Style Sheet

Shakespeare Quarterly follows the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, and Merriam-Webster's Unabridged Dictionary.

Punctuation and Spelling

• Use U.S. punctuation and spelling except for quotations.
• Omit underlining and boldface type; use italics for book titles.
• Use only one space after terminal punctuation marks.
• Use en‐dashes for inclusive numbers or dates and em‐dashes in place of double hyphens.
  

Quotation and Citation

• In an endnote after the first quotation from Shakespeare's works, specify the edition from which you quote.
• Quote Shakespeare's dramatic works parenthetically in the text by act, scene, and line.
• Quote Shakespeare's poems parenthetically in the text by line number. For Sonnet 101, line 8, the citation would be: 101.8; for The Rape of Lucrece, lines 1423–43, the citation would be: ll. 1423–43.
• Cite works by all other authors (including other dramatists) in endnotes.
• Separate run‐in lines of poetry with virgules (forward slashes) and include any terminal punctuation at the end of each line.
• When quoting more than three lines of verse, set off the material as an indented block quotation.
• See the examples in the Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed., §9.64, for citing inclusive numbers: 100–104, 600–613, 107–8, 220–25, 1496–1504, 2787–2816.
• Use brackets inside parentheses.
  

• Acknowledgements are set above the endnotes.
• Include complete bibliographic information in endnotes–author, editor, translator and/or compiler, full title, total number of volumes, publisher, year and place of publication, volume, page(s) cited.
• Render all titles per the Chicago Manual of Style, §8.164–8.208.
• To cite an essay in a collection, include inclusive page numbers, as well as the page quoted: 133–54, esp. 135.
• Cite a multivolume work by arabic volume number, colon, and page number: 1:192, 4:367.
• To cite a note in another work, give the page number on which the note appears, followed by the letter “n”: 245n.
• Abbreviate “University Press”: U of Chicago P or Johns Hopkins UP.
• Omit “p.” and “pp.” when citing page numbers.
• Provide photocopies of any sources we are unlikely to have access to, such as articles from local newspapers and theater program notes. We may ask for other photocopies as necessary from modern volumes not in the Folger collection.
  

• Cite all rare books by signature whenever possible; render signatures exactly as printed: ZZZ, not 3Z.
• To cite a modern edition or facsimile of a rare book, please provide the year of original publication and signature(s), folio(s), or page number(s).
• Retain original capitalization, spelling, and punctuation in titles and quotations from early modern sources, except for the long s. Do not modernize.