Published by the West Virginia University Press and, beginning with Volume 18, vended
in electronic form by Project MUSE through Johns Hopkins University Press, Essays in Medieval Studies (EMS) is the peer-reviewed proceedings volume of the Illinois Medieval Association. Essays in Medieval Studies is published annually by the Illinois Medieval Association and publishes only papers presented at that year's annual meeting.
To submit, you must first have presented your paper at the annual meeting of the Illinois Medieval Association, which typically occurs each February at a rotating location in Illinois. Check the Illinois Medieval Association web site for information on the meeting and EMS call for papers.
Essays in Medieval Studies ISSN 1043-2213
Library of Congress Number: 88-647467
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Invitation for Contributions to Essays in Medieval Studies
The Illinois Medieval Association invites all speakers at the annual conference to submit revised versions of their papers for publication in Essays in Medieval Studies (EMS) the Association's annual journal. EMS is published by West Virginia University Press and distributed online through the Project Muse of Johns Hopkins University Press.
If you wish to submit your essay for consideration for publication in EMS, you may submit the version you read at the February conference. Or, if you wish, you may make revisions, or simply include a cover letter that indicates the revisions you propose.
If your essay is accepted for publication for EMS, you will be asked to follow this style sheet. Please direct any questions you have to the editor before you submit the final copy. Please note the following when you submit the revised text of your accepted essay. These guidelines are standard for essays that will be published in electronic form and that must be edited electronically.
EMS Style Sheet
1. Please send the text both as hard copy and as an email attachment in Word. We have no resources for converting other programs to Word, so please convert your document, if you need to do so, at your own institution.
2. The essay and the notes must be in two separate files. Note numbers must be superscripts in your text and in-line in your notes. For example:
this line cites Margaret Visser.1
and here is the corresponding note:
1. Margaret Visser, The Rituals of Dinner: The Origins, Evolution, Eccentricities, and Meaning of Table Manners (New York, 1992).
On-line publishing returns us to the old days of typing at this point, alas. Please do not leave the notes in the form in which your wordprocessor creates them (i.e., embedded in the text). The notes have to be in a file of their own. This means that you have to block and copy each note and paste it into a "notes" file; be careful to keep note numbers and notes themselves coordinated. EMS has no editorial staff, and the editors, like you, are swamped. We cannot perform this step for you. We are sorry that if your notes are not in a separate file, we won't be able to publish your essay.
3. If you have a series of quotations from one text, use in-text references to avoid a long sequence of numbered notes that only give pages numbers. In such a context it is never effective to take a reader's eye from your sentence only to find a page number. Make sure that you punctuate these references correctly, e.g., "let's say this is the quotation" (45). The quote was taken from p. 45 of a work already given a full reference in a note in which you specified that "Subsequent references to this edition are given by page number in the text." Notice the placement of the parenthetical reference outside the quotations marks, but inside the closing period.
4. Be sure to spell out centuries, e.g., "eleventh-century manuscript," not "11th century manuscript." Please follow US rather than UK conventions regarding punctuation and especially quotation marks. [E.g.: "'Quote within quote'" "quote at end of sentence." rather than '"Quote within quote"' "quote at end of sentence".]
5. Papers must be double-spaced, including notes and indented (block) quotations, and must follow the style sheet used by Speculum; see Speculum 62 (1987), 259-63, for details. Important points:
place of publication and date but not publishers are included for books;
journal titles (except PMLA) are not abbreviated.
first reference to an article: Edward R. Smith, "The Times of Gregory the Great," Revue de philosophe 4 (1923), 123-45.
subsequent reference: "Smith, "The Times," p. 137.
first reference to a book: Roy M. Jones, Legal History and Medicine (London, 1974), pp. 34-45.
subsequent reference: Jones, Legal History, p. 87.
If you wish to use illustrations, you must submit camera-ready art work (not photocopied) and a letter granting you permission to reprint the illustration. IMA cannot pay for reproduction rights, and we cannot reproduce artwork without proper documentation. We use the artwork for the on-line version, so permission must include permission for electronic reproduction. If it does not, we will use the art for the print version only.
Please consult on-line editions on the IMA website (http://www.illinoismedieval.org/EMS) and look at vols. 8-15. Your essay will appear online in that form.