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Copy should be submitted via e mail Text Only, Rich Text or Word, as SIMPLE TEXT WITH NO FORMATTING, to culture@caol.demon.co.uk . The Editor will notify authors as soon as possible of the acceptability of their submissions but will not enter into correspondence about those considered unsuitable. All submissions are refereed for content and clarity of expression. Those which are acceptable in principle but do not meet the required standards will be edited and returned for verification and/or improvement in line with the suggested amendments and corrections. Copyright of text is retained by the author. Copyright of the form in which articles appear is held by Culture and Cosmos. Authors will receive two copies of each issue containing their published article.

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Within the text single quotation marks should be used. Double quotation marks should be used only for quotations within quotations. On hard copy only quotations of over fifty words should be indented. Dates should be expressed thus: 1 January 1900; the 1990s, the twentieth century; 1939-45, 1989-90. Numbers up to ninety-nine should be spelled out in full, unless as part of mathematical formulae or astronomical measurement. Capitalisation should be kept to a minimum, preferably only for personal and place names and for titles when articled to a person name (thus ‘the doctor' but ‘Doctor Dee'). In footnotes dates should be abbreviated thus: 1 Jan. 1900.

References should be full enough when first cited to be readily identifiable. Any further references should be indicated by a clear abbreviation, thereby avoiding op.cit and ibid. . References to books should indicate authors by initial(s), or first name if commonly used, and surname, title in italics (underlined in typescripts), place of publication and date in round brackets, abbreviation in square brackets and page number. e.g.:

G.W.Coopland, Nicole Oresme and the Astrologers: A Study of his De Divinacions (Liverpool, 1952) [hereafter Coopland, Oresme ], p 51.

References to edited volumes should indicate the title in italics, the editor(s), number of volumes, place of publication and date in round brackets, abbreviation in square brackets, volume and page, e.g.:

Philosophy of Science and the Occult , ed Patrick Grim, (2nd