Style Guide
Our house style guide generally follows the Chicago Manual of Style, with important exceptions.
1. Spelling
1.1 We prefer US English spelling conventions. organize, utilize, color, center, jail, draft, a...
2. Names and Terms Referring to Places and People
2.1 English forms of place names should be used where they exist. Padua, Seville, Athens, The Ha...
3. Dates
3.1 For the Gregorian calendar we prefer BCE/CE abbreviations. 3.2 Centuries should be spelled o...
4. Numbers
4.1 Spell out numbers up to one hundred except when expressing dimensions, in statistical context...
5. Abbreviations
5.1 Contracted forms of words are always followed by a period. Dr., edn., St., fols., vols., nos...
6. Punctuation
6.1 We follow traditional American punctuation conventions. Periods and commas always go inside q...
7. Capitalization and Hyphenation
7.1 Places, persons, days, and months are capitalized. Tirana, Leopold, Monday, June 7.2 Nation...
8. Transliteration
In different humanities disciplines it is common to refer to certain concepts, names, and titles ...
9. Pronouns
9.1 Pronouns should always follow the preference of the person referred to, or, in case of histor...
10. Titles, Subtitles, and Subheadings
10.1 Capitalization of book, chapter, and article titles in English is as follows: Capitalize fi...
11. Italics, Roman, and Boldface
9.1 Single words or short phrases in foreign languages, where these have not passed into regular ...
12. Quotations
12.1 Set long quotations (over two sentences or verse lines) as block quotations. 12.2 Set short...
13. References
Notes 13.1 We prefer footnotes to endnotes, as many of our books are read as PDFs and footnotes ...
14. Images, Tables, and Plates
14.1 Images, tables, and plates should be provided separately and not included into the manuscrip...