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Revision as of 13:15, 7 September 2014
The Augustan Society, Inc., publishes a journal, presently semi-annually.
Formal title: The Augustan Omnibus: An International Journal of History, Heraldry, Genealogy, and Chivalry
Short title: The Augustan Omnibus
Informal title Omnibus
Note: The Formal title should probably be expanded to include either "Royalty", "Nobility", or both. There has been some discussion of this point with the Royalty & Nobility Committee, but they seem conflicted about whether "Nobility" is sufficiently encompassing.
Style manual
Primary source of style is the Chicago manual:
The Chicago manual of style.
16th ed.
The University of Chicago Press, ©2010.
Specific points of style include:
- Serial commas in all situations — alpha, beta, and gamma
- Date format is day month year — 18 August 1957
- Calendar designation shall be either "BC" or "AD" whenever there may be ambiguity — AD 1957 or 3400 BC, but 2 January 201 AD
- Acronyms composed of initials shall omit periods — thus USA, FAS, PhD
- Endnotes are referenced by numerals within square brackets in text — [1], not 1
- Endnotes are listed by numerals followed by a closing square bracket — 1], not [1]
Format
- Page: 8½×11", 50# white, ½" margins, running head after Contents page.
- Printed cover: 12×18" 65# card white, trimmed to 11×17" for full bleed, laser printer
- Printed body: 11×17" 50# white, laser printer
- Binding: saddle stitch
- Fonts:
- Titles — DejaVu Serif bold 24pt centered
- Subtitles — DejaVu Serif bold 18pt centered
- Authors — DejaVu Serif Bold 12pt centered
- Text — DejaVu Serif 12pt justified, first paragraph with three-line drop cap, others indented, two-column with 0.2" gutter
- Captions — DejaVu Serif Italic 11pt centered
- Quotations — DejaVu Serif 11pt justified, indent 0.2" on both sides, open quotation marks hung, spacing 0.06" above and below.
- Table text — DejaVu Sans Condensed 10pt, bold header
- Bibliographic entries — DejaVu Serif 11pt left, 0.06" above.
- URL and email addresses — DejaVu Sans Condensed
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