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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

The Burney Journal Stylesheet (last updated July 2025)

Submissions can vary in length from 5,000 to 7,500 words; for shorter or longer submissions, please contact the editors. 

  • All submissions should be in Microsoft Word and submitted electronically.
  • All submissions should follow American spelling and punctuation, other than quotations
    from British sources.
  • Please use Times New Roman font (12-point) for all text.
  • Please double-space all text in the body of the essay.
  • Please align text left. Please do not justify the right hand margin.
  • All quotations that are more than 4 lines of text should be indented one inch.
  • Please do not insert an extra line between paragraphs.
  • Please use italics for emphasis; please do not bold or underline.
  • Please use MLA Style, and refer to The MLA Handbook, 9th edition. Authors should
    clearly specify their citations in the text (i.e., do not include a quotation without a page
    number or without an author's name, and do not place citations in end notes).
  • Please include a Works Cited. Please single-space all endnotes and items in the Works
    Cited.
  • Please use one-inch margins for text, endnotes, and Works Cited.
  • Please number endnotes sequentially, with Arabic numerals.
  • Please use the following abbreviations:
    • AJL for The Additional Journals and Letters, edited by Peter Sabor and Stewart
      Cooke.
    • CJL for The Court Journals, edited by Peter Sabor, et al.
    • EJL for The Early Journals and Letters, edited by Lars Troide, Stewart Cooke, et al.
    • JL for The Journals and Letters, edited by Joyce Hemlow, et al.
  • All references to these works should be formatted as follows: abbreviation volume #:
    page number. (For instance: CJL 3: 125.)
  • Please check that all works that are referred to in the body of the essay and the endnotes
    appear in the Works Cited.
  • Authors must secure permission(s) for images and graphics. (Note: The Burney Journal does not pay for permissions.) If the holder of the image asks for circulation numbers for the Journal, you may specify 100-200 in print, and must notify them that the journal is open access online.
  • If you would like images to appear in the print journal, please note that as a rule we require you to provide high quality scans. It is generally advised to scan at the highest resolution your scanner will allow. For an A5 full page image at 400 dpi, the image dimensions should be 2425 x 3402 pixels. The way to find out the dimensions of your image will depend on the computer and software that you are using; there are various guides and tools online to help you to do this (google 'Finding Image Dimensions').
  • Please include text (ex. “Fig. 1”) under each image to identify the graphic, and use that identification in the body of the essay.

In terms of content, please note that we ask readers of submissions to answer the following five questions. In order for the submission to be accepted, they must all be answered in the affirmative. It may be helpful to consider this as a 'content checklist' as you prepare your submission.

  1. Is the submission of interest to specialists in Burney studies and/or to a general 18th-century studies readership?
  2. Is the submission readable, both in terms of style and organization?
  3. Is the premise of the submission viable, and compellingly argued and researched?
  4. Does the submission engage with an appropriate range of other scholarship?
  5. Is the submission a significant and original contribution to the field of Burney studies?  

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