Contributors

We are always on the lookout for new and original articles, and if you are interested in writing for Morgannwg, we would love to hear from you. Please contact the editor, Madeleine Gray (email madeleine.gray@southwales.ac.uk) to discuss the proposal. The guidelines below should be followed throughout the article.

Guidelines for Contributors

All articles submitted should be typed or computer-printed, double-spaced, with a wide left-hand margin. Pages should be numbered consecutively. Preferably, articles should be submitted electronically – if however it is necessary to submit in hard copy, please submit two copies of the article, printed single-sided on A4 paper.

Notes and references should be numbered sequentially and typed separately from the text at the end of the article. They should be kept to a minimum and contain specific references rather than amplification of the text to which they refer.

Articles should be accompanied by an abstract of about 150 words.

Notes and references should be numbered sequentially and typed separately from the text at the end of the article. They should be kept to a minimum and contain specific references rather than amplification of the text to which they refer.

It is recommended that articles do not exceed 8,000 words, although somewhat longer contributions may be accepted at editorial discretion.

Once an article has been accepted for publication, and is in its final form, it must be sent to the editors electronically, preferably by email. The electronic version should incorporate all editorial and author’s amendments. Contributors should retain a back-up copy. All text files should be provided in Microsoft Word format and images should be provided in either JPEG, PDF or TIF files at 300dpi.

Contributors should consult the previous issue of Morgannwg for conventions employed. Particular attention is drawn to the following:

• Short quotations within running text should be in single quotation marks (double for quotes within quotes). Longer quotations should be indented without quotation marks with a line space before and after.
• Dates should be expressed thus: 1 May 1750; Saturday 13 March 1999; the 1860s; the twelfth century (but a twelfth-century manuscript); 1884-5; 1912-13. But in headings the unabbreviated form of years (e.g. 1720-1786) is more appropriate.
• Numbers up to ninety-nine should be written in words, unless they are statistical, part of a list of numbers, or percentages. Numbers at the beginning of sentences should always be written in words.
• Notes accompanying the text should come at the end of the article and not as footnotes to the page.
• Bibliographical references in footnotes should give author, title in italics, publisher, date, and page number. In the case of books published before 1900, give place of publication and publisher if these can both be identified.

See the following examples:

• Books: Glanmor Williams, Wales and the Reformation (University of Wales Press, 1997), 86.
• Article in edited volume: Deirdre Beddoe, ‘Images of Welsh Women’, in T. Curtis (ed.), Wales: the Imagined Nation (Poetry Wales Press, 1986), 227-38.
• Article in a journal: Kenneth O. Morgan, ‘The New Liberalism and the challenge of Labour: the Welsh experience, 1885-1929’, Welsh History Review, VI, No. 3 (1973).
• Unpublished thesis: Joanna Martin, ‘The landed Estate in Glamorgan, circa 1660-1760’ (unpublished University of Cambridge PhD thesis, 1978).
• Manuscripts: Glamorgan Archives [hereafter GA], Ewenny Collection DE 529; National Library of Wales [hereafter NLW], Penrice and Margam MS 5732.