Paper Specifications for
HIST 710
Please prepare research papers in accordance with these specifications. The draft is submitted to me (not to the list) as an attachment to an e-mail. I open the attachment and print it. I make editorial marks on the hard copy. Then I scan the edited hard copy and return it to you as a pdf file attached to an e-mail. After making revisions, you send me the final draft, again as a Word file attached to an e-mail. I convert the Word file into a pdf file and post it at the seminar website for all to read and comment on. · The length of the paper is to be 3500 words of text, exclusive of notes. This is a good length for a paper to be submitted for publication. It will leave room for additions, should an editor ask for them. · Double-space everything, including the notes. · Margins 1" all around. · Annotation (endnotes) as specified in the Chicago Manual of Style (the ultimate authority on all matters of style in the seminar). · No bibliography. (Books ordinarily have bibliographies, but papers and articles do not.) · Illustrations at the back of the manuscript, with appropriate legend. · Proofread, and proofread again aloud. · No title page is necessary. Center the title at the top of page 1, and center your name under that, as in, Everyman His Own Historian By Carl Becker |