Digital Medievalist Preprint Template

This is the Word template to use in formatting documents for typesetting and publication as preprints in Digital Medievalist.

Instructions:

How to access and use this template

1. Download this Template. Open in Word.
2. Save as a Word document under a new name (File A).
3. Open the text of the article you want to style (File B) in Word.
4. Select all (F11) in File B and copy.
5. Paste into File A.
6. Add the author name to File > Info > Related People > Author
7. Add the title to File > Info > Title
8. Add the abstract to File > Info > Comments
9. Add the Keywords to File > Info > Tags
10. Go back the main document and apply styles to the text of the article:
    1. Heading 1 for Article Title,
    2. Heading 2 for first level subheading, and so on
    3. Body Text for Byline, Abstract, Keywords, and First paragraph after headings
    4. Body Text First Indent for all subsequent main body paragraphs
    5. Body Text Indent for first paragraph of block quotations
    6. Body Text First Indent 2 for subsequent block quotations
    7. Cited Work for Bibliographic items on Works cited page.
11. Put a page break between the Keyword and the beginning of the main body of the article.
12. All footnotes should be endnotes with arabic numbers.
13. Replace any relative references to figures and tables (e.g. "as in the following figure") with absolute references (i.e. "as in Figure 10").
14. If you are preparing the document for the typesetter, move all tables, images/figures, and captions, etc. to the end of the document (after Works Cited).