Presentation of submissions
Articles should be in fluent academic English, typed in double spacing (including all notes and references) on one side only of the paper, preferably A4 or US standard size, with pages numbered.
Articles should not normally exceed 8,000 words in length. Print a word count at the end of the text, together with the date of the manuscript. Provide an abstract of no more than 125 words with the article, plus a list of up to 6 keywords suitable for indexing and abstracting services. Give authors' full postal and e-mail addresses as well as telephone.
Notes
Keep textual notes to a minimum, indicate them with superscript numbers, and provide the note text as a list at the end of the article before the references. Please do not use footnotes.
Figures and Tables
When submitting manuscripts for review, please place figures and tables in their appropriate locations in the text.
Reference Style
The journal uses the Chicago-based reference style is used in the humanities based on the specifications given in the Chicago Manual of Style. Please adhere to the following guidelines when preparing your manuscript:
- Do not abbreviate journal names; they are always written out.
- Do not abbreviate the given names of the authors if they were submitted in full.
- Follow the author regarding capitalization of titles of an article, chapter, or book but ensure it is consistent according to either the 16th edition (upper and lower case titles) or 15th edition (capitalize only the first word in the title of an article, chapter, or book and any proper nouns) of the Chicago Manual of Style. If creating a list from scratch, standardly follow the 15th edition.
Text Citations
As a rule, all the references given in the list of references should be cited in the body of a text (i.e., in the text proper, any appendix, any footnotes to either of these, figure legends, or tables). Of course, any reference may be cited more than once. Citation may take one of two forms:
- By number, whether sequential by citation or according to the sequence in an alphabetized list
- By name of cited author and year of publication Only one form of citation is permitted within a publication.
Reference citations within an abstract of a journal article must be treated differently since a reader may only have the abstract (and not the text or the list of references). Regardless of the style of citation otherwise used, in an abstract a reference citation should take the form, for example, "as reported by Smith (JAMA 352:24-28, 2004)."
References
Examples of reference entries according to Chicago style
Please note, examples are styled here according to The Chicago Manual of Style 15th edn. Retain capitalization of titles if provided by the author according to the 16th edition)
Number | Type | Example |
1. | Journal article | Alber, John, Daniel C. O’Connell, and Sabine Kowal. 2002. Personal perspective in TV interviews. Pragmatics 12: 257–271. |
2. | Article by DOI (with page numbers) | Slifka, M.K., and J.L. Whitton. 2000. Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Journal of Molecular Medicine 78:74–80. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086. |
3. | Article by DOI (before issue publication and without page numbers) | Suleiman, Camelia, Daniel C. O’Connell, and Sabine Kowal. 2002. ‘If you and I, if we, in this later day, lose that sacred fire...’: Perspective in political interviews. Journal of Psycholinguistic Research. https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1015592129296. |
4. | Article in electronic journal by DOI (no paginated version) | Slifka, M.K., and J.L. Whitton. 2000. Clinical implications of dysregulated cytokine production. Online Journal of Molecular Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s001090000086. |
5. | Newspaper article | Schultz, Sean. 2011. Lessons to be learned in systems change initiatives. Independent, December 28. |
6. | Book | Cameron, Deborah. 1985. Feminism and linguistic theory. New York: St. Martin’s Press. |
7. | Book chapter | Cameron, Deborah. 1997. Theoretical debates in feminist linguistics: Questions of sex and gender. In Gender and discourse, ed. Ruth Wodak, 99-119. London: Sage Publications. |
8. | Book, also showing a translator | Adorno, Theodor W. 1973. Negative dialectics. Trans. E.B. Ashton. London: Routledge. |
9. | Modern editions of the classics and classic poems and plays. Year of edition is given not original publication | Shakespeare, William. 1982 . Hamlet. Arden edition. Edited by Harold Jenkins. London: Methuen |
10. | OnlineFirst chapter in a series (without a volume designation but with a | Saito, Yukio, and Hyuga, Hiroyuki. 2007. Rate equation approaches to amplification of enantiomeric excess and chiral symmetry breaking. Topics in Current Chemistry. |
11. | Book, also showing a translated edition [Either edition may be listed first.] | Adorno, T.W. 1966. Negative Dialektik. Frankfurt: Suhrkamp. English edition: Adorno, T.W. 1973. Negative dialectics (trans: Ashton, E.B.). London: Routledge. |
12. | Online document | Frisch, Mathias. 2007. Does a low-entropy constraint prevent us from influencing the past? PhilSci archive. http://philsci- archive.pitt.edu/archive/00003390. Accessed 26 June 2007. |
13. | Online database | German emigrants database. 1998. Historisches Museum Bremerhaven. http://www.deutsche-auswanderer- datenbank.de. Accessed 21 June 2007. |
14. | Supplementary material/private homepage | Doe, John. 2006. Title of supplementary material. http://www.privatehomepage.com. Accessed 22 Feb 2007. |
15. | FTP site | Doe, J. 1999. Trivial HTTP, RFC2169. ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in- notes/rfc2169.txt. Accessed 12 Nov 2006. |
16. | Organization site | ISSN International Centre. 2006. The ISSN register. http://www.issn.org. Accessed 20 Feb 2007. |
Spelling
Use either US or UK spellings consistently throughout. For UK spellings, take as a guide the new edition of the Concise Oxford English Dictionary and the Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors; Websters Collegiate for US spellings. UK spellings will therefore prefer '-ize' to '-ise', as a verb ending (e.g. realize, specialize, recognize, etc.).
