How to submit your manuscript

Usually we require authors to submit their manuscripts according to our style guidelines. The manuscript should be sent to us as hard-copy and electronically (on 3.5 inch disks or by email-attachment; zipped!) and with each chapter of the book saved as an individual file.

A manuscript should always be accompanied by a

  • table of contents
  • table of cases
  • table of legislation
  • list of abbreviations
  • bibliography
  • index
  • a preface or acknowledgment will in general be appreciated.
  

Headings

A logical system of headings, subheadings and sub-subheadings, of descending levels of importance, should be used throughout.

 

Authors are asked to avoid the use of further subheadings. Headings should be numbered and the numbering should be consistent.

 

For further details please contact the publisher.
     

No special formatting

The publisher will ensure that your manuscript will be formatted in the Europa Law Publishing  house style with the use of professional DTP-software. It is of some importance that the digital file of your manuscript (MS-Word files only) will be sent to use as ‘clean’ as possible. In particular, authors are asked to avoid any special formatting of their text, italics excepted. Please do not use tabs, indents, caps, special font and font-sizes, underlining etc. etc. for formatting purposes. When using MS-Word styles: please do not apply other styles than the standard one (‘standard’, ‘normal’, ‘normaal’, etc.). 

Two exceptions:
1) text in footnotes (please use the standard footnote text style of MS-Word) and
2) text which needs to be printed indented and with a smaller font-size (please apply a MS-Word-style with a different name than ‘standard’/’normal’/’normaal’ consistently throughout the text, e.g. ‘block indent’ or ‘small text’). 

 

Various

'Always use single quotation marks for quoted material in the text. Double quotation marks should be used only for "quotes" within quotes.'

Use Italics for titles of books and journals, but not for articles in journals, and for emphasis. Latin or foreign language expressions should be italicized also, unless they are so common that they have become wholly absorbed into everyday language such as etc, bona fide.

Parentheses (round brackets) should be used for interpolations. Square [brackets] should be used for editorial comments or interpolations within quotations.

Quoted material of over 35 words should be separated out from the text by being clearly indented from both margins. There should be single quotation marks around the quoted text. 

 

British (‘s’ rather than ‘z’) spelling is preferred.
     
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Footnotes

Footnotes should be numbered sequentially throughout the text and should be renumbered each chapter. Authors are asked to keep footnotes as short as possible and to make cross-references within the text as sparingly as possible.

 

Literature references in the footnotes: you cite the author’s surname, the year of publication and the page reference immediately after the quoted material in the text. For example: Jans (2000) 1. The full title of the work and the publication details should be typed up in the bibliography in the following order: initials, author, title, place and year of publication, publisher. For example: J.H. Jans, European Environmental Law (Groningen 2000). Or with respect to articles in journals: J.H. Jans, "National Legislative Autonomy? The Procedural Constraints of European Law" [1998/1] LIEI 25-58.

 

References to decisions of the ECJ: Case C-142/95P Associazione Agricoltori della Provincia di Rovigo and Others v. Commission [1996] ECR I-6669.

References to national case law: please follow the national style of citation as far as possible.

  

Dutch style guide

Download our style guide in Dutch.