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Style Sheet for Articles to be Submitted for Publication in Textus
1. General information
Contributors should send:
- two printouts of their paper;
- on a separate printout, a brief description (not more than six lines) of current and past teaching/research positions, main research interests and principal
publications;
- an electronic version (preferably Word or RTF) on floppy disk (not as an e-mail attachment). Please write the name of the programme you used on the disk itself. The file name should be the same as your
surname.
Please:
- use single line spacing;
- number the pages progressively (in the heading - outer corner);
- indent paragraphs (0,5 cm);
- insert notes at the foot of the relevant page;1
- do not end a title or heading with a full stop.
- make a suggestion for the running title.
Please use British English conventions for spelling. Credits for permission to use material owned by others should appear in a footnote at the beginning of the contribution.
1 Footnote numbers
should be indented as in this example. There should be no gap between footnotes.
Within the text, the footnote reference number should follow the word in
question or a punctuation mark, with no blank space. Footnotes should be
limited to explicatory material, should be used only when strictly necessary and
should be as brief as possible.
2. Length
Contributions should not exceed 30.000 characters (including spaces).
3. Quotations in the text
Short quotations (2-3 lines) are placed in the text between double quotation marks
" ".
Example 1:
The first six categories show "how different people trigger their motivation"
(ibid.: 17), i.e. what people will be open to perceiving,
Please note: quotation marks and apostrophes should be rounded, as in the
example, not straight.
For longer quotations leave an empty line before and after the quotation; indent left and right margins by 0.5 cm.; do not use quotation marks.
Example 2:
said of English speakers,
we are more apt to make a grasping gesture when we speak of grasping an elusive idea than when we speak of grasping a door knob. (Whorf
1956: 157)
4. Double quotation marks, single quotation marks, italics
Please use double quotation marks for quoted words or phrases, and single quotation marks for quotes within quoted passages. E.g.:
"the so-called 'campus novel'".
Use italics for highlighting items and for items in languages different from the one of the article.
5. Citations
When referring to a text, indicate the surname of the author followed, in brackets, by the year of publication of the essay, colon, space and page number of the quotation. Give page or verse numbers in full. Omissions: use three dots between square brackets: [...].
Example 3:
Buxton (1967: 59) said once that Surrey was [...]
Example 4:
Tennyson (The Lady of Shalott, ll, 10-14)
Example 5:
(The Tempest, I, 2, 323-326)
Example 6:
said once that Surrey was [...]
6. Tables and graphs
Text within tables should be ranged left. Numbers should be centred on the decimal point. Do not use colour, but make your data legible in black and white. Graphics should be submitted in JPG or TIFF.
Please number Tables and graphs consecutively and provide captions. These should appear below the table or
graph:
Example 7:
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Shall |
Occurrences |
| A |
131 |
| B |
25 |
| Etc. |
3 |
Table 1. This is the caption for Table 1.
7. Examples and lists
All examples should be numbered progressively (do not re-start in each subsection).
Items in lists should be numbered or be introduced by a), b), c), etc. or i), ii),
iii), or preceded by a dot.
8. Abbreviations
Both in the main text and in the footnotes only use the simplest and most common ones: etc., i.e.,
e.g.,
et al.
9. Dashes
Please make sure you press the right keys when you wish to use dashes, e.g.
Example 8:
On the other hand, the individual voice -- which unveils the cognitive process leading a judge to take a certain individual
10. Appendices and acknowledgements
They should be placed at the end of the main text, before the references.
11. References
Bibliographical references are to be listed alphabetically at the end of the article. Please check that all entries correspond to the authors cited. Do not divide the bibliography into sections.
Entries should be arranged as shown below.
Please note: (ed) singular, (eds) plural
Example 9:
a) Books
Van Dijk T., 1993, Elite Discourse and Racism, Sage Publications, Newbury Park (CA).
Chouliaraki L. and N. Fairclough, 1999, Discourse in Late Modernity, Edinburgh U.P., Edinburgh.
Jaeger R.M. (ed.), 1988, Complementary Methods for Research in Education, American Educational Research Association, Washington D.C.
Palmer F.R., [1979] 1990, Modality and the English Modals, Longman, London.
b) Articles in books
Derrida J., 1985, "Des tours de Babel", in J.F. Graham (ed.), Difference in
Translation, Cornell U.P., Ithaca and London, pp. 165-248 (bilingual edition); Italian trans. A. Zinna, in S. Nergaard (ed.), 1995,
Teorie contemporanee della traduzione, Bompiani, Milano, pp. 367-418.
Hill L., 1990, "The Trilogy Translated", in Beckett's Fiction: in Different
Words, C.U.P., Cambridge, pp. 59-78; also in J. Birkett and K. Ince (eds), 2000,
Samuel Beckett, Longman, London and New York, pp. 99-116.
c) Articles in journals
Ulrych M. and R.M. Bollettieri Bosinelli, 1999, "The State of the Art in Translation",
Textus 12, pp. 219-241.
Hyland K., 1996b, "Talking to the Academy: Forms of Hedging in Science Research Articles",
Written Communication 13 (2), pp. 251-281.
Leppihalme R., 2000, "The Two Faces of Standardization. On the Translations of Regionalisms in Literary Dialogue",
The Translator 6, pp. 247-269.
N.B.: ed. singular with point, plural without (eds), vol. / vols, etc.
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