Slavery and Abolition is a refereed journal. Articles submitted to Slavery and Abolition should be original contributions and should not be under consideration for any other publication at the same time. If another version of the article is under consideration by another publication, or has been, or will be published elsewhere, authors should clearly indicate this at the time of submission.

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Style:
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal style. The Editors will not undertake retyping of manuscripts before publication. Further guidance is obtainable from the publisher, Taylor & Francis., 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN, UK; fax: +44(0)1235 829000; email: enquiry@tandf.co.uk.

Quotations should be in single inverted commas; quotation marks within quotations should be double inverted commas. Long quotations of several lines should be indented without quotation marks.

Dates used in the text should be in the form 28 January 1912, 1966-67, the 1960s. In notes the names of all months except March-July inclusive should be abbreviated. When referring to page numbers, use the least number of figures—pp. 23-4, pp. 330-6, but pp. 11-12, pp. 217-18.

Hyphens should never appear in typescript at the end of lines; they may be wrongly set by the printer. Paragraphs should be indented.

Slavery and Abolition uses the Chicago Notes System, developed by the University of Chicago. Citations should be in endnotes, supplemented by a bibliography which includes all works cited in the notes. This British version uses single quotes and punctuation outside quotes. For full information on this style, see The Chicago Manual of Style (15th edn) or http://www.chicagomanualofstyle.org/contents.html.

Please take care to follow the correct reference examples in the Chicago manual. For Chicago notes, you need to choose the examples labelled N (for notes) and B (for bibliography), not the ones labelled T (text) and R (references).

Headline-style capitalization is used. In headline style, the first and last words of title and subtitle and all other major words are capitalized. For details, see the section on Punctuation below.

EndNote for Windows and Macintosh is a valuable all-in-one tool used by researchers, scholarly writers, and students to search online bibliographic databases, organize their references, and create bibliographies instantly. There is now an EndNote output style available if you have access to the software in your library (please visit http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp and look for TF-J Chicago endnotes + bibliography British Version).

Bibliographic citations are provided in endnotes, supplemented by a bibliography. The bibliography should include all works cited in the notes, in which case the note citations—even the first citation to a particular work—can be quite concise, since readers can turn to the bibliography for publication details and other information. Chicago recommends this practice as user-friendly and economical—duplication of information is minimized.

Endnotes:

Books should be listed in the Notes thus:

1. Warwick The South African War, 12; Merewether and Smith. The Indian Corps in France; McGrath. Merchants and Merchandise; Baird and Ryskamp. The Poems of William Cowper.

Journals, chapters in edited books, unpublished material, electronic material should be listed in the Notes thus:

2. Jennings, “A trio of talented women”, pp. 12-14; Kaiser, “The Literature of Harlem”; King, “Law and Land Use in Chicago”; Kulikowski, “Readability Formula.”

Bibliography:

Baird John D., and Ryskamp, Charles, eds. The Poems of William Cowper, 3 Vols. Oxford: Clarendon Press; New York: Oxford University Press, 1980-85.

Jennings, Judith. “A trio of talented women: Abolition, Gender and Political Participation.” Slavery & Abolition 26, no. 1 (2005): 55-70.

Kaiser, Ernest. “The Literature of Harlem.” In Harlem: A Community in Transition, edited by J.H. Clarke. New York: Citadel Press, 1964.

King, Andrew J. “Law and Land Use in Chicago: A Pre-History of modern Zoning.” Ph.D. diss., University of Wisconsin, 1976.

Kulikowski, Stan. “Readability Formula.” In NL-KR (Digest vol. 5, no. 10). Rochester, N.Y., 1988 (accessed 31 January 1989). Available online from nlkr@cs.rochester.edu.

McGrath Patrick. Merchants and Merchandise in Seventeenth-Century Bristol, 2nd edn. Bristol: Bristol Record Society, 1968.

Merewether, J.W.B., and Smith, Frederick. The Indian Corps in France. London: John Murray, 1918.

Warwick, P. ed. The South African War. London: Routledge, 1980.