Please submit your article in Word or RTF according to the following stylesheet:
A. Body of the Text
‚ spelling: Variants prefers UK spelling, e.g. organisation, defence, behaviour
‚ no interspacing is needed after the following signs: „ (
‚ no interspacing before the following signs: ; : ? ! ¾ ) .
‚ no double interspacing
‚ use an en dash (ctl + - [minus] in the numbers section of the keyboard) whenever necessary, to express tangential comments. Hyphens are only used within words.
‚ titles of newspapers, books, journals, institutions, organizations etc.: in italics
‚ foreign phrases: in italics: ý la carte, modus vivandi, rendez-vous, a priori, a fortiori, ad hoc etc.
‚ short quotations: between double quotation marks: „xxx.¾
‚ quotation within quotation: single quotation marks: „xxx åxx¼ xxx.¾
‚ omitted words (ellipsis): use [...]
e.g.: The book presents a [...] reading of the ongoing societal developments in Europe.
‚ quotations of 3 lines or more: indent as block
‚ quotations from sources in another language than English: use the original language and add an English translation between square brackets.
e.g.: A note in the margin reads „de woorden en hun kostelijkheid¾ [„the words and their splendour¾].²
‚ footnote numbers: after punctuation.
‚ figures should be spelled in full, except for ages, long numbers, quantity, enumerations etc.
e.g.: 650,000; but: five countries
B. Footnotes
Variants does not use the system with „Works Cited¾; please provide all bibliographical information in footnotes. The system used is the Chicago style sheet for History papers, using footnotes.
e.g.: TEXT:
A Union soldier, Jacob Thomas, claimed to have seen Forrest order the killing, but when asked to describe the six-foot-two general, he called him "a little bit of a man."12
FOOTNOTE
12
Brian Steel Wills, A Battle from the Start: The Life of Nathan Bedford
Forrest (New York: HarperCollins, 1992), 187.
‚ References to book publications:
e.g.: Heather J. Jackson, Marginalia: Readers Writing in Books (New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2001), 81-82.
‚ References to articles in journals:
e.g.: Marcel De Smedt, „Het manuscript van Lijmen van Willem Elsschot,¾ Spiegel der Letteren 37.4 (1995), 315-331; 319.
‚ References to articles in books:
e.g.: Hans Zeller, „Befund und Deutung: Interpretation und Dokumentation als Ziel und Methode der Edition,¾ Gunter Martens and Hans Zeller (eds.), Texte und Varianten: Probleme ihrer Edition und Interpretation (M¸nchen: C. H. Beck¼sche Verlagsbuchhandlung, 1971), 45-89; 81.
‚ References to on-line resources: mention the date of last consultation between square brackets
e.g.: <http://www.kantl.be> [6 June 2004].
‚ Images (max. 5 per article) should be inserted in the text and provided in a separate file. Submit illustrations as uncompressed TIFF format 300dpi. Use your name as filename, followed by a number from 1-6 and in the order in which they appear in the text: e.g. „johnson3.tif¾ is the third illustration of Johnson's article.
‚ Flag the position of the illustrations in the text by using the
following notation: [johnson3]
‚ Add a caption for each illustration at the end of your text
e.g.: captions
johnson1: Fig. 1: First
page of XXX¼s manuscript MS 12345.
johnson2: Fig. 2: ......
johnson3: Fig. 3: ......