UCLWPL Style SheetFormat of submissions Send your contribution to us in the form of (a) a text
file (either on diskette or as an e-mail attachment) and (b) hard copy. The
document should be in WordPerfect or Microsoft Word or some other IBM-compatible
word-processor that can easily be converted to Word or WordPerfect. Make sure
you send us only one version of your paper. Refereeing Every paper will be reviewed by at least one anonymous
referee, who in the case of a submission by a student will be someone other
than the supervisor. Additional advice will be sought from supervisors.
Beyond a simple yes-no verdict, we can only guarantee to pass on review
comments if your paper reaches us before the submission deadline. Abstracts Include an abstract of your paper -- maximum 100 words. Document length The final edited version of your paper should not
exceed 25 pages, including abstract, diagrams and bibliographical
references. Formatting guidelines To help us keep copy-editing down to a minimum, please
follow these guidelines as closely as possible. Significant deviation from
the guidelines will result in your paper being returned to you with an
invitation to resubmit. The simplest way of meeting the style requirements is
to insert your text into a copy of the UCLWPL template file which contains
codes implementing all of the following formatting instructions. WordPerfect
and Word versions of this file can be downloaded from the UCLWPL website. Page and text layout Page size: A4 Font size (main text): 13.5 pt. Font face: Times New Roman (or similar). Left/right margins: 2.5 cm. Top/bottom margins: 3cm. Highlighting text: italics; small caps for technical
terms (first use only); no underlining. Paragraph breaks: indent the first line of a new para; do not leave blank lines between paras. Examples Numbered examples (sample sentences, phonological
forms, formulae,...) should be indented by means of
left tab or left indent, not spaces. If non-English examples are supplied
with word-by-word glosses, line these up using tabs, not spacing. Bibliographical references For references in text and at end, use the model
described in one of the Cambridge University Press linguistics journals (e.g.
Journal of Linguistics, Journal of Child Language, Phonology,...). Provide full
bibliographical details. Quotation marks Follow the guidelines described in one of the Cambridge
University Press linguistics journals. Footnotes Use footnotes, not endnotes. Spelling Use a checker! Section titles and numbering Leave two blank lines above each section heading and
one blank line below; embolden section headings, but do not capitalise.
Sub-sub-sections (if you must): title and number in bold; no hard return
(i.e. run on text). All text must be properly included in a numbered (sub-)section. Don't start a section with stray text
unaffiliated to a numbered section head. If you have a short introductory
paragraph without a title, number it as zero. Figures Only use phrase-structure trees when absolutely necessary. Labelled bracketings save a lot of editing effort and space. If you must include trees, use graphics. As a less satisfactory alternative, set the trees as text. In this case, change to a fixed-space font such as Courier and locate category labels with tabs (not spacing). Avoid extra inserted codes such as tab resets or font-size changes. |