PERFORM reviews on renaissance intellectual history and renaissance philosophy Rules for reviews

Editor: Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn (hck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Document created: 2001-01-26
Last update:2001-01-26

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• Contact person for PERFORM reviews on renaissance intellectual history and renaissance philosophy is Dr. Heinrich C. Kuhn, who can be reached via email at hck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de (and who normally will respond rather soon - unless he is on a vacation).

• You can choose an item that you want to review from our list of suggested items, and you can suggest any other item you deem to be relevant for research into renaissance intellectual history - as long as it has been published during the last 18 months.

• If you want to act as a reviewer for us and if you have not yet had any contact with us: please do send a short CV and/or a list of things you did publish on renaissance intellectual history together with your request to be chosen as a reviewer for this or that item.

• As a good part of the audience for PERFORM is situated in German speaking countries, and as most of SFN's editors want to have reviews that are as readable as possible by German laypersons (like e.g. teachers): there is the following list of preferences for the languages the review itself (not necessarily the item reviewed) should be written in:
  1. first prefence: German
  2. small gap …
  3. second preference: English
  4. a somewhat wider gap …
  5. third preference: one of the following languages:
     • French
     • Italian
     • Latin
     • Spanish
  6. a really major gap …
  7. only in very special cases (and only after I've succeeded in getting the SFN gods to agree …): in: · Dutch, · Portugese, · Slavonic languages using Roman types, · Nordic Languages. Please note, that the SFN gods have already told me, that they are very reluctant indeed to agree on the use of any language not included in one of the three preferences (viz. preference groups) mentioned above!!!

• Once you and I have agreed that you will write a review about a certain item, SFN's team will contact the publisher of that item to send it out to you (you will receive the item either via Bayerische Staatsbibliothek or directly from the publisher). Once you have received the item: Please send an email to hck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de stating the date you have received the item. In case you should not have received a requested item 8 weeks after you have requested it: please complain to Heinrich C. Kuhn at hck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de.

• If you are writing your review in German: Please follow SFN's rules for reviews written in German . available at URL http://www.sfn.uni-muenchen.de/rezensionen/hinweise.htm.

• If you are writing your review in annother language:
  1. Unless we did agree on something else: Please hand in your review via email to hck@lrz.uni-muenchen.de within two months after you received the item.
  2. Unless we did agree on something else: Please do not hand in a review that is longer than 7500 bytes.
  3. Unless we did agree on something else: Please use plain text or send your review as a file in RTF- or HTML-format.
  4. Please don't use unnecessary abbreviations. Especially: please don't abbreviate the names of authors (unless no full form of an author's name is available to you).
  5. The bibliographic data in the "Header" of a review should be given according to the following scheme:
     <Author(s) or editor(s) of the item>:
<Main title>. - <Subtitle>
(<Series> (where applicable) ; <number of volume>)
<Place of publication>:
<Publisher>,
<Year of publication>
<number of pages>
<ISBN> (where applicable)
<Price> :
     e.g.: Kurt Flasch: Nikolaus von Kues, Geschichte einer Entwicklung. -Vorlesungen zur Einführung in seine Philosophie, Frankfurt am Main : Vittorio Klostermann, 1998, 679 p., ISBN: 3-465-02704-3, DEM 118

  6. Please indicate the use of quotations by using standard Englisch quotation marks (per mark: a single character that displays as two small vertical lines elevated to the upper part of the line …).
  7. If possible: don't use notes. If you think you have to use notes: please use endnotes placed at the end of the review.
  8. Please don't use formatting (of whatsoever kind); please don't use any sort of hyphen at line-breaks.
  9. Please ignore as few of the above rules as possible. Thanks in advance!

• The editor won't publish a text of yours to the publication of which you didn't give your (tacit by non-protest or explicit) assent to. The editor however reserves the right to write and/or publish documents that contain comments to a review, and to link to the review from these documents and to these documents from the review. In case there should be links to such comments they would be placed above or below the review, and would be marked clearly as something to be attributed to the editor and not to the reviewer.

• The sole authorship of the reviews themselves, all the praise and all the blame for their content remains with the authors of the reviews. The authors can prepublish and republish the content of their reviews in any way they wish to do so; however: any republication should indicate the previous publication of that content as a PERFORM review.

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