Style sheet for HSPS

PLEASE SUBMIT YOUR ARTICLES IN THE FOLLOWING HSPS STYLE.

MANUSCRIPTS should be typewritten, double-spaced, on 8.5" x 11" paper or other stock of roughly equal size. On questions of grammar and punctuation, consult A Manual of Style published by the University of Chicago Press.

The Editor welcomes appropriate illustrative FIGURES and TABLES. Line drawings should be supplied either as glossy prints or original drawings with detail and lettering that will be clear and legible when reduced, where necessary, to a width of 4". Figure captions should be typed on a separate sheet of paper. It would be convenient if each TABLE also came on a separate sheet. Figures, captions, and tables should be clearly numbered, and the text plainly marked where they are to be inserted.

SECTION TITLES The Editor encourages the use of first and second level headers, to better organize your material. Use a first level head for a major section (1. CREATION OF THE WORLD), followed by second level heads (The first day). Note the style of numbering first level heads and using all caps, and bold for second level heads using capitalization for first word and proper nouns only.

DATES in footnotes should be in the form 23 Mar 2001, with a three-letter abbreviation for all months except June. In the text, use March 23, 2001.

FOOTNOTES, numbered consecutively through the manuscript, should be typed double-spaced at the end of text. Bibliographic information should be given in full in the first reference to a work. Subsequent references generally require only the author's last name, number of the first reference, and page numbers (if the same author has been cited for multiple works in the same footnote, a shortened title may be appropriate). "Ibid." is used, in Roman type, to refer to a single citation in the note or citation immediately preceding. We use lower case characters in all titles whenever possible, i.e., everywhere except the initial word, proper names, and German nouns.

BOOKS
             1.  Klaus Koch and Dieter Senghaas, eds., Texte zur Technokratiediskussion (Frankfurt, 1970).
             2.  Paul Forman and José M. Sánchez-Ron, eds., National military establishments and the advancement of science and technology: Studies in 20th century history (Dordrecht, 1996), 224.

NOTE: Author's first name followed by last name followed by a comma, title in italics, first word and proper nouns in capitals (first word following a colon is capitalized), no comma. No punctuation before parenthesis. In parenthesis, place of publication, comma, followed by year, close parenthesis. Followed by a comma, followed by page numbers if appropriate. That is, if quoting, note page numbers only.

             3.  William Whewell, History of the inductive sciences, 3rd. edn. [1857] (3 vols., London, 1967), 2, 86-87.

ARTICLES IN BOOKS
             4.  Arthur S. Eddington, "Forty years of astronomy," Joseph Needham and Walter Pagel, eds., Background to modern science (Cambridge, 1938), 117-142.
             5.  David A. Hollinger, "The defense of democracy and Robert K. Merton's formulation of the scientific ethos," Science, Jews, and secular culture: Studies in mid-twentieth-century American intellectual history (Princeton, 1996), 80-96.

ARTICLES IN PERIODICALS
Note that the name of an institution is generally not included in the title of its publications. The name, in roman, should precede the publication, in italic (see example 6); the rationale is to provide the form of entry under which the journal will usually be found in library catalogues.

             6.  Mary Jo Nye, "A physicist in the corridors of power: P.M.S. Blackett's opposition to atomic weapons following the war," Physics in perspective, 1 (1999), 136-156, on 142.

NOTE: Author's first name followed by last name followed by a comma. Title in quotes, first word and proper nouns in capitals (first word following a colon is capitalized), end quote. Journal title in italics, volume number also in italics, followed by year in parenthesis, followed by a comma, followed by page numbers. Pages are inclusive (i.e. 136-156, not 136-56). If a quote, use "on [page number]."

FOR EXAMPLE:
Author, First name followed by last name followed by comma:
    Mary Jo Nye,
not M.J. Nye,
Title with first word and proper nouns capitalized:
    "The downfall of Nazi Germany"
not "The Downfall of Nazi Germany"
Journal title in italics, volume number also in italics, followed by year in parenthesis, followed by a comma, followed by page numbers:
Physics in perspective, 1
not Physics in perspective 1 (or any other imaginable possibility)

OTHER
Interviews, archives, and memorandum are as follows.
             7.  Matthew Sands, interview with Elizabeth Paris, 7 Jul 1996.
             8.  Goldberg Oral History, 22 Feb 1983, 40 (National Air and Space Museum).
             9.  John Blewett to Robert R. Wilson, 5 May 1964, Atomic Energy Commission.
NOTE: May abbreviate Atomic Energy Commission as AEC. See section on abbreviations below.

BACK REFERENCING
             10.  Nye (ref. 6), 145.
             11.  Hollinger (ref. 5), 82.
             12.  Ibid., 148.
             13.  Ref. 7.
NOTE: When back-referencing an interview, just use the footnote number.

ABBREVIATIONS
The titles of journals, names of institutions, and archival locations frequently mentioned should be abbreviated without recourse to periods, e.g., PZ, Physikalische Zeitschrift ; RS, Royal Society of London; SHQP, Sources of History of Quantum Physics. The abbreviations will be listed in the head note to the article, which also gives author's affiliation, address, and acknowledgments.

A HEADNOTE EXAMPLE:
* 543 Stephens Hall #2370, Berkeley, CA 94720-2350 (dianaw@ohst.berkeley.edu). [Acknowledgements]. The following abbreviations are used: AP, Annalen der Physik ; BB, Akademie der Wissenschaften ze Berlin, mathematisch-physikalische Klasse, Sitzungberichte ; CR, Académie des Sciences, Comptes rendus hebdomadaires des séances ; HN, Hermann von Helmholtz Nachlass , Akademie der Wissenschaften, Berlin; HVR, Helmholtz, Vorträge und Reden (2 vols., Braunschweig, 1896); PRS, Royal Society of London, Proceedings ; PT, Royal Society of London, Philosophical transactions ; SMPP, George Gabrield Stokes, Mathematical and physical papers (5 vols., Cambridge, 1880-1905); TMPP, William Thomson, Mathematical and physical papers (6 vols., Cambridge, 1882-1911).

SAMPLE ARTICLE
An undergraduate term paper has been converted into HSPS style here. Please read the disclaimer for technological and stylistic notes about this sample.