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NPT publishes articles in English only. Submission of an article implies that it has not been simultaneously submitted or previously published elsewhere. The entire manuscript, including notes, tables and references, must be typed double-spaced. The first page of the manuscript should contain: the title, the name(s) and institutional affiliation(s) of the author(s); an abstract of no more than 200 words.

All non-English words found in an unabridged English dictionary should be treated as English words. All other transliterated words and phrases should be underlined. All non-Roman alphabets must be transliterated, and authors are responsible for the consistency of their transliterations. NPT uses footnotes. Acknowledgments of any sort should be typed as an Author’s Note above the first note. The author should provide a complete list of all the cited references at the end of the manuscript. The style of footnote citations should conform with the 15th edition of The Chicago Manual of Style the humanities style. Further information on the humanities style is available at the official web site of The Chicago Manual of Style. When a work is referenced more than once, for the second and consecutive citations use the author’s last name and a shortened title of the book or article. When references to the same work follow without interruption, use Ibid..

Samples:
1. Book with one author: Wendy Doniger, Splitting the Difference (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999).
2. Book with two authors: Guy Cowlishaw and Robin Dunbar, Primate Conservation Biology (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000).
3. Book with more than two authors: Edward O. Laumann et al., The Social Organization of Sexuality: Sexual Practices in the United States (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1994).
4. Editor, translator, or compiler: Richmond Lattimore, trans., The Iliad of Homer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1951).
5. Chapter or other part of a book: W. Freeman Twaddell, “A Note on Old High German Umlaut,” in Readings in Linguistics I: The Development of Descriptive Linguistics in America, 1925–1956, 4th ed., ed. Martin Joos (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1957).
6. Journal article: John Maynard Smith, “The Origin of Altruism,” Nature 393 (1998): 639–40.
7. Article in an electronic journal: Mark A. Hlatky et al., “Quality-of-Life and Depressive Symptoms in Postmenopausal Women after Receiving Hormone Therapy: Results from the Heart and Estrogen/Progestin Replacement Study (HERS) Trial,” Journal of the American Medical Association 287, no. 5 (2002), http://jama.ama-ssn.org/issues/v287n5/rfull/joc10- 108.html#aainfo.
8. Popular magazine article: Steve Martin, “Sports-Interview Shocker,” New Yorker, May 6, 2002, 84.
9. Newspaper article: William S. Niederkorn, “A Scholar Recants on His ‘Shakespeare’ Discovery,” New York Times, June 20, 2002, Arts section, Midwest edition.
10. Book review: James Gorman, “Endangered Species,” review of The Last American Man, by Elizabeth Gilbert, New York Times Book Review, June 2, 2002, 16.
11. Theses and dissertations: M. Amundin, “Click Repetition Rate Patterns in Communicative Sounds from the Harbour Porpoise, Phocoena phocoena” (Ph.D. Dissertation, Stockholm University, 1991), 22–29, 35.
12. Paper presented at a meeting or conference: Brian Doyle, “Howling Like Dogs: Metaphorical Language in Psalm 59” (paper presented at the annual international meeting for the Society of Biblical Literature, Berlin, Germany, June 19–22, 2002), 15–16.