TIS Style Sheet

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:
    1. spellings in -ize, -or, etc.
    2. punctuation that includes a comma before and or or in a series of 3 items (e.g. lexis, morphology, and syntax)
    3. commas to set off any preceding dependent clause of a complex sentence or to divide a compound sentence
    4. double quotes to enclose a quotation and single quotes to indicate a quote within a quote
    5. 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
    1. Indicate a new paragraph with a single tab
    2. Set off any introductory phrase of 5 words or more with a comma, e.g. "Toward the end of World War II,..."
    3. Dates should be of the form "15 December 1998"
    4. Decades should be of the form "the 1980s"
    5. Spell out centuries, e.g. "eighteenth century"
    6. Words as words should be italicized and their meanings given in single quotes, e.g. boisson, 'drink'
    7. The first time an author is mentioned in your text, provide the first name, e.g. "Anne Ross..."
    8. Use minimal capitalization, e.g. "translation studies", "the Roman Catholic church"
    9. Use minimal hyphenization, e.g. "postcolonial"
    10. Possessives of names ending in "s" should take the form of "Yeats's"
    11. Please avoid inappropriately gendered language, finding locutions as well that avoid awkward forms like "his/her" whenever possible
    12. 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.