General

Submissions are read by at least two specialist referees. Articles are adjudicated on the basis of scholarly merit, and no particular theoretical position is privileged, though most work published in Renaissance Forum will either be historical or bring together the disciplines of literature and history. All articles should be accompanied by an abstract and a declaration guaranteeing that the article is not simultaneously being submitted to any other journal.

Spelling and punctuation

Copy should be in standard English spelling and punctuation (see Modern Humanities Research Association Stylebook – details of how to order are available online).

In quotations from early writers, either original or modern spelling may be used. Where original spelling is reproduced, 'u', 'v', 'i' and 'j' should be modernised. Capitalisation and use of italics should also be brought into line with modern practice except where there are good reasons for retaining the original emphasis.

For opening quotation marks use the ' key (i.e. the apostrophe) rather than `.

Paragraphing

Articles should use author-date parenthetical documentation, eg:

(Althusser 1993)
(Christianson 1991, 45-63)
(Dollimore and Sinfield 1985, 117-23)
(Yates 1975, ch. 2)

When a quotation is followed by a parenthetical documentation, the full stop ending the sentence usually should be placed after the closing parenthesis:

Goodman claims that: 'in fact, Churchill was the "inventor" of overlapping dialogue' (Goodman 1996, 238).

1. In the Envoy to his Troy Book (Lydgate 1935, 1) John Lydgate praises Henry as the 'sours & welle' of knighthood. Thomas Hoccleve (1892, 41) describes him as the 'welle of honur' and 'flour of Chivalrie'.

2. On Mercury as a symbolic representative of peace, government and control see Brooks-Davies 1983, 2; see also Wind 1958, 91n2.

3. The Middle Ages was well aware of this fallacy. St Augustine (1922, 449-51) warns gainst those 'vain babblers' who 'because they have observed that there are two wills in the act of deliberating, affirm thereupon, that there are two kinds of natures. The truth is that in the acts of one man's deliberation there is one soul distracted between two contrary wills'.

Full bibliographic details of all references should be provided in a 'List of Works Cited' and should be given in the following form:

Althusser, Louis. 1993. The Future Lasts a Long Time. Edited by Olivier Corpet and Yann Moulier Boutang; trans. Richard Veasey. London: Chatto & Windus.

Anon. 1991. The Oldcastle Controversy: Sir John Oldcastle, Part I and the Famous Victories of Henry V. Revels Plays edn, edited by Peter Corbin and Douglas Sedge. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press.

Belsey, Catherine. 1991. 'Making Histories Then and Now: Shakespeare from Richard II to Henry V.' In Uses of History: Marxism, Postmodernism and the Renaissance, edited by Frances Barker, Peter Hulme, and Margaret Iversen. Manchester and New York: Manchester University Press, 24-46.

Christianson, Paul. 1991. 'Royal and Parliamentary Voices on the Ancient Constitution c.1604-1621.' In The Mental World of the Jacobean Court, edited by Linda Levy Peck. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 71-95.

Dollimore, Jonathan, and Sinfield, Alan. 1985. 'History and Ideology: The Instance of Henry V.' In Alternative Shakespeares, edited by John Drakakis. London and New York: Methuen, 206-27.

Drayton, Michael. 1931-41. The Works of Michael Drayton. 5 vols, edited by J. William Hebel. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Gurr, Andrew. 1977. 'Henry V and the Bees' Commonwealth.' Shakespeare Survey 30:61-72.

Marx, Steven. 1992. 'Shakespeare's Pacifism.' Renaissance Quarterly 45:49-95.

Panofsky, Erwin. 1939; repr.1962. Studies in Iconology: Humanistic Themes in the Art of the Renaissance. New York: Harper and Row.

Sharpe, Kevin and Zwicker, Steven N. Eds. 1987. Politics of Discourse: The Literature and History of Seventeenth-Century England. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London: University of California Press.

Yates, Frances. 1975. Astraea: The Imperial Theme in the Sixteenth Century. London and Boston: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Citations from electronic journals should take the following form:

Author. Year. 'Title.' Journal Title volume:number. Available: Address. [Access date], paragraphs.

Hirst, Derek. 1996. 'Making All Religion Ridiculous: Of Culture High and Low: The Polemics of Toleration, 1667-1673.' Renaissance Forum 1:1. Available: http://www.hull.ac.uk/renforum/v1no1/hirst.htm [1 April 1996], 1-3.

Submissions may be sent to the Technical Editor (ambutler@enterprise.net) in a number of different formats.

By conventional mail

Note change of address

Andrew M Butler
Department of Media and Arts
Canterbury Christ Church University College
Canterbury
CT1 1QU
UK

ambutler@enterprise.net

In addition you may wish to send a disk; we prefer 3 1/2" PC or DOS formatted disks. The editing process begins using Word6, but we are able to read and convert versions of Word up to and including Word 97. Similarly we can use WordPerfect, Works and Word Write. Mac versions of these files are acceptable, but saved on a PC or DOS formatted disk only. Finally we can read ASCII or plain files.

Please only send files in HTML format after consultation with the Technical Editor.

By Email

Renaissance Forum does not accept unsolicited reviews. If you are interested in acting as a reviewer for Renaissance Forum contact the Technical Editor enclosing a brief cv; he will pass your details on to the relevant editors.

Headings for reviews should be in the following format:

Markku Peltonen. 1995. Classical Humanism and Republicanism in English Political Thought, 1570-1640. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. xii + 356 pp. ISBN 0-521-49695-0. £40.00 / US$59.95.

W. R. Owens and Lizbeth Goodman. Eds. 1996. Shakespeare, Aphra Behn and the Canon. London and Milton Keynes: Routledge and Open University. vi + 346 pp. ISBN 0-415-13576-1. £16.99.

William Shakespeare. 1998. The First Quarto of Hamlet. The New Cambridge Shakespeare edn, edited by Kathleen O. Irace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 127pp. ISBN 0-521-41819-4. £32.50/$49.95.

Or:

Kathleen O. Irace. Ed. 1998. The First Quarto of Hamlet. The New Cambridge Shakespeare edn, edited by Kathleen O. Irace. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 127pp. ISBN 0-521-41819-4. £32.50/$49.95.

In this latter case the review should make it clear who is the author of the play under discussion.