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The following guides are for use by existing, contracted James Currey authors.

James Currey Author Guidelines
This guide aims to help you to deliver a finished manuscript that will conform to our specifications and standards. We ask you to read this document before beginning any work on your book, and to keep it at hand for reference during the writing and revising processes. (download PDF document 266 KB)

Boydell & Brewer House Style Notes
In producing our authors' books we aim to publish text that is well written according to generally accepted rules of English grammar, and well presented according to generally accepted typographical practice. These alphabetically ordered notes provide a collection of conventions which we prefer to follow. (download PDF document 236 KB)

Boydell & Brewer Indexing Guidelines
This guide is intended primarily for authors who, for the first time, need to index their own work; it also includes information on how indexes should be formatted and submitted to Boydell & Brewer. It is not intended to be exhaustive. If you want to know more about indexing see the Further Reading section at the end of the guide. (download PDF document 326 KB)

James Currey Notes for Edited Collections
These notes should be read in conjunction with our Guide for James Currey Authors and the Boydell & Brewer house style notes, but the main points are as follows. (download PDF document 84 KB)

James Currey Thesis into Book
This story highlights the difference between a thesis and a book. The similarity between the two is deceptive. For a publisher and the general reader this distinction is critical. (download PDF document 94 KB)

Author Permissions Request
For permission to reprint excerpts from material published by James Currey, please send a completed Author Permissions Request Form to Wendy Ellis

James Currey Author Permissions Request Form (download Word document 131 KB)

James Currey Author Permissions Request Form (download PDF document 102 KB)

Copyright Resources

Copyright Guidelines
Published jointly by the British Academy and the Publishers Association