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1 The notes system used will be endnotes rather than footnotes, with Arabic numbering from 1. Arial 10pt, single line spacing, left aligned. Papers must follow the punctuation and referencing conventions of Chicago 16 (as in the examples below). Monograph:Robert Barnard, A Short History of English Literature, 2 vols (Oxford, New York: Basil Blackwell, 1984).

Edited book:Marie Axton, Raymond Williams (eds.), English Drama: Forms and Development, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977).

Essay in book:Gillian Beer, ‘ “Coming Wonders”: Uses of Theatre in the Victorian Novel’, in Marie Axton, Raymond Williams (eds.), English Drama: Forms and Development, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1977), I, 164-85.

Journal Article:Jonathan Bate, ‘The Climates of Literary History: Past, Present, Future’, The European English Messenger, 7, 1 (1998), 12-20.

Short cites (for every second and subsequent reference to a source already cited):Bate, ‘The Climates of Literary History’, 18.Barnard, A Short History of English Literature, 224.Barnard, A Short History of English Literature, 226 (i.e. do not use ibid).