Colloquy Submissions: Style Guidelines

Punctuation : Commas and full stops should be placed inside inverted commas, e.g.: "… end."; "…comma,".
Other punctuation marks (semicolon, colon, question and exclamation marks) are placed outside inverted commas.
Use only double quotation marks.
Use single quotation marks only when they are inside double quotation marks, e.g. "'Conclusions' on Walter Benjamin's 'The Task of the Translator'".
NB Full stops and commas should also be placed inside single quotation marks.

Follow English spelling; e.g. humour, theatre.
Use of "s" instead of "z" is optional.
All non-English words should be in italics.
The first time you use a name, spell out in full, for example, Maurice Blanchot. Subsequently, use only the surname, for example, Blanchot.
Do not use abbreviated versions such as it's, doesn't, e.g. - spell out in full: it is, does not, for example.
Use italics rather than underline.

Ellipsis : For ellipsis use three dots, e.g. … Do not use brackets or parenthesis, e.g. not […], nor (...).
Leave a space before and after the three dots: E.g.: The object … is found.
Do not use space in-between the dots, eg. not . . .

Dashes : Use only en rules (-). Do not use em rules (-) nor hyphen (-) nor double hyphen (- -).
Use a single space on either side of the en rule, e.g.: The universal - the absolute - is to be found.

The first time you quote a book, article, or book-chapter, include a full reference.

For a book : author's full name, title , translator/editor if any (place of publication: publisher, date), page number. NB Where an editor(s) is cited, the word should be abbreviated to ed. or eds. respectively and placed before the editor(s) name(s); likewise translator should be abbreviated to trans. and placed before the name of the translator.

E.g. Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Phenomenology of Spirit, trans. A. V. Miller (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977), p. 127.

For an academic article: author's full name, "title", trans. if any,journal name, volume (date), page number.

E.g. Paul de Man, "'Conclusions' on Walter Benjamin's 'The Task of the Translator'", Yale French Studies, 69 (1985), pp. 41-2.

For a book chapter: author's full name, "title", trans. if any, editor, in Collection Title (place of publication: publisher, date), page number.

E.g. Friedrich Schlegel, Classic and Romantic German Aesthetics(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), p. 292.

Subsequent references should be provided in end-notes.
It is preferable to place endnote numbers at the end of the sentence - not in the middle of a sentence.
Avoid using 'ibid', 'op. cit.' and other Latinate abbreviations.
Use shortened numbers, for example when citing page numbers: use pp. 132-5; not 132-135, nor 132-35.
In subsequent references include only the surname, a shortened title, and page number, e.g.:

Hegel, Phenomenology, p. 423.

de Man, "'Conclusion'", pp. 26-7.

Schlegel, "Letter", p. 294.

Do not use a list of cited works or a bibliography at the end of the article.

Use only end-notes; do not use in-text parenthetical referencing . E.g. … (Burke, 1992: 123), inserted in the main body of the text, does not conform to the Colloquy referencing style.

An exception can be made if the article is concerned with one book in particular. In that case, the first reference is given in an end-note, in which is indicated that subsequent reference are given parenthetically in the main body of the text. The parenthetical references are not accompanied by the author name, nor by a date, nor by an abbreviation.

E.g. The first time you cite:

Wallace Stevens, The Palm at the End of the Mind: Selected Poems and a Play, ed. Holly Stevens (New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1971), p. 127. All in-text parenthetical references are to this book.

The second time to cite:

… [poem by Stevens] (356).

Citing articles from the web should include the following information: Author, "Article Title," Name of web site, Date posted/revised, Name of institution/organization affiliated with site, Date of access <electronic address>.

E.g. Andrew Johnson, " 'I have seen what I have seen': Charles Wright's 'Tattoos' and the Problem of Autobiography", Colloquy: text theory critique , 7 (2003), Monash University, date of access: 15.8.03,<http://www.arts.monash.edu/others/colloquy/current/IssueSeven/Johnson.htm>

Subsequent references: author, title.

E.g. Johnson, "'I have seen what I have see'".

Remember that superscript always follows punctuation. So, the quotation marks and the end-note marks always follow commas or full-stops.

E.g. … "one said,"²³

… "one wrote."¹²

Take care to properly punctuate the end-notes, e.g. do not use a comma before the parenthesis, do not forget to leave a space after 'p.', do not forget the full-stop at the end of an endnote, etc.