Guidelines for Authors


The title of your essay should be followed by your name in capital letters, and your institutional affiliation

All copy must be double-spaced, including all quotations, footnotes and references. All paragraph breaks should be indented; no line space is therefore necessary between paragraphs. The first line of the article or of a new section within the article should not be indented; a line space should therefore be left before the beginning of a new section.

Quotations longer than four lines of printed text should be broken off ; quotation marks should not then be used. Within running text, put quotations in single inverted commas, and quotations within quotations in double inverted commas.

Ellipsis: three evenly spaced dots for all instances, whether or not the sentence has finished. Figures (except numbers in the teens) should be elided thus: 1984-5, 101-2, 303-29, but 1917-18, 10-11.


Notes and References

Footnotes should be avoided, or be kept to a strict minimum and be explanatory. Number notes sequentially, with Arabic numbers, in superscripts. The cue for a note goes outside any punctuation (unless it is within a parenthesis and refers only to the parenthesis).

References in the main text should appear in parentheses and include author’s last name, year of publication and page numbers (Johnson 1987: 46). If there are two or more works by the same author published in the same year, a lower case letter should be added to the year (Johnson 1987a: 46; Johnson 1987b: 177). All books and articles quoted or referred to in the text should appear in a final ‘References’ list, arranged in alphabetical order. References will include author’s last name and initials; year of publication (first edition in parentheses); title; place of publication; publisher’s name.

Fauconnier, G. 1985. Mental Spaces. Aspects of Meaning Construction in Natural Language. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press.
Fowler, R. 1983. “Poliphony and Problematics in Hard Times.” The Changing World of Charles Dickens. Ed. R. Giddings. London: Vision Press. 91-108.
Lakoff, G. 1989. “Some Empirical Results about the Nature of Concepts.” Mind & Language 4: 103-29.
Miller, N.C., ed. 1986. The Poetics of Gender. New York: Columbia University Press.
Taylor, J.R. 1995 (1989). Linguistic Categorization. Oxford: Clarendon.