Notes for Contributors
Prior to submission, authors should read these notes and the editorial policy.
Manuscript Format
All manuscripts should be written in English, using double line spacing throughout, with 2.5 cm margins. Diagrams and photographs should be avoided. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum.
Quotations
Direct quotations require double quotation marks unless they run to several lines - in which case they are introduced with a colon and indented. Quotations within quotations require single quotation marks.
To avoid confusion, single rather than double quotation marks are used to indicate that a word or phrase is being purposefully misused.
Thus, EVERY sentence that includes double quotation marks must also include a parenthetical citation. Obvious exceptions to this rule occur when the double quotation marks indicate the title of a poem, article or chapter. Also, a parenthetical citation might not be required when the source material is not paginated, but the origins of ALL quotations must be absolutely clear.
Citation Style
The Journal has adopted the MLA referencing system, meaning that authors are required to acknowledge their sources by keying brief parenthetical citations to the alphabetical list of works at the end of their manuscripts. Each citation should contain only enough information to enable readers to find the source in the list of works cited. Thus, if an author’s name is mentioned in the text, only a page number is required in the parenthetical citation.
Example1: It has been argued that "almost any literary work will have some reference to the abnormal, to disability, and so on" (Davis 43).
Example 2: Lennard Davis has argued that "almost any literary work will have some reference to the abnormal, to disability, and so on" (43).
List of Works Cited
A list of works cited should be placed at the end of the manuscript, with the first line of each item hard left and the others indented. The examples below may assist contributors who are unfamiliar with MLA referencing.
Book:
Davis, Lennard J. Enforcing Normalcy: Disability, Deafness, and the
Body. London, New York: Verso, 1995.
Work within a book:
Brecht, Bertolt. "A Helping Hand." Collected Short Stories.
Ed. John Willet and Ralph Manheim.
London: Minerva, 1992. 25-29.
Article in a journal:
Bolt, David. "Caught in the Chasm: Literary Representation and Suicide
among People with
Impaired Vision." British Journal of Visual
Impairment 23.3 (2005): 117-21.
Online article:
Barnes, Colin. "Effecting Change; Disability,. Culture and Art". The
Disability Studies
Archive UK . 2003.
Accessed 7 August 2006. <www.leeds.ac.uk/disability-studies/
archiveuk/Barnes/Effecting%20Change.pdf>.
Submission
The manuscript should be e-mailed to the editor as a Word document, with a biographical note of no more than 150 words. In the case of article submissions, in order to assist the peer review process, the author’s name should not appear anywhere on the manuscript, nor in the file name. If the content refers to the author, it should do so covertly. The author of an article submission should provide her or his name and biographical note in the e-mail to which the manuscript is attached. The full title of the article should be stated in both the e-mail and the manuscript.
Proofs
Page proofs will be e-mailed to authors for correction, but amendments
at this stage are strongly discouraged.
Guidelines for Contributors
Authors whose essays have been accepted for publication should check the following points before sending revised manuscripts.
• The article should include an abstract and a list of works cited; it should take the form of a single Word document, not two or three documents.
• Times New Roman (12pt) should be used throughout.
• Left justification should be used throughout.
• A single tab should be used to indicate the start of a paragraph.
• Endnotes rather than footnotes should be used and used sparingly.
• Automated hyphenation should not be used.
• Book titles, titles of plays, collections of short stories, and so on should be italicised, not underlined.
• All headers and footers should be blank apart from page numbers.
Editor, Dr. David Bolt |
Book Reviews Editor, Dr. Clare Barker
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