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If you have something you'd like to have included in the Victorian Web, either direct your query to the webmaster at george@victorianweb.org or send your submission via e-mail, and it will be read by our editors. Once your contribution is accepted it should be formatted according to our house style.
Quoted Material and Converting Foot- and Endnotes to In-Text Citations
This is by far the most important thing to get right, since it takes a good deal of time to correct. In the Victorian Web brief bibliographical notes become in-text citations, and very short notes become incorporated into the main text; longer notes become separate documents with their own titles that link to the main text. Include a list of works cited at the foot of each individual lexia (document) and then use the Chicago and MLA short form of in-text citation, which means in practice that you provide only as much information in the parenthetical reference as is absolutely necessary.
Identifying the source of quoted material: if you introduce quoted material by "According to Spurgeon's Sermons," you have already identified the author and text and now only need to provide a page number: "quoted text" (34).
If, however, you write, "According to a famous Victorian preacher," you do have to provide the necessary information (author and text) in abbreviated form with just enough detail to permit readers to find the full citation in your list of references: "quoted text" (Spurgeon, Sermons, 34).
When citing or quoting more than one work by the same author, use a short title if readers cannot otherwise determine the source of your passage. Remember, though, if you make clear the author or work in your discussion, you only need to provide a page number.
Rules for handling quoted material: The Victorian Web house style follows the 17th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. If unsure what changes you can make in quoted material, punctuation, ellipses, and the like, consult section 13 “Quotations and Dialogue” (pp. 707-38).
Bibliography
Please use the following form:
Spurgeon, Charles. Sermons. London: Rivington, 1843.
Ruskin, John. Works. 39 vols. Eds. E. T. Cook and Alexander Wedderburn. London: Allen and Unwin, 1902-12.
Smith, James. "Tennyson's Heroines." Victoriana 3 (1996): 23-35.
House style: HTML formatting instructions
- Basic instructions for HTML
- Formatting rules for style1.css documents
- Formatting rules for the right column of style2.css documents
- Headers and footers of style2.css documents
- Basic directions for contributors
Some Easy Ways to Strengthen Your Writing
Contributors may wish look at the following documents before submitting their documents:
- Some Easy Ways to Strengthen Your Writing: Ways to Avoid To Be and Passive Constructions
- Strengthen Your Writing: Avoid stringing together clumps of abstract nouns with prepositions
- Strengthen Your Writing: Vary Sentence Structure
- Punctuation Matters and Matters of Punctuation
- Some Common Errors of Diction, or Diction Matters
- Introducing Quoted Material
Last modified 18 September 2020