Erasmus Studies
Formerly: Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook
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Scope
Erasmus Studies (ERAS), formerly the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook, is published under the
auspices of the Erasmus of Rotterdam Society. The Society was founded in 1980 with the aim of
encouraging research and writing on Erasmus, his contemporaries, and their intellectual milieu.
Erasmus Studies is a peer-reviewed publication containing scholarly articles and book reviews on these
subjects.
Ethical and Legal Conditions
Please note that submission of an article for publication in any of Brill’s journals implies that you have
read and agreed to Brill’s Ethical and Legal Conditions. The Ethical and Legal Conditions can be found
here: brill.com/downloads/conditions.pdf.
Online Submission
ERAS now uses online submission only. Authors should submit their manuscript online via the Editorial
Manager (EM) online submission system at: editorialmanager.com/eras. First-time users of EM need to
register first. Go to the website and click on the "Register Now" link in the login menu. Enter the
information requested. When you register, select e-mail as your preferred method of contact. Upon
successful registration, you will receive an e-mail message containing your Username and Password. If
you should forget your Username and Password, click on the "Send Username/Password" link in the
login section, and enter your first name, last name and email address exactly as you had entered it when
you registered. Your access codes will then be e-mailed to you. Prior to submission, authors are
encouraged to read the ‘Instructions for Authors’. When submitting via the website, you will be guided
stepwise through the creation and uploading of the various files. A revised document is uploaded the
same way as the initial submission. The system automatically generates an electronic (PDF) proof, which
is then used for reviewing purposes. All correspondence, including the editor’s request for revision and
final decision, is sent by e-mail.
Double-blinded Peer Review
ERAS uses a double-blind peer review system, which means that manuscript author(s) do not know who
the reviewers are, and that reviewers do not know the names of the author(s). When you submit your
article via Editorial Manager, you will be asked to submit a separate title page which includes the full
title of the manuscript plus the names and complete contact details of all authors. This page will not be
accessible to the referees. All other files (manuscript, figures, tables, etc.) should not contain any
information concerning author names, institutions, etc. The names of these files and the document
proper-ties should also be anonymised.
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File Format
Please note: If a special font is used, please provide a copy of the font too. Please upload source files such
as .doc, and not .pdf files.
Contact Address
For any questions or problems relating to your manuscript please contact: [email protected]. For
eventual questions about Editorial Manager, authors can also contact the Brill EM Support Department
at: [email protected].
Submission Requirements
Language
All articles, abstracts, and book reviews for the Yearbook should be written in American English. Spelling
should be consistent throughout. Final versions and printouts must be proofread carefully before
submission; final versions that are not corrected will be returned for renewed proofreading.
Font
Use Courier font size 12 for both text and notes. Use italics for material to be printed in italics.
Manuscript Structure
General
In general, consult the Chicago Manual of Style (16th ed., University of Chicago Press, 2010,
chicagomanualofstyle.org/home.html or the most recent edition) for guidance. Erasmus Studies uses the
documentary-notes or humanities style.
Manuscripts that are submitted for initial consideration should be complete, including all notes,
bibliographical references, tables, etc. The journal reserves the right to copy-edit contributions to
conform to its style.
Manuscript pages should be numbered consecutively, double-spaced with wide margins on all sides (use
ragged rather than justified right margins). Do not right-justify the text, or break words at the ends of
lines. The text block should not measure more than 23 cm. top to bottom. The side margins should be 2.5
or 3 cm. each side.
The full address of the author should be put on the title page file, , including an e-mail address or fax
number (when available).
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Punctuation
Paragraph indentations should be tabs set at five spaces from the left margin.
Quotations
Punctuate consistently with double quotation marks; use single quotation marks only for quotations
within quotations.
Abstracts
Articles should include a short abstract (up to 150 words) that clearly defines the main points and
indicates the chief sources used.
Keywords
Please supply 4-8 keywords.
Headings
The First Level Heading Is Bold
The text.
The Second Level Heading Is Bold Italic
The text.
Endnotes
Notes should be submitted as endnotes, consecutively numbered, and starting on a separate page.
Double-space notes and double-space twice between notes.
References
 References should only be given in the notes, not in a separate bibliography.
 The first time a source is cited, the complete reference should be given. Second and subsequent
short-form references other than ibid should give a cross-reference to the original full reference
in the form Short title.
 Capitalize titles according to the rules for the language of the title concerned: French rules for
French titles, German rules for German titles, etc.
 Abbreviate ed., trans., and annot., and omit “by” in notes.
 To refer to standard editions of Erasmus, use the forms on the Abbreviations page in the most
recent issue (see Appendix). Refer to letters of Erasmus by their standard numbers established
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by Allen and used in his Latin edition, the CWE English edition, and the Belgian French edition,
not by page numbers in one of these editions. Precede line references in any edition with the
word “line(s)” and follow the line numbers with an edition reference: Ep. 185, lines 11-13 Allen;
lines 12-14 CWE. Similarly, ASD IV-2:123, lines 280-81.
 Include the translator-annotator’s name and full bibliographical information in CWE references
only if they are pertinent to your comments; otherwise simply use the abbreviation CWE.
Monographs
James McConica, English Humanists and Reformation Politics under Henry VIII and Edward VI
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1965).
Edited/ Translated Monographs
L. Fleck, Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact, ed. T. J. Trenn and R. K. Merton, trans. F.
Bradley and T. J. Trenn (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1979).
Journal Articles
M. Bevir, “The Errors of Linguistic Contextualism,” History and Theory 31 (1992): 276-98.
Edited Volumes
Ausonio Marras, “Metaphysical Foundations of Action Explanation,” in Contemporary Action
Theory, ed. G. Holstrom-Hintikka and R. Tuomela (Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1997), 1:
45-64.
Figures
Illustrations may be submitted as glossy photographs, slides, transparencies or electronic files and
should be clearly marked. When necessary, crops, horizontal or vertical orientation, enlargement of
details, etc. should be indicated on a photocopy of the original.
The preferred format for electronic files is .tiff or .eps (for maps), but high resolution .jpg files may be
submitted as well. When supplied as electronic files, line drawings should have a minimum resolution of
600 dpi [dots per inch], preferably 1200 dpi. Photographs should have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi,
preferably 600 dpi. Files should be the size of the original image or sized to the approximate size of
reproduction.
Illustrations and captions (including acknowledgements) should be placed at the very end of the
contribution; electronic illustrations files should always be sent separately.
Publication
Page Proofs
Authors of accepted contributions will receive one set of page proofs for proofreading, in the form of a PDF
file per email attachment. In the event of a multi-authored contribution, proofs are sent to the first-named
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author unless otherwise requested. The proofs should be returned promptly within the period requested,
with no corrections marked other than those made in the typesetting or conversion process. Proofs should
be returned to the editor, who will then submit them to the publisher. As copy should be submitted in the
final form intended, substantial author’s rewriting will be charged to the contributor in question.
E-Offprints
A PDF file of the article will be supplied free of charge by the publisher to each author. Brill is a RoMEO
green publisher.
Authors are allowed to post their submitted (pre-peer-review) version of the article at any time. This is
the author's own version that had not yet been peer-reviewed, or had any value added to it by Brill (such
as formatting or copy editing). Authors may post the accepted (peer-reviewed) version of their article 24
months after publication. This is the version accepted for publication, which contains all revisions made
after peer review and copy editing, but has not yet been typeset in the publisher’s lay-out. The
publisher’s lay-out must not be used in any repository or on any website.
Consent to Publish
Transfer of Copyright
By submitting a manuscript, the author agrees that the copyright for the article is transferred to the
publisher if and when the article is accepted for publication. For that purpose the author needs to sign
the Consent to Publish which will be sent with the first proofs of the manuscript.
Open Access
Should the author wish to publish the article in Open Access he/she can choose the Brill Open option.
This allows for non-exclusive Open Access publication under a Creative Commons license in exchange
for an Article Publication Charge (APC), upon signing a special Brill Open Consent to Publish Form.
More information on Brill Open, Brill ”s Open Access Model and the Brill Open Consent to Publish Form
can be found on brill.com/brillopen.
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Appendix - Abbreviations for Standard Editions on Erasmus
Allen
ASD
COE
CWE
Ep.
ERSY
Ferguson
LB
Reedijk
Opus epistolarum Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami, ed. P. S. Allen et al. 12 vols. (Oxford, 1906-58).
References are to letter and line number, with volume and page number only when
necessary.
Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami. In progress. (Amsterdam, 1969-). References are
to ordo, volume, page, and line number.
Contemporaries of Erasmus: A Biographical Register of the Renaissance and Reformation, ed.
Peter G. Bietenholz and Thomas B. Deutscher. 3 vols. (Toronto, 1985-87). References are to
volume and page.
Collected Works of Erasmus. In progress. (Toronto, 1974-). References are to volume, page,
and line number, except for letters: letters use only Allen letter numbers with line numbers
of the English translation.
A letter in any edition using Allen numbers.
Erasmus of Rotterdam Society Yearbook.
Erasmi opuscula, ed. Wallace K. Ferguson (The Hague, 1933).
Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami opera omnia, ed. Jean LeClerc. 10 vols. (Leiden, 1703-06).
References are to volume, column, and column section number.
The Poems of Desiderius Erasmus, ed. Cornelius Reedijk (Leiden, 1956).
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