Period (Washington,
1982), pp. 3-16.
Short: Murray, The Characteristics, pp. 3-16.
Article in dictionary, encyclopedia etc.:
Cilliers Breytenbach and Peter L. Day, Satan, in Karel van der Toorn, Bob
Becking, and Pieter W. van der Horst (eds.), Dictionary of Deities and Demons in the Bible (2nd ed.; Leiden etc., 1999), col. 726-32.
Short: Breytenbach and Day, Satan, col. 1369-80.
If there are more than three authors, print only the first name followed by et al. Also
note the following details:
Give first names, unless the author of the publication cited prefers otherwise (that
is, usually does not give her or his first name). In case more than one initial is given,
do not use a space between them.
Never use o.c., op. cit., or similar references; idem, eadem, and ibidem
may be used, but only for publications mentioned earlier in the same footnote.
Volume numbers are given in Arabic rather than Roman numerals. A subdivision
is set off with a full point (thus: Arbeit und Sitte in Palstina 1.2; or, with a subtitle:
From the Beginnings to the Middle Ages 1. Antiquity).
Never use 212ff.; give the full page range.
Places of publication must be quoted in English: Florence rather than Firenze, Milan rather than Milano. If a publishing house boasts offices in several cities, give only
the first or most important place name. In case of two publishing houses in different
places, use an en dash, as in: (AssenAmsterdam, 1977).

Capitalization
In titles of English books and articles, capitalize the first letter of major words: Recent
Research in Late Antique Archaeology. Do not capitalize proper adjectives in
French, Italian, Spanish etc.: Lempire romain. Follow local capitalization systems in
other languages, which means minimal capitalization in book titles in Romance languages: Nuove ricerche sui castelli altomedievale in Italia settentrionale, and of
course capitalization of German nouns.
In the main text, use Roman empire and Byzantine empire, but Late Antiquity,
Early Byzantine, Hellenistic. Geography: the East but the eastern Mediterranean.
Directions should be given as north-west; abbreviate them where there are many as
NE, SE etc., but North Africa, not N. Africa.

Abbreviations
In general, it is best to avoid using abbreviations in the main text. For e.g., use for
example, for i.e. that is (commas before and after). Use standard abbreviations for
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periodicals and reference works from the list in the Cambridge Ancient History 14.
Use Ant. Tard. for Antiquit Tardive.

Ancient Sources
It will usually not be necessary to abbreviate names and titles of Classical authors:
this hardly saves space. Titles of Latin and Greek patristic works: please use the full
titles given in the Clavis Patrum Latinorum and Clavis Patrum Graecorum, and add a
reference to the standard edition.

Punctuation
Single marks () are to be used for a first quotation; double for a quotation within a
quotation. single quotes should be used. Even English translations of ancient sources
(if not long enough [that is, 4 lines] to be indented and downsized, in which case there
are no quotes at all) receive single quotation marks. Use smart quotes, not straight
quotes.
Commas should be used between references within the same work, and semicolons between different works.
Include a space between an abbreviation and its numerical value, for example, fig.
56, not: fig.56; n. 45, not n.45.
In enumerations, print a comma before and: jam, honey, and marmalade.
Punctuation not derived from the source of a quotation is put outside the marks.
In French and German publications, follow the appropriate rules for these languages. If in doubt, consult, for example, the Rules for Setting Foreign Languages in
Harts Rules for Compositors and Readers at the University Press Oxford (39th ed.;
OxfordNew York, 1983).

Illustrations
You must obtain permission for using photographs or illustrations. Please submit all
illustrations in the condition that you wish them to be printed; we are unable to redraw
illustrations for you.

Ancient Languages
Greek should be left in the original and will be printed in Greek characters. If possible
try to use a Unicode font for Greek. Please check all Greek text quotations with your
original sources, before submission and on receiving your proofs.
Syriac: use the right-to-left system present in newer versions of Word and the Unicode Estrangela Edessa font (under Windows XP).
For other non-Roman alphabets please contact the editors for instructions.

Latin and other foreign languages not requiring transcription should be italicized in
the typescript.
An English translation should be provided for all passages in ancient languages running to more than a few words.

Dates
Examples: 100 BCE, 425 CE. Use a slash (586/87) when the exact year is not sure, a
hyphen (600-603) when a length of time is being referred to. Use the number separation system detailed below.

Figures and Numerals

Words or figures: in descriptive matter, numbers under 100 should usually be printed
in words rather than figures.
Number ranges: write both figures between 1-99, thereafter only the last two digits for
the second number, for example, 345-67 or 1583-89, except those within the first ten
of a hundred, e.g., 104-105, 1003-1008. This applies to both modern and ancient
works, as well as chronological dates.

Dashes and Ellipsis

Use hyphens to divide words (re-integrate) and to indicate number ranges (56-79); use
an en dash for multiple places of publication (LondonBoston), and compound directions (NESW). Use em dashes without spaces to separate phrases ( requiresif
this is possiblemore secure chronological criteria ). Place one space before and
after each ellipsis as exemplified here. In case of brackets, follow the example just
given.

Final Points
We recommend Harts Rules as a useful guide for matters not covered in this document.
Most common errors concern: incorrect number separation (wrong: 234-256 and
1134-7); places of publication in non-English spellings; spaces between initials
(wrong: J. H. W. G. Liebeschuetz; correctthough contrary to Harts Rules:
J.H.W.G. Liebeschuetz); not following the capitalization rules; using -ise and -isation
instead of -ize and -ization (cf. Harts Rules, pp. 84-86).