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North Carolina Libraries                                                                                                                                               Spring  2003 — 81

Instructions for Manuscript Preparation for
North Carolina Libraries

1. North Carolina Libraries seeks to publish articles and
reviews of print and nonprint materials of profes-
sional interest to North Carolina librarians and the
worldwide library community.  All manuscripts
solicited or unsolicited are forwarded to two editors
from the NCL editorial board to referee and make
recommendations regarding whether they should
be published.  Editors are not aware of the authors
of the manuscripts they are refereeing.

2. Manuscripts should double-spaced (text and notes)
and submitted on disc in Microsoft Word or Rich
Text Format to Al Jones, Editor, North Carolina
Libraries, at jonesp@mail.ecu.edu

3. The name, position, and professional address of the
author should appear in the bottom left-hand
corner of a separate title page.  Each page should
be numbered consecutively and carry the title
(abbreviated, if necessary) in the upper left-hand
corner.

4. Notes should appear at the end of the manuscript
in a section called “References.”  The NCL editors
will refer to The Chicago Manual of Style, latest
edition. The basic citation formats for books and
periodical articles are as follows:

1. Keyes Metcalf, Planning Academic and
Research Library Buildings (New York: McGraw Hill,
1965), 416.

2. Susan K. Martin, “The Care and Feeding of
the MARC Format,” American Libraries 10 (Sept.
1970): 498.

5. Photographs should be submitted in a digital
format.

6. The Editor will acknowledge receipt of each manu-
script.  Following the review of a manuscript by at
least two jurors, the decision to publish or not to
publish will be communicated to the author, along
with the expected date of publication on the Web
at http://www.nclaonline.org/NCL

7. North Carolina Libraries holds the copyright for all
published manuscripts.

8. North Carolina Libraries is indexed by the H. W.
Wilson Company for Library Literature.  The Indexer
of North Carolina Libraries prepares an annual index
that is published in the last issue of the calendar year.

9. North Carolina Libraries is a quarterly publication
appearing in March (Spring), June (Summer),
September (Fall), and December (Winter).  Dead-
lines for submission for material for consideration in
each quarterly issue are January 1 (Spring), April 1
(Summer), July 1 (Fall), October 1 (Winter).

mailto:jonesp@mail.ecu.edu
http://www.nclaonline.org/NCL/