GUIDELINES FOR CONTRIBUTORS OF ARTICLES AND BOOK REVIEWS

PLEASE NOTE: The decisions of the Editorial Board, upon review of submissions and referees reports, are final and not subject to appeal by the submitter.

1. COPY
Articles should be submitted in their final form (ready for publication) as two hard copies and electronic copy (i.e., an e-mail attachment).
The (i) author’s name and (ii) institutional and e-mail address, along with (iii) a brief note of publications and research interests suitable for the “Notes on Contributors” section and (iv) a 100 word abstract, should appear on a separate file/sheet accompanying the article (to allow for blind refereeing).
Hard copy should be double-spaced on one side of an A4 or 8.5"x11" page. Electronic copy should be saved in Rich Text Format (RTF). Hard and disk copy should be formatted identically, with all spacing and italics in place and without rectification on the right hand margin.

2. LENGTH
Articles normally should be 4,000-6,000 words, book reviews 1,000-2,500 words. (Requests for exemption should be addressed to the editors.)

3. ENDNOTES
Endnotes (rather than footnotes or a list of works cited) are to be used for all references, except where the repeated use of a single text throughout an article allows the inclusion of page numbers in parentheses in the text. The first reference to a text in the endnotes should include full bibliographical details — including full names for all publishers. Subsequent references require a short title only (avoid ‘ibid.’ and op. cit.’). Otherwise, notes should kept to a minimum: on no account should they be used to carry on or extend the argument, or to indulge in scholarly elaboration or digression.

Endnotes should be in the following house style:

Peter J. Manning, Reading Romantics: Texts and Contexts (New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1990), p. 82.

Henry James, The Portrait of a Lady, ed. Robert D. Bamberg, second edition (New York: W. W. Norton), p. 17.

Goetz Richter, “The Question of Music: Reflections on Roger Scruton’s The Aesthetics of Music”, in Literature and Aesthetics, 10 (November 2000), pp. 149-64 (p. 150).

Josh Cohen, “James Ellroy, Los Angeles and the Spectacular Crisis of Masculinity”, in Criminal Proceedings, ed. Peter Messant (London: Pluto Press, 1997), p. 134.

Roland Barthes, Image-Music-Text, trans. Stephen Heath (New York, Hill and Wang, 1977), p. 14.

Jacques Derrida, Le voix et le phénonème (Paris: Presses Universitaires de France, 1967), p. 58.

Friedrich Nietzsche, “Schopenhauer als Erzieher” (§ 6) and “Richard Wagner in Bayreuth” (§§ 4, 5, 8), in Unzeitgemässe Betrachtungen, in Sammtliche Werke (Stuttgart: Alfred Kröner, 1976), pp. 266-7, 322-4, 335.

4. DATES AND NUMERALS
Dates should observe the form “11 November 2001” (no comma or “th”). Cardinal numbers up 100 should be written as words (“forty three” and “nineteenth century”).

5. QUOTATION MARKS
Quotation marks should always be double inverted commas (“ ”).

6. QUOTATIONS
Quotations of more than three lines should be isolated from the text and indented two tabs from the left margin.

7. PUNCTUATION
Commas and full stops following quotation marks should go outside the inverted commas. Where a note is required, it should immediately follow the punctuation mark:

The opening of Charles Dickens’s novel David Copperfield will be familiar to most readers: “Whether I shall turn out to be the hero of my own life, or whether the station will be held by anybody else, these pages must show”.¹

8. SUBHEADINGS
Subheadings should be avoided where possible. If subdivisions within the article are required, spacing and Roman numerals should be sufficient.

9. SPELLING
Spelling throughout should be according to the Oxford English Dictionary.

10. BOOK REVIEWS
Reviews, also double-spaced throughout, should have no endnotes and be headed with the full title, in bold print (without recording the price or the number of pages):

Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont, Intellectual Impostures (London: Profile Books, 1998).
 
 

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