| At the outset, Contributors
are asked to contact either of the Editors with an outline of the nature
of the article together with approximate number of words, and pages
of illustrations, for information of the Editorial Committee. The editor(s)
will then confirm, or otherwise, that the paper is acceptable in principle. |
| Contributors are asked to look
at our latest Transactions to see the current "house style".
A copy will be sent on request. The following points should be noted.- |
References may be either
in footnote or Harvard style (or a mixture). Lengthy appendices
or supplementary matter may have to be consigned to microfiche or
the author asked to summarise these in print and deposit a full
text in the National Monument Record or one of our local
libraries or Archive Centre.
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Our printed page is 12.5
cm wide by 19 cm high and all illustrations should be prepared so
that they can be reduced in size by the printer, to fit the page,
without loss of detail. Space should be allowed for the inclusion
of captions. If pull-out folders are unavoidable they should be
prepared so that the printed height will not be more than 19 cms.
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Since line drawings and
half tones are both printed with the text they should be called
figures and numbered consecutively.
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Contributions should
be typed on one side of A4 paper in 12pt font, double spaced and
with wide margins. If the manuscript has been prepared on a word
processor a disc copy (preferably CD-ROM) should also be provided
as this can considerably reduce typesetting costs. Discs should
be clearly labelled with the title, contributor's name and the software
type(s) (Word, being preferred for texts - but see also below for
image formats).
Authors should be aware that most word-processor formatting is 'stripped
out' of the files by the printer. The ones that reliably survive
being italics, underline, bold, small capitals and superscript.
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| Offprints |
10 offprints are provided gratis to the
principal author, plus 6 filing copies to Historic Scotland,
when the article is grant-aided by them. The Business Editor will
quote for additional copies. In addition, or alternatively if requested
copies of the published article(s) will be made available as Acrobat
.pdf files - usually supplied electronically by e-mail but also
possible on CD-ROM.
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| Artwork Specifications |
The Printers are able to accept files of the following types.-
Photoshop CS2, InDesign CS2, Illustrator CS2, tiff, jpeg, eps and
high resolution PDF.
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Line Art must be 600-800 dpi and greyscale or colour images 300
dpi
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Digital camera images should be taken at the highest resolution
available on the camera and supplied as original camera format -
it is recommended that down-sampling of the image should not take
place.
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All scanned images must be saved as tiff, jpeg or eps files.
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Please do not supply any images as Word .doc files.
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| Timing |
We collect material in the autumn, winter
and spring and, in theory with the view to printing about September
or October to coincide with the start of the society's winter session.
However this is not absolutely fixed and suitable material should
be passed to us as soon as it is prepared.
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| The Editors will be pleased
to discuss any matters in detail. |
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