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1. Manuscripts should be submitted by e-mail attachment, or on disc in a Word compatible format.

2. The text should have ample margins, and be double-spaced.

3. Every page of the manuscript - including tables or diagrams - should be marked with the page number and the author's name.

4. If essays are accepted for publication, we may ask authors to supply us illustrations.

Ideally articles should not exceed 40 double-spaced A4 pages (c. 13,000 words). The editors may allow scope for papers that do exceed this under certain circumstances.

Please note that with the exception of memoirs, all essays should conform to British English spelling, punctuation and grammar conventions. When quoting from sources in a foreign language authors are requested to supply the original text as well, unless the quotation is taken from a published English translation.

1. Quotations should be given within double inverted commas (“..”).

2. Quotations within quotations should be placed in single inverted commas (“...‘...’...”).

3. Quotations of more than four lines of normal typescript should be indented (block quote) without quotation marks.

4. Titles of articles should be cited in single inverted commas (‘...’).

5. Titles of books should be italicised (underlined if italics not available).

6. Names of foreign organisations and political parties should generally be cited in the original language. If necessary, a translation can be given in brackets after the name. Foreign words should also be italicised.

7. When first mentioned names of persons should be given in full (e.g. Niels Bohr not Bohr).

8. Spelling should conform to British practice: The ending "-ise" should be used rather than "-ize", antisemitism not anti-semitism, nineteenth century not 19th century, towards not toward, 1930s not 1930's.

9. The various ‘Umlaute’ and ‘ß’ should be used where applicable. Authors should specify whether they are using ae, oe, ue instead of ä, ö, ü because they do not have ‘Umlaute’ on their word-processing packages or because they are quoting texts (e.g. from nineteenth century sources) which use antiquated spelling.

10. Dates (in both text and notes) should be given as day, month, year, e.g. 31 March 1933.

National Socialism / National-Socialist. Social-Democratic nineteenth century (noun) nineteenth-century (adjective)

ITALICISE: sic., c., et al.

Foreign words: passim, idem, ibid.

Foreign organisations: machsorim, mazzoth, minchah, musaf, minyan, shamash, Bar Mitzvah, Hassidism, hasidic

Hebrew
’ b g d h w z h t y k l m n s ‘ p s q r s š t. The spirant forms of b g d k p t should not be indicated in transliteration unless the matter affects the argument, in which case they may be underlined to indicate spirantization. Vowels: a (patah), a (qames), â (final qames he), e (segol), e (serê), ê (final and medial serê yod and medial segol yod), i (short hîreq defectively written), î (medial or final hîreq yod), o (qames hatûp), o (holem defectively written), ô (holem fully written), u (short qibbûs), u (long qibbûs defectively written), û (šûreq).
Vowels should be written with the appropriate vowel sign followed by he (or ’alep) or mater lectionis, e.g. Šelomoh, yigleh, qara’ (but qarâ), hinneh, sûsayw. Furtive patah is to be recorded as patah , e.g. rûah.
Reduced vowels are to be written with the breve: a, e, o. No distinction is made between simple šewâ and hatep segol. Accents are not usually indicated. If essential, use the acute for the primary and the grave for the secondary. A hyphen is used for maqqep.

If Greek, Hebrew, or other non-Latin alphabets are used, a covering note should specify which fonts/packages are used in the electronic copy submitted. As a Greek font 'Graeca' is preferred.

No italics: Torah, Pentateuch, Rabbi, street names, museums, galleries, if in a footnote reference, e.g. Akademie der Künste (Berlin).

Reform (Judaism): capitalised, as Reformers, Reformist.

Bible (capitalised), biblical (not); as with Halakhah (halakhic).

Notes should as far as possible be confined to references. They should be electronically numbered consecutively from the beginning to the end of the manuscript. Notes should not be presented as a separate file on disc - essay and notes should form one single file.

Please note the use of punctuation in the following examples:

When citing books:
Give author's full names, the full title, volume number if applicable, place of publication, year and page number(s). Do not give details of the publisher. Use colon [:] between title and subtitle for English titles and full stop [.] for all other titles:

Werner E. Mosse, The German-Jewish Economic Élite 1820-1935: A Socio-cultural Profile, Oxford 1989, p. 96.

Moses Margoliouth, The History of the Jews in Great Britain, London 1851, vol. III, pp. 118-120.

In subsequent references, cite the author's surname, followed by the page numbers. If more than one work by the same author is cited, a shortened title should be used:

Mosse, German-Jewish Ecomonic Élite.

When citing articles:

Give author's full names, the full title, and the title of the journal or book in which the article appears. If in a journal, add volume number and issue number (where applicable), date and page number(s):

Werner Levi, ‘Die ewige Mahnung’, in Jüdische Rundschau, vol. XXI, no. 15 (17 March 1928), p. 77.

Moritz Stern, ‘Jugendunterricht in der Berliner Gemeinde während des 18. Jahrhunderts’, in Jahrbuch der jüdischen-literarischen Gesellschaft, 19 (1928), pp. 39-68.

If in a book, add the full names of the author or editor(s) of the book, its full title, place of publication, year and page number(s):

John Brown, ‘Antisemitism’, in William Smith (ed.), Nazi Germany, vol. IV, London 1977, pp. 249-250.

In subsequent references cite the author's surname followed by the page numbers (if more than one work by the same author is cited, a shortened title should be added): Brown, p. 121.

Leo Baeck Institute Publications are listed as follows:

LBI Year Book: George L. Mosse, ‘German Socialists and the Jewish Question’, in LBI Year Book, vol. 16 (1971), pp. 123-151.

Bulletin: Erich Gottgetreu, ‘Arnold Schoenbergs nicht erfüllter Wunsch’, in Bulletin des Leo Baeck Instituts, 11, nos. 43-44 (1968), pp. 193-204.

Schriftenreihe: Avraham Barkai, Jüdische Minderheit und Industrialisierung, Tübingen 1988 (Schriftenreihe wissenschaftlicher Abhandlungen des Leo Baeck Instituts 46).

Veröffentlichung: Monika Richarz (ed.), Jüdisches Leben in Deutschland. Selbstzeugnisse zur Sozialgeschichte 1780-1871, Stuttgart 1976 (Veröffentlichung des Leo Baeck Instituts).

pp. 59f (no space)
(ed.), but (Ed.).
circa = c. (itals)
chap. 5
pt. 2
vol. VI
transl. by
ed. by
hrsg. von
MP (no full stop)
SS troops (no itals)
n.p. (no place/pagination)
n.d. (no date)
Centralverein deutscher Staatsbürger jüdischen Glaubens (C.V.)
C.V.-Zeitung
Zionistische Vereinigung für Deutschland (ZVfD)
% (per cent) to be written in full (unless in tables or similar)
Shortened forms, e.g. MP, GDR, NSDAP, have no full stops.

One no. before date:
...in Tel Aviver Jahrbuch für deutsche Geschichte, 20 (1991), pp. 24-28

Vol. & no.:
...in Zion, vol. V, no. 4 (1987), pp. 23-27.

Title, 2 vols., place date, vol. II, pp.
Title, 2nd edn., place date
Title, rev. edn., place date

En dash between cities in footnotes (Berlin–Vienna)
em dash to separate parts of sentence only.

Biblical citations: Genesis XXVIII:3 (no space)

In footnotes with a number of books quoted, place semi-colon between each one, even where there is "and".

Square brackets: for use when within quotes/brackets for additional material , to clarify sense etc.; also [sic].

ELLIPSES: ... ...". (punctuation following).

For other details of style and presentation, please refer to recent volumes of the Yearbook.

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