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Preparing an Essay in Microsoft Word

Please read through all the pages linked to in this section before you begin processing your essay.

To prepare your essay using Microsoft Word, we require that you:

  1. Provide a standard abstract, bibliography, and brief biographical statement, as well as an Author Agreement. - Use a Unicode font and follow VCP standards for transliteration & transcription of non-English terms - Use The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, to standardize your use of punctuation and formatting of your article/essay as well as formatting of bibliographical items in the humanities style. Use the print version of The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th edition, the online version, or best of all, THL’s condensed version of the essential points for formatting & bibliographic citations) - Prepare a Glossary of Terms using our Microsoft Word table template & render non-English words in the essay according to standard rules for pinyin.http://www.thlib.org/tools/wiki/The%20Glossary%20Table%20%7Camp%7C%20How%20to%20Render%20Non-English%20Terms%20in%20the%20Essay.html

If you have special materials like tables, images, maps or videos, of course we have special guidelines for how to prepare and submit such materials (see Photos, Graphs, Charts, Video, and Other Media).

We can also provide authors with PDFs if they want to print them out and refer to printed text instead. Please contact us if you do not have PDFs of these instructions and want them.

Optional Resources for the Adventurous & Truly Helpful

Please note that preparing these essays for digital publication is very time intensive. There are very simple additional things that scholars can do to greatly simplify staff work if they are willing to learn some minimal aspects of using “styles” in Microsoft Word, but we do not require them. For willing scholars, the following are honestly simply instructions to using “styles” in Microsoft Word which will save large amounts of staff time and make the process of publication far faster:

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