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Documentation Style
The Quarterly uses the author-year documentation style. All direct quotations and other matters for which the author provides documentation
should be followed, in the text, with variants of the following: Alter 1990, pp. 4-36; Smith 1985; Jones 1975, p. 6. The reference should
be in parentheses and should point to an item in the References section at the end of the manuscript, where all references are to be
listed alphabetically. Examples of items in the References section are:
Levi, Giovanni. 1998. Inheriting Power: The Story of
an Exorcist. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press.
Smith, Daniel Scott. 1975. "Underregistration and Bias in Probate
Records: An Analysis of Data from Eighteenth-Century Hingham, Massachusetts." William and Mary Quarterly. 3rd series. 32:100-110.
Peris, Daniel. 1994. "Storming the Heavens: The Soviet League of the Militant Godless and Bolshevik Political Culture in the 1920s and
1930s." Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Urbana-Champaign.
Stearns, Carol Z. and Peter Stearns, eds. 1988. Emotions and Social
Change: Towards a New Psycho-history. New York: Holmes and Maeier.
Watkins, Susan Cotts. 1986. "Regional Patterns in Nuptiality
in Europe, 1870-1960." Pp. 314-336 in The Decline of Fertility in Europe, edited by Ansley J. Coale and Susan Cotts Watkins.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Footnotes (endnotes) are permitted, but should be used for commentary rather than for
bibliographic references. The placement of notes should be indicated clearly in the text with a sequential numbering system. The notes
themselves should be gathered at the end, in a separate section, and titled "Notes."
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Graphs,
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and their placement in the text should be indicated by a phrase such as "Figure 1 about here". Computer-generated figures should not
include titles; titles of figures and tables will be set by the Quarterly. List titles on separate page. Please refrain from
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table on a separate page at the end of the manuscript.
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