Manuscript Preparation Guide 1 Manuscript Preparation Guide Formatting Your Manuscript

Make sure that you have sent us the final version of your manuscript and that all “tracked changes ” or other revision marks have been accepted as final and that there are no comments, annotations, field codes, or hidden text whatsoever in the final version of the manuscript. Remember that simpler is better. Your manuscript will be easier for us to work with if it does not include multiple levels of formatting. Do not use the indexing feature, the table-of-contents generator, or other automated features of your word-processing program. Use the indent feature in Word instead of line spaces or tabs to indicate paragraph breaks. If indents are absent, it is difficult to know whether the text that follows a block quote continues or starts a new paragraph. For notes, use your word-processing software’s endnotes or footnotes option, which automatically embeds the notes. Heading and subheading levels should be distinguished clearly and consistently. Any accents, diacritics, or special characters (other than the common European ones) should be noted. Elements from non-European writing systems (Chinese characters, Cyrillic alphabet, etc.) should be confined when possible to discrete elements of the book, such as a glossary. These characters may nee