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The specificities of encoding encyclopedias: towards a new standard?

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Consistently use British English spelling.

Title
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-Provide academic affiliation under the name of author(s).
-Avoid e-mail address here.
-Delete topic and keywords, as they are not required at this stage.

General remarks
-Consistently call your work ‘this chapter’.
oNumber sections with one digit (1., 2., etc.), and subsections with two digits (1.1, 1.2, etc.). Do not use sub-sub sections (2.1.1, 2.1.2, etc.). Do not use sub-sub-sub sections (2.1.1.1, 2.1.1.2, etc.).
-Use bold face for sections and subsections. Do not indent.
oRevise section numbering to avoid empty sub-sections, such as 2.1.
-Do not use bulleted lists. Write a paragraph instead.
-Use 1cm indentation for the first line in all paragraphs except the first line of the (sub)section.
-Revise the text. Avoid gaps and repetitions like “to future other scientific projects”.

Abstract
-The abstract must include the aim of the research, a brief description of the method and an overview of the conclusions.
-Avoid references in abstract.
-Avoid abstract notes. Include full name of projects and cite them in the Reference section if necessary.

Body
-Explain how your aims are relevant for and contribute to the topic of the first part of the book: Lexical databases and language processing in digital historical lexicography.
-Explain clearly in what respect your method departs from previous approaches and improves them.
-It would be of help that a brief introduction to each section gave an overview of the contents of the following sub-sections.
oNumber figures. Refer to them in text as Figure 1, Figure 2, etc. Describe briefly the figures by explicitly referring to the number of the figure in question.
oExtract must be considered figures.
oAttributes like [cid:image001.png@01D86623.7C6238D0] must be considered figures.
oUse figure captions consistently.

Format
-Avoid double blank spaces and revise punctuation.
-Avoid double blank lines between paragraphs.
-Do not place notes under the tables. Use footnotes.
-Justify the text both on the left and the right.

References
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-Check the reference list.
-Sort the reference list alphabetically, by author’s surname.

oIf the research has been funded through a grant, insert an Acknowledgement section before the references.