Foreword / Domna C. Stanton --
Preface / David G. Nicholls --
1. Scholarly publishing --
Scholars and scholarly publishing --
Refereed and nonrefereed publications --
Deciding to submit a manuscript --
Placing a manuscript with a journal --
Types of scholarly articles --
Submitting a manuscript to a journal --
Evaluation of a manuscript --
Acceptance of a manuscript --
Placing a manuscript with a press --
Types of scholarly books --
Submitting a prospectus for a book --
Submitting a manuscript to a press --
Evaluation of a manuscript --
Acceptance of a manuscript --
Production and publication --
Composition, printing, binding, electronic production --
2. Legal issues in scholarly publishing --
Development of copyright law in the United States --
Subject matter of copyright --
Ownership of copyright --
Co-ownership of copyright --
Registration of copyright --
Rights of copyright owners --
Transfers and terminations --
Fair use of copyrighted works --
Damages for copyright infringement and attorney's fees --
International copyright --
Copyright and computer networks --
Journal articles and contributions to edited works --
Emergence of privacy law --
Unreasonable publicity of private life --
Publicity placing another in a false light --
3. Basics of scholarly writing --
Audience, genre, and the conventions of scholarship --
Consistency and choice of spelling --
Ligatures and other special characters --
Purpose of punctuation --
Dashes and parentheses --
Periods, question marks, and exclamation points --
Spacing after concluding punctuation marks --
Words and letters referred to as words and letters --
Foreign words in an English text --
First and subsequent uses of names --
Names of authors and fictional characters --
Dutch and German names --
Names in other languages --
Titles of works in the manuscript --
Titles in quotation marks --
Titles and quotations within titles --
Accuracy of quotations --
Other alterations of sources --
Punctuation with quotations --
Translations of quotations --
Use of words or numerals --
Percentages and amounts of money --
Dates and times of the day --
4. Preparation of scholarly manuscripts --
Physical characteristics of the printed manuscript --
Title and author's name --
Tables and illustrations --
Corrections and revisions --
Manuscripts for publication --
5. Preparation of theses and dissertations --
Student works as professional documents --
Preparing a prospectus --
Special format requirements --
Theses and dissertations as published works --
Binding of print copies --
Submission of electronic files --
Publishing the dissertation through ProQuest --
6. Documentation : preparing the list of works cited --
The purposes of documentation --
Documentation and ethics --
The list of works cited --
Placement of the list of works cited --
Arrangement of entries --
Two or more works by the same author --
Two or more works by the same authors --
Citing periodical print publications --
An article in a scholarly journal --
An article in a scholarly journal that uses only issue numbers --
An article in a scholarly journal with more than one series --
An article in a newspaper --
An article in a magazine --
An abstract in an abstracts journal --
A letter to the editor --
Citing nonperiodical print publications --
A book by a single author --
An anthology or a compilation --
A book by two or more authors --
A book by a corporate author --
A work in an anthology --
An article in a reference book --
An introduction, a preface, a foreword, or an afterword --
A translation ; An illustrated book or a graphic narrative --
A book published in a second or subsequent edition --
A republished book or journal issue --
A book with multiple publishers --
A brochure, pamphlet, or press release --
A government publication --
The published proceedings of a conference --
A book in a language other than English --
A book published before 1900 --
A book without stated publication --
Information or pagination --
An unpublished dissertation --
A published dissertation --
Citing web publications --
A nonperiodical publication --
A periodical publication in an online database --
Citing additional common sources --
A television or radio broadcast --
A film or a video recording --
A cartoon or comic strip --
A lecture, a speech, an address, or a reading --
A manuscript or typescript --
A letter, a memo, or an e-mail message --
An article in a microform collection of articles --
An article reprinted in a loose-leaf collection of articles --
A publication on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM --
A work in more than one publication medium --
7. Documentation : citing sources in the text --
Parenthetical documentation and the list of works cited --
Information required in parenthetical documentation --
Citing an entire work, including a work with no page numbers --
Citing volume and page numbers of a multivolume work --
Citing a work listed by title --
Citing a work by a corporate author --
Citing two or more works by the same author or authors --
Citing indirect sources --
Citing common literature --
Citing more than one work in a single parenthetical reference --
Citing a book with signatures and no page numbers --
Using notes with parenthetical documentation --
Common scholarly abbreviations and reference words --
Symbols used in the text --
Symbols used in the margin --
Appendix : Specialized style manuals --
Sources of Examples in 3.4-5 --