Gylphi Limited Style Guidelines

Spelling
UK OR US spellings, consistent within article. Canadian spellings should be
standardized to UK or US, depending on author preference.
Follow Oxford English Dictionary and use -ize and -yse spellings. The following list
shows some common exceptions to the ize rule:
advertise
advise
affranchise
apprise
arise
chastise
circumcise
comprise
compromise
contrariwise
demise
despise

devise
disenfranchise
disguise
emprise
enfranchise
enterprise
exercise
excise
expertise
franchise
improvise
incise

merchandise
misadvise
premise
prise
promise
reprise
revise
supervise
surmise
surprise
televise
treatise

Note also: analyse (for UK), catalyse, dialyse, paralyse.

Do not mix English and US spellings. Some common US variations in spelling:
analyze
favor
mold
behavior
fetus
pediatrics
color
fulfill
program
counseling
gray
practice (noun)
license (noun)
labor
practice (verb)
license (verb)
traveler/traveling
willful
Grammar

Follow author style regarding use of the possessive s for proper names ending in s.
However, s is not used for classical names, e.g. Socrates philosophy
The following books are recommended: Harts Rules; Fowlers Modern Usage; Chicago
University Press, A Manual of Style.

Punctuation and formatting

Use of Oxford comma in lists:
Italians, Norwegians and Spaniards (UK)
Italians, Norwegians, and Spaniards (US)
Parentheses are used throughout; square brackets are used only to enclose
parenthetical material already in parentheses and to enclose an authors comment
within a quote, e.g. [sic], [emphasis added].
Quotes: use double quotes, with single quotes within quoted material.

Hyphenation: the basic rule is to follow author style but be consistent. Note any
decisions regarding hyphenation on the article cover sheet.
Upper and lower case: For specific titles use initial caps, for generic titles use lower
case:
(a) Institutions, movements, denominations, political parties:
the Roman Catholic Church
he has catholic tastes.
They were Bolsheviks
bolshevism, communism
(b) Titles, ranks:
the President (referring to a president particular one)
the Spanish Foreign Minister
several government ministers
(c) Geographical names:
Capitalize politically defined or geographically named places, use lower case in all
other instances.
the West, the East
western values, eastern culture
South Africa
the south of Scotland
(d) Periods, events:
Second World War

rationing during the war

(e) Article and book titles: follow the style used in the references.
Roman and italic:
Anglicized words should be italics with no accents. Common examples:
ad hoc
elite
per capita
a priori
en masse
per se
a propos
en route
post hoc
avant-garde
post mortem
bona fide
in situ
raison detre
bourgeois/bourgeoisie
laissez faire
sine qua non
cafe
nouveau riche
status quo
coup detat
vice versa
de facto
per annum
vis--vis
Words in other languages make consistent.
Quoted text: spellings and punctuation in quoted texts should not be altered. If they
are obviously incorrect, query with author or insert [sic].
(a) Undisplayed quotes:
Short quotations should be indicated by double quotation marks, with single
quotation marks for quotation material within the quote. A full point (or other
punctuation) follows the reference for the quote, e.g. is the most decisive and
important (Smith, 2003: 45).
(b) Displayed quotes:
Lengthy quotes (40 words or more) should be displayed and indented

Abbreviations
Abbreviations consisting of capital letters, and acronyms and contractions, should
not take full points, e.g. USA, UK, MA, UN, WHO, PhD, NATO (or Nato), UNESCO
(or Unesco), AD, BC
Unfamiliar abbreviations should always be written out in full when first mentioned,
with the abbreviated form following in parentheses.
e.g. The Confederacin Espaola de Derechas Autnomas (CEDA) was formed ...
Thereafter use the abbreviation.
Contractions do not take a full point, e.g. Dr, Mr, St, Ltd, edn. However, the
following abbreviations take full points: No., Co., p., pp., Vol., Ch. (but use Vols and
Chs), ed. (but use eds.),
et al., cf., (note that this means compare and not see), n.d. and op.cit.
No comma after cf.
In reference lists, notes, footnotes and authors biographical notes, please use the
standard abbreviated form for American states (and territories):
Alabama
Alaska
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Delaware
District of Columbia
Florida
Georgia
Hawaii
Idaho
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Maryland
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York

AL
AK
AZ
AR
CA
CO
CT
DE
DC
FL
GA
HI
ID
IL
IN
IA
KS
KY
LA
ME
MD
MA
MI
MN
MS
MO
MT
NE
NV
NH
NJ
NM
NY

North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Virgin Islands
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Wyoming

NC
ND
OH
OK
OR
PA
PR
RI
SC
SD
TN
TX
UT
VT
VA
VI
WA
WV
WI
WY

Money
For currency use the common symbol or abbreviation , US$, Aus$, etc. where the
quantity is stated, but not when the unit of currency is being referred to in general
terms:
The price of oil rose to US$25 per barrel.
The US dollar was at an all-time low.
150m, not millions or mlns.

Numbers
Spell out numbers one to nine; for numerals 10 and over use figures.
Use figures with percent, with units, in statistical passages, in tables, etc. Numbers,
however, should be spelt out at the beginning of a sentence or the sentence should be
rewritten.
Spell out and hyphenate one-half, two-thirds, etc.
use a comma in thousands and for tens of thousands and above,
e.g. 9,619, 5643, 1298, 14,600, 342,885, 1,000,001
Use the least number of numerals possible in pagination and in dates,
e.g. 42-5, 20034, 198992, 0-1.
But use 10-14, 10-11 as these represent single words.
Decimal points are never raised off the line. There is no zero needed before a point
for probability and correlations where the number is always less than one.

Dates
Write out dates as follows: 30 September 2003.
Do not use an inverted comma in decades, e.g. 1960s, mid-1930s. Avoid 80s, etc.
Spell out figures for centuries e.g. a twenty-first century dilemma.
References
Books:
West, B.P. (2003) Poetry. London and New York: Routledge.
Contributions in Edited Books:
Parker, L.D. (1997) Practitioner Perspectives on Personal Conduct: Images
from the World of Poetry, 1900-55, in T. E. Cooke and C. W. Nobes (eds)
The Development of Poetry in an International Context, pp.68-89. London:
Routledge.
Periodicals:
Fleischman, R.K. (2004) Confronting Moral Issues from Poetrys Dark Side,
Literary History 9(1): 7-23.

Conference Papers:
Loft, A. (2003) The Literature Machine, paper presented at the Third Literary
History International Conference, Siena, September 2003.
Website
Author Last Name, First Name or Initial (year) Online Article, Online Journal vol.
no.(issue no.), URL (consulted Month Year): http://xxxx.xxxx.xx.xx/xxxx/xxxxxx/
(b) Reference list
Check that the list is in alphabetical order (treat Mc as Mac).
Names should be in upper and lower case.
Where several references have the same author(s), do not use ditto marks or em
dashes; the name must be repeated each time.
Last Names containing de, van, von, De, Van, Von, de la, etc. should be listed under
D and V respectively. List them as: De Roux, D.P. and not Roux, D.P., de. When cited
in the main text without the first name, use capitals for De, Van, Von, De la, etc. (Van
Dijk, year)
Names containing Jr or II should be listed as follows:
Author Last Name, Author First Name, Jr (year)
Author Last Name, Author First Name, P.P., II (year)
References where the first-named author is the same should be listed as follows:
Single-author references in date order;
Two-author references in alphabetical order according to the second authors
name;
Et al. references in alphabetical order; in the event of more than one entry having
the same date, they should be placed in alphabetical order of second (or third)
author, and a, b, etc. must be inserted.
Brown, J. (2003)
Brown, T.R. and Yates, P. (2003)
Brown, W. (2002)
Brown, W. (2003a)
Brown, W. (2003b)
Brown, W. and Jones, M. (2003)
Brown, W. and Peters, P. (2003)
Brown, W., Hughes, J. and Kent, T. (2003)
Brown, W., Kent, T. and Lewis, S. (2003)
Check that all periodical data are included volume, issue and page numbers,
publisher, place of publication, etc.