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Stylistic Guidelines
These notes are intended to facilitate the formatting, editing and publication of material on the BUMP site. They provide a guide for the presentation of documents and the stylistic conventions required for submissions. If any permission for musical examples, music files, or images is required, these should be sought by the author.
Conventions
- Articles should generally be between 6000 and 8000 words and divided clearly into sections for the reader, using clear headings or roman numerals. Shorter and longer articles may be acceptable depending on the content and context of the work.
- Texts should be submitted double-spaced in Times New Roman, 12 point font (including footnotes and quotations) as a Microsoft Word document, with any musical examples or images within the text. They should be paginated throughout, except on the first page, in Arabic numerals at the top right-hand corner. ‘Headers’ and ‘Footers’ should not be used.
- Paragraphs should be presented continually i.e. without a break between them.
- British or American spelling is acceptable, provided it is used consistently. The style in sources should be maintained (including punctuation).
- Quotations should use single inverted commas (except for quotations within quotations). The punctuation should precede the closing quotation mark where the punctuation follows the original source.
- Quotations within the text over 3 lines should be indented and without quotation marks. Where these are translated, the original may be put into the footnotes. If the translation is of poetry the original source may be given to the left of the translation for comparison. If permission is required to reprint this material, it should be sought be the author.
- Capitalisation should be sensible and not overused.
- Contractions (Mr) and acronyms (BUMP) should not use full stops., but these are essential for abbreviations (vol., vols.,).
- Numbers should generally be written out up to 100, except where this would be tedious, or where a unit is attached to a number (6m).
- Dates should be written in the form: 10 December 1908, and centuries should be written out (i.e. twentieth-century music or, the twentieth century).
- There should be one space after each full stop.
- Ellipses used for omission of text should be joined to the text. (.) may be used where relevant.
Referencing
- Quotations for books should be in the following format:
- Page numbers should be given without p. or pp. for pagination in both books and articles.
- Articles should be in the following format: Author, ‘title’, journal or book, vol. no. (year).
- The vol. and no. should be given in Arabic and not Roman numerals.
- Interviews should be given as: Interview with x, date and place.
- Personal communications (letters etc.) should be fully cited.
- Web citations should give the address and the date on which the sources was accessed
- After the first citation references should be shortened to include the author, the title of the article or the book, the year and then the page.
- It is not necessary to include a separate bibliography.
Teilhard de Chardin, The Phenomenon of Man, trans., Julian Huxley (London: Perennial, 2002), 52-55.Original publication dates and information can then be given if desired, but only at the first citation.