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‘mediaeval’, and -ise, -isation and -isable instead of -ize,
-ization and -izable. Authors should use current English
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Notes and references
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of footnotes; automatic endnotes should be used with
superscript note references in Arabic numbers in the main
text, as in: Cadaver effigies first occur towards the end of
the fourteenth century.1 (Please note: reference after
punctuation.)
Titles of articles should be given in single inverted
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brackets. Longer journal titles should be given in full at
the first instance, and abbreviated thereafter, as in:
Journal of the British Archaeological Association,
thereafter JBAA. No capitals should be used in titles of
books and articles, except at the start and for proper names
as well as for literary works such as The Winter’s Tale.
The volume number of a journal should be given in Arabic
numerals, as well as the year and (where necessary) month,
followed by page references for the complete article and
then specifically to the relevant page(s). Authors’ first
names should be given as initials with a full stop but
without spaces in between, as in: F.A. Greenhill. Examples:
P. Craddock, ‘Britain’s first brass’, Antiquaries Journal,
84 (2004), pp. 339-46, at p. 341.
M. Duffy, Royal tombs of medieval England (Stroud, 2003), p.
159, fig. 66.
E. Panofsky, Tomb sculpture: four lectures on its changing
aspects from ancient Egypt to Bernini, ed. H.W. Janson
(1964, repr. London, 1992).
P. Williamson ‘Sculpture’, in J. Alexander and P. Binski
(eds), Age of chivalry: art in Plantagenet England 1200-1400
(London, 1987), pp. 98-106, at p. 104.
References to sources cited earlier must give the author’s
surname and a shortened version of the title, as in:
Panofsky, Tomb sculpture, pp. 63-66.
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specified, as in: Personal communication (e-mail from X.
Smith, 18 May 2008).
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