Guidelines for Contributors
Submissions
Manuscripts should be sent electronically as an e-mail attachment (in MS Word format). Submissions should not normally exceed 6,000 words (including footnotes). Please include your full postal address. The text should be double-spaced, except for indented quotations (see below). Use footnotes rather than endnotes, italics rather than underlining. When articles are written in English, spelling should observe Australian norms, which are British rather than North American.
References
All bibliographical information must be contained within footnotes.
Books:
John Smith, A Brief History of Consciousness (London: Academic Press, 2001), pp. 21-32.
Articles in journals and chapters in books:
Justin Thyme, "Having Your
Cake and Eating It: Rereading Proust", New Journal, 12 (2001), 106-118.
C. Below, "Resisting Interpretation:
Puzzles and Epiphanies", in Bruce Bottomley and Pierre Austral
(eds), New Modes of Interpretation (Melbourne:
Mystification Press, 2001), pp. 120-135.
For subsequent references to a given publication, use the author's family name and the page reference (for example: Smith, p. 64). If reference is made to two or more works by the same author, use a shortened form of the title rather than ibid. or op. cit. (for example: Below, "Resisting Interpretation", p. 124).
Full expansion is used in page numbering, including references to a span of years (for example: 1945-1968).
Quotations
Use double quotation marks; within a quotation use single quotation marks. We do not use guillemets. Quotations of longer than fifty words should be indented and single-spaced. Always preserve the spelling, punctuation and grammar of the original. All omissions from quotations should be shown as [. ..] to distinguish them from suspension points used by the authors quoted. Check your transcription of quotations carefully. Also note that footnote numbers should follow all punctuation (for example: "[...] the term 'implied author',3 [...]").
Dates
Use the form 26 February 1950. Months are spelt out in full. Decades are given as: the 1960s or the sixties, not the '60s.
Numbers
Cardinal and ordinal numbers up to one hundred are spelt out: eighty-four, nineteenth-century literature; but: 45-year-old woman. Numbers over one hundred are given in figures (789), except with round figures (two thousand). For percentages in text use: 84 per cent.
Abbreviations
Use a full stop after an abbreviation (ed.), but not after a contraction (eds, Mr, Mrs, Dr).
Where to submit
Articles for publication, books submitted for review, and proposals for special numbers and review articles should be addressed to:
Professor Brian
Nelson,
Editor, AJFS,
School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics,
Building
11,
Monash University, Victoria 3800,
Australia
E-mail: Brian.Nelson@arts.monash.edu.au