California Tax Lawyer Style Manual

• Publication year: 2019

California Tax Lawyer Style Manual

ARTICLE & BAR BUSINESS SUBMISSIONS:

Submissions should be in Times New Roman, 12pt. font, Single Spaced and Justified. Endnotes should be used instead of Footnotes.

A. Formatting

To keep the CTL looking like a professional journal, there needs to be consistency to the formatting of the articles from edition to edition. The following is the "Style Guide" for the various headings:

TITLE

Title Case, Bold, Centered

This Is an Example of a Title

AUTHOR

Title Case and Centered

By Example Author

Always begins with "By". If there is more than one author use "&" between names.

By Example Author & Example Author

At the end of the author's name—or authors' names if both the authors are from the same firm—should be an Endnote. The Endnote should provide the contact information, which should include: author(s) name, firm, telephone # and email address. If the authors are from different firms, then there should be an Endnote for each individual author. This Endnote is also an appropriate place for author "thank yous".

HEADINGS

I. FIRST LEVEL HEADING

Bold Roman number, period, tab, first level heading title in all Capitals, Bold & Italic, line space above and below. Text below is indented by one tab.

A. Second Level Heading

Bold Capital letter, period, tab, second level heading title in Title Case, Bold, line space above, no line space below. Text below is indented by one tab.

1. Third Level Heading

Bold Numeral, period, tab, third level heading title in Title Case, Bold & Italic, line space above, no line space below. Text below is indented by one tab.

i. Fourth Level Heading

Lower case Roman numeral, period, tab, fourth level heading title in Title Case, Italic, Underlined, line space above, no line space below. Text below is indented by one tab.

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a. Fifth level heading

Lower case letter, period, tab, fifth level heading title in Sentence Case, Underlined, line space above, no line space below. Text below is indented by one tab.

(i) Sixth level heading

Lower case Roman numeral in parens, tab, sixth level heading title in Sentence Case, Italic, line space above, no line space below. Text below is indented by one tab.

Seventh level heading . . . you're on your own!

The printers put in the heading for the "ENDNOTES". In addition, the printers will put spaces between each endnote, but submit the article without any additional spaces.

B. Consistency

Consistency in a publication gives it the appearances of stability and reliability regardless of the...