The Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing and Information
Blackwell Guides to Philosophy
edited by Luciano Floridi
General Description
Written by an international assembly of distinguished philosophers, the Blackwell Philosophy Guides create a groundbreaking student resource – a complete critical survey of the central themes and issues of philosophy today. Focusing and advancing key arguments throughout, each essay incorporates essential background material serving to clarify the history and logic of the relevant topic. Accordingly, these volumes will be a valuable resource for a broad range of students and readers, including professional philosophers.
Please do not exceed the contracted length, but note that the lengths quoted are exclusive of bibliographies. For guidance on the length of bibliographies, see Bibliographies below.
Glossary
Some technical terms may need to be defined for the general reader. If a term is especially connected to the topic of an article, authors are asked to provide a definition en passant. Terms defined in this way will be locatable by an extensive index.
Stylistic and Presentation Points
Double-space everything, including bibliographies, to allow room for the copy editor's marks, and leave generous margins on either side for the same reason. It would help if you would start new topics on a fresh page
For longer sections within chapters, you may consider the possibility of adding a single level of unnumbered subheading (in addition to those already suggested) that will help the readability and reference function of the text.
Quotations
Quotations shorter than thirty words should be run on in the text; longer quotations should be broken off from the text and indented. [See also Permissions section below].
Footnotes
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Signature
Please add your name in capitals at the end of the article, in the form in which you wish it to appear in the text and the list of contributors.
Please enclose two to three sentences of bibliographic information on yourself.
Spelling
A Blackwell Guide to the Philosophy of Computing & Information will follow American spelling conventions. However, there is no need to alter your own practice, as the copy-editor will make the necessary changes later.
Electronic Manuscripts
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Cross references
If you think that another chapter or section is likely to contain related or further material on some point, please feel free to signal this in the following form at the end of your chapter:
See also 5 CHAPTER HEADING IN CAPITALS; 6 SECOND CHAPTER HEADING
If the title of an article appears naturally in running text, it can simply be referred to in the following manner:
(see chapter 5)
References are appropriate, but try to provide only key references to easily available standard works. There may be a temptation to over-reference; remember that not every point needs to be supported in this way in a text of this type. When bibliographic references are quotations, please use the author-date system of citation, as in:
(Whynes, 1993, p.23)
or:
as Whynes (1993) claimed.
Texts that you have cited should appear in the bibliography at the end of the chapter.
Bibliographic information at the end of each chapter will be divided into a list of references and a list of suggested further reading. The list of references should include all works cited in the chapter. The list of further reading should cover material that would enable the reader to pursue the topic in greater depth. Note that the list of references and the list of further reading should be mutually exclusive.
Name, A. B. (1991). Title with capital letters for first main word and Proper Nouns only. Place: Publisher.
Name, A. B. (Ed.). (1991). Title as above. Place: Publisher.
Name, A. B., & Name, C. D. (Eds). (1991). Title as above. Place: Publisher.
Name, A. B. (1900). Title as above. Place: Publisher. (Cited from Penguin edition, 1991).
Name, A. B. (1991). Title as above. Toronto: Publisher, 1987; London: Publisher, 1991.
Name, A. B., Name, C. D., & Name, E. F. (Eds). (1985-8). Title as above for a multivolume series (4 vols.). Place: Publisher.
Name, A. B., Name, C. D., & Name, E. F. (Eds). (1985-8) Title as above for series (Vol 4): Title for individual volume. Place: Publisher.
Articles in books
Name, A. B. (1991). Article title with capital letters for first main word and proper Nouns only. In A. B. & C. D. Name (Eds). Book Title (pp. 00-00). Place: Publisher.
For foreign titles
(no English translation)
Name, A. B. (1991). Title following rules of capitalization for given language. [literal translation]. Place: Publisher.
(with English translation)
Name, A. B. (1991). English language title with capital letters for first main word, Proper Nouns, or the first word of a sub-title. (A. B. Name, Trans.). Place: Publisher (Original work published 1930).
Articles in journals
Name, A. B. (1991). Article in which only first word and Proper Nouns are capitalized. Journal Name all Initial Capital Letters on Main Words, 35, 00-00.
Illustrations
Suggestions for black and white photographs, diagrams, graphs or line-illustrations will be considered by the editor. Please supply a copy that is sufficiently clear to allow these to be redrawn by the publisher. Suggestions will be included if space permits. [See also Permissions section below].
Permissions
Please supply publication details (author, title, publisher, date and page number) for all material taken or redrawn from previously published sources. It is the contributor’s responsibility to seek permission from their publisher to use passages from their own work in this publication, and also to seek permission for other material taken or redrawn from previously published sources. Note that illustrations, and quotations in excess of 400 words in copyright both require permission to reproduce.
Editorial Practice
There are obvious problems in making a large volume of this sort internally coherent and non-repetitive, and the editor may need to make minor adjustments to your text without referring the matter to you at the time. More substantial alteration would, of course, be discussed with you at an early stage.
Please send your typescript and diskette to:
Contact information: Luciano Floridi
Address: Wolfson College, OX2 6UD, Oxford, UK
Phone #: 00-44-1865-274137