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On the Preparation of Geological Manuscripts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 May 2009

Extract

No one who has not had personal experience of it can imagine the amount of labour thrown on the editor of a scientific periodical by the variation in the methods used by authors to indicate special kinds of type, and indeed, if the truth must be told, by the mistakes made by many authors as to what kind of type should be used. Quite often it is necessary, before a manuscript goes to the printers, to alter nearly every indication given as to the use of italics, capital headings, and so on, simply because the wrong signs are employed.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1933

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page 487 note 1 When this article was already in type the Editor came across an amusing instance of the disastrous effect of the existence of series, decades, etc. A reference in an Indian publication to the volume of the Geological Magazine for 1911 got transmogrified into “December 5, VIII, page so and so” which is not very illuminating.Google Scholar