STYLE SHEET FOR REVIEWERS

Your review should be no longer than 700 words and will be due around December 15, 2003. Because space is often limited in The Alabama Review, reviews that exceed the assigned length may be shortened by the editors or returned to the reviewer to be shortened. Please include a word count at the end of your review and type the following heading at the top of the first page of the review:

Beyond the Burning Bus: The Civil Rights Revolution in a Southern Town. By Phil Noble. Foreword by William B. McClain. Introduction by Nan Woodruff. Montgomery: NewSouth Books, 2003. 167 pp. $24.95. ISBN 1-58838-120-x.

Type your name and institutional affiliation or address flush right below the last paragraph of the review, as follows:

Jane Doe

Auburn University

(or)

John Smith

Dothan, Alabama

The review's text should be original content not previously published elsewhere. Reviews generally should summarize the book's contents and present its major arguments, analyze the book's significance and compare it to related historiography, critically examine the validity of the book's thesis and major arguments, and make relevant comments about readability and writing style.

Factual errors, if particularly significant or pervasive, should be pointed out, and typographical errors may be mentioned if they seriously mar the book. Otherwise, reviewers should not dwell upon relatively minor errors.

Reviews should also suggest what type of readers (laypersons, historians generally, specialists in a particular field, etc.) might be interested in the book and, if appropriate, how the book relates to Alabama history.

Please be sure to cite (enclosed in parentheses) the appropriate page number at the end of any quotations you make from the book; place punctuation marks after the parentheses rather than before the closing quotation mark. In addition, if other publications are cited, the place and date of publication should be given; for example: (Lexington, Ky., 1992).

The Alabama Review reserves the right to edit reviews for length, style, and grammar. We do not seek to censor reviewers, but we will encourage reviewers to exercise civility without sacrificing the essence of legitimate criticisms. Reviewers will have an opportunity to examine and approve all editorial changes. The Review reserves the right to refuse to publish a review in the unlikely event that the editorial staff and reviewer cannot reach an agreement on appropriate language.

Please retain the book for your own use with our thanks for a job well done. Send completed reviews in Microsoft Word for Windows as an email attachment or on a 3.5" formatted disk to:

The Alabama Review

Book Review Editor

History Department

310 Thach Hall

Auburn University, Alabama 36849-5207

bamarev@auburn.edu