Notes for the Guidance of Contributors to Archaeologia Cantiana

NOTES FOR THE GUIDANCE OF CONTRIBUTORS TO ARCHAEOLOGIA CANTJANA I. The Honorary Editor will always be pleased to discuss a proposed paper before it is written and to give advice. He will also read rough drafts but will not decide upon the acceptance or otherwise of any paper unless and until he has received the paper complete in all respects. 2. Papers must be typed in double spacing on one side of the paper only. All sheets must be numbered in sequence and wide margins allowed. They should reach the Hon. Editor not later than the end of August in the year preceding publication. 3. The names and styles of authors must be typed below the initial titles of papers, and not at the end, unless a communication is brief and intended for inclusion under Researches and Discoveries or Miscellaneous Notes. Reviews and book notices may either be signed or initialled. 4. Footnotes and references must be numbered consecutively throughout a paper and such footnotes and references typed on a separate sheet at the end of the paper. 5. All acknowledgements of advice or assistance should be made in a separate paragraph. 6. Only words in the typescript of a paper which are to appear in the printed text in italics must be underlined. Do not underline titles and paragraph headings. 7. Do not type titles, headings, etc., in capital (upper case) letters. 8. Capital letters should be used as little as possible. But geological, archaeological, historical and architectural periods call for their use, as in Upper Greensand, Neolithic, Iron Age, Early Medieval, Perpendicular, etc. Similarly, titles of rank and honour as King, Duke, Bishop, etc., must begin with capital letters. 9. Quotation marks should normally be single, and double marks reserved for special words or phrases within the main quotation. 10. Write 'tenth century', not' 10th century', etc., but the shorter forms may be used in figures, tables and lists, for brevity. I I. Write 'ft.' for feet, 'in.' (not ins.) for inches, 'cm.' for centimetres, etc. I 2. Compass points should be written in full, with hyphens but not in capitals, as 'south-south-east'. Percentages should be written '75 per cent.', not '75%'. FOOTNOTES AND REFERENCES 13. Books referred to frequently in a paper should be listed in a bibliography, so that abbreviated references consisting of the authors' surnames can be used. 14. References to published books should be in the following form: 'F. M. Stenton, Anglo-Saxon England, 2nd Edn. (1943), 229'. 15. For Transactions and Proceedings of Societies the followin􀃆 give examples: Antlq. Journ., xii (1961), 186-98 - i.e. the Antiquaries Journal, vol. 41, 196 I, pages 186 to 198. Trans. Herts. Nat. Hist. Soc. and F.C., iv (1885-7), 40 - which is Transactions of the Hertfordshire Natural History Society and Field Club, vol. 4 (1885-7), page 40. Generally 'J.' or 'Journ.' may stand for Journal, 'Proc.' for Proceedings, 'Trans.' for Transactions, 'Soc.' for Society, 'Arch.' for Archaeological, 'Hist.' for Historical, etc. The titles of quoted books and periodicals alone must be in italics; it is not necessary to use 'p.' or 'pp.'. 16. The Latin contractions used in references should be correctly applied. Thus 'id.' (idem, the same) should only be used to refer to an immediately preceding author's name or title of work or periodical, while 'ibid.' (ibidem, in the same place) 275 should normally be used to refer to an immediately preceding note; 'op. cit.' (opere citato, in the work quoted) should always be used with an author's name previously quoted, or with a reference back to the note where the citation occurs, thus 'Daniels, op. cit., in note 3' or, 'op. cil., in note 7', and 'loc. cit.' (loco citato, in the place quoted) should only be used to refer to the same reference as before. ILLUSTRATIONS 17. Types of illustrations. Only essential half-tone plates from photographs and figures from drawings, diagrams, maps, plans and graphs can be used to illustrate papers in A rchaeologia Cantiana. I 8. Plates: Photographs for plates must be of the highest possible quality on glazed prints. Photostat copies cannot be used. Plates are indicated by Roman numerals as I, II, III, IV, etc. 19. Figures. Line drawings should be in Indian ink on good quality board, card, smooth paper or tracing paper. Figures are indicated by Arabic numerals as 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Wide margins must be avoided Lines and lettering on the originals for figures should be large and bold enough to admit of any necessary reduction without loss of clearness. 20. Lettering on figures. The use of 'Letraset' or 'Uno' stencils for lettering is strongly advised, as badly executed lettering cannot be accepted. 2 J. Scales and Orientation. Where necessary scales must be drawn on the originals for figures so that they will apply accurately under any necessary reduction. On maps, charts and plans the north point must be indicated. 22. Lists of illustrations. It would greatly assist if contributors would supply a separate list of illustrations with their papers giving plate and/or figure numbers with captions for each. Even though the number of illustrations be small, a separate statement would be appreciated. 23. Identification of illustrations. Unless photographs and drawings include information which give clues to their associated papers, a short title must be written in pencil either in the margins or on the backs of drawings. In the case of photographs their glossy surfaces should never be indented by writing on the backs or by wire clips, and the short title should therefore be written on a label attached to the back of a photograph. 24. Numbering and Captions. If a list of illustrations is provided as requested in para. 22 above, then it is only necessary to add the figure number on drawings in margins or on the backs, and plate numbers to the labels mentioned in para. 23 above. If a list is not supplied then the full captions must be added. 25. Plates. If two or more plates can be accommodated on one page of Archaeologia Cantiana, then they should be notated as Plate I, A, B, C; Plate II, A, B, C, etc. 26. Plates. These are costly to produce and must be kept to the minimum; authors will be expected to make a case for the inclusion of plates in their papers. 27. Sizes of figures. In working out the sizes of figures contributors should keep in mind both the size and proportions of a page of Archaeologia Cantiana. The page type area is 6i in. by 4¼ in. 28. Pottery figures, etc. Whenever possible pottery figures and those of small objects should be drawn full size and assembled on a sheet which should measure within margins no more than 26 in. by l 7 in. or less. When such a sheet is reduced to page size the drawings will become one-quarter size and this will be so stated. When assembling such drawings contributors should paste them on the sheet adequately and carefully. In cases where pottery figures cannot be drawn full size a drawn scale must be included. 29. Scale of reductions. With the exception mentioned in the above paragraph, drawings must not be more than three times (19 in. by 12½ in.) and preferably only about twice ( I 3 in. by 8 in.) the size of the desired reproduction. 30. Aids to drawing. Attention is drawn to the use of pre-drawn shading films for shading and hatching, as they greatly improve drawings, sections, plans, etc. When using such mechanical stipple bear in mind the degree of reduction because too fine a stipple will close up with reduction. 31. House Style. In general, Oxford Style should be used. See Rules for Compositors and Readers (O.U.P.) or the latest edition of Collins's Authors' and Printers' Dictionary. 3 2. Proof correcting. In correcting proofs contributors are asked to use the recognized 276 system of symbols, the best guide to which is British Standards Pamphlet I 219 C (I 958), Proof Correction. But for an accessible summary of the more commonly used symbols, see Whitaker's Almanack under 'Correcting for the Press'. 33. Free Offprints. By resolution of Council, all contributors of full length papers are supplied free of charge with twelve offprints of their papers. These are sent automatically, and it is therefore not necessary to make application for them. These free offprints will be despatched during the two months following publication of the volume. Private Offprints. Additional offprints can be obtained by contributors at their own charges by application to the Honorary Editor after he has advised contributors that their papers are to be included in the next volume. Other Offprints. Offprints of material published under Researches and Discoveries, Miscellaneous Notes, Reviews and Obituaries will not be supplied by the Society, and if desired, contributors must apply to the Honorary Editor. 34. The copyright of all material published in Archaeologia Cantiana is reserved by the Kent Archaeological Society on behalf of contributors. A. P. DETSICAS, Honorary Editor 1977 277