Shakespeare Bulletin Article Guidelines
Shakespeare Bulletin is a peer-reviewed quarterly journal which publishes articles at the cutting edge of Shakespearean and early modern performance studies and theatre history. It is a distinguishing feature of this journal that it welcomes scholarship on the full range of plays not only by Shakespeare but also by other early modern dramatists from the mid-sixteenth century to the Interregnum. The focus of all articles submitted should, in one way or another, be on the performance of these plays, in any medium, whether in the early modern period or in later centuries. Articles may examine performances of early modern plays in their own period and/or beyond; explore the use of performance in scholarship or teaching; develop performancerelated scholarly methodologies and theoretical approaches to the performance of early modern drama; compare productions; analyze a single production; scrutinize ground-breaking new modes of performance in a variety of media and venues; explore performance traditions of early modern English drama across the world.
The journal is committed to publishing at least two open issues every year and is encouraging independent scholars to submit their work directly to the editor at sbeditor@ex.ac.uk
. Please follow the house style detailed below when submitting your work. While we do consider shorter submissions, the standard length of articles in the journal is between 6,500 and 9,000 words.
Shakespeare Bulletin also welcomes proposals for special issues guest-edited by leading and emerging scholars. Please contact the editor as sbeditor@ex.ac.uk
with proposals detailing the subject and rationale of the issue, the proposed contributors and contributions, and the envisaged timetable. Potential guest editors must be mindful that we do not allow more than two special issues in any one year in order to ensure that there is sufficient space in the journal for individual submissions.
Shakespeare Bulletin is a RoMEO green journal and permits authorial archiving of pre-print and post-print articles on author server, departmental server, institutional server, or in Open Access
Archives, if required by law. Authors must request prior permission from the published, publisher copyright and source must be acknowledged.
Shakespeare Bulletin House Style for articles:
Shakespeare Bulletin follows the guidelines set down in the most recent MLA Handbook for
Writers of Research Papers (currently the 7 th edition, 2009).
In addition, we ask that you apply the following rules:
The body of the article:
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The article title should be in bold, followed on the next line by YOUR NAME IN SMALL CAPS , a comma, and your affiliation in italics.

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Please use no manual returns at the end of a line. The text should wrap automatically.
Manual returns should be used only at the end of each paragraph.
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Please use a tab to begin new paragraphs. Do not format new paragraphs with the markers on the ruler.
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One space after punctuation.
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Ellipses: please indicate added ellipses (i.e., ellipses not in the original quotation) by using square brackets and including a space between each point: "In this [. . .] issue" and for ellipses in the original quotation please omit the square brackets and include the spaces: "In this . . . issue".
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No spaces before or after an em dash (two hyphens). (Pagemaker automatically converts two hyphens into an em dash.)
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Double space before and after block quotations, which should be indented by 0.5 inch.
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Use the American style for spelling, periods, and commas throughout the manuscript except in quotations. Spelling, including hyphenation, should be consistent throughout the manuscript except in quotations.
 we prefer “Welles's” to “Welles'”
 words with multi and post should be written as one word (e.g. multicultural, postmodern)
 please write “act one,” not “Act I”
 use Arabic numbers and full stops to indicate act, scene, lines—e.g. (5.1.163-64)
 spell out numbers under 100—e.g. “twenty-six,” not “26.” For numbers above 100, use
Arabic numbers—e.g. “123,” not “one hundred and twenty-three.”
Referencing:
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Follow the MLA guidelines for in-text parenthetical citation—No “p” precedes the page number and if the author is named in the citation there is no punctuation between the author’s name and the page number. E.g. (Hodgdon 23)
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Notes should use the Word program’s “Insert” tab to insert endnotes. The superscript note must be inserted immediately after the quotation marks; the final punctuation mark needs to be inside the quotation marks. If there are no quotation marks, the superscript note follows the final punctuation mark.

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Please don't use automatic hang and indent for footnotes or for the works cited. There is no need to use tabs or spaces to indent either notes or works cited.
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Use italics, not underlining.
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Follow MLA guidelines for your Works Cited list—do not use p., pp., or pages(s).
Numbers alone will do. When page spans over 100 have the same first digit, use only the last two digits of the second number.
If in doubt, please consult the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (7 th edition, 2009) and/or use a recent issue of Shakespeare Bulletin as your model.
Please Note: Articles that are not formatted according to these guidelines may be sent back to authors for urgent reformatting and may not meet publication deadlines.
Guidelines last revised by Pascale Aebischer, April 2013