should conform their manuscripts to the style and format detailed in this volume or in other guidelines supplied by their particular publisher. While proper style and format often concern apparently trivial details, the consequences of inconsistency can be far-reaching. Thus, for example, authors often cite primary sources inconsistently and incorrectly. Consider this: Within a work a scholar could conceivably cite a passage from Josephus’s Antiquities as Ant. X,xiii.1 §258; Antiq. X,13,1; Ant. X.
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