The papers of the Proceedings may be processed by Word or LaTeX. Downloadable stylesheets are available for Word and LaTeX, but please read these guidelines first.
The easiest way to submit your paper is to put it in your public_html directory, and then email Chris Whincop with the URL. If you're not sure how to do this, just ask.
If you can, please also send a paper copy of your final manuscript via internal mail to Heather King, Dept. of Linguistics, to make any necessary editing easier.
Thanks.
The guidelines that follow were prepared by the editors of the 1996 conference.
This will be done automatically by the program. However, in order to stay within the required length limit A4, 12-point Times New Roman, 1.5 spaced, with 1"-1.25" (2.5cm-3cm) margin settings is recommended.
With these settings the maximum length is 12 pages, including all tables, diagrams, references and appendices. (This is a maximum -- if your conference presentation was shorter than this, don't worry, there's no need to make it longer.)
Paragraph formatting, spacing and text alignment (i.e. flushed left or justified) don't matter -- you can use whichever style you prefer!
Place the title of your paper, your name and email address at the beginning. There's no need to add any formatting.
Include a brief abstract before the beginning of the paper -- but as space is short keep it as brief as possible, maximum 100-150 words.
Please leave section and subsection headings in normal text (i.e. no bold face, italics or underlining), but if you want them to stand out you can leave extra space around them. Number main sections in the style 1, 2, 3 etc.; sub-sections 1.1, 1.2, 2.1 etc.; and sub-sub-sections in the style 1.1.1, 1.1.2, and so on.
It is really difficult to automatically handle endnotes, so if you really must have notes please use footnotes, placed at the bottom of the page (1).
Examples with aligned glosses and translations are quite tricky. The best way will be to indicate exactly in your original which words should be aligned with which, using the tab key, as with the following example, so the human editors can make sure the mechanical one produces them properly.
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Put the example itself in italics, and the translation in single inverted commas. Number all the examples across the whole document.
Short quotes (less than two lines of text, or an incomplete sentence) should be enclosed in single inverted commas, and embedded within the sentence it is quoted within e.g.:
| It was Churchill who complained about `the sort of English up with which I will not put'. |
It is recommended that when a quote is embedded within a sentence the closing inverted comma and the fullstop are placed as in the last example, `and not like this.' However if you feel strongly about this little prescription, feel free to do it whichever way you prefer. You might also be interested in looking at Geoffrey Pullum's amusing essay, for a linguist's view of this particular wee shibboleth (Pullum 1991a).
A longer quote should be indented by one centimetre, no inverted commas, just as if it was a separate paragraph e.g.
But who on Earth would actually need to say such a thing as zou wa
hana ga nagai? As one writer put it:
It would have to come in a list, probably while the speaker was turning the pages of a picture book: Giraffes have long necks, lemurs have big eyes, minks have nice fur, tapirs have huge rumps, and as for elephants, well, they have long noses. (Rubin 1992: 44) |
Cite the name plus date, in the usual style. Page numbers can be given where relevant separated by a colon. The source for a long quote can immediately follow the quote, as with the example above -- there's no need to place it on a separate line. If there are more than two authors, simply cite the first author + "et al." (so that a well known book on researching language would be cited as: Cameron et al. 1992).
Include a clear caption, labelled "Figure #" or "Table #", following the diagram. Make sure they are referred to in the text, and try to place them as close as possible to the section of text where they are referred to.
If you want to boldly split infinitives no-one has ever split before, or leave your prepositions stranded, that's fine. We're not prescriptivists, after all, are we ...?
The following are the general guidelines for references, plus a few examples. Other than the specific formatting mentioned (e.g. italics for titles) there is no other formatting necessary for the references section. Do, however, separate every part of each reference with a fullstop, as shown in the examples.
| Language in Society 21(2): 31-45 |