Front matter, dedication page, acknowledgements, foreword
The front matter (pp. 1–4) and cover are created by the publisher shortly before going to press. You will be sent both for checking (see also cover and front matter).
If you wish to have an extra dedication page, please include it in the manuscript copy as an extra page when you submit it so that we can take it into account in the pagination. If the dedication is to be less “prominent”, you can include it in your acknowledgements or foreword.
Acknowledgements or forewords which do not constitute an introduction to the topic are placed before the table of contents. (However, both must be submitted with the manuscript, not later!)
All the text elements that appear before the table of contents, as well as the table of contents itself, do not belong in the table of contents of the finished book.
Table of contents
Please create a table of contents. Make sure that the entries are exactly (!) identical in wording with the contribution headings in the text and please pay attention to font styles (e.g. italics). Otherwise it will be unclear to us which title is the correct one.
Please state the author’s full name (no academic titles or affiliation) above the heading of the respective contribution.
If there are several authors, their names will be separated by a slash (/).
Main headings do not end with punctuation. The subheading starts with a new line.
The contributions are usually not counted.
If the volume consists of several parts which should be separated by divider pages, list the corresponding headings in the table of contents and insert the titles on their own separate page in the respective place in the manuscript.
Sample table of contents edited volume
[Front matter created by the publisher]
Dedication page
Acknowledgements
Foreword
Table of contents
Mary Editor Why This Book is Important An Introduction
Part I
Edith Smith
About the Table of Contents as a Work of Art Philosophical Reflections
Oscar Murphy / William O’Sullivan ‘And Then Came the Second Contribution’ Edited Volumes and Their Structure in the Early 1990s
Niamh Brown / Emma Matthews / Harper Walsh Why the Third Contribution always Follows the Second The Order of Contributions and Their Consequences for the Edited Volumes
etc.
Indices [not yet created at the time of manuscript submission]
