Editor:
Monica Blake, Blake Information
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Assistant Editor:
Anne Welsh, University College London
a.welsh@ucl.ac.uk

Editorial Board:
Monica Blake, Editor, Blake Information
Ia McIlwaine, University College London
Anthony Olden, University of West London
Andy Stephens OBE, The British Library
David Way, The British Library
Anne Welsh, Assistant Editor, University College London

Editorial Advisors:
Tatjana Aparac, University of Zadar, Croatia
John Y. Cole, Library of Congress, USA
Erland Kolding Nielsen, Kongelige Bibliotek, Denmark
Galina Kislovskaya, Russian State Library, Russia
Peter J. Lor, South Africa
Ronald Milne, Ministry for Culture and Heritage, New Zealand
Carole Moore, University of Toronto Libraries, Canada
Paul Sturges, University of Loughborough, UK
Winston Tabb, Johns Hopkins University Library, USA
Janet Wilkinson, University of Manchester, UK

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Abstract. Each article should have at the end an abstract of up to 250 words summarizing (not merely indicating) the contents.

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Structure. Articles should be structured into sections, with headings and (usually) subheadings. Examples of the style used are as follows:

• Headings: INTRODUCTION
• Subheadings: Automation procedures
• Sub-subheadings (to be used only where absolutely necessary): Economic factors
  

References in text. References in the text should be in the form: Pica (1991). If it is preferable to give precise page numbers, they should be given in the text, e.g. (Pica, 1991, p. 36). References to websites of organizations or projects should be given in the text in the form http://www.bl.uk.

Footnotes. Where explanatory information cannot be included in the text (as is preferred), footnotes should be used, with a reference in the text..

References at end of text. All references to publications, including Web references, should appear at the end of the text in a section headed REFERENCES. They should be in the following style:

• books: Pica, John (1984) The history of Sans Serif National Library. Oxford: Baskerville.
• articles in journals: Pica, John (1991) ‘National library planning in Sans Serif’. Sans Serif Library Quarterly, 4(2), pp. 162-171.
• papers in collections (e.g. festschriften): Pica, John (1995) ‘The contribution of Peter Courier to librarianship in Sans Serif’. In: Aldus, Philip (ed.), Essays in honour of Peter Courier on his 60th birthday. Cambridge: Gutenberg Press, pp. 274-287.
• URLs: Pica, John (2000) ‘New thoughts on national libraries’, http://www.sansserif.ac.ss (visited 5.12.02).
• If two or more references are made to the same author, they should be in date order and take the form Pica, John (2001a), (1996b), etc.

Spelling. Spelling should conform to British usage, e.g. ‘centre’ not ‘center’.

Quotations. Quotations should be given in single quotation marks, i.e. ‘’ Where inverted commas need to be used within quotation marks, double marks should be used, i.e. “ ”.

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