•Electronic Manuscript Preparation Guidelines for Authors

We will be submitting our manuscript to the University Press of Mississippi in electronic form. Most of you will be submitting copies of your entries to us in electronic form. These will be used for copyediting before being forwarded to the University Press of Mississippi for further editing and typesetting. In this process the files may go through multiple conversions. PLEASE KEEP IT SIMPLE. Do not use your software to format your manuscript and customize the way it looks. Excess formatting must be stripped out to ensure that the whole process goes smoothly.

The University Press of Mississippi provided us with the following guidelines. If any of them apply to you and how you use your word processing software, please make an attempt to observe the guidelines.

• Do not assign "styles" to achieve different formats for subheads, block quotes, paragraph indents, etc. The default, or "normal," style should be the only style in your manuscript.

• Do not use the space bar to achieve tabs or indents or to align text.

• Use the same typeface, or font, throughout the entire manuscript. If a second font containing special characters is used, please alert your editor.

• To insert notes, use your software's built‑in endnotes feature. Use the feature "as is"; please don't reset any of the options. Before typesetting the press will move these "embedded" notes to a separate file so that they can be set in a note section at the end of the book.

• Do not use the automatic hyphenation feature.

• Produce any special characters using your word‑processing program's built‑in character set. If a special character is unavailable in your program, hand‑insert it on the printout and write the correct character; then call it to the attention of the Press in your cover letter.

• Do not insert an additional hard return to create extra space between paragraphs. Where you wish a space break in the book, type "<space>" on a line by itself.

• Indicate the placement of tables and other figures, but do not drop the actual figures into the text files. If you have the figures in electronic format, keep them in separate files.