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duplicate to CLS, 429 North Burrowes Bldg., Pennsylvania State University, University
Park, PA 16802. Provide a self-addressed, stamped envelope if you wish to have your
manuscript returned. CLS prefers to publish essays which deal
with more than one national literary tradition. We accept essays year-round, and our
review process takes 4-6 months on average.
Below is a style-sheet which shows house preferences (MLA
"endnote" style 1985 version):
All manuscripts should follow the guidelines for scholarly writing set forth in the 1985 MLA
Style Manual, especially chapter two, "Mechanics of Writing," and chapter
three, "Preparing the Scholarly Manuscript." In preparing notes, authors should
use the "endnote style" outlined in chapter five--specifically, sections 5.8.5 -
5.8.8. CLS does not use the "Works Cited" style.
Titles should appear centered and in roman letters. Titles should not be boldfaced, placed
in quotation marks (unless the title itself or part of the title is a direct quotation
from a work), or printed in all capital letters. Authors should capitalize only the first
letter of each word, except articles and smaller words such as "it" or
"or."
The author's name should appear centered directly beneath the title in roman letters.
Authors need not place "by" before their names. An example of the correct way to
write a title and author's name line follows:
The International Maze:
Rilke's "Der Turm" and His
Relation to Aestheticism
Judith Ryan
Authors should begin the first sentence of the first paragraph flush left with the
left-hand margin. Thereafter, each paragraph should be indented five spaces.
Authors using word processors should not justify the right-hand margin.
All parts of a manuscript--text, quotations, and notes--should be double-spaced. Printers
do not accept single-spaced copy.
At
the conclusion of the essay, the author should give his or her affiliation hard against
the right-hand margin, like this:
The Pennsylvania State
University
Authors should begin their notes on a new page, with the word NOTES typed in all caps
flush against the left-hand margin. Notes should be double-spaced with a double space
between each entry.
Quotations should be given in the original language with English translations immediately
following in square brackets. Exceptions may be made for French, German, Italian, or
Spanish, but this is left to the discretion of the editor. When providing a translation of
a short passage (fewer than four lines), place the English in square brackets, with
quotation marks, followed by a citation and a period. Examples:
The Grandfather's first words--"Il
me semble qu'il ne fait pas très clair ici" ["It seems to me that it is not
very light here"]--signal his obsession with the signs indicating death's approach
(201).
Virgil’s Hydra has
"quinquaginta atris immanis hiatibus" ["fifty black gaping throats"]
(6.576).
"Sic nos mortales stulto sub
preside stantes / Flere licet potius, quam dulcem perdere vitam" [In the same manner,
we mortals should lament our being subject to a foolish ruler rather than losing our sweet
life] (95r; bk. 7).
When the quoted passage runs more than ten lines in prose or three in verse, set the
passage off from the main text, remembering to retain the double-spacing. After the
quotation, the author should skip two lines and place the translation in brackets. Neither
the original nor the translation need be enclosed in quotation marks. Citations should
follow the original, not the translation. Example:
L'Aïeul: Personne n'est entré dans la
chambre?
Le Père: Main non, personne n'est
entré.
L'Aïeul: Et votre soeur n'est pas ici?
L'Oncle: Notre soeur n'est pas venue.
(226-29)
[Grandfather: No one has come into the
room?
Father: Why no, no one has come in.
Grandfather: And your sister is not
here?
Uncle: Our sister has not come.]
CLS
policy is not to use final "s" in possessives involving proper names ending in
"s": e.g., use "Rabelais’ dog" instead of "Rabelais’s
dog."
Appendix:
A few notes on notes
Always use a base-aligned number followed by a period throughout. Some common mistakes:
University Press is spelled out, when it should be abbreviated "UP";
"p." is placed before a cited page number when the number itself is sufficient;
finally, and perhaps most importantly, authors should give full information when referring
to a work for the first time, with subsequent references given parenthetically in the text
as called for.
Following are examples of the correct form for various kinds of commonly-encountered
notes.
Book by one author
1. Richard Wright, Native Son
(New York: Harper & Brothers, 1940) 100-01.
An anthology
2. Sigmund Freud, Notes Upon a Case
of Obsessional Neurosis: Three Case Histories, trans. James Strachey, ed. Philip Rieff
(New York: Collier Books, 1963) 63-66.
A translation
3. Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master &
Margarita, trans. Mirra Ginsburg (New York: Grove Weidenfeld, 1967).
A multivolume work
4. Rainer Maria Rilke, Sämtliche
Werke, 6 vols. (Frankfurt: Insel, 1955) 1: 13-15.
A multivolume work with separately
titled volumes, or conference proceedings
5. "Reasons and Characteristics of
Faulkner’s Influence on Juan Rulfo," Literatures of America, ed. Milan V.
Dimic and Juan Ferrate (Stuttgart: Kunst und Wissen, 1979) 277-80, vol. 1 of Milan V.
Dimic and Eva Kushner, gen. eds., Proceedings of the 7th Congress of the International
Comparative Literature Association.
An edition
6. Georges Rodenbach, Oeuvres
complètes, ed. Claude Pichois, rev. ed., 2 vols. (Paris: Gallimard, 1975) 1: 79-80.
A republished book
7. Thomas Maurice, History of
Hindostan (1795; New Delhi: Navrang, 1973).
An article in a journal with
continuous pagination
8. Jerry Varsava, "Calvino's
Combative Aesthetics: Theory and Practice," Review of Contemporary Fiction 6
(1986): 17. |
