The length of an article, including footnotes, should not exceed 6,000 words or contain more than fifteen illustrations; a Shorter Notice may range between 600 and 1,500 words; a Note (no footnotes permitted) about 150–250 words, and Reviews may be up to 1,500 words long. All contributions should be emailed to the Editor or presented on hard copy with diskette or CD.

The text should be double-spaced, typed on one side of A4 paper without subheadings. Footnotes, also double-spaced, should be on a separate page. Inscriptions, words in foreign languages, titles of works of art, books and periodicals should be underlined, but unpublished theses should be in roman type with single quotes. Quotations of more than 40 words should be indented.

Dates should be given in the form: 17 March 1513, and in references to centuries the ordinal should be spelled out.

Footnotes and references

References are printed as footnotes, not endnotes. Their length and number should as concise as possible. Note the following examples:

1. P. Hughes, 'Patronage and Pedagogy: The British Institution in the Early Nineteenth Century', Art History, viii, 1967, pp. 65–78.

2. A. Griffiths, The Print in Stuart Britain 1603–1689, London 1998, p. 41.

3. A Concise Encyclopaedia of the Italian Renaissance, edited by J. R. Hale, London 1981, p. 214.

4. M. Smith, Constable, Cambridge, MA 1984, pp. 239–42.

5. Smith, op. cit., p. 60.

'Edited by', 'revised by' and 'translated by' should be written in full and follow the title. Where there are more than three editors or authors, the name of the first should be given, followed by et al. ‘Exhibition catalogue’ is deleted from footnotes, but retained in publication details for a Review.

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