Notes for Contributors
The editors welcome contributions to the Ben Jonson Journal by email. (Please note: We do not consider contributions that have been published or submitted elsewhere.) A properly formatted work, preferably as a Microsoft Word file, should be sent as an email attachment to:
Richard Harp, co-editor
richard.harp@unlv.edu
Email correspondence should include all of the contributor’s pertinent contact information (name, present affiliation, mailing address, phone and fax numbers, and email address).
The editors also welcome reviews of contemporary theatrical productions of Renaissance plays.
If electronic submission is impossible, contributors may mail a hard copy of their work to:
The Ben Jonson Journal, Editors
c/o Richard Harp, Co-editor
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Department of English
Box 5011
Las Vegas
NV 89154-5011
USA
Book review copies should also be sent to the above address. The Book Reviews Editor, Benedict Whalen, can be contacted by email at Benedict.Whalen@tamucc.edu
All book reviews that appear in the Ben Jonson Journal are assigned in advance by the editors. Each review should include the following information at the top: Author. Title. City of Publication: Publisher, Year. Number of front pages + number of body pages.
Submission Guidelines
Suggested length of articles is 6,000–7,000 words, including endnotes. Suggested length of notes is up to 5,000 words, including endnotes. The typescript should be double-spaced throughout, including offset quotations and endnotes, in 12 point type. Quotation marks should be double, single for quotes in quotes: for example, “xxxx ‘yyyy’ xxxxx.” We use US spelling and punctuation. All submissions should be formatted according to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style.
Bibliographic documentation
All bibliographic documentation should be cited according to the latest edition of the Chicago Manual of Style. To give some of the most important examples: use endnotes, not footnotes or parenthetical citation (but see below for some exceptions); italicize titles of published works, not underline them; and use arabic numerals, not roman (e.g. 5.2.15–20 for lines 15–20 that appear in act 5, scene 2). Endnote citation should include all of the necessary bibliographic information. Second and subsequent citations of the same work should appear in short form. Some common examples are provided below.
Authored book
Ann Barton, Ben Jonson, Dramatist (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1984), 11¬–12.
[Short citation: Barton, 11–12.]
Edited texts
Ben Jonson, ed. C. H. Herford and Percy and Evelyn Simpson, 11 vols. (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1925–52), 8:102.
Stephen Orgel and Roy C. Strong, eds., Inigo Jones: The Theatre of the Stuart Court, 2 vols. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1973), 1:283.
Journal article
Ian Donaldson, “Perishing and Surviving: The Poetry of Donne and Jonson,” Essays in Criticism 51.1 (2001): 70–72.
Frequent reference to a single source
If your paper uses frequent quotations from a single source, it usually makes sense to cite them in text parenthetically. The full citation should be given in an endnote at first mention, followed by such wording as “hereafter cited in text.”
Scripture references
Usually cited in text, e.g. (Gen 25:19-36:43), (Heb 13:8), (Mt 26:2–5)
Chicago-Style Citation Quick Guide
Available at: http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/tools_citationguide.html
Images
Contributors are responsible for securing permission to publish images, and must cover all permissions costs before publication. Guidelines for Submission of Images in Digital Form
Author Copyright Form
Assignation of Intellectual Property Rights
Proofs
Proofs of your article will be emailed to the author from Edinburgh University Press. Authors must return corrected proofs to the Ben Jonson Journal Managing Editor.
Questions?
If you have any questions, please email the Ben Jonson Journal Managing Editor at joyceahn@earthlink.net.
Open Access and Self-Archiving
All EUP journals are published on a Green Open Access basis, whereby authors are allowed to deposit the pre-publication version of their contribution on their personal or departmental web page, in their institutional repository or in a disciplinary repository at the time the contribution is first submitted. Authors are also permitted to deposit their published article in approved institutional or disciplinary repositories subject to a 12 month embargo period.Please visit our Copyright and Open Access page for full details of our self-archiving policy for all EUP journals.
Authors can also choose to pay a fee to make their article freely available online immediately via the EUP journals website through the Edinburgh Open scheme which provides an optional Gold Open Access route to publication in all Edinburgh University Press journals. Please visit our Edinburgh Open page for full information on the scheme and our Open Access page for further information on the EUP Open Access policy.
Discounts for Authors
Journal Authors are entitled to a 40% discount on the journal issue containing their paper, a 20% discount on all EUP books and a 10% discount on any journal subscription. Please contact marketing@eup.ed.ac.uk to order books at discount and journals@eup.ed.ac.uk for discounted journal subscriptions.