Manuscripts should be typed, double spaced, on one side of paper only. The title page should include the title, an abbreviated title for a running headline (max. length 45 characters including spaces), author's name, title (Prof., Dr, etc.) and current affiliation, plus an address to which proofs and pre-publication correspondence should be sent. An email address should also be provided. Please also provide an abstract of about 100-150 words and up to five keywords for searching online (preferably not words already used in the title). Manuscripts should be sent to:
Professor J. E. Flower, Editor, School of European Culture and Languages, University of Kent, Canterbury CT2 7LZ, UK [email: j.e.flower@kent.ac.uk].
Diskettes: MSS should be accompanied by a diskette of the final version of the article, formatted in an IBM accessible or ASCII format.
Notes should be typed double spaced, starting on a new page, and be numbered consecutively with Arabic numbers. In the text, give citations by superscript numbers only. Any acknowledgements should form the first (unnumbered) note.
References should follow Harvard style whereby references are cited in the text as (author, date: page) with full details in the reference list at the end of the article. This (unnumbered) list should be typed double spaced, starting on a new page; arrange publications in alphabetical order of author's surname as examples below:
Book:
Author A, Author B (year) Book title. Place: Publisher name.
Clark JM, Hockey L (1979) Research for Nursing. Leeds: Dobson Publishers.
Chapter in a book:
Author A (year) Chapter title. In: Author A (ed.) Book Title. Place: Publisher, 00-00.
Author A (year) Chapter title. In: Author A, Author B (eds) Book Title. Place: Publisher, 00-00.
Gumley V (1988) Skin cancers. In: Tschudin V and Brown EB (eds) Nursing the Patient with Cancer. London: Hall House, 26-52
Article in a journal:
Author A, Author B, (year) Article title. Journal vol(iss): 00-00.
Author A, Author B, and Author C (year) Article title. Journal vol(iss): 00-00.
Author A, Author B, Author C, et al. (year) Article title. Journal vol(iss): 00-00.
Huth EJ, King K, and Lock S (1988) Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. British Medical Journal 296(4): 401-405.
Article in a journal published ahead of print:
Author A, Author B, (year) Article title. Journal 00: 1-00 (accessed 00 month year).
Author A, Author B, and Author C (year) Article title. Journal 00: 1-00 (accessed 00 month year).
Author A, Author B, Author C, et al. (year) Article title. Journal 00: 1-00 (accessed 00 month year).
Huth EJ, King K, and Lock S (1988) Uniform requirements for manuscripts submitted to biomedical journals. British Medical Journal 00: 1-4 (accessed 7 October 2009).
Note: volume is given as "00".
Website
Surname, X. (year) 'Title of Article', Name of Journal vol.no.(issue no.), URL (consulted Month, Year): http:/xxxx.xxxx.xx.xx/xxxx/xxxx
Each reference cited in the text should be listed in the References, and vice versa.
Style
· The first line of the paragraph is indented except after a heading or subheading.
· Single quotation marks are used except for quotations within a quotation, when double quotes are used.
· Displayed quotations are indented on both margins and are double spaced in main text size.
Headings and subheadings
· Main headings are to be left aligned, on one line only, in upper and lower case, and will be set in bold.
· Subheadings are to be left aligned, on one line only, and will be set in italics.
French books, titles, etc.: The first word of a title has an initial capital. If this is the definite article, the following substantive also has an initial capital (Le Roi se meurt) as does a preceding adjective (La Folle Journée) but not a following one (La Secret professionel). If the first word is other than le, la or les, the words following are all in lower case unless they are proper nouns (Si le grain ne meurt). Journal style is to use accents on capital letters but capital A does not take a grave accent.
Other foreign language references
German: capitalize the words that are normally capitalized.
Spanish and Italian: only capitalize the first word (and all proper names, as usual).
Russian transliteration: use Modified Library of Congress System, e.g. Tolstoi, Dostoevskii, Shostakovich.
For other languages, please refer to The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2000).
Spelling
Use -ize in verbs and allied nouns but note 'surprise', 'comprise', 'analyse'. See The Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors (2000) for a full discussion of '-ize, -ise' in verbs.
Pagination and dates
· Use the least numbers of figures possible: 82-7 (not 82-87; but 114-18, not 114-8). 1990-6 (not 1990-1996).
· Dates to be in the form: 23 November 2004.
Tables: tables should be typed (double line-spaced) on separate sheets and their position indicated by a marginal note in the text. All tables should have short descriptive captions with footnotes and their source(s) typed below the tables.
Illustrations: all line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. Line diagrams should be presented in a form suitable for immediate reproduction (i.e. not requiring redrawing), each on a separate A4 sheet. They should be reproducible to a final printed text area of 185 mm x 115 mm. Illustrations on disk should be supplied as TIFF or EPS files at a resolution of 300 dpi, and be supplied as a separate file, not embedded in another document. Photographs should preferably be submitted as clear, glossy, unmounted black and white prints with a good range of contrast. Slides are also acceptable. All figures should have short descriptive captions typed on a separate sheet.
Proofs and offprints: authors will receive proofs of their articles and be asked to send their corrections within 2 weeks. They will receive electronic offprints of their article and a complimentary journal copy. A maximum of 5 journal copies will be supplied for multi-authored articles. These will be supplied to the main author
Reviews:reviewers should follow the house style and submit their reviews by email or by hard copy and diskette to the Review Editor:
Professor A. G. Cross, Fitzwilliam College, Huntingdon Road, Cambridge CB3 0DG, UK [email: agc28@cus.cam.ac.uk].
Peer Review Policy: For all papers the journal adheres to a rigorous double-blind reviewing policy in which the identity of both the reviewer and author are always concealed from both parties. Book reviews and review essays are assessed by the Editors.
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