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Manuscript Preparation 

Articles and book reviews should be double spaced and unjustified on the right. Pages should be numbered throughout. All articles and book reviews should be in English

I. Style

British English should be used. Please adhere to the following conventions:

• -Ize endings when given as an alternative to -ise (but note that in British English ‘analyse’ retains ‘s’).
• Labour, colour, valour, honour, judgement (unless referring to a legal judgment), sceptical, defence, practise (verb), practice (noun), naïve, encyclopaedia.
• The hyphen minus [-] should be used for hyphenated expressions such as in-itself; the en dash[–] (shortcut: ctrl+-) for page ranges, e.g. 3–6; and the em dash [—] (shortcut: ctrl+alt+-) should be used for embedded clauses.
• quotations within running text should be in single quotation marks ‘ ’ (double quotation marks “ ” for quotes within quotes). Punctuation at the end of a quotation should fall outside the closing quote mark, e.g. ’, not ,’
• Elisions are indicated with three dots in square brackets […].

Other style points to note:

• Quotations of three lines or longer should be separated by space and indentation from the rest of the paragraph. All quotations not originally in English must be translated.
• Dates should be expressed as 1 January 1998; the 1890s; the nineteenth century (but a sixteenthcentury manuscript, a twentieth-century concept); 1914–18 (not 1914–8). Numbers up to ninetynine should be spelt out in full except in a list of statistics or in percentages (25 per cent)

Sections

Sections are identified by Roman numerals (with or without given titles), e.g.:
I. The Kantian background.

Tables and diagrams

Tables and diagrams should generally be included in the Word file. However, any complicated images or diagrams should as far as possible be submitted as high resolution tiff or eps files and their approximate
position within the text should be indicated in the Word file. References in the text should take the form ‘Table 1’ for tables and ‘Figure 1’ for other forms of illustration.

If you request colour figures in the printed version, you will be contacted by CCC-Rightslink who are acting on our behalf to collect Author Charges. Please follow their instructions in order to avoid any delay in the publication of your article.

II. References

Contributors should use the author–date system with a list of works cited (and no other works) at the end of the article under the heading ‘Bibliography’. The following style should be used:

In text: as Arthur Danto has argued (Danto 1981: 80).

Or, if no specific page number is being referred to: as Arthur Danto has argued (Danto 1981) or: as argued in Danto 1981.

Please note that where a specific passage is cited reference to a page, or sequence of pages, should always be given.

Quotations in the main text are followed by references in the main text, not in the endnotes.

The exception to the use of the author–date system is for works by Hegel and any other repeatedly cited works by historical figures. These should be cited by abbreviation rather than author and date, followed by a colon and page number(s), or paragraph number(s) and page number(s). For example:

In text: as Hegel claims in his Philosophy of Right (PR: §17, 32).

Such abbreviations should be italicized where what they abbreviate would itself be italicized.

In the case of works by Hegel that lack paragraph numbers, please provide first the page number(s) in the English translation used, followed by ‘/’ and the page number(s) in the relevant German edition (e.g. PhG: 18/26); where an English translation is unavailable, provide the pagination in the relevant German edition only.

At the first use of an abbreviation, please insert an endnote listing the set of abbreviations employed, in accordance with the following style:

Abbreviations used:

• PhG = Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press,1977)/Phänomenologie des Geistes (Hamburg: Meiner,1952).
• PR = Hegel, Elements of the Philosophy of Right, trans. H. B. Nisbet (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press,1991)/Philosophie des Rechts (Stuttgart: Reclam,1970).

If you are using English translations and have amended these, please indicate this in the endnote listing abbreviations for the translations used. Please also include all abbreviated texts in the bibliography.

• Indicate Hegel’s Remarks R, and Additions A (e.g. PR: §17R).

Style of reference list at the end of the paper:

All works referred to should appear at the end of the paper, set out in alphabetical and chronological order in the following format:

• Walker, N. (1997), ‘Hegel’s Encounter with the Christian Tradition’, in M. Baur and J. Russon (eds.),Hegel and the Tradition. Essays in Honour of H.S. Harris. Toronto: Toronto University Press.
• Walzer, M. (1994), Thick and Thin: Moral Argument at Home and Abroad. South Bend IN: University of Notre Dame Press.
• Westphal, K. R. (1993), ‘Hegel, Idealism, and Robert Pippin’, International Philosophical Quarterly 33: 263–72.
• Wittgenstein, L. (1995), Cambridge Letters, ed. B. F. McGuinness and G. H. von Wright. Oxford: Blackwell.

Note there is a bibliographical difference regarding editorship in:

Smith, O. (2000), ‘Ideas and Substances’, in A. Jones (ed.), Metaphysics. London: Any Press.

and

Smith, O. (2000), Metaphysical Investigations, ed. A. Jones and B. James. London: Any Press.

Translators’ names are to be preceded by the indication ‘trans.’ (as with ‘ed.’ in the previous example).

Copyrighted material

If your article contains any material in which you do not own copyright, including figures, charts, tables, photographs or excerpts of text, please see the seeking permission to use copyrighted material page for instruction.

Publishing ethics

Please refer to the publishing ethics page while preparing your materials for submission to ensure you comply with the relevant policies.