• An introduction providing a general overview of the history of the notebook's compilation and use.

• A detailed bibliographical description of the document.

• Newly scanned, high-resolution cameo representations (vignettes) of the original pages alongside each transcribed and annotated page.

• A fully annotated transcription of notes, collated with source materials. Each note will be alphabetically tagged to allow easy identification and cross-reference. All items used by Joyce in Work in Progress / Finnegans Wake will be marked with colour cancellation code and FW page references, as well as manuscript numbers of the holding libraries of the original documents, the James Joyce Archive references, the dates of insertion, and draft codes that have become the standard of reference in textual criticism since the publication of the James Joyce Archive (Garland Press, 1978).

• Transcriptions of the draft points of entry, indicating the nature of the insertion.

• Unused entries will be tagged with a reference to the C-series notebook page(s) on which they were copied by Madame Raphael.

• An index of subjects found in the sources.

• Analytic appendices showing overall patterns in the material and the use of colour cancellation and its relation to notebook chronology.

• A bibliography and complete list of collateral documents used for establishing dating and identifying material.

• An appendix of cross-references to related note clusters appearing elsewhere in the series.

• A number of colour reproductions of special or representative notebook pages.

• A detailed history of work done on the notebook. Genetic research is essentially a collaborative enterprise and each volume will incorporate and acknowledge previously published work as well as contributions passed on to the editors by various scholars.