In order to submit your work for consideration in The Wellsian: The Journal of the H.G. Wells Society, please follow these style guidelines.
Font
For reading by peer-reviewers, please single-space all submissions in Calibri 12, using 10 for footnotes.
Paragraphing
Indent every paragraph, except the first. Leave the spacing between paragraphs at 0.
Use one space only after each sentence.
Referencing
Use the ‘insert footnote’ command for references. Footnotes should be placed at the end of a sentence, following the full stop, without a space.
No more than one footnote reference per sentence.
Give bibliographical information in footnotes.
No gap between initials: eg H.G. Wells, not H. G. Wells.
Books
1 H.G. Wells, Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought, Introduction by Martin Gardner, Mineola: Dover, 1999, 47.
2 John S. Partington, Building Cosmopolis: The Political Thought of H.G. Wells, Aldershot: Ashgate, 2003, 25-27.
3 H.G. Wells, Experiment in Autobiography: Discoveries and Conclusions of a Very Ordinary Brain (since 1866), London: Victor Gollancz and The Cresset Press, 1934, vol. 1, § II, 221.
Articles in journals
4 G.K. Chesterton, ‘Review of The Salvaging of Civilisation, by H.G. Wells’, The Illustrated London News, 4 June 1921, 738.
5 I.F. Clarke, ‘Before and After The Battle of Dorking’, Science Fiction Studies, vol. 24, no. 1, 1997, 34.
6 On Wells’s short stories, see Genie Babb, ‘H.G. Wells in the Borderlands: “The Plattner Story” and “The Crystal Egg” as Experiments in Psychic Research’, The Wellsian: The Journal of the H.G. Wells Society, 35, 2012, 37-50.
Book Chapters
7 Sylvia A. Pamboukian, ‘What the Traveller Saw: Evolution, Romance and Time Travel’, in Steven McLean (ed.), H.G. Wells: Introductory Essays, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009, 15.
Internet Resources
8 Sarah Cassidy, ‘Churchill “Borrowed” Famous Lines from Books by H.G. Wells’, The Independent, 27 November 2006, www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/ churchill-borrowed-famous-lines-from-books-by-hg-wells-6229767.html, accessed on 15 April 2020.
Other requirements
You should refer to an oft-quoted item parenthetically within the text, if the full bibliographical details are given following the first reference. Subsequent references to secondary material may be given by the author’s name and/or their shortened book title, as in:
9 Parrinder, 10.
10 Wells, Anticipations, 123.
Bibliography
Present a bibliography at the end of your submission. Style is the same as for footnotes with these two exceptions:
1/. In the bibliography, surname goes first, then first names, unlike in footnotes where first name precedes surname.
2/. Original publication date of a book should be put in square brackets in the bibliography, and doesn’t need to be mentioned in the footnotes. Eg:
1 Wells, H.G., Anticipations of the Reaction of Mechanical and Scientific Progress Upon Human Life and Thought [1901], Introduction by Martin Gardner, Mineola: Dover, 1999.
Quotation marks and Italics
Use single quotation marks throughout, double for quotations within quotations.
All titles of books and journals should be in italics, whether within an existing title or not.
Full Stop
Place the full stop inside the quotation.
Language Usage
Follow British over American usages where these differ. Use ‘-ise’ and ‘-isa’ in words like ‘realise’ and ‘realisation’.
Use Wells’s, not Wells’.
Use gender-neutral expression where possible.
Text Editions
When a book has been published in two places by one publisher, just give the first.