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How To Submit Your Manuscript for Review

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If you would like to contact the co-directors in charge of acquisitions with a very brief book pi...

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11. Italics, Roman, and Boldface

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9.1 Single words or short phrases in foreign languages, where these have not passed into regular ...

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12. Quotations

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12.1 Set long quotations (over two sentences or verse lines) as block quotations. 12.2 Set short...

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6. Punctuation

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6.1 We follow traditional American punctuation conventions. Periods and commas always go inside q...

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10. Titles, Subtitles, and Subheadings

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10.1 Capitalization of book, chapter, and article titles in English is as follows: Capitalize fi...

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7. Capitalization and Hyphenation

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7.1 Places, persons, days, and months are capitalized. Tirana, Leopold, Monday, June 7.2 Nation...

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5. Abbreviations

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5.1 Contracted forms of words are always followed by a period. Dr., edn., St., fols., vols., nos...

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4. Numbers

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4.1 Spell out numbers up to one hundred except when expressing dimensions, in statistical context...

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2. Names and Terms Referring to Places and People

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2.1 English forms of place names should be used where they exist. Padua, Seville, Athens, The Ha...

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1. Spelling

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1.1 We prefer US English spelling conventions. organize, utilize, color, center, jail, draft, a...

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8. Transliteration

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In different humanities disciplines it is common to refer to certain concepts, names, and titles ...

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9. Pronouns

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9.1 Pronouns should always follow the preference of the person referred to, or, in case of histor...

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Contract, Rights, and Permissions Will I receive any royalties? The baseline is that very f...

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Will I Be Charged for Publishing?

About Submitting Your Manuscript

punctum is one of the very few Open Access (OA) presses in the world that does not charge what ar...

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Ordering Author Copies

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How do I order author copies? You can order author copies by sending an email to Vincent (vi...

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Paying an Invoice

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If you received an invoice from us, be it for a library subscription, book order, or book process...

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Software

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There is a number of open-source software platforms you will encounter during your work with punc...

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Contract

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Your book has been reviewed positively by the punctum books co-directors and you received an emai...

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Book Promotion

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Canceling a Subscription

Subscriptions and Invoicing

Stripe If you have a legacy subscription that runs through a login/username on our website or a ...

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