Notes for Contributors - Vernacular Architecture

Submission of material

Articles: The Editor, Dr Martin Cherry, 66 Moorcroft Road, Moseley, Birmingham BL13 8LU, UK. 

Tel: +44 (0) 121 449 8569. Email: martincherry@btinternet.com

Book reviews: Dr Adam Longcroft, School of Professional and Continuing Education, University of East Anglia, Norwich NR4 7TJ, UK. Tel: +44 (0)1603 593266. Email: a.longcroft@uea.ac.uk

Tree-ring dating lists: Dr N. W. Alcock, 18 Portland Place, Leamington Spa, Warwicks CV32 5EU, UK. Email: N.W.Alcock@warwick.ac.uk

Potential contributors are invited to discuss submissions at an early stage.

All papers will be subject to independent refereeing, the referees remaining anonymous unless they specifically wish to be identified.

Presentation

Content: Articles should concentrate on the theoretical or discursive aspects of vernacular architecture or related subjects, comparative studies, or analyses of individual buildings or features, provided these

are of more than local interest.

Articles should not be longer than 8000 words including references. Short papers, especially those on individual buildings, should normally be 500–3000 words. All papers may be illustrated by drawings of suitable quality and by photographs (reproduced in black and white).

Abstract: Articles should begin with a brief abstract of not more than 150 words.

Acknowledgements should be placed before the References.

In order to keep down processing costs and editors’ time, contributors are asked to note the following when preparing an article or review for submission:

Ÿ In the first instance, two copies of the text should be submitted in hard copy only, double spaced, 

      with margins of at least 30mm on both sides and at the bottom of the paper. All pages must be

      numbered together with a brief indication of author and title.

Ÿ If accepted for publication, a copy on computer disk will be required. The software must be  

      IBM-compatible and MS WORD is the preferred option.

Ÿ Ensure your files are not saved as read only.

Ÿ Please use double-spacing for text and notes. Do not use extra spacing between paragraphs, but 

      indent the first word of each paragraph.

Text

Style: The house style is based largely on the Modern Humanities Research Association Style Guide (2002). This is obtainable for £5 from Publication Sales, Maney Publishing, Hudson Road, Leeds LS9 7DL, UK. Tel: +44 (0)113 249 7481.

For timber-framing terminology use Recording Timber-framed Buildings: an illustrated glossary, CBA Practical Handbook No 5 (various editions). Obtainable for a small sum from the CBA, Bowes Morrell

House, 111 Walmgate, York YO1 9WA, UK.

Spelling and hyphenation: Please use ‘s’ not ‘z’ in words such as recognise. Centuries should be written in words, not figures. Hyphens should be used to join two words used as adjectives. Thus ‘Crown posts of similar form…’ but ‘Crown-post roofs….’

Plates and figures should be referred to as Figures. When in a bracket use (Fig. or Figs), outside the bracket write the full word. Authors should indicate in the margin of the hard copy where they wish the figures to go.

Sub headings in the text: If there is a gradation of these, make sure this is clear to the editor.

Measurements may be in imperial (4ft, 5in) or metric (4m, 5mm) with no space between number and unit and no full stops. The alternative equivalent should be placed in brackets afterwards.

Quotations: Short quotations should be placed in single inverted commas. Double inverted commas are only used for quotations within quotations. Quotations of more than 40 words, should start on a separate line, set in from the main body of the text on both sides; no quotation marks are required.

References

References in the discursive papers should be in endnotes, not footnotes. Within the text, the numbers should be sequential and placed in superscript, always after punctuation, and usually after the full stop at the end of the relevant sentence. They must be numbered manually, not automatically, and the references, with corresponding numbers, must be saved in a separate file. Note numbers should never be repeated. Later references should either be in a shortened form, e.g. ‘Brown, 1986, 62’ or ‘Brown, Cob Cottages, 62’; or, where several works by the same author are cited, the note can

refer back to the full reference, e.g. ‘Brown, op. cit. in note 6, 48’. Ibid. should only be used for the immediately preceding note where there is no confusion. Op. cit., loc. cit. and ibid. should not be italicised.

In the Tree-Ring Dating Lists, the references should be placed in brackets within the text.

Page numbering should be written as 1–2, 20–2, 120–3, except in the teens where 111–12.

The following is intended as general guidance for layout, the MHRA Style Guide gives detailed guidance on how to handle complex references:

Books: M. W. Barley, The English Farmhouse and Cottage (London: Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1961), 54.

Book in a series: John Schofield, The London Surveys of Ralph Treswell, London Topographical Society, 135 (1987), 106–7.

Paper in an edited volume: I. Tyers, ‘Tree-ring dating at Cressing Temple, and the Essex curve’, in D. Andrews (ed.), Cressing Temple, a Templar and Hospitaller Manor in Essex (Essex County Council: 1993), 77–83.

Articles in journals: R. F. Taylor, ‘A cob dovecote at Durleigh’, Somerset Archaeol. Natur. Hist. 112 (1968), 101–3.

With the exception of Vernacular Architecture, which may be referred to as VA, journal titles should be abbreviated according to the CBA conventions, e.g. J. for Journal, Soc. for Society, Proc. for Proceedings, Archaeol. for Archaeology, etc. and all minor words removed. Abbreviations should have a full stop after them.

Illustrations

Size: Illustrations may occupy all or part of a page (print area 242mmx168mm), or part of a single column (242mmx80mm), allowing space for the caption. There will be a tendency, where clarity allows, to make illustrations fit the column width. The need to have large illustrations must be discussed with the editor. Provisional sizing and layout of illustrations is helpful. Ensure that all illustrations are numbered.

Line drawings should be originals where possible, although high-quality copies may be suitable. It is helpful if these are to a larger scale than required for printing. Please indicate preferences as to required reduction.

Photographs may be submitted as slides or prints. Please indicate, on a copy, areas which may be ‘cropped’.

Electronic images are acceptable, but files must be accompanied by hard copy output. Images can be supplied as tiff, eps or jpeg files saved at a minimum input scanning resolution of 350–400 dpi for half tones, 800 dpi for simple line drawings and 1200 dpi for fine line drawings.

Captions will be set in type and should be provided on a separate sheet, not as part of the illustration.

Copyright

Forms transferring copyright to the VAG but retaining all other proprietary rights, including the author’s right to use all or part of the article in future works of his or her own, must be signed before an article

is published. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain copyright permission where required.

Proofs

Proofs will be sent to the author nominated for correspondence. Proofs are supplied for checking and making typographical corrections, not for general revision, alteration or changes to illustrations, which will not be allowed.

Offprints

Ten free offprints are offered for each article. Authors who wish to purchase extra offprints must let the editor know at proof stage so that the cost can be estimated and the print-run adjusted accordingly.