GUIDELINES

Manuscripts are accepted in English and should be prepared with complete endnotes or footnotes, in conformity with the MLA style (see "Handbook for Writers of Research Papers"). A list of Works Cited is not needed, all bibliographical information should appear in the footnotes. If an article is accepted for publication, the author will be asked to submit the final copy of her/his manuscript on computer diskette. Spelling, capitalization, and hyphenation are according to Webster's. Book reviews are 2-3 typewritten pages; approximately 600-800 words (with no footnotes). Articles and Short Essays are 8-20 typewritten pages, approximately 2,000-5,000 words. Manuscripts must be sent in duplicate. Only original contributions will be considered.

Quotations should be kept at a minimum. No prose quotations longer than 100 words. No verse quotations longer than two lines. All quotations should be incorporated into the text. All non-English quotations must be translated into English; translators of texts and quotations must be identified. Notes are reserved for bibliographical information (comments and explanations are to be incorporated into the text or dropped altogether) and must adhere to MLA style format. Frequent references to a specific work should appear in the text and not in the notes. Notes that refer to a previously mentioned or quoted work should include the author's name, or the author's name and the abbreviated title of the work, instead of ibid., loc. cit., op. cit.

Please underline titles of books, periodicals, newspapers, and all works that are published independently (i.e., separately under their own titles); names of films, radio and television programs, paintings, ships, and aircraft are also underlined. Uncommon foreign words (i.e., words that do not appear in Random House Webster's College Dictionary) should be underlined. All underlined words will be typeset in italics. Place the following items between double quotation marks: titles of articles, essays, poems, stories, chapters of books, lectures, speeches, and other works which are not published separately under their own title. Words under discussion, questionable terms, and new coinages should also be placed between double quotation marks.

Make sure when you quote a text, or a title of an article, or any of the items that require the use of double quotation marks, to place all periods and commas inside the quotation marks, while colons and semicolons are placed outside. Question and exclamation marks are placed inside the quotation marks only if they are part of the quoted text. Single quotation marks are used to indicate a quotation within a quotation.