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Journal of Buddhist Ethics Style Guide

Questions or suggestions on JBE house style or this style sheet?  Contact Jennifer McCay at  mccayj@ivillage.com.
 

General Guidelines
 

  • copyediting done according to the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th edition
  • American (i.e., not British) English
  • use serial commas
  • 1500s, not 1500's
  • "1960s," not "sixties"
  • periods and commas go inside quotation marks
  • semicolons and colons go outside quotation marks
  • commas after "e.g." and "i.e."
  • no "smart" (curly) quotation marks
  • "em" dashes should be denoted by XXX with a space on either side (because of translation problems between machines)
  • space between initials in a name (e.g., J. P. Smith)
  • titles like "assistant book editor" are not capitalized (unless used in a heading)
  • numbers one to ninety-nine are written out; numbers 100 and over are in numerals (but "36 percent")
  • approximations in place of numbers are written out (e.g., "around eight hundred")
  • "chapter one," "chapter two," etc., not "chap. 1" or "Chapter One" or "Chapter 1"
  • "seventh century," not "Seventh Century" or "7th Century"
  • 650 B.C., A.D. 1998, 621 B.C.E.
  • March 5, not March 5th
  • numbered lists and footnotes in text: (1)...(2)..., etc. (no superscripts)
  • change fractions to decimals where possible
  • pages 232-238, not 232-38; 1980-1984, not 1980-84
  • conference titles such as "Buddhism and Human Rights" are in quotation  marks, not italics
  • book titles are italicized; article titles are enclosed in quotation marks
  • JBE does not use tabs and does not indent new paragraphs; new paragraphs flush left with a line space between paragraphs
  • page number references within the text are formatted: (p. 1), with a space between the "p." and the number

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    Articles and Book Reviews

    For examples of articles in "house" style and examples of header style and information, see the  Web page. 

    Please consult www.amazon.com for missing publication information on reviews.
     

    Foreign Language Issues

    All technical terms in Buddhist languages, excepting proper names, will be italicized. Decisions regarding the technical terms in Buddhist languages will be made by the Book Review Editor in the case of book reviews and the General Editors in the case of articles. Authors should direct queries about
    technical terms to the above individuals and not the JBE Copyeditor.

    Sanskrit and Pali

    With regard to Sanskrit and Pali terms, transliterations will follow the forms in
    the _Sanskrit-English Dictionary_ by Monier-Williams, the _Buddhist Hybrid
    Sanskrit Dictionary_  by Edgerton, and the _Pali-English Dictionary_ by Rhys
    Davids and Stede. The form of transliteration used is as follows:
     

  • long vowels are doubled
  • consonantal diacritics precede the consonants marked by them; thus retroflex consonants are written as .r  .t  .th  .d  .dh  .n  .m  .s
  • visarga is written as .h
  • the palatals that take diacritics are ~n and "s
  • the gutteral nasal is written "n
  • da.n.da is written |

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    The Wylie system of Tibetan transliteration requires no diacritical marks.

    Chinese can be romanized by either the pinyin or Wade-Giles system.

    Japanese requires only doubled vowels for romanization, which can be treated as indicated above for Sanskrit.
     
     

    STYLE SHEET
    Spelling/Hyphenation/Capitalization

    Please note that queries concerning the transliteration of terms in Buddhist
    languages should be sent here and not addressed to the JBE Copyeditor.

    a priori (no italics)
    acknowledgment
    adviser
    aesthetic
    afterward
    all right
    Americanize
    analogue
    ancien régime, the (no italics)
    anglicize
    anti-Semitic
    arabic numerals
    Asian American (family)
    AUM

    B.A.
    bachelor's degree
    behavior
    benefited
    best-known
    Bhagavad Gita (no italics)
    Bible, the
    biblical
    big bang theory
    bioethics
    Bronze Age
    Buddha, the 
    Buddhahood
    Buddhist
    Buddhist ethics
    Buddhist Studies

    call for papers
    canceled
    catalog
    chapter one
    Christian
    Christlike
    civilization
    classical
    coauthor
    coeditor
    color
    consensus
    coorigination
    copyeditor
    criticize

    Dark Ages, the
    de facto (no italics)
    descendant
    doctor's degree
    download
    dukkha

    e.g. -- change to "for example" where possible
    the East, Eastern
    ecosystem
    ego-self
    Eightfold Path, the
    e-mail
    embarrass
    endeavor
    Enlightenment, the
    etc. -- change to "and so forth" where possible
    fall (the season)
    ff.
    fin de siècle (no italics)
    First Noble Truth
    Five Precepts, the
    fluorescent
    foresee
    Four Noble Truths, the
    fulfillment

    Gelugpa order
    generalize
    glamorous
    glamour
    Golden Rule, the
    green revolution

    harass
    hell-being
    Hinduism
    homepage
    homeric
    HTML

    i.e. -- change to "that is" where possible
    ibid. (no italics)
    idiosyncrasy
    inasmuch
    indispensable
    Indo-European
    inoculate
    Internet
    Iron Age

    JBE
    Jew
    Journal of Buddhist Ethics
    judgment
    karma
    karuna
    labeled
    laissez-faire (no italics)
    lay people
    layman
    liaison
    lightning
    Listserv
    litre

    M.A.
    macroeconomics
    matter-of-fact
    metre
    midcentury
    Middle Ages, the
    middle-class voters; the middle class
    mid-June
    millennium
    Muslim
    mustache

    neo-Darwinian
    Neolithic
    neoorthodox
    nonattachment
    nondualistic
    nonessential
    nonexistence
    nonhuman
    nonperson
    nonsentient
    nonviolent
    non-Western

    ongoing
    online
    Pali canon
    percent
    Ph.D.
    postdoctoral
    pp. 
    preconference
    preempt
    president (of the United States); President Clinton
    privilege
    pro-life
    protolanguage
    prototypical
    pseudoheroic

    quasi scholar (no hyphen, no italics)

    rabbi, the; Rabbi Salzman
    reaffirm
    reedit
    reestablish
    reexamine
    Renaissance, the
    resistance
    reunify
    Rig-Veda (no italics)
    roman numerals
    romantic period
    roshi, the; Roshi Zimmer (no italics)

    savior
    self-consciousness
    self-reliant
    Shingon
    Shintoism
    Sixteenth Gyalwa Karmapa
    sixth-century poet
    socioeconomic
    Southeast Asia
    space age
    spring (the season)
    Stone Age
    sturm und drang (no italics)
    supersede
    supraliminal

    Tantra
    Tantric
    Taoism
    theater
    Three Jewels, the
    Three Treasures, the
    three-quarters (of a mile)
    totaled
    toward
    toward (not towards)
    transsocietal
    Tripi.taka (italics)
    tropic of Cancer

    underused
    unselfconscious
    unshakable
    Upani.sads (italics)
    upload
    up-to-date

    Vedaanta
    Vedas (italics)
    Vedic
    Vinaya (italics)
    viz. -- change to "namely" where possible

    web page
    website
    well-known
    the West, Western
    World Wide Web
    worldwide
     

    Journal of Buddhist Ethics
    revised 4 November1999
     

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