PETER HULME         

Professor in Literature at the University of Essex

ROUTLEDGE RESEARCH IN TRAVEL WRITING 

http://www.routledge.com/books/series/routledge_research_in_travel_writing_RRTW/

Series Editors: Peter Hulme (University of Essex) and Tim Youngs (Nottingham Trent University)

Routledge Research in Travel Writing (RRTW) is a new series designed to extend the rapidly developing field of travel writing studies.  It publishes—in hardback—original monographs and occasional collections of previously unpublished essays.  All regions, timeframes, and critical approaches are welcome.  The first volumes appeared in autumn 2008.

Our official definition of travel writing for the purposes of this series: non-fiction narratives of travel undertaken and related by the author.

 Colleagues wishing to put forward a proposal should contact Elizabeth Levine at Routledge (Elizabeth.Levine@taylorandfrancis.com), although they are welcome to make informal contact first with either of the series editors: Peter Hulme (phulme@essex.ac.uk) and Tim Youngs (tim.youngs@ntu.ac.uk).

Guidelines for prospective authors

These guidelines are for prospective authors who have made initial contact with the relevant editor, Elizabeth Levine (Elizabeth Levine@taylorandfrancis.com) and gained approval to submit the proposal.

• Include a brief description of the book in which you explain the main purpose, thesis, and general plan of the book.

• Specify the details of your finished book, including the expected number of words, the number and type of illustrations, and your planned completion date.

• Include a sample chapter (preferably an introductory chapter).

• Include a proposed table of contents with a brief paragraph describing each chapter.

• Provide a brief biography of yourself (and any co-authors) as well as a copy of your c.v. or resume.

• If this book will be an edited collection, please include a short biography (including current institution and recent publications) for each of these contributors. Also note which contributors have made a commitment to the project and/or completed their contribution.

• Tell us whether or not your proposal has been submitted to other publishers and, if so, to whom.

Guidelines for submissions

• Proposals can be submitted in any recognised form, but final, accepted copy should adopt the conventions listed below.

• Up to final submission drafts can be sent as email attachments.  However, once in final and approved form, submission will need to be both as hard copy and on CD/disc.

• Double space main text

• Either British or US spelling, but be consistent.

• Use as few tabs or other special features as possible.

• Use footnotes, keyed by superscript numerals 1, 2, 3 etc. in the text.

• Do not use all capitals, underlining, or bold type anywhere: use italics for emphasis.

• Do not leave an extra line between paragraphs.

• Do not leave two spaces between sentences.

• Indent new paragraphs three spaces, indented quotations six spaces, poetry nine spaces

• Dates are  British style, with the month written out in full: 25 September 1990; in January 1989; held on 1-3 May (not ‘from 1-3 May’ or ‘between 1-3 May’).

• the 1980s; 1980-89; 1911-12; but "from 1870 to 1875" (not "from 1870-75").

• twentieth century (no caps and not 20th; hyphenated if used adjectively)

• the Second World War

• Use words for numbers up to and including ten, numerals for 11 upwards, except for rounded or vague numbers.

• Numbers with units are always in numerals with number and unit, with abbreviation separated by a space, e.g. 150 km.

• Use double inverted commas, except for quotations within quotations where single quotation marks should be used. Punctuation marks should be placed outside the closing quotation mark except where the quotation marks contain a complete sentence or, as with a question mark or exclamation mark, where they are integral to the quotation.

• In the case of a long quotation (over 50 words), break off and treat it as a separate paragraph. It should be indented on both sides, double-spaced, and set with a line before and after the main text. Use a three point ellipsis, spaced at the beginning and end, to indicate omission within or at the end of a quotation but do not use an ellipsis mark at the beginning of a quotation.

• Acts of Parliament, treaties, conferences etc. are capitalised when given their full titles, but not usually otherwise, unless the lack of a capital might cause confusion: the Treaty of Rome / the treaty; the Yalta Conference / the conference; the Group Areas Act / the Act; The Lome Convention / the Convention.

• Historical events or periods are capitalised if sufficiently well know: the Cold War; the (Great) Depression; the Industrial Revolution; the Siege of Paris; the Gulf War.

• The continent is America (adjective is American); the country is the USA (adjective is US).

• Titles, offices and ranks. Use initial capital if the full or proper name is given, but otherwise not: Bishop Berkeley; the Bishop of Oxford; the bishop’s cat; the Minister of Health, the minister; the Ministry of Health, the ministry; President Clinton, the president, the presidency.

• Parliament, government and administration are now usually lower-case, even when they refer to a particular case: the last Labour government; the Clinton administration.

• Names/titles of foreign organisations, government ministries or departments, companies and so on should not be italicised when the name is given in the original language.

• Don't use abbreviations such as e.g. and i.e. within the main text or within discursive footnotes.

• Use the 'Oxford' comma in lists, e.g. "this, that, and the other".

• If used, subheadings should be in normal type and positioned on the left of the page. They should be set off from the text above by a double space and from the text below by a single space. Do not indent the first line of text that follows a sub-heading.

• For long dashes use an en dash or double hyphen with a space before and after.

• Lower-case initial letter after a colon.

• Footnotes should be single-spaced.  At first citation, give author’s full name, full title of book or article, place of publication (just one main place), name of publisher, and date of publication. Book titles and journal titles should be italicised. Article, thesis and chapter titles should be in double inverted commas and set in plain type. The first and all significant words in titles and subtitles should be capitalised. Subsequent references can be to last name of author, short title, and page number. A long series of references to the same text can be avoided by the first footnote saying something along the lines of "Further references are included parenthetically in the text".

• Where you quote from an article or essay, give the full page numbers before indicating the page(s) from which you have taken your quote. Do not use the abbreviation ‘p.’ or ‘pp.’ for the full page numbers of journal articles. Where  using a later edition of a book, give the date of first publication in square brackets after the title. Use ‘ed.’ for ‘editor’, and ‘eds.’ for ‘editors’.  Some illustrations follow:

 Wilfred Thesiger, Desert, Marsh and Mountain [1979] (London: Flamingo, 1995), p. 125.

Jennifer Craik, “The Culture of Tourism”, in Chris Rojek and John Urry, eds., Touring Cultures: Transformations of Travel and Theory (London: Routledge, 1997), pp. 113–36 (at 115).

Charles Sanders Peirce, Collected Papers, vols. 7 and 8, ed. Arthur W. Burks (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1966).

Vincent Crapanzano, “On the Writing of Ethnography”, Dialectical Anthropology,  2, no. 1 (1977): 69–73 (at 72).

After the first full citation any subsequent reference should be given by author's surname and (where grammatically possible) a short version of the title:

 Murphy, Muddling Through, p. 62.

Craik, “Culture of Tourism”, p. 115.

Web references should follow this format (the first date is when the essay was written, the second is when you accessed it):

Matthew Levy, “Gulliver’s ‘Historico-Tropological Journey, or Measurement, Irony and the Grotesque in Gulliver’s Travels” (1975), WWW documents <http:www.uta.edu/english/dab/baud/fatal/obscene.html> (1 October 2002).

 Do not use ‘ibid.’, or ‘op.cit’. For a frequently quoted source, add in your first citation that ‘Further page references will be given parenthetically in the text’ (or words to that effect).

All books should contain a Bibliography (not referred to as References).

All books need an index produced to a professional standard. Routledge can supply a list of qualified indexers.