Notes for contributors to the online Journal of Bentham Studies
Submission of articles
The Journal of Bentham Studies is a refereed journal. Articles submitted to the journal
should be original works and should not be under consideration for publication
elsewhere at the same time. All contributions and enquiries should be emailed to Tim
Causer: t.causer@ucl.ac.uk
Presentation
Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts conform to the journal
style. The Editors will not undertake retyping or extensive reformatting of
manuscripts before publication. Articles not following these guidelines will be
returned to the author for reformatting.
All articles should be submitted in Microsoft Word or Real Text Format (RTF).
Articles should be formatted for A4 (i.e. paper width of 21 cm, or 8.27 inches, and
paper length of 29.69 cm, or 11.69 inches), and set with the following margins:
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Top and bottom: 2.54 cm (or 1 inch)
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Left and right: 3.175 cm (or 1.25 inches)
The main body of the text should be presented in Times New Roman font (size 12),
be 1.5-spaced, and justified. Do not double-space between paragraphs. Each article
should include, at the beginning, the following information, set out as below. Authors
may find it useful to consult already-published articles for comparison.
Article title (size 16 font, centred, bold)
AUTHOR’S NAME (size 14 font, centred and capitalised)
Author’s institutional affiliation (size 12 font, centred and italicised)
Author’s email address (size 12 font, centred)
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This matter should be followed by a short abstract, describing the main points of the
article (size 12 font, italicised, justified)
Keywords: five or six keywords which are most relevant to the article’s contents
(centred)
The first line of each paragraph should be indented to 0.95 cm (0.375 inches), and all
pages should be numbered at the bottom right of each page.
There is no fixed length for articles, but 7,000 to 10,000 words (including notes and
references) is the norm. If contributors wish significantly to exceed 10,000 words,
they should consult with the Editor in advance of submission.
All diagrams, charts, graphs, and illustrations should be referred to as figures (Fig. 1,
Fig. 2 etc), be consecutively numbered with Arabic numerals, and be referred to in the
main text. When using images, it is the author’s responsibility to gain permission
from the copyright holder for their reproduction and pay for any copyright fees, and
such permissions should be submitted by the author along with the article. Images
included in the final version should be of good quality (at least 200 dots per inch), but
low-resolution images are acceptable in the initial submission.
Authors should submit a brief biography with their articles, which should include
details of academic or other status, institutional affiliation, recent publications, current
research interests and memberships – especially if office-bearing – of learned
societies or other official bodies.
Spelling and numbers
Please use British English spelling and punctuation. Please use ‘-ise’, ‘-isation’ (and
so on) spellings.
Numbers should be written out up to 50, except in a discussion that includes a mixture
of numbers above and below 50, in which case all should be given in figures.
Numbers with units (e.g. 4 cm) should always be given in figures, with a space
between the number and the unit.
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Dates should be given in the following form: 15 February 1748
Quotations
Quotations over 50 words should be indented, beginning at 0.95 cm (0.375 inches)
and ending at 13.33 cm (5.25 inches), and separated from the main text by one line
above and below.
Please use single quotation marks, except for a quote-within-a-quote, for which
double quotation marks should be used. Ellipses should be enclosed in square
brackets.
Referencing
References should be supplied as footnotes indicated by superscript Arabic numerals,
running consecutively through the article. Footnotes should generally be kept as brief
as possible. Op. cit., loc. cit. and idem should not be used, but ibid. should.
Published works:

Philip Pusey, ‘Plato, Bentham, and Bacon’, Quarterly Review, lxi. (1838), p.
463

Revd Thomas Moore, The History of Devonshire From the Earliest Period to
the Present, 3 vols., London, 1829–30, i. p. 472.

Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations,
ed. R.H. Campbell, A.S. Skinner and W.B. Todd, 2 vols., Oxford, 1976, i. pp.
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C.M. Atkinson, Jeremy Bentham: His Life and Work, London, 1905, p. 27

S.E. Finer, ‘The Transmission of Benthamite Ideas, 1820–1850’, Studies in the
Growth of Nineteenth-Century Government, ed. G. Sutherland, London, 1972,
p. 12
Subsequent citations should use a short title: e.g. Smith, Wealth of Nations, i. p. 58. In
general, titles of two or three words should not be shortened.
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References to the writings of Bentham should be to the Collected Works wherever
possible:
e.g.
The Correspondence of Jeremy Bentham, vol. ix., ed. S. Conway, Oxford, 1989 (The
Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham), pp. 12–19.
Thereafter as Correspondence (CW), ix.
After the first citation, use abbreviations for particular volumes:
e.g.
An Introduction to the Principles of Morals and Legislation, ed. J.H. Burns and H.L.A.
Hart, Oxford, 1996 (The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham), p. 49 becomes IPML
(CW), p. 49
Comment on the Commentaries become Comment.
A Fragment on Government becomes Fragment.
Citations of the Bowring edition should be given as follows:
First citation: The Works of Jeremy Bentham, ed. J. Bowring, 11 vols., Edinburgh,
1843, iii. p. 24
Next citation: Bowring, ii. p. 24
Manuscripts
First references to manuscripts should always provide the location and collection in
full, indicating an abbreviation for further references.
e.g.
British Library Additional Manuscript [hereafter BL Add. MS], 40,393, fos. 148–9.
UCL’s Bentham Collection may be abbreviated to ‘UC’, followed by the box number
(roman numerals), and the folio number (Arabic numerals).
e.g.
UC xxii. 34.
Websites and Electronic material
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It is the author’s responsibility to ensure that any web addresses mentioned in the
article are correct and active. Web pages should be cited by providing a page title, the
URL, and the date upon which the page was accessed.
e.g.
UCL Bentham Project, http://www.ucl.ac.uk/Bentham-Project, accessed 25 May 2011
For online articles, please use the following format:
C. Pease-Watkin, ‘The Influence of Mary Bentham on John Stuart Mill’, Journal of
Bentham Studies, vol. 8 (2006), p. 3. Accessed at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/BenthamProject/publications/journals/journal_bentham_studies/journal_bentham_studi
es_08/cpw_maryb_jsm, on 16 March 2011
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