Title in Bold and with Conventional Capitalization

‘Should you wish to use a motto,

the best place for it is here.’

(Not Henry VIII, 2.7)

1. SOME MIGHT CHOOSE INTERNAL HEADINGS, WHICH MIGHT BE BOLD OR SMALL CAPS

Write the body of your essay in Times New Roman 12pt. If you absolutely must, other serif

fonts are ok but I advise against it. The spacing should be 2.0. Each paragraph should be

between 10 lines and a page long. No paragraph should exceed a page. Quotations that are

less than three lines long can be quoted within the running text. As is conventional in the UK,

please use ‘single quotation marks’ and only if ‘you have a “quotation in a quotation” should

you use double quotation marks’. Punctuation is outside of quotations marks, except where

you are quoting a grammatically complete sentence. ‘In that case, the full stop sits inside the

quotation marks.’1 It is not considered elegant to place the numbers indicating a footnote (like

this one)2 into the middle of a sentence. Place them at the end.3 If you have a text you will

quote a lot, it is customary to establish in-text quotation from a specific edition in this way.4

Every paragraph but the first and the first after any internal heading need to be

indented. Please note the following rule about quotations: If you are quoting text that is

1
Footnotes are also in Times New Roman. Follow a recognized system. I like to use the OUP Handbook. All
footnotes eventually end in a full stop. You can leave the footnotes in 10pt and single spacing.
2
Please do not do this.
3
Much better.
4
Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene (1590-6), ed. by A. C. Hamilton, 2nd edn (London: Routledge, 2013),
XII.xii.23. All further references to The Faerie Queene are given in-text and are taken from this edition.
‘shorter than three lines, t shorter than three lines, shorter than three lines, shorter than three

lines, shorter than three lines, here is no need to set it apart’. And yet, as this example

demonstrates,

if you are quoting text that longer than three lines, However, if you are quoting text

that longer than three lines, However, if you are quoting text that longer than three

lines, However, if you are quoting text that longer than three lines, it must be set apart

by a space before and after and by an indentation. [my emphasis]

Never just quote and let your reader draw the consequences: tell your reader what they are

supposed to see in the quotation.

The bibliography should not be added on to the final paper of the essay. Strictly

speaking, you are not writing a bibliography at all, but a ‘works cited’ list. Your ‘works cited’

list should begin on a new page and be formatted in Times New Roman 12pt and 2.0 spacing.

I have appended an example. Your essay should end on a full-seized paragraph, which might

have a heading ‘Conclusion’ is you use internal headings. Your essay should end on a full-

seized paragraph, which might have a heading ‘Conclusion’ is you use internal headings.

Your essay should end on a full-seized paragraph, which might have a heading ‘Conclusion’

is you use internal headings. Your essay should end on a full-seized paragraph, which might

have a heading ‘Conclusion’ is you use internal headings. Your essay should end on a full-

seized paragraph, which might have a heading ‘Conclusion’ is you use internal headings.

Do not end on FINIS.

Just end.
Works cited

Taplin, Oliver, Greek Tragedy in Action, revised edition (London: Methuen, 1985).

Wiles, David, Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 2000).

Harrison, George W.M., and Vayos Liapis (eds), Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre

(Leiden: Brill, 2013).

Hall, Edith, ‘Title of her Chapter’, in Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy, ed. by

Goldhill, Simon, and Robin Osborne (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), pp.

13-46.

Womack, Mark, ‘Shakespearean Prosody Unbound’, Texas Studies in Language and

Literature 45.1 (2003), 1-19.

Csapo, Eric, ‘Late Euripidean Music’, Illinois Classical Studies, 24/25: Euripides and Tragic

Theatre in the Late Fifth Century, ed. Martin Cropp, Kevin Lee, and David Sansone (1999-

2000), 399-426.

[Note the differences:

Monograph: Oliver Taplin, Greek Tragedy in Action, revised edition (London: Methuen,

1985).

Edited collection: George W.M. Harrison and Vayos Liapis (eds), Performance in Greek

and Roman Theatre (Leiden: Brill, 2013).

Chapter in edited collection: Edith Hall, ‘Title of her Chapter’, in Performance Culture and

Athenian Democracy, ed. by Simon Goldhill and Robin Osborne (Cambridge: Cambridge

University Press, 1999), pp. xx.-xxx.

Journal article: Mark Womack, ‘Shakespearean Prosody Unbound’, Texas Studies in

Language and Literature 45.1 (2003), 1-19. NOTE: no ‘pp.’ before the page numbers if it’s a

journal article.

Journal article in a special issue: Eric Csapo, ‘Late Euripidean Music’, Illinois Classical

Studies, Vol. 24/25: Euripides and Tragic Theatre in the Late Fifth Century, ed. Martin

Cropp, Kevin Lee, and David Sansone (1999-2000), 399-426. NOTE: no ‘pp.’ before the

page numbers if it’s a journal article.]