LEMDO Style Guidelines
The LEMDO style guidelines are meant to govern the
Aboutpages of the LEMDO anthology, any promotional materials for LEMDO, social media posts, and correspondence between the LEMDO team and contributors. These guidelines cover matters like preferred spellings, punctuation placement, and preferred external style guides.
Spelling
Use Canadian spellings. In the following table, the spellings in the first column
are preferred over those in the second column1:
| Preferred | Non-Preferred |
| Acknowledgement | Acknowledgment |
| Analogue | Analog |
| Apparelled | Appareled |
| Armour | Armor |
| Behaviour | Behavior |
| Centre | Center |
| Checkbox | Check box; check-box |
| Colour | Color |
| Copy-text | Copytext; copy text |
| Clamour | Clamor |
| Defence | Defense |
| Dialogue | Dialog |
| Dropdown | Drop-down |
| Enquiry (questioning) | Inquiry (questioning) |
| Ensure (make certain) | Ensure or insure (make certain) |
| Favour | Favor |
| Fervour | Fervor |
| Grey | Gray |
| Harbour | Harbor |
| Honour | Honor |
| Judgement | Judgment |
| License (noun and verb) | Licence (noun); License (verb) |
| Mould | Mold |
| Moustache | Mustache |
| Manoeuvre | Maneuver |
| Neighbour | Neighbor |
| Offence | Offense |
| Old-spelling (as an adjective)2 | Old spelling (as an adjective) |
| Playtext | Play text; play-text |
| Plough | Plow |
| Practice (noun) Practise (verb) | Practice (noun and verb) |
| Promptbook | Prompt book, prompt-book |
| Rumour | Rumor |
| Sceptre | Scepter |
| Signalling | Signaling |
| Skilful | Skillful |
| Succour | Succor |
| Theatre | Theater |
| Tonne | Ton |
| Totalled | Totaled |
| Traveller | Traveler |
| Tunnelled | Tunneled |
| Unfavourable | Unfavorable |
| Wilful | Willful |
| Worshipped | Worshiped |
| A.S.Sp. | A.S.SP |
Terminology
Use markup to refer to the tags you will add to your text, and reserve mark up for the action of adding markup.
Hyphenate born-digital when it is being used as an adjective to modify a noun (e.g., born-digital document).
Anthology Version Numbers
Do not use “v” when writing out an anthology’s version number. We only include the
numbers. E.g.,
DRE 2.0,
LEMDO Classroom 0.2.1.
Capitalization
A list of the kinds of words to be capitalized will be found in the MLA Handbook, 2.64-2.70.
In citing titles of articles and books, use initial capitals for the main words (title
case).
Capitalize such words as Medieval, Renaissance, Reformation, Restoration, Protestant, Catholic (unless it is a matter of catholic taste), and the Church (as an institution).
Do not capitalize honorifics like
your grace,
your honour,
my lord,etc.
Use lower case for references to god, and use lower case for pronouns referring to
them.
Use lower case for the word sig in citations of signature numbers in references to early modern printed books: sig.
A2r.
Punctuation
Use em dashes in the same way that you would use commas or parentheses, to offset
subordinate or interrupting clauses.
Do not add a space on either side of em dashes.
Use en dashes in date ranges and page number ranges.
Use hyphens for words that are hyphenated.
MLA recommends that periods not be used with abbreviations composed of capitals. A
period will normally follow an abbreviation that ends with a lower case letter: OED, MS (manuscript), references like SP and SD (
speech prefixand
stage direction), and plays like 2H4 (Henry IV, Part 2; compare Ham.), Mr., Ms., and St. (for Saint).
Use a serial comma before the final and in a series:
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
Use a comma after both e.g. and i.e.
Abbreviate Titles
If you choose to abbreviate titles of periodicals and standard works of reference,
do so without internal stops: RES, TLS, SQ, etc., not R.E.S., T.L.S., S.Q., etc. Use standard abbreviations found in the PMLA Bibliography, for example, and list in the Abbreviations.
We follow the CMOS and abbreviate circa as ca. for greater clarity.
Names of Authors
In referring to authors, editors, etc., use the full name, without any honorific on
the first occurrence, and the surname only thereafter, thus: Muriel Bradbrook (first occurrence; not Prof.) and Bradbrook (thereafter). This rule need not apply to formal acknowledgments in the preliminary
matter, etc.
Notes
1.When you are quoting, always quote the spellings as they appear in the source.↑
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.
Kate LeBere
Project Manager, 2020–2021. Assistant Project Manager, 2019–2020. Textual Remediator
and Encoder, 2019–2021. Kate LeBere completed her BA (Hons.) in History and English
at the University of Victoria in 2020. During her degree she published papers in The Corvette (2018), The Albatross (2019), and PLVS VLTRA (2020) and presented at the English Undergraduate Conference (2019), Qualicum History
Conference (2020), and the Digital Humanities Summer Institute’s Project Management
in the Humanities Conference (2021). While her primary research focus was sixteenth
and seventeenth century England, she completed her honours thesis on Soviet ballet
during the Russian Cultural Revolution. She is currently a student at the University
of British Columbia’s iSchool, working on her masters in library and information science.
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.
Nicole Vatcher
Technical Documentation Writer, 2020–2022. Nicole Vatcher completed her BA (Hons.)
in English at the University of Victoria in 2021. Her primary research focus was women’s
writing in the modernist period.
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 | LEMDO Style Guidelines |
| Type of text | Documentation |
| Publisher | University of Victoria on the Linked Early Modern Drama Online Platform |
| Series | Linked Early Modern Drama Online |
| Source |
TEI Customization created by Martin Holmes, Joey Takeda, and Janelle Jenstad; documentation written by members of the LEMDO Team
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| Editorial declaration | n/a |
| Edition | Released with Linked Early Modern Drama Online 1.0 |
| Encoding description | Encoded in TEI P5 according to the LEMDO Customization and Encoding Guidelines |
| Document status | prgGenerated |
| Funder(s) | Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada |
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