Footnotes and endnotes should be avoided. Allowable footnotes/endnotes may include: the designation of the corresponding author of the paper, the current address of an author (if different from that shown in the affiliation), abbreviations and acronyms.
Symbols and abbreviations
The use of special symbols, abbreviations, and acronyms is permitted so long as they are defined upon first mention in the article.
Other Stylistic Points:
Bold is restricted to essay titles and subheadings.
Subheadings should have an initial capital for each major word and are not numbered.
Italics are used for titles of books, journals, newspapers, films, plays, etc.
Dashes: Unspaced dashes—are used for parenthetical comments.
Dates in the body of the text: February 18, 2011.
Foreign language words or phrases: accompanied by a translation in square brackets.
Numbers that begin a sentence are spelt out (e.g. Eighty percent).
Percent: written as % but spelt out at the beginning of a sentence.
Numbers of centuries are spelt out (e.g. twentieth century)
The elision of numbers: we use 135-136, not 135-36.
The omission of text: shown by an ellipsis. The form is . . . with a character space on either side. If sentence ends before the ellipsis, a full stop follows it without space. . . . Then the rest of the ellipsis is spaced as already stated. If the ellipsis is in the original, please use unspaced full stops …
Quotation marks: we use double curly quotation marks. Single quotation marks are used only for quotes within quotes.
Commas and periods that directly follow quotations go inside the closing quotation marks. All other punctuation marks—such as semicolons, colons, question marks, and exclamation points—go outside a closing quotation mark, except when they are part of the quoted material.
We use English spellings for foreign geographical names (i.e. Copenhagen, not København).
Outline of the Production Process
Once an article has been accepted for publication, the manuscript files are transferred into our production system to be formatted. Technical editors reserve the privilege of editing manuscripts to conform to the stylistic conventions of the journal. Once the article has been typeset, PDF proofs are generated so that authors can approve all editing and layout.
Immediate Publication
Manuscripts ready for publication are promptly posted online. The manuscripts are considered to be ready for publication when the final proofreading has been performed by authors, and all concerns have been resolved. Please note that no changes can be made to the articles after online publication.
