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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.
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