This annotated bibliography is designed to become a major reference guide for scholars in the area of Modern Greek Studies and related areas, as well as a source of accessible and dependable information for the general reader. The readership is expected to be international mainly but not exclusively Anglophone. Authors from Australia, Canada, Greece, England, the United States and other countries are welcome to contribute bibliographical entries and annotations to this bibliography. The contributors are required to use precise language (but not jargon) when they enter their annotations, because most readers will not be specialists in each contributor's academic discipline. In an attempt to overcome major exclusions of works about Greece in modern times and, at the same time, to aid readers to learn more about all sorts of available sources of information, the contributors are required to compile and annotate as many bibliographical entries as they can find without dismissing any of their works (or the works of others) as being of a "secondary" or "tertiary" importance.

Each contributor is required to submit his/her annotations in English. Each entry should start on a separate line. When in doubt, contributors should consult the first volume of GREECE IN MODERN TIMES (Scarecrow Press, 2000).

Each entry should be about twenty lines. The maximum number of words that an entry may contain is 250. Contributors are well advised not to exceed this limit because the overall balance of entries and disciplines has been carefully planned, and entries that are too long will be cut back. No entry should have less than five sentences, and the information included in these five sentences should not repeat the information revealed by the title of the work that is being annotated. A good annotated entry is one that is complete in itself while placing the summarized topic in a larger context in one or two sentences. The personal views of the contributors should be kept to a minimum. Where there is a controversy, both sides of the debate should be presented. Readability is extremely important. The summary should be clear and informative. Reliability of the information conveyed is also extremely important. Contributors are required to read carefully the works that they will summarize. Instead of using vague temporal or spacial phrases like "recently" or "a few years ago" in "northern Greece," contributors are required to use specific dates and place names.

Contributors are required to begin each entry with the author's name, followed by the work's title, the place and year of its publication--all in bold and in accordance with the spelling used by the author. When in doubt, contributors should consult the first volume of GREECE IN MODERN TIMES.

Contributors are required to avoid using footnotes or other specific citations in their annotations. Where necessary for cross-reference purposes, one or two bibliographical entries may be listed at the end of an annotation. Contributors are forbidden to cite bibliographic information from memory and are required to verify each entry that they submit against the original source. When in doubt as to how to record a book or a chapter in a book, or a journal article, etc., contributors should consult the first volume of GREECE IN MODERN TIMES.

For non-English titles or terms, the contributors are required to use the translated form and supply the original Greek in a parenthesis. For the transliteration of modern Greek names, contributors are required to follow the guidelines specified by the JOURNAL OF MODERN GREEK STUDIES that are available on the web page of the association. For ancient Greek names, they are required to transliterate on Latinate principles (k=c, os=us, oi=ai, oe=ae); thus, Clytemnestra, not Klitemnestra; Dionysus, not Dionysos. In cases where names are well known in English, they are required to use the anglicized spelling that is most common. American usage should be followed. Primarily this means using "-or" not "-our" (labor, not labour) and "-re" not "er" (center not centre). If, however, "-our" or -re" occur in a title or quote, that usage should be maintained. Also "-ize" should be preferred to "-ise" where appropriate (e.g., "Americanize" but "surprise"), and comma should be used before "and" in a list of three or more items: e.g., "red, white, and boom." Also punctuation should be placed inside the quotation marks. Date spans should not be contracted (e.g., 1944-1949, not "1944-49"); numbers below 21 should be spelled out in full (e.g., twenty, not 20); complete dates should be in the form "13 November 1949;" "BC" should follow a year (e.g., 321 BC); "AD" should precede a year (e.g., AD 1949), and should be inserted only when the context is vague. All measurements should be given in metric.