Notes for Contributors - Brontė Studies

General 
The Editor invites authors to submit original articles, papers delivered at conferences, and notes on matters of interest to its readers, for possible publication in Brontė Studies.

The Journal 
Brontė Studies is the official journal of the Brontė Society and has been published continuously since 1895 (previously known as Transactions of the Brontė Society). Brontė Studies is a refereed journal with an Editorial Advisory Board of distinguished authorities in the field of Brontė studies. It is the only journal solely dedicated to Brontė research. Brontė Studies is mailed to personal members of the Brontė Society worldwide and is available on subscription. It is published three times a year.

Brontė Studies aims to encourage further study and research on matters relating to the Brontė family, their writings, background and place in literary and cultural history.

Contributions 
Contributions may comprise: original articles; text of papers presented at conferences and seminars; transcriptions of previously unpublished writings of, or relating to, the Brontės; surveys of the documentation and resources relating to Brontė studies; book reviews; notices reporting research or discussing specific items of interest; correspondence.

Form of submissions 
Articles should not normally exceed 6,000 words in length. They should be typed with 1" (2.5 cm) wide margins and double spacing on white, A4 paper. Three copies should be sent to the Editor along with a brief biographical note, an abstract of about 150 words, and, please, a short title. Please make sure that pages are numbered. Photographs, maps, and other supporting material are encouraged. Contributors are responsible for supplying such material themselves and for obtaining any necessary permissions, though they are advised to await the Editor's acceptance before committing themselves to expense. Potential authors are invited to write to the editor with ideas and suggestions for articles.

Acknowledgement 
The receipt of contributions will be acknowledged by the Editor.

Refereeing procedure 
Brontė Studies is a refereed journal. Each submission is assessed by the Editor for general suitability and may then be forwarded to two referees who are experts in the particular subject concerned. The decision whether or not to publish is the responsibility of the editor based on the referees' reports. In cases of difficulty the Editor will seek the advice of members of the Editorial Advisory Board. In the event of rejection, the Editor may give reasons, but will not enter into any debate. In some cases an invitation to resubmit will be made on lines suggested by the referees.

Submission of electronic files
Once an article has been accepted for inclusion in the journal, disks should be supplied whenever possible, or text sent by email to the Editor (brontestudies@talk21.com). This does enable costs to be kept down and assists accuracy. Contributors should submit files from any well-known word processor software (e.g. Word, WordPerfect). PC disks are preferred to Mac in High Density formats. ASCII text files should not be submitted since font codes will not be preserved. Please indicate on the disk label the computer software and file format used along with author's name. The disk must be accompanied by hard-copy typescript. Please check with the Editor if this causes difficulty.

In preparing your article for publication we would be grateful if you would follow the recommendations below:

1. Please do not use automatic note numbering routines which can cause problems for the typesetter. Type the number references in the text as superior figures in sequential order. Save the notes at the end of the file identified in the same way as in the text. 

2. Do not use hard page breaks or hard returns (except at the end of paragraphs, after headings, or in lists and verse where definite line breaks are required). Do not use hard or discretionary hyphens to improve line endings.

3. If your article contains unusual characters or accents please highlight them on the typescript or list them on a separate sheet of paper. This does not apply to the diaeresis in the name 'Brontė' which will be assumed unless indicated to the contrary.

4. Please do not put extra space between paragraphs. Start paragraphs with a single tab rather than multiple spaces. Do not put double spaces at the end of sentences.

5. Always type a space after initials in name, and before and after p., pp., vol., no., etc.

6. Do not use headers and footers.

Permissions and indemnity 
Authors submitting articles which are accepted for publication are required to sign a statement that the work is not an infringement of any existing copyright, that they will indemnify The Brontė Society against deliberate misrepresentation and libellous statements, and that they have obtained any necessary permissions (for example photographs or text still in copyright).

*NEW* Proofs 
Proofs of articles will be sent to contributors, who are asked to return them to the Editor without delay. Please be sure to supply a contact email address with your final submission since, where possible, proofs will be emailed to authors in PDF format. Please indicate to the Editor if you are unable to receive emails, in which case hard copy proofs will be despatched. Where emailed proofs can be received, the email will be sent to the author with the proof attached in PDF format. Instructions will be provided on how to download the proof and make corrections for return to the Editor. Corrections may be marked on the hard copy print-out and posted to the Editor; or, if only a few corrections are required, a list of amendments may be emailed to the Editor. 

Corrections must be restricted to what is absolutely necessary and be clearly marked.

Copyright 
Copyright of the contents of the article or other published item remains with the author(s), though copyright of the published version is owned by The Brontė Society. Any reproduction from Brontė Studies, apart from for the purposes of review, private research or 'fair dealing', must have the permission of the Brontė Society. In all cases, acknowledgement must be made to Brontė Studies.

Publication
Brontė Studies is currently published three times a year in February, June and October. Final decisions on which submissions will be included will be made four months prior to publication. In many cases, the Editor will have contacted authors beforehand. 

Style 
Style should follow that set out in the MHRA (Modern Humanities Research Association) Style Guide,2002 (ISBN 0-947623-62-0) obtainable from Maney Publishing, Hudson Road, Leeds LS9 7DL, UK, price, including postage £5.00 (overseas £6.00, US$12.00) payable in advance. Some of the important points in this are: 
1. Pages should be consecutively numbered in the top right-hand corner. 
2.The first line of each paragraph (except for the first and those after headings) should be indented. Do not drop a line between paragraphs. 
3. Footnotes and sources cited should be placed at the end of the article. The text reference to the note should be indicated by a running number at the end of the sentence (after punctuation) in which they occur and the sources cited in full at the end of the article in numerical order using the Vancouver method. 
4. Do not use 'loc. cit.'; 'op. cit.'; and 'ibid.', since these can be confusing. A clear, shortened form of the source should be used for subsequent mentions. 
5. Use italics for titles of books and journals. 
6. Short quotations should be enclosed in single quotation marks. Quotations within quotations use double quotation marks. Long quotations and verse quotations should not have quotation marks and should be separated from the text above and below by an additional line of space. 
7. British spelling should be followed but with 'ize', not 'ise' where both spellings are permissible. Connection, reflection, etc. are preferred to connexion etc. 
8. Dates take the forms '1845-48', '1811-14', '1804-08', 'October 1845', '11 October 1845' and 'nineteenth century', 'mid-nineteenth-century architecture'. 
9. Compound adjectives should be hyphenated: 'nineteenth-century manuscript', 'part-time bookseller'.

Particular points that concern Brontė Studies include: 
1. Where pages in the Brontė novels are noted, please specify the edition used at the first mention. 
2. Make clear which Brontė is being referred to. 
3. The Reverend Patrick Brontė or the Reverend P. Brontė at the first mention, and Rev. Brontė thereafter. (The Revd or The Rev. may be substituted for The Reverend.) Always use the definite article and P. or Patrick. 
4. When quoting verbatim from manuscript sources, indicate incorrect spellings by [sic], or give other clear indication that the spelling or grammar isnot to be corrected! 
5. When quoting fromTransactions or Brontė Studies, do distinguish between volume, part and page numbers. Year or part number is recommended in addition to volume number.

Keywords

Authors are now requested to supply up to five keywords (in alphabetical order) with their paper to be used as an aid to indexing.

Authors are also asked to remember that the readership of BrontėStudies is wide-ranging and international in scope. Please keep technical terms to a minimum. Priority will be given to articles which are accurate, lucid and original.

Eprints

Under Maney's open access policy, authors will now receive a PDF file of the published version of their paper. This PDF may be forwarded to co-authors without separate permission being required from the publisher. The PDF cannot be used for commercial purposes. Brontė Studies must be cited as the original source of publication and a link to www.ingentaconnect.com/content/maney/bst included with any listing. This PDF may be posted on authors' individual websites or that of their institution. Authors are entitled to make copies of the article for reasonable personal use only.

Authors may still purchase printed offprints if required; an offprint order form will be sent out to the corresponding author with their proofs. 

Authors who are not subscribers to Brontė Studies will receive a free copy of the issue in which their article appears. Additional copies may be purchased from Maney Publishing by contacting: Customer Sales and Services, Maney Publishing, Suite 1C, Joseph's Well, Hanover Walk, Leeds LS3 1AB, UK (email: subscriptions@maney.co.uk). 

Address 
Please send contributions to: Amber M Adams, The Editor, Brontė Studies, 2416 Sandhurst Ave SW, Calgrary T3C 2M6, Alberta, Canada. Email: brontestudies@talk21.com

or

to the North American Editor: Dr Manette R Berlinger, 233 West 83rd Street, Apt 5B, New York, NY 10024, USA. Email: MBerlinger@qcc.cuny.edu 

Books for review 

Should be sent to: Carolyne van Der Meer, Book Reviews Editor, Brontė Studies, 91 Granada Drive, Kirkland, Quebec H9H 317, Canada. Email: cvdm@ca.inter.net