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Contents:

• UEE Stylesheet – Template
• UEE Stylesheet – References and Bibliography
• UEE Stylesheet – Illustrations and Photographs
• UEE Stylesheet – Transcription and Transliteration
• UEE Sample Page

UEE Stylesheet – Template

UEE articles conform to the following template:

1. Entry title
2. Arabic title
3. Abstract in English
4. Abstract in Arabic
5. Term in hieroglyphs
6. Alternative hieroglyphic spellings
7. Term in transliteration
8. German title
9. French title
10. Related terms
11. Author
12. Article Text
13. Illustrations
14. Bibliographical Notes
15. References

Contributors are asked to provide elements 1-11 at the top of their article. The size of element 3, the English Abstract, is approximately 20 words for a 500-word article, 250 words for a 6000-word essay, and provides a quick overview and identification of the entry.

The length of the article text, element 12, has been specified in the Contribution Schedule, sent to you as part of the Agreement between you and the UC Regents.

The number of illustrations, element 13, has been specified in the Contribution Schedule, sent to you as part of the Agreement between you and the UC Regents.  Contributors are responsible for clearing the copyright for their illustrations. In rare cases, when an article requires a very specific illustration the editorial staff can be contacted.

Element 14, the Bibliographical Notes, should discuss relevant literature, focusing on "classical" texts and the most recent publications. These publications are also incorporated into element 15, the References section, which additionally lists references used in the article text. An example of an entry is added below.

We ask that contributors apply minimal formatting to their articles (please, no complicated borders, bulleting, etc.), as entries will be reformatted upon submission according to UEE style conventions. Please contact the editors if you are planning to upload your article in a word processing program other than MS Word.

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UEE Stylesheet – References and Bibliography

Citations:
Citations are abbreviated sources cited in the article text and/or in the Bibliographical Notes. Citations should start with the author name and year, in the format <author year>. See below for specific examples. Citations must correspond, source for source, to the References at the end of the article.

References:
References are the unabbreviated sources corresponding to the Citations. In the References, unlike the Citations, all authors should be listed with their full names (i.e., no "et al."). For example:

EndNote Software

The UEE editorial staff converts all submission Citations and References with EndNote software, Version X. Authors familiar with EndNote X are encouraged, but not required, to use it for their submissions. An EndNote output style (UEE.ens) can be downloaded at this link. Unzip the downloaded file to find it.

Online references will only be accepted if they can be considered stable URLs. Please mention the full URL, the title, and date of access.

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UEE Stylesheet – Illustrations and Photographs

Illustrations, photographs, or line drawings are requested to be delivered in digital format, separate from the text. Please use TIFF format with LZW compression. The minimum size for line drawings should be 1200 pixels/inch, for photographs between 300 and 600 pixels/inch, at a length and width of minimally 2000 pixels.  

Please number your illustrations and provide captions that include information on the artist or photographer (where relevant).

Maps will be provided by the UEE. All locations will be incorporated in one overall map, from which sections will be placed with each article (where relevant).

Please provide hieroglyphic spelling as a picture (not included in the illustration count as specified in the Contribution Schedule), to ensure that in the final form of the online article the hieroglyphs will be presented correctly.

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UEE Stylesheet – Transcription and Transliteration

In the article text Egyptian terms are generally transcribed in the roman alphabet and italicized (hetep, ankh). The spelling section lists the transcriptions of the most commonly used words and place names. Whenever relevant, for instance in entries dealing with a specific term, such as the sample article below, the transliteration of the hieroglyphic word is given (Htp, ‘nx). Please use the following conventions for representing transliteration fonts:


 

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UEE Sample Page

Twins	التوائم
In the pharaonic period no special term for "twins" is known and twins are simply called "brothers". Descriptions of siblings of simultaneous birth are rare. From 800 BCE onwards references to twins become much more common.	في الفترةِ الفرعونيةِ ليس هناك  تعبيرَ خاصَّ معروف   للتوائمِ' والتوائمَ ببساطة يَدْعونَ 'الإخوةَ'. أوصاف أشقاءِ الولادةِِ نادرة. مِنْ 800 قبل الميلاد وما بعد فإن الإشارة إلى التوائمِ اُصبحُت أكثر شيوعاًَ.
Term in hieroglyphs
	alternative spellings:  (22nd dynasty?)
Term in transliteration	Htr
German title	Zwillinge
French title	jumeaux
Related terms:	kinship, family, homosexuality
Author	John Baines
The only certain case of human twins before the Late Period is Suty and Hor, architects of the Luxor Temple in the reign of Amenophis III, who describe their simultaneous birth but do not use a word for twins, referring to each other as “brothers (sn).” Other possible examples are Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotpe, joint owners of a unique 5th Dynasty tomb at Saqqara, and two women shown on an Abydos stela of the 12th Dynasty; no unlike-sexed pair has been identified or proposed. All three pairs are presented as if they had a single, fused social role, and the men have identical titles (but are discreetly distinguished as senior and junior); they have separate wives and families. The rarity of examples – far rarer than the likely incidence of twin births – the elaborate presentation, and the absence of a term, suggest an avoidance of the phenomenon, which could be transcended and celebrated in a few cases. From about 800 B.C. the word Htr “twins” is attested, first in an oracular amuletic decree which shows that the birth of twins was inauspicious. The word becomes very common in the Graeco-Roman period, notably in personal names (Demotic and Greek). Any earlier avoidance of twins must have ceased. In the Late Period divine precedents for twinning appear to be Isis and Nephthys, and for unlike-sexed pairs Schu and Tefnut, who are known in Roman times in the iconography of the sign Gemini, termed Htr in Demotic. The earlier term snwj/sntj (“sibling pair”) could possibly be used for twins but is not certainly attested with this meaning.
Bibliographical Notes Most comprehensive treatment of this subject is Baines (1985). Recently Suty-Hor and Niankhkhnum-Khnumhotpe have alternatively been identified as same-sex couples; cf. Shubert (2004) and Reeder (2000, 1993). For the term snwj/sntj “sibling pair," see Schenkel (1985).
References http://www.egyptology.com/niankhkhnum_khnumhotep/ Baines, John   1985 Egyptian twins. Orientalia 54, pp. 461-482. de Cenival, Jean-Louis   1991 Les deux frères (une statue de Souty frère de Hor). Cahier de Recherches de l'Institut de Papyrologie et d'Égyptologie de Lille 13, pp. 47-52. Cherpion, Nadine   1986 Deux manucures royaux de la Ve dynastie. In Acta Orientalia Belgica 4:Archéologie et Philologie dans l'Étude des Civilisations Orientales, ed. A Théodoridès, P. Naster, and R. 65-72. Moussa, Ahmed and Hartwig Altenmüller   1977 Das Grab des Nianchchnum und Chnumhotep. Mainz am Rhein: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut. Reeder, Greg   1993 United for eternity (on the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep at Saqqara). K.M.T. 4:1. Reeder, Greg   2000 Same-sex desire, conjugal constructs, and the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep. World Archaeology 30, pp.193-208. Schenkel, Wolfgang   1985 zA.t "Kindchen", TA.t "Jüngchen". Göttinger Miszellen 84, pp. 65-70. Shubert, Steven Blake   2004 Double entendre in the stela of Suty and Hor. In Egypt, Israel and the Ancient Mediterranean: Fs. Donald B. Redford, Probleme der Ägyptologie 20, ed. Gary N. Knoppers and Antoine Hirsch, pp. 143-165. Leiden: Brill. Van de Walle, Baudouin   1971 La statue-bloc du "Directeur des Travaux" Hor (MMA, Ny, 23.8). Zeitschrift für ägyptische Sprache und Altertumskunde 97, pp.130-140.