ASIAN JOURNAL OF LITERATURE, CULTURE AND SOCIETY

Key Formatting Issues

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Notes for Contributors

If possible, contributors should submit a hard copy of their paper (the authors name and affiliation in the left top corner of the title page) with an abstract on a separate sheet AND an electronic version of their article in an MS Word format sent as an email attachment to the Editor. Papers should be formatted according to the following standard: Times New Roman point 12 for the body of the text and references Times New Roman point 10 for indented quotations and notes Embed all non-standard fonts. To do this, open the file in which you want to embed fonts; click File, then Save As, then either click Tools and Embed TrueType Fonts or click General Options and Embed TrueType Fonts.

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LINE SPACING: MARGINS:

double-spaced and justified; indented quotations: single-spaced all margins = 2.5 cm Do not introduce any headers, footers, section divisions, etc., apart from page numbers. Do not indent any paragraphs of your text (even if they end on the right margin) except for quoted texts of greater than 100 words by 0.75 cm from the left side, and leave one line spaces between the top line and main text as well as between the bottom line and main text; use 10 pts for all such text. Do not use quotation marks for indented quotations. Use bold for the main title and section headings only. Italicize all foreign phrases in the text (Latin, French, Greek, German etc.), but do not italicize foreign quotations, or any other quotations for that matter. Do not underline anything in the text; use italics where required (also for emphasis). Use double quotation marks for all quotations, use single quotation marks only for quotations within quotations. Use double quotation marks also inside indented quotations. Do not italicize quotations. Make sure that all commas and periods are within quotation marks (, or . and not: , or .). Use: [...] for omissions within quotations. Do not make two or more spaces between words or after a period instead of one. Give periods at the end of notes. Make a space after p. when giving pages in notes.

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Formatting Quotations
Short quotations should be included in the main body of your text, enclosed within double quotation marks. The name of the author and specific page number must be provided in the text. In the case of verse, provide line numbers: Gilman remarks that schizophrenia is still a label in search of a structure (202). Quotations longer than 100 words (or four typed lines) should be indented to form a separate block of text. Do not place the indented quotation in quotation marks. Use single-spacing for the indented quotation and double-spacing throughout your thesis. Describing depression Kristeva writes: I live a living death, my flesh is wounded, bleeding, cadaverized, my rhythm slowed down or interrupted, time has been erased or bloated, absorbed into sorrow... Absent from other peoples meaning, alien, accidental with respect to naive happiness, I owe a supreme, metaphysical lucidity to my depression. (4) If you add words in a quotation you should put square brackets around the words: They [19th century women] were never satisfied with what they had (Rommer 45). If you omit words from a quotation you should indicate the deleted words by inserting ellipsis marks [...]: ... in the modern horror movie, terror rises to the surface [...] the surface rises to the surface (Halberstam 163).

References
1. Use MLA formatting for in-text citations and references.

In-text Citations
In-text references must appear immediately after a direct quotation from a source or a paraphrase of a source's ideas. They should follow this format (Last Name Page number): Human beings have been described as symbol-using animals (Burke 3). If you have already mentioned the name of the author of the source in the sentence, omit the authors name in your parenthetical citation: Kenneth Burke describes human beings as symbol-using animals (3). Punctuation marks, such as commas, periods, or semicolons should appear after the citation, not before. If it is impossible to identify the name of the sources author, use a shortened title of the work instead. Place the title in quotation marks if its a short text, or italicize it if its a longer work: An anonymous pamphlet published in the late 18c argues that women should be given the right to retain half of their property after getting married (Give Her the Money 21). To cite more than one source in the same reference, separate the citations by a semi-colon: ... as had been said before (Morrison 27; Smith 380),

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Where more information is needed, for instance, if two of the authors have the same last name, provide both authors initials, or full names in your citation: Although some literary critics claim that post-modernism has come to an end (R. Miller 12), others argue that contemporary culture hasnt managed to disentangle itself from its influences (A. Miller 46). When quoting more than one work of the same author, include a shortened title for the particular work from which you are quoting: Berkley complained that disability issues are frequently omitted in researches focusing on media audiences (Disability Today 36), and pointed out that the representation of the disabled in the media is frequently discriminatory (Blind Justice 57). If the authors name is not mentioned in the sentence you should include it in the citation: The representation of the disabled in the media is frequently discriminatory (Berkley, Blind Justice 57). If youre citing an indirect source, i.e. a source quoted in another source, use qtd. in and give the source you actually consulted: Rabinovitz believes that all postcolonial narrative is national allegory (qtd. in Welles 376). Remember that, if possible, you should attempt to find the original source rather than quoting an indirect one. For poems and classic verse plays, do not quote the page number but instead provide the division number (act, scene, canto, book, part) and the line number, with periods separating all the numbers. If there are no line numbers in the poem and its too complicated to count them, simply cite the title of the poem in quotation marks. Place your quotation in a separate block of text or, in the case of short quotes, separate the lines of verse by a slash: Now the hungry lion roars/And the wolf behowls the moon (Midsummer 5.1.341-2).

Bibliography/References
1. Please include Bibliography/References at the end of your article. Use double-spacing for all citations but do not add extra spaces between entries. Do not number your entries and do not use bullet points. Indent your entries, leave the paragraph hanging (see the examples below). Capitalize each word in the titles apart from articles, short prepositions and conjunctions. Use italics for titles of larger works and quotation marks for titles of shorter works. List entries by author/editor name. The names are written last name first, middle names/initials following the first name. When the author is unknown, list the quoted works alphabetically by their title. Books Last Name, First Name. Title of Book. Place of Publication: Publisher, Year of Publication. Adams, Carol J. The Sexual Politics of Meat. A Feminist-Vegetarian Critical Theory. New York: Continuum, 1996. If the book has more than one author, the first author name is written last name first; subsequent author names are written first name, last name: Baldick, Chris, and Robert Morrison. Tales of Terror from Blackwoods Magazine. Oxford: OUP, 1995. If there are more than three authors, you may list only the first author followed by the phrase et al.

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When citing a translated book, add Trans. followed by the translators name: Kristeva, Julia. Black Sun. Trans. L. S. Roudiez. NY: Columbia University Press, 1989. Anthologies and collections should be listed by editor(s), followed by a comma and ed./eds.: Grant, Barry Keith, ed. The Dread of Difference: Gender and the Horror Film. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1996. Articles Articles in books: Last Name, First Name. "Title of Essay." Title of Collection. Ed. Editor's Name(s). Place of Publication: Publisher, Year. Pages. Gilman, Sander L. Sexology, Psychoanalysis, and Degeneration: from a Theory of Race to a Race to Theory. Degeneration: The Dark Side of Progress. Eds. E. Chamberlin, S. L. Gilman. NY: Columbia UP, 1985. 135-167. Articles in newspapers or magazines: Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Periodical Day Month Year: pages. Pomell, James. TV Audiences. Media 20 Nov. 2000: 70-71. Articles in academic journals: Last Name, First Name. "Title of Article." Title of Journal Volume.Issue (Year): pages. Bagchi, Alaknanda. "Conflicting Nationalisms Tulsa Studies in Women's Literature 15.1 (1996): 41-50. Internet Sources When listing internet sources electronic addresses should be listed between carets (<, >). Include the following: Author and/or editor name; Name of the database, or title of project, book, article; Any version numbers available; Date of version, revision, or posting; Publisher information; Date you accessed the material; Electronic address, printed between carets (<, >).

When quoting an entire Web site follow this format: Name of Site. Date of Posting/Revision. Name of institution/organization affiliated with the site (sometimes found in copyright statements). Date you accessed the site <electronic address>. Design Observer. 25 Apr. 2006. 10 May 2006 <http://www.designobserver.com/>. Felluga, Dino. Guide to Literary and Critical Theory. 28 Nov. 2003. Purdue University. 10 May 2006 <http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/theory/>. URLs that won't fit in one line should be broken at slashes, when possible.

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To quote an individual page on a Web site, list the author if known, followed by the information for entire Web site. Make sure to use the address of the exact page you are referring to, or the entry or home page for a collection of pages you're referring to: Stolley, Karl. "MLA Formatting and Style Guide." The OWL at Purdue. 10 May 2006. Purdue University Writing Lab. 12 May 2006 <http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/01/>. Articles in a Web Magazine: Author(s). "Title of Article." Title of Online Publication. Date of Publication. Date of Access <electronic address>. Bernstein, Mark. "10 Tips on Writing The Living Web." A List Apart: For People Who Make Websites. No. 149 (16 Aug. 2002). 4 May 2006 <http://alistapart.com/articles/writeliving>. Articles in an Online Scholarly Journal Include volume and issue information, paragraph or page numbers, when available: Wheelis, Mark. "Investigating Disease Outbreaks Under a Protocol to the Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention." Emerging Infectious Diseases 6.6 (2000): 33 pars. 8 May 2006 <http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol6no6/wheelis.htm>. Other Sources Personal interviews should be listed by the name of the interviewed person: Mallone, Peter. Personal Interview. 1 Dec. 2000. Lectures/Speeches should include the name of the speaker, title/label of the speech, details about the meeting or event where the speech was given, including its location and date of delivery: Stern, Rebecca. Keynote Address. Literary Theory Conference. Club Hotel, Westbrook, IN. 23 May 2003. When referring to an advertisement, list the company, business, or organization; the publication, broadcast network, or Web address where the advertisement appeared: Lufthansa. Advertisement. Time 20 Nov. 2000: 151. When quoting a painting, sculpture, or photograph include the artist's name, the year the work was created, and the institution (e.g., a gallery or museum) that houses it, followed by the city where it is located: Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo del Prado, Madrid. If you're referring to a photographic reproduction, include also the bibliographic information for the source in which the photograph appears, with a page or other reference number (plate, figure, etc.): Goya, Francisco. The Family of Charles IV. 1800. Museo del Prado, Madrid. Gardener's Art Through the Ages. 10th ed. By Richard G. Tansey and Fred S. Kleiner. Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace. 939. When referring to a television/radio broadcast, put the name of the episode in quotation marks, and the name of the series or single program in italics. Include the network, followed by the station, city, and date of broadcast: "The Blessing Way." The X-Files. Fox. WXIA, Atlanta. 19 Jul. 1998. If you are quoting entire music albums, make sure they appear listed by name of group or artist (individual artists are listed last name first), followed by album title in italics, label and year: Waits, Tom. Blue Valentine. 1978. Elektra/Wea, 1990.

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Individual songss titles should be placed in quotation marks: Nirvana. "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Nevermind. Geffen, 1991. List films by their title, and include the name of the director, the film studio or distributor and its release year: The Usual Suspects. Dir. Bryan Singer. Perf. Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne. Polygram, 1995. If referring to a recorded version of the film, rather than its theatrical release, include format names and list original release year after director etc.: Ed Wood. Dir. Tim Burton. Perf. Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette. 1994. DVD. Touchstone, 2004.

Notes
If you use in-text citations, no further footnote/endnote references are required. You may, however, want to resort to the use of endnotes to include additional information or provide explanatory notes. 1. 2. Use Endnotes rather than Footnotes. For numbering endnotes use Arabic figures (superscript) always placed after a quotation, not after the authors name or the introductory verb. Do not number footnotes manually: use your wordprocessors automatic function. Insert notes in the main body of the text after the comma, period, or semi-colon and before dashes. Several critics pointed out the futility of such attempts.5 Several critics pointed out the futility of such attempts5 a fact that suggests their ignorance. 4. Place your endnotes at the end of your article before your Bibliogaphy.

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