article submission
  NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTERS
Manuscripts of articles should be submitted to the editor, Dr Emily Lyle, The Department of Celtic and Scottish Studies, University of Edinburgh, 27 George Square, Edinburgh EH8 9LD, Scotland, UK. Enquiries may be made by email to E.Lyle@ed.ac.uk. The articles will be sent out to readers for peer review. An author receives 20 offprints of the article and a copy of the journal issue.
 
Articles should be typed double-spaced throughout on one side of the paper and the pages should be numbered. One paper copy should be submitted and a further copy should be retained by the author. Wherever possible, a disc copy or email attachment should also be sent, preferably formatted for Word for Windows (PC).
  Figures and tables should be camera-ready and clearly numbered and should be accompanied by numbered captions typed on a separate sheet. The position of both figures and tables should be marked in the typescript.
 
The Harvard style of surname, date and page number cited in the text with an alphabetically ordered list of references at the end should be employed. Any footnotes should be given before the references. Spelling and punctuation should follow British English conventions. Past issues of the journal may be consulted for details of presentation. The references should be set out as in the following examples:
 
Dillon, Myles (1947). The Archaism of Irish Tradition. Proceedings of the British Academy 33, 245-64.
  
 
MacCana, Proinsias (1995). Mythology and the Oral Tradition: Ireland. In The Celtic World, ed. Miranda Jane Green, pp. 779-84. London: Routledge.

 
  Needham, Rodney, ed. (1973). Right & Left: Essays on Dual Symbolic Classification. Chicago and London: Chicago University Press.  
  Turner, Victor (1967). The Forest of Symbols: Aspects of Ndembu Ritual. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press.