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TIS follows a modified Linguistics Society of
America (LSA) style guide, using in-text citations, endnotes, and works
cited.
1. Please do not justify the right margin of your manuscript
or the electronic version on disk. Leave a ragged right
margin.
2. Please double space everything, including quotations.
3. Please use American spellings and punctuation including:
- spellings
in -ize, -or, etc.
- punctuation
that includes a comma before and or or in a series of 3 items (e.g.
lexis, morphology, and syntax)
- commas
to set off any preceding dependent clause of a complex sentence or to
divide a compound sentence
- double
quotes to enclose a quotation and single quotes to indicate a quote
within a quote
- end
quotes after punctuation ("to be done.")
4. Citations
should be of the following form:
Tymoczko 1999:28.
5. Bibliography should be in the following form: Tymoczko,
Maria. 1999. Translation in a Postcolonial
Context: Early Irish Literature in English
Translation. Manchester: St. Jerome Publishing.
6. Section headers, if used, should simply be phrases with no
numbers. Please restrict headers to 3 or 4 per essay. They
may be italicized.
7. Miscellaneous
- Indicate
a new paragraph with a single tab
- Set
off any introductory phrase of 5 words or more with a comma, e.g.
"Toward the end of World War II,..."
- Dates
should be of the form "15 December 1998"
- Decades
should be of the form "the 1980s"
- Spell
out centuries, e.g. "eighteenth century"
- Words
as words should be italicized and their meanings given in
single quotes, e.g. boisson, 'drink'
- The
first time an author is mentioned in your text, provide the first
name, e.g. "Anne Ross..."
- Use
minimal capitalization, e.g. "translation studies", "the Roman
Catholic church"
- Use
minimal hyphenization, e.g. "postcolonial"
- Possessives
of names ending in "s" should take the form of "Yeats's"
- Please
avoid inappropriately gendered language, finding locutions as
well that avoid awkward forms like "his/her" whenever possible
- Represent
dashes as two hyphens, no
spaces, e.g. "despite the difficulty--however great"
8. Please provide translations of all non-English
texts.
9. If your essay includes illustrations, please provide a
scanned version on a zipdisk (contact the editor for formatting
instructions) and include permission to publish.
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