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Author's Guidelines
- I. Definition -The definition of the South.
For the purposes of this journal the South will be defined as Alabama, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, Washington, D.C. and West Virginia.
- II. Style
- A. Capitalization should be kept to a minimum.
- 1. Personal titles should be lowercased except when the individual's
name is used, such as the president, President Roosevelt, the rabbi, Rabbi
Silver, Yale professor David Jones, Professor David Jones.
- 2. An organization's name should be capitalized when it is the formal
name but not capitalized when it is a shortened form, such as the Education Alliance of Atlanta, the alliance.
- 3. Only capitalize legislative bodies and courts when complete names
are given, such as the United States Senate, the Georgia House of Representatives, the Supreme Court of the United States, but lowercase the
senate, the house, the court.
- B. Numbers and dates should conform to the following guidelines:
- 1. Generally, spell out whole numbers from one through ninety-nine
whether they stand alone or are followed by hundred, thousand, million,
etc. Use numerals for other numbers, such as 5,234, 101 Dalmatians. Among
exceptions are page numbers and percentages
- 2. Years should be abbreviated. Use 1935-6, not 1935-36. Decades
should be expressed either as the 1920s or the twenties, but not the
1920's, the '20s, the 20s or the 20's.
- 3. Dates should be full month, day and year in the main text (March
12, 1997) but months should be abbreviated in citations (Mar.12,
1997).
- 4. Monetary amounts should be spelled out when they fall below one
dollar (forty-two cents) or when they are round dollar amounts (one hundred dollars, two thousand dollars). Use numerals for other amounts,
such as $5.24; $163; $1,225,623.
- 5. Spell out percent with the amount shown in numerals, such as 75
percent, not 75% or seventy-five percent.
- 6. Measurements should be fully written, such as five feet ten inches,
1,083 miles, 3.2 yards and seven hundred and fifty acres. Never abbreviate, such as in., or
5'10".
- 7. Time of day should be shown in numerals with lowercase a.m. and
p.m., such as 2 p.m., 3:45 a.m. Use 2 p.m., not 2:00 p.m.
- 8. Page numbers should be the abbreviated form. Use 356-68, not 356-368; 36-7, not
36-37.
- C. Punctuation and Abbreviations
- 1. Use the serial comma. Show red, white, and blue (not red, white
and blue). Show solid red, polka dots in white, or blue and white stripes. (not: solid red,
polka dots in white and blue and white stripes.)
- 2. Do not use comma to set off any introductory words, phrases, or
clauses of four words or less, such as However, At long last, or In the
meanwhile, unless the meaning would be confusing. Also do not use a
comma after introductory clauses starting with Although or During as long
as the meaning is clear without the comma.
- 3. Common abbreviations should be used for titles when the
person's name follows; such as Dr. Smith, Rev. Jones.
- D. Specific Usage-
- 1. Lowercase gentile, not Gentile.
- 2. Use more than two hundred dollars, not over two hundred dollars.
- 3. Use until, not till.
- 4. Use African American without a hyphen. Use African American or
black instead of Negro or colored, even if the latter was used at the time
a primary source was written, except in the quotation itself or when the
word is part of a name, such as the United Negro College Fund or the
National Association for the Advancement of Colored People.
- 5. Avoid using upon when on is intended. Use on which rather than
upon which.
- 6. Since should only be used to indicate time elapsed and not as a
substitute for because.
- 7. When should not be used to indicate cause. Instead, use because.
- 8. Where words can be spelled with one or two consonants, use a single
consonant. Use, for example, traveled, not travelled; modeled, not
modelled.
- E. Please be sure that all proper nouns are spelled correctly.
- III. Preferred Style References
- A. The
stylebook for the journal is the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition
(Chicago, 1993.) End
note format should follow the Chicago Manual of Style with certain
exceptions (see examples below).
- B. Spelling and word usage should follow Webster's New Collegiate
Dictionary, 11th edition.
- IV. Illustrative Matter
- A. Illustrative matter, such as photographs, line art, maps, charts
and tables that are essential to content may be submitted but their inclusion may be limited because of print and cost
capabilities
- B. If
these have been published elsewhere, the author will have to obtain and provide permission for use from the copyright owner. If possible, a slide
is preferable to photographs.
- V. Preparation of Text
- A. All manuscript must be typed and double spaced throughout,
including all straight text, indented quotations, captions and end
notes.
- B All pages (including end
notes) should be numbered sequentially.
- C. All paragraphs should be indented. No extra lines should be added
between paragraphs.
- D. Use one font and font size for
the body of the text. Symbols and accented letters commonly found on
computers may be used. Italics for book, journal, and newspaper titles
should be used.
- E. Do not use fancy or imported fonts or ornaments.
- F. All books, journals, and newspapers should be italicized and not
underlined in the body and end notes.
- G. All end note numbers and fonts should be in the size that is
consistent with the remainder of the manuscript.
- H. Articles that have been accepted for publication
must be submitted as one hard copy and on one 3.5 computer diskette
using Microsoft Word for Windows (preferred), Microsoft Word, or WordPerfect. Documents prepared on a MAC computer must be copied to IBM
formatted disks. All disks must be labeled with the name of the author, date, file
name (s), and software used. Please do not send disks until final approval is given.
- I. Whenever possible, disable any automatic
formatting function in your word processing program prior to preparing your final diskette.
SOUTHERN JEWISH HISTORY ENDNOTE FORMAT
Notes
1. Eli Evans, The Provincials: A Personal History of Jews in the
South (New York, 1973), 23.
2. Ibid., 36-8.
3. Leonard Dinnerstein and May Dale Palsson, eds., Jews in the
South (Baton Rouge, 1973), 126ff.
4. Evans, Provincials, 188.
5. New York Times, Nov. 15, 1996
6. Stephen J. Whitfield, "The Braided Identity of Southern
Jewry," American Jewish History LXXVII (Mar. 1988): 363-79.
7. Interview with Jack Schwartz, conducted by Jane Adams, Oct. 25,
1996; Whitfield, "Braided Identity," 366.
8. Encyclopedia Judaica, 5th ed., V, s.v.
"Korn, Bertram W.," 1123
9. Marcia G. Synott, "Anti-Semitism and American Universities," in David
A. Gerber, ed., Anti-Semitism in American History (Urbana, 1986): 76-85;
Schwartz Interview.
10. Bobbie S. Malone, "'Standing Unswaying in the Storm': Rabbi Max
Heller, Reform and Zionism in the American South, 1860-1929," (Ph.D.
diss., Tulane University, 1995), 46ff.
11. John James, "American Jewish History Reconsidered,"
http:/www.jj.history/`lib.htm. This and other internet sources were available at the indicated cites on Mar. 7, 1998.
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