guidelines for contributors

Authors should submit their manuscripts via email to interalia@o2.pl, as attached documents in Word format. Manuscripts are evaluated anonymously (double blind review), so authors’ names should appear on a separate title page or in correspondence only. Manuscripts should conform to the MLA format, 7th edition, and be in the range of 5,000 to 10,000 words, with a maximum of 10,000 words total, including endnotes. Essay submissions over 10,000 words will be returned to authors without being read.

Each submitted article will be evaluated primarily with regard to originality of approach and general academic standards. Reviewers are selected from the editorial advisory board. After an article is accepted for publication (provisionally or bindingly), the author will receive a detailed list of all the amendments suggested by the editors and reviewers. When an article is rejected, the author will receive a detailed explanation.


Stylesheet

For specific instructions please consult the latest MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers by Joseph Gibaldi. Basic information on MLA style documentation is also available on the web, e.g.
http://lib.trinity.edu/research/citing/MLACitationStyle7thedition.pdf and
http://rdc.libguides.com/mla

1. Please use parenthetical citation (references to sources you cite in the text). If you mention the name of the author immediately before the quotation or paraphrase, include the page number in parentheses, e.g. (34); or: author+ page number, e.g. (Pratt 67); or: author + abbreviated title (when two or more works by the same author are mentioned in your paper) + page number, e.g. (Pratt, Imperial Eyes 79).

2. Include the complete publication information in a list of Works Cited at the end of your paper.

3. Make sure all commas and periods are within the quotation marks, e.g. “...,” or “... .”

4. Use “double quotations marks” for short quotations embedded in your text. Use ‘single quotation marks’ only for quotations within quotations. Please do not use quotation marks around indented quotations (or 4 lines or more).

5. Use italics for the titles of long works (books, journals, newspapers, films) and “quotation marks” for the titles of short texts (poems, essays, short stories).

6. Please do not underline anything in the text; use italics where required. Italicize all foreign phrases (Latin, French, Greek, German etc.).

7. Use substantive endnotes for discursive notes only. Do not use endnotes for references to sources cited in the text. Please do not use footnotes.

8. Do not make two or more spaces between words instead of one.