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House Style

Submission of Articles

Articles may be sent on disk or by attachment (to melilah@manchester.ac.uk), but in either event always also send a printout by post to: 

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Citation Styles

Please conform as closely as possible to the following aspects of house-style:

BOOKS
J.J. Rabinowitz, Jewish Law. Its Influence on the Development of Legal Institutions (New York: Bloch Publishing Co, 1956), 58-61.

JOURNAL ARTICLES
G.J. Blidstein, "Halakhah - The Governing Norm", Jewish Political Studies 8:1-2 (1996), 37-80.

COLLECTION ARTICLES
H. Ben-Menahem, "The Judicial Process and the Nature of Jewish Law" in N.S. Hecht, B.S. Jackson, et al. (eds.), An Introduction to the History and Sources of Jewish Law (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1996), 421-37.

ABBREVIATIONS
Please follow RSV and Danby for Biblical and Rabbinic (see Abbreviations below).

CROSS-REFERENCES
Supra n.5, at 33.

AUTHOR DETAILS
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(a) Any initial bibliographical information about the article should be in an initial footnote indicated by a * (not 1), attached to the article title; the name of the author should be followed by a footnote with Author Details (as above), indicated by a ** ( or * if there is no footnote of bibliographical information; in any event, not 1).

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