Guide to Contributors
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Proceedings from the 8th Brno Conference of
English, American and Canadian Studies
Masaryk University in Brno
2 to 4 February 2005
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General information:
All papers should be submitted by e-mail as MS Word files (save as a doc/rtf file). Together with the electronic version, one printed copy should be mailed to the editor (address: Jan Chovanec, Department of English and American Studies, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Arna Novaka 1, 602 00 Brno, Czech Republic).
All drawings, pictures, graphs, etc. must be fully in electronic form.
Please make sure that the submitted copy is the last and final version.
The submitted copy should be accompanied by a 100-word abstract of the article.
Texts
should be typed according to general editorial standards (see
guidelines below) and contain
no more than 10 standard pages
(3000 words) including bibliography and notes. Contributions longer
by more than 5 per cent may not be published. (This limitation does
not apply to plenary speakers.)
The deadline for submissions is 28 February 2005.
Additional information:
Authors should request the permission of copyright holders whenever applicable.
Authors are responsible for the correctness of their submissions. No proof-reading or corrections will be made by the editors or any other persons (apart from the editing of obvious misprints and spelling mistakes). If you choose either the British or the American spelling norm, please make sure you use it consistently.
Authors will receive off-prints of their contributions. Those who had ordered the proceedings when registering for the conference will receive the volume with their contribution as well. Those who wish to order additional copies may do so after the publication.
The editors reserve the right to reject a submitted contribution due to space limitations, inadequate style, mistakes and general academic unacceptability (to be decided by a board of reviewers). Authors will be notified of the acceptance of their contributions by 30 March 2005.
Style sheet:
You will substantially help the editors if you observe the following general typing skills:
Please avoid the following:
do NOT set any “styles” in the MS Word document
do NOT use any line breaks at the ends of individual lines
do NOT use the spacebar for aligning paragraphs, indenting or positioning the text on the page (in tables, etc.). Use the tabulator instead. Make only single spaces between words (green underlining typically indicates two and more spaces when automatic correcting is set in your MS Word document).
do NOT include anything in the header section (“záhlaví/zápatí”).
try to avoid using any footnotes and endnotes. If you have to use a note, then do so manually in the text by typing a small superscript numeral at the place where you wish to have the note and then typing the same superscript numeral (followed by two spaces and the text of the note) at the end of the paper in a section headlined “Notes”. Do NOT use the Insert > Insert Footnotes/Endnotes feature in MS Word. Thank you.
Please use:
intext citations rather than footnotes (viz. below in Referencing). Give list of Works Cited at the end of your text.
double quotes, only use singles when enclosed in doubles
close paragraphs (i.e. do not leave a blank line between paragraphs) and indent, except when starting a new chapter/section
60s, 70s, 80s etc, instead of 60’s etc.
1993–95 rather than 1993–1995, and 1905–06 rather than 1905–6; use 1998/99 for financial and academic years
italics for published book titles, names of paintings, titles of films and videos, plays, long poems, musicals and operas, newspapers, magazines and periodicals, scientific names of plants and animals, and foreign words and phrases not in common use
quotes for television programs/series, articles, essays and parts of wholes (names of chapters, short stories and short poems)
italics for emphasis (sparingly)
“12 am” and “12 pm” (with one space preceding) not “12a.m.” and “12p.m.”
en ( – ) rules (Alt+0150) with space on either side, not em (—) rules (Alt+0151)
Generally:
Numbers one to nine spelt out, then numeric; numbers that start a sentence must always be spelt out. Use comma in thousands, and no spaces.
No punctuation between letters in acronyms (ALP, not A.L.P.)
Indent or italicize long quotes, but do not change lining or font or size or make bold
Spell out per cent, not % (except in tables)
Contractions are not punctuated (e.g., Mr, Mrs, Dr, St), but abbreviations are (e.g., Rev., Prof., Ed.)
Capitals are appropriate for a specific entity (State Parliament), but lower case for job titles, institutions etc. mentioned in a general sense – “Premier Don Dunstan”, but “Don Dunstan was the premier”.
The style is a version of the Harvard System, thus:
Intext citation:
Short quotation:
As Shaw says, another “narrative technique Trollope often deploys […] is double irony” (Shaw 1997: 359).
or just
As Shaw (1997) says, another “narrative technique Trollope often deploys […] is double irony”.
Long quotation:
As Shaw says, another
narrative technique Trollope often deploys in order to capture the complexity of most moral issues is double irony, the simultaneous endorsement of contrary codes. (Shaw 1997: 359)
for the source:
Shaw, W. David (1997) ‘Trollope and Victorian Moral Philosophy’ Victorian Studies 40:2 (Winter 1997): 358-360.
If you are using a re-edition of title, use the following form:
Trollope makes clear early in the novel, for Dr Proudie “Toleration was to be the basis on which he was to fight his battles” (Trollope 1994 [1857]: 33).
for the book:
Trollope, Anthony (1994 [1857]) Barchester Towers, London and New York: Penguin Books.
Journal articles:
Bhabha, H. K. (1988) ‘The Commitment to Theory’ New Formations 5: 5-23.
O'Regan, T. (1992) ‘(Mis)taking Policy: Notes on the Cultural Policy Debate’
Cultural Studies 6:3: 409-423.
Journal article in an internet database:
O'Regan, T. (1992) ‘(Mis)taking Policy: Notes on the Cultural Policy Debate’
Cultural
Studies 6:3: 409-423. JSTOR. Online Database. 15 April
2004
<http://www.jstor.org/>.
Essay from a Collection:
Edwards, B. (1994) ‘Living the Dreaming’ in Bourke, C., Bourke E. and Edwards, B.
(eds) Aboriginal Australia: An Introductory Reader in Aboriginal Studies, St Lucia: University of Queensland Press: 65-84.
Internet Resources:
‘Harvard
Style’ Social Communication and Journalism: Points of
Friction, University of Technology Sydney. 12 January
2005
<http://www.journalism.uts.edu.au/subjects/jres/harvard.html>.
Please make sure that the list of references in the Works Cited section is complete and contains all the publication details.
Useful and related style guides are at:
University of Technology Sydney
Social Communication and Journalism Resources website
http://www.journalism.uts.edu.au/subjects/jres/harvard.html
University of Melbourne
Harvard system online guide
http://www.services.unimelb.edu.au/lsu/resources/flyers/harvardref.pdf
But please note that there are some formatting differences between sites.
Initial page - example:
The Title of Your Contribution: Written in Bold
Your full name here
Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Brno
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1 Introduction (or other headings of sections, if you use any)
This is where the text of your article begins. Notes are indicated like this.1 The superscript numeral (“horní index”) needs to be placed manually at the end of your text in a section called Endnotes.
Start writing the second paragraph (and all subsequent paragraphs) by pressing the tabulator once. Do not use the space bar for anything else except making single spaces between individual words, please. Thank you.
Endnotes
1 This endnote is NOT inserted by means of the “Insert footnote/endnote” command in MS Word.