LEMDO: Style Guidelines for Anthologies

Style Guidelines for Anthologies

As anthology lead, you may choose to follow the LEMDO Style Guide or the DRE Style Guide for their own About pages, spelling choices, content of critical paratexts, and content of apparatus. You may also choose to write your style guide. However, there are a few matters that must be consistent across all the anthologies using the LEMDO platform.

Page Numbers

Where page ranges have been abbreviated (e.g., 191–92), spell out the first and last page numbers in full (e.g., 191–192). Note that LEMDO follows Chicago 17th ed and uses the en dash. However, we diverge from MLA and Chicago in that we give all the digits in ranges. The computer is better at processing full numbers, and we can write a script to remove digits before the text goes to print, if necessary.

Citations

It is good practice in the digital environment to list the name of the author in your parenthetical citation even if you have already mentioned the name of the author in your running prose.

Quotation Marks

Do not use quotation marks in your tagging. Instead, see Introduction to Quotations, Terms, Expressions, Glosses, Emphasis, and Foreign Languages. If you are preparing a manuscript for someone else to tag, use double quotations first, followed by single quotation marks for embedded quotations. Add a note indicating why the material is in quotation marks so that your encoder may encode it with the right element. The most common reason for enclosing text in quotation marks is that one is quoting, in which case your encoder will want to use the


                                          <quote>

element. Other possibilities are


                                          <soCalled>


                                          <term>


                                          <mentioned>

, and


                                          <gloss>

For punctuation around quotations, remember that the LEMDO processor will put punctuation in the right place for LEMDO practice. Unlike most style guides, we ask you to put commas and periods inside the


                                          <quote>

element only if the punctuation belongs to the quotation. If the punctuation does not belong to the quotation, put it outside the


                                          <quote>

element.

Ellipsis

The ellipsis character must be used instead of three spaced dots. See Practice: Insert an Ellipsis Character.

Brackets

Square brackets are not allowed in LEMDO prose. Instead, use the


                                          <supplied>

element to indicate that you have supplied material. Avoid nested parentheses.

Abbreviation

If you use acronyms when referring to play titles (i.e., AYL ), use the standardized play ids in the DRE Editorial Guidelines. See the complete list of works.

OED Citations

To aid our student users, LEMDO would like all anthologies to quote from the OED in the same way.

Current practice is to consult the 2nd edition of the OED that is available online.

Optional but recommended: You may choose to add links to your parenthetical citations of the OED. See Cite OED to learn how to tag citations of the OED.

Prosopography

Isabella Seales

Isabella Seales is a fourth year undergraduate completing her Bachelor of Arts in English at the University of Victoria. She has a special interest in Renaissance and Metaphysical Literature. She is assisting Dr. Jenstad with the MoEML Mayoral Shows anthology as part of the Undergraduate Student Research Award program.

Janelle Jenstad

Janelle Jenstad is a Professor of English at the University of Victoria, Director of The Map of Early Modern London, and Director of Linked Early Modern Drama Online. With Jennifer Roberts-Smith and Mark Kaethler, she co-edited Shakespeare’s Language in Digital Media: Old Words, New Tools (Routledge). She has edited John Stow’s A Survey of London (1598 text) for MoEML and is currently editing The Merchant of Venice (with Stephen Wittek) and Heywood’s 2 If You Know Not Me You Know Nobody for DRE. Her articles have appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly, Elizabethan Theatre, Early Modern Literary Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin, Renaissance and Reformation, and The Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies. She contributed chapters to Approaches to Teaching Othello (MLA); Teaching Early Modern Literature from the Archives (MLA); Institutional Culture in Early Modern England (Brill); Shakespeare, Language, and the Stage (Arden); Performing Maternity in Early Modern England (Ashgate); New Directions in the Geohumanities (Routledge); Early Modern Studies and the Digital Turn (Iter); Placing Names: Enriching and Integrating Gazetteers (Indiana); Making Things and Drawing Boundaries (Minnesota); Rethinking Shakespeare Source Study: Audiences, Authors, and Digital Technologies (Routledge); and Civic Performance: Pageantry and Entertainments in Early Modern London (Routledge). For more details, see janellejenstad.com.

Joey Takeda

Joey Takeda is LEMDO’s Consulting Programmer and Designer, a role he assumed in 2020 after three years as the Lead Developer on LEMDO.

Mahayla Galliford

Project manager, 2025-present; research assistant, 2021-present. Mahayla Galliford (she/her) graduated with a BA (Hons with distinction) from the University of Victoria in 2024. Mahayla’s undergraduate research explored early modern stage directions and civic water pageantry. Mahayla continues her studies through UVic’s English MA program and her SSHRC-funded thesis project focuses on editing and encoding girls’ manuscripts, specifically Lady Rachel Fane’s dramatic entertainments, in collaboration with LEMDO.

Martin Holmes

Martin Holmes has worked as a developer in the UVic’s Humanities Computing and Media Centre for over two decades, and has been involved with dozens of Digital Humanities projects. He has served on the TEI Technical Council and as Managing Editor of the Journal of the TEI. He took over from Joey Takeda as lead developer on LEMDO in 2020. He is a collaborator on the SSHRC Partnership Grant led by Janelle Jenstad.

Navarra Houldin

Training and Documentation Lead 2025–present. LEMDO project manager 2022–2025. Textual remediator 2021–present. Navarra Houldin (they/them) completed their BA with a major in history and minor in Spanish at the University of Victoria in 2022. Their primary research was on gender and sexuality in early modern Europe and Latin America. They are continuing their education through an MA program in Gender and Social Justice Studies at the University of Alberta where they will specialize in Digital Humanities.

Tracey El Hajj

Junior Programmer 2019–2020. Research Associate 2020–2021. Tracey received her PhD from the Department of English at the University of Victoria in the field of Science and Technology Studies. Her research focuses on the algorhythmics of networked communications. She was a 2019–2020 President’s Fellow in Research-Enriched Teaching at UVic, where she taught an advanced course on Artificial Intelligence and Everyday Life. Tracey was also a member of the Map of Early Modern London team, between 2018 and 2021. Between 2020 and 2021, she was a fellow in residence at the Praxis Studio for Comparative Media Studies, where she investigated the relationships between artificial intelligence, creativity, health, and justice. As of July 2021, Tracey has moved into the alt-ac world for a term position, while also teaching in the English Department at the University of Victoria.

Orgography

LEMDO Team (LEMD1)

The LEMDO Team is based at the University of Victoria and normally comprises the project director, the lead developer, project manager, junior developers(s), remediators, encoders, and remediating editors.

Metadata

Authority title	Style Guidelines for Anthologies
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Publisher	University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform
Series	Linked Early Modern Drama Online
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