Notes for Contributors - Slavonica

Slavonica welcomes original contributions that match the aims and scope of the journal (as described on the inside front cover) on the understanding that their contents have not previously been published or are currently submitted for publication elsewhere. All submissions will be sent to independent referees. It is a condition of publication that papers become the copyright W. S. Maney & Son Ltd. Authors should obtain permission to use any material protected by copyright, including illustrations. All editorial correspondence should be sent to: 

The Editor, Slavonica, Jekaterina Young, Department of Russian Studies, University of Manchester, Manchester M13 9PL, UK (Katya.Young@man.ac.uk) 

Presentation and Style 

Two complete copies should be submitted printed double-spaced with ample margins and not normally exceeding 6-8000 words. All pages should be numbered: the first page should state only the title of the paper, name(s) of the author(s) and, for each author, a short institutional affiliation, and an abbreviated title (for running headlines within the article). At the bottom of the page give the full name and address to which all correspondence, including proofs, should be sent. The second page should contain an abstract in English of not more than 200 words. 

Contributions should follow the MHRA Style Guide (2002) and the house-style of the journal. Words should not be hyphenated at the end of a line. Use single inverted commas for short quotations (double for quotations within quotations), but quotations over 50 words should be indented and single-spaced without inverted commas. Quotations will require translation, which either follows the original or may be given in a note. Transliterations should follow the Library of Congress conventions. The Russian soft and hard signs are rendered by an accent (?), not by an apostrophe ('): den? not den'. In articles on Slavonic linguistics, the International System is adopted. Non-English words in the text, apart from names, should be italicized. Cyrillic script should only occur in the text of an article when quoting from Russian, Ukrainian, Belorussian, Bulgarian etc. 

Notes and References 

Contributors should adhere to MHRA and the journal's house-style in the presentation of numbered endnotes (not footnotes) and references. Any general note on the article (e.g. personal acknowledgements) should appear as a first un-numbered note. Within the text, references and notes should be indicated by a superscript Arabic numeral. Articles and publications cited in the text should then be listed in full in the Notes section at the end of the article as follows: 
for books: 
R. Sites, The Woman's Movement in Russia: Feminism, Nihilism, and Bolshevism, 1860-1930 (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1978), pp. 7-16. 
for articles in books: 
N. O. Losskii, 'Intuitivizm', in Zapiski nuachno-Issledovatel?skogo ob"edineniia, ed. by A. Smith (Prague: publisher, 1999), III, 1.
for periodical articles: 
Felicity Ashbee, 'Neville Forbes, 1883-1929: Some Family Letters from Russia', Oxford Slavonic Papers, NS 9 (1976), 79-80. 
For Russian, titles of creative works, books, journals, papers etc, should capitalize as follows for pre-revolutionary (Russkoe Bogatstvo; Syn Otechestva) and post-revolutionary (Novyi mir; Zemlia I fabrika) publications. Foreign titles should be cited in the first instance in the original language followed by its English translation, italicized, in brackets. Thereafter, the author has the choice of giving the work in either the original language or in translation. Where there is no known published translation, a literal rendering of the title is given in brackets, not italicized. Transliteration should be used for all titles whose language would use the Cyrillic alphabet. Names which have a generally accepted simplified form (Gorky, Ehrenburg) can so be given in the text and in the notes, except in titles of works on them. In bibliography, the full, transliterated form must be used. 

For particular text(s) repeatedly cited, full bibliographical reference should be given in an initial endnote, with author/page references thereafter in parentheses in the text (Losskii, p. 31). Consistent abbreviations may be used in such references where appropriate. Authors are responsible for ensuring the accuracy of references. Names of organizations should not be italicized to avoid confusion with the publication of that name.

Tables and Illustrations

These should be submitted on separate sheets, repeating on the back the title of the paper, and numbered sequentially using Arabic numerals for Figures (illustrations, i.e. photographs, diagrams, and graphs) and Tables. Each must have a caption, source, and where appropriate, a key. The position in the text must be clearly shown (e.g. Figure 1, Table 1). Black and white prints of photographs should be supplied, or TIFF or EPS files on disk (with a print-out supplied for reference). As a general guideline for scanning minimum input scanning resolutions should be 350-400dpi for half tones; 800dpi for simple line and 1200dpi for fine line. Captions should be submitted on a separate sheet. Authors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce illustrations and the costs of these rights.

Colour illustrations may only be submitted after discussion with the Editor. Where colour is accepted, it is the Journal's policy to request the author to seek subvention towards the additional cost of publication.

Submission on disk

On notification by the Editors that a paper has been accepted, a final version of the article should be submitted on disk in Word. Submission on disk will improve typographical accuracy and accelerate publication. The filename and software must be indicated on the disk. 

In preparing the disk version, there is no need to format articles: please include italics or bold type where necessary, but not style or footnote codes. Footnotes will be printed as endnotes and should be typed at the end of the file as part of the text, or supplied in a separate document. In the main text, numbering of notes should be indicated by superscript numbers. References and captions should be placed at the end of the file, or in separate files. Please use hard returns only at the end of paragraphs; switch auto-hyphenation off; do not justify text; and do not use automatic numbering routines. Consistency in spacing, punctuation, and spelling will be of help. Tables should be submitted as separate files and keyed horizontally from left to right using a tab between columns, not the space bar (or keyed in Table mode in Word). 

Proofs

Proofs will be sent to the author nominated for correspondence, by airmail if outside the UK. Proofs are supplied for checking and making essential typographical corrections, not for general revision, alteration, or changes to illustrations, which will not be allowed. Proofs must be returned to the editor within 7 days of receipt. 

E-Prints

Authors of papers in Slavonica receive a screen resolution PDF file of the published version. Orders for digital reprints may be made at the time proofs are distributed.