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HOUSE STYLE

Abbreviations

Dr, Mr, Mrs, Fr have no full point, because they end with the final letter of the whole word.

Rev. and similar abbreviations have a full point.

E.g., i.e., ibid., loc.cit. have full points. Exception: am, pm (which always follow a number: 5am, 8pm).

Abbreviations consisting of initial letters of words do not have a full point between letters: USA, CIS.

Hyphen

Omit within words wherever possible: cooperation, vicepresident, reestablishment, postsoviet.

Commas

Please keep these to a minimum. Take care especially to avoid them after an initial phrase of time (In 1985 Mikhail Gorbachev became general secretary…) and before the final item in a list (which will be preceded by 'and').

Spelling

Spelling should be British, not American.

Use 's' not 'z' in endings of words such as baptise, organise.

Quotation marks

Always use single quotation marks, except for quotations within quotations, when you should use double quotation marks.

If the quotation forms a complete sentence the final full point must be inside the quotation mark. If it does not, the final full point must be outside the quotation mark.

Quoted material over 40 words in length should be indented left and should not have quotation marks.

Quotations from works in English should be reproduced faithfully, even when they do not conform to RSS house style.

Number

When a number begins a sentence it is written in full.

One to ten are written in full; 11 upwards in figures.

In times of the day, 1 to 10 are written in figures.

Thousands are written with a comma, not a space.

Per cent is written in full, as two words.

Dates

Give date, month and year, in that order, without commas, and omitting '-th' etc. after the date: 23 October 1984.

From 1968 to 1969, not from 1968-1969.

Between 1968 and 1969, not between 1968-1969.

Otherwise: 1968-69 (similarly pp.1250-52).

In the 1950s.

In the mid-1960s.

In the twentieth century.

Seventeenth-century furniture.

Ages

The boy was 14 years old.

The 45-year-old priest.

He was in his fifties.

Upper or lower case

Church
Upper case only when referring to a specific church, with its name: the Catholic Church; St Peter's Church.

church
Lower case: to refer to a building (unless named); to refer to 'the church' in general; to refer to a previously-named specific church; and adjectivally, e.g church-state relations.

patriarch, pope, president etc.
Lower case except when preceding a name: the patriarch; Patriarch Bartholomaios. Note: Ecumenical Patriarch Bartholomaios, but the ecumenical patriarch; Metropolitan Kirill of Smolensk, but the metropolitan of Smolensk.

government
Lower case

state, party, communist
Lower case as noun and adjective, except when part of a title, e.g. the Communist Party.

Marxist, Christian
Upper case, because derived from personal names (c.f. communism)

mass, liturgy, scriptures, gospel, bible
Usually lower case

East, West
Upper case

eastern, western
Lower case, except in Eastern European, Western European.

spring, summer, autumn, winter
Lower case

Biblical quotations

Note standard punctuation of biblical references:
2 Kings 18:11-13
2 Cor. 4:6; 7:3, 10, 12
Rev. 5:10-17:4
John 14-15
Mark 7:1-8:26; Matthew 15:1-16:12

Titles of publications and self-contained works (archival documents, theses)

Italicise; capitalise all important words.

Titles of articles and chapters

Give the title in roman, in single quotes; all except proper names to be lower-case.

Titles of publications in languages other than English, French or German

Books, documents and articles
Give original-language title (in transliteration if appropriate), followed by English translation in brackets at first mention.

Periodicals
Give original-language title only (in transliteration if appropriate).

If titles of publications are originally in Cyrillic, please supply a separate list of these originals.

Names of organisations and political parties

Give English translation, followed by original-language name (in transliteration if appropriate) at first mention.

If titles of organisations or parties are originally in Cyrillic, please supply a separate list of these originals.

Non-English words and names

Italicise, unless they have entered the English language (e.g. pogrom).

French words which have entered the English language should neither be italicised nor have accents: emigre, elite, regime.

Proper names originally in Cyrillic should be transliterated, not anglicised, except in a few cases where English usage is established: Moscow; Nicholas II. Please also supply a separate list of such names in the original Cyrillic.

Russian territorial divisions should be given in the original, in transliteration and italicised: raion, oblast', krai.

Please include all accents and diacritical signs as they appear in the original language (names of people, places and publications, and in quoted text).

Other usages

'Which' rather than 'that'

The Second World War (not World War II)

Muslim

Habsburg

Quran

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Exceptions to all the above

Quotations from works in English should be reproduced faithfully, even when they contradict the above practices.

Endnotes should be marked by successive numbers in the text and listed consecutively at the end of the article in a section entitled ‘Notes', placed before the ‘References'. Numbered endnotes are used only when comments or extra information are required.

References should follow the Harvard system: they should be indicated in the typescript, within parentheses, by giving the author's surname followed by the year of publication, the latter preceded by a comma, and a page reference if necessary. Thus: (Smith, 1994, p. 56). If there are more than two authors: (Smith et al., 1994). If several works by the same author and from the same year are cited, (a), (b) etc. should be put after the year of publication. The works referred to should then be listed in full alphabetically at the end of the paper in a section called ‘References'. Do not use ‘et al.' in this section. Use the following standard forms:

Yizthak, S. (1989) East Wind over Arabia. Origins and Implications of the Sino-Saudi Missile Deal (Berkeley, University of California Institute of East Asian Studies).

Israeli, R. and Johns, A. (eds.) (1984) Islam in Asia, vol. 2 (Jerusalem, The Magnes Press).

Faguer, J-P. (1991a) ‘Les effets d'une éducation totale, un collège jésuite en 1960', Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales, 86/87 (March), pp. 25–43.

Jiang Po and Wang Xiling (1996) ‘Musilin “nü xue” yanjiu. Zaifang Linxia musilin nü xiao de diaocha baogao' (‘Research into Muslim “female education”. Publication of a new survey of the allfemale Islamic schools at Linxia'), Gansu Minzu yanjiu, 58, pp. 82–87.

Forum (1995) ‘Interview des roemisch-katholischen Erzbischofs von Lemberg in der Ukraine, Marian Jaworski', Forum, 3.

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