Style Guide

Financial Remedies Journal Style Guide

Please supply the article in a .docx format – and note the maximum length we can accept for an article is 3,000 words, to include all endnotes (see below)
Please supply tables as separate spreadsheets if possible, as well as including them in the appropriate place in the article
Please supply pictures as separate files if possible, as well as including them in the appropriate place in the article.

Please supply us with a photo of yourself (if more than one author for the article, then one for each).

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If you only have a bigger or smaller file, please supply that as it is as is rather than resizing or resampling it.

Please also supply a short bio (max 80 words), written in the third person, we can use online.

Please choose between 3 and 8 keywords for your article. There's a list of those previously used here, but feel free to supply others where needed.

Use hashes before headings to indicate heading levels, for example—
- # Before a Title
- ## Before a sub-heading
- ### Before a sub-sub-heading
Use Title Case for Titles, and sentence case for sub-headings
Single quotes. Doubles for quotes within quotes
Block quotes: don't italicise; use single quote marks at the beginning and end
Non-italics for short quotes within the text
Use 'they' rather than 'he or she' for hypothetical people except where it would cause confusion
Square brackets for paragraph numbers from case reports
Spellings, capitalisations, italics etc: follow the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers & Editors.

Parties and v in italics, citation in roman
Neutral citations only or neutral plus the ‘official’ citation
& Ors / & Anor
Please avoid splitting parties and citations between text and endnotes wherever possible, e.g. Smith v Jones [2020] EWCA Civ 9009, rather than Smith v Jones in the text and the [2020] EWCA Civ 9009 in an endnote
Bracketed case descriptions e.g. Smith (Children in Care), in title caps.

First references in article or endnotes in full, subsequent appearances abbreviated if necessary
Preceded by 'the' when given in full, 'the' left out when abbreviated; e.g. section 1 of the Matrimonial Causes Act 1973 or MCA 1973, s 1
Statutory Instrument numbers appear thus: (SI 2020/129)
And rules: FPR 12.2 / CPR 12.2 (i.e. no r or r.).

Use endnotes rather than footnotes (in Word, the endnote button can be found in the References toolbar)
Place endnote references after full stops and commas rather than before
Avoid the use of ibid, op cit, and so on: use abbreviated references
Avoid cross-references between footnotes
End endnotes with a full stop, unless a url with no other text.

If you wish to include a note or query in the text, to be carried forward and checked later, please place it in the appropriate place in the text within two pairs of curly brackets, e.g. {{nb: to be updated if Act has passed by publication date}}.

The Financial Remedies blog supports plain-text markdown formatting, so if you use markdown when writing please feel free to supply in that format
Blockquotes: indicate with > at the beginning of the first line
Bullets: indicate with * at the beginning of each bullet
Links: please place square brackets around the text to be hyperlinked, followed by the link in round brackets, e.g. [Class Legal](https://www.classlegal.com)
Please supply a tagline for your article (max. 300 characters)
Please supply keywords for your article; a list of keywords previously used can be found here.