American Philosophical Quarterly

Abstract

s are now used in this journal. Use heading: Abstract. Abstracts should be less than 125 words, informative about the contribution of the article, and in the third person. Acknowledgments (optional) appear unnumbered before numbered Notes entries in Notes section, not indented. Affiliation of author (university name) appears after the article Conclusion and before Notes or References [Flush right, italics] Figures: Figure 1. Figure captions are capitalized in sentence style and with a period. Callouts in text: in Figure 1 (see Fig. 1), coded between paragraphs as <insert Figure 1 about here> Contractions can be used. Headings style (outline format, numbered, unnumbered, etc.) varies with author, although numbers or letters should be followed by a period. When referring to sections of the article in the text, use “section” (no CAP, no abbrev.) Add T3 heading, small caps, run-in, space above, T4, italics, run in, no space above (June 2015). Lists: Numbers or letters for lists should be enclosed on both sides by parentheses Pronouns: First-person pronouns okay when describing the paper (“I advance the following argument in this paper ...”), but try to avoid second person pronouns (‘you,” “your,” etc.). Foreign words or phrases are italicized at first appearance then set roman Translated text is placed in parentheses in the text (with no italics or quotes) and in brackets in References or Notes Tables: Table 1. Table captions are capitalized in sentence style but do not end with a period Grammar and Copyediting