Small formatting question

[lareinenoire]

Hi all--

When a journal (the Review of English Studies, to be exact) provides the following guideline for manuscript presentation--

Number footnotes consecutively throughout the paper. Type the footnotes in double spacing at the end of the manuscript, commencing on a separate sheet. An initial unnumbered footnote may be included giving brief

Comments

[lareinenoire]

Thanks a lot -- that was what I wanted to do, but I didn't want them to throw out my submission because I couldn't parse their guidelines. ;)

[hotlavamonster]

I think they're just saying to number your footnotes totally consecutively (not starting over from 1 in a new section, for example) and then formatting the end notes the way they've said here. I think they also want the regular superscript numbers.

[tyopsqueene]

I was given the exact same instructions for the last article I published and I put the numbers as superscripts, and hand-typed the references as endnotes (er, because I am a neanderthal who can't use endnote yet) with the numbers in brackets [1] John Smith, "fascinating paper" journal of brilliancy, etc etc etc.

[ancarett]

Generally speaking, the journals are happier with the superscript numbers generated by automatically formatted endnotes. More of the journals are asking for the articles to be submitted in electronic format and using the endnote formatting will save them a lot of time and headaches all the way through the process.

[ancarett]

Ah, I remember the old days of writing academic compositions on typewriters. With footnotes! Now that was heinous suffering.

[lareinenoire]

Ouch. Yes, I bet. I daresay we're spoiled nowadays...although I still haven't figured out how to use Endnote properly.

[sensaes]

One of the problems with using brackets is a lazy but over-zealous editor. (Some journals, either in an attempt to enforce journal continuity, or flog back issues...depending upon your level of cynicism...will track back recurring topics and sources in brackets. It can get messy, and give subs headaches.)

Go with superscript.

[lareinenoire]

Will do. It's far less trouble than brackets anyway.