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You may also submit an article, note or response to the Editors by e-mail attachment. Please attach you file in Word format and send it to s.j.c.taylor[at]reading.ac.uk. If you wish to submit using a program other than Word, please consult the Editors in advance.

Copyright

Copyright remains with the author of the contribution. We shall, however, ask contributors to assign to The Clergy of the Church of England Database 1540–1835 the rights to reproduce the contribution in electronic format.

Style sheet

Please follow the following guidelines when formating your contribution.

Quotations

Follow the punctuation, capitalization and spelling of the original. Long quotations of 50 words or more are to be typed double space without quotation marks, and are to be indented from the margin as a separate block of type. For short quotations use single quotation marks.

Spelling

Follow English (as opposed to American) conventions according to the usage in the Oxford English Dictionary. But note the following preferences:

  • -ize
  • acknowledgment
  • appendixes
  • co-operate
  • dispatch
  • elite
  • indexes
  • inquiry
  • judgment
  • medieval
  • nonetheless
  • per cent
  • regime (no accent, except in ancien régime)
  • role

Dates and numbers

30 January 1670 in the main text; 30 Jan. 1670 in footnotes; 1534–5; 1717–18; 5,000; 50,000; 1950s; eighties (when representing decades of a century).

Spell out one to ninety-nine, except when used in groups – e.g., 75 voted for, 39 against and 30 abstained. Numbers for 100 or more.

Abbreviations and contractions

c. MS MSS f. ff. fo. fos (folio and folios) MPs USA PRO 2nd edn Mr Dr Rev. Messrs St v (verso) r (recto) BL (British Library) LPL (Lambeth Palace Library)

Diagrams, maps, tables, and illustrations

Provided that you own the reproduction rights, it is relatively easy to include illustrations, diagrams, maps and tables. Please contact the Editors (s.j.c.taylor[at]reading.ac.uk) to discuss the format in which such materials should be submitted.

Footnotes

  • Type double-spaced. Number in one sequence throughout (i.e., do not begin from “1” on each page).
  • Please use the automatic footnoting facility in Word.
  • First reference to manuscript sources, books, dissertations and articles are to be punctuated, spelt out or abbreviated, and capitalized as in the following examples:
    • B.L., Add. MS 32692, fos 448-9: Samuel Peploe to Newcastle, 7 Nov. 1739.
    • Hertfordshire Record Office, Ashridge MSS, A.H. 1996, fo. 12: Charge to the diocese of Bangor by Bishop John Egerton, 1758.
    • C. J. Abbey and J. H. Overton, The English church in the eighteenth century (2 vols, London, 1878), II, 395.
    • Mark Smith, Religion in industrial society. Oldham and Saddleworth 1740-1865 (Oxford, 1994), ch. 7.
    • Timothy J. Brain, ‘Some aspects of the life and work of Richard Watson, bishop of Llandaff, 1737-1816’, Ph.D. dissertation, University of Wales (Aberystwyth), 1982, p. 160.
    • Jeremy Gregory, ‘The eighteenth-century reformation: the pastoral task of the anglican clergy after 1689’, in The Church of England c.1689 - c.1833. From toleration to tractarianism, ed. John Walsh, Colin Haydon and Stephen Taylor (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 67-85.
    • Bruce S. Bennett, ‘The Church of England and the law of divorce since 1857: marriage discipline, ecclesiastical law and the establishment’, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, XLV (1994), 625-41.
    • Visitation articles and injunctions of the early Stuart church. Volume II, ed. Kenneth Fincham (Church of England Record Society, V, 1998), p. 127.
    • Historical Manuscripts Commission, 15th Report, Appendix, Part VI, pp. 207: Ord to the earl of Carlisle, 17 July 1753.
    • Proverbs xiv. 34.
  • Second references:

    Use the author’s surname and short titles.

    Do not use ibid., op. cit. or loc. cit.

    For example:

    • BL, Add. MS 32692, fos 448-9.
    • Hertfordshire RO, A.H. 1996, fo. 12.
    • Abbey and Overton, English Church, II, 395.
    • Smith, Religion in industrial society, ch. 7.
    • Brain, ‘Richard Watson’, p. 160ff.
    • Gregory, ‘Eighteenth-century reformation’, pp. 70-1.
    • Bennett, ‘Law of divorce’, pp. 629-31.
    • Visitation articles, p. 127.
    • HMC, 15th Rep., App., Part VI, p. 207 (Ord to the earl of Carlisle, 17 July 1753).

  • In the above, please note particularly:
    • the abbreviation of dates.
    • the elision of page numbers.
    • the use of lower case in references to books, articles, MS papers, etc.
    • the use of Roman numerals for volumes.
    • the use of ff. in preference to ‘et seq.’
    • the omission of ‘Vol.’ and ‘pp.’ in references where both the volume and the page number are cited.
    • the location of commas.

Capitalization

Minimal use of capitals is preferred. The following notes should provide some guidance:

  • Use lower case in references to books, articles, MSS papers, diaries, etc.

  • Use lower case for titular offices: the king, sultan, monarch, pope, lord mayor, prime minister, foreign secretary, president of the USA, bishop of Durham, duke of Portland.

    But upper case if ambiguities are likely to arise (e.g., the Speaker) or when titles immediately preface names (Pope John, Bishop Egerton, King William, Duke William, Viscount Townshend).

  • Use lower case for institutions, government agencies, etc: the monarchy, the cabinet, convocation, the privy council, the royal commission, the select committee on education, the ministry of education, the houses of parliament, member of parliament (but MP), the government, the opposition. But upper case to avoid ambiguities or where convention insists: the Church of England, the Union, the Bank of England, the Inner Temple.
  • Use upper case for political parties except where ambiguity is impossible, so whig, tory, but the Conservative government, the Liberal party, the Labour opposition.

  • Historical systems, periods, events and religions in lower case where possible: the French revolution, the congress of Vienna, the British empire, home rule, the commonwealth, the middle ages, the catholics, muslims, protestants, dissenters, high churchmen, puritans, anglicans.

    But upper case if otherwise ambiguous or where convention insists, as in the the Civil War, the Long Parliament, the First World War, the Seven Years War, the Union.

  • Official publications in lower case (e.g. report of the select committee on education), except in footnotes when the first word should be capitalized and the whole italicized. ‘A bill’ and ‘an act’, but ‘the Bill’ and ‘the Act’ when specific (e.g. the Occasional Conformity Bill).