arcadia

Instructions for Authors

STYLE SHEET FOR PROSPECTIVE CONTRIBUTORS TO arcadia

GENERAL SPECIFICATIONS

 Use A4 paper size with 2 cm margins at top and bottom and 3cm margins left and right
 The papers should be in WORD format, with 20 000 - 60 000 marks in length (including the abstract, the Works Cited, and all empty spaces)
 Left justification only; use “text width” zooming; Use Times New Roman, 12 pitch, single space, no hyphenation
 Pagination should be top right, no number on the first page; the header and the footer should remain empty
 No empty lines between paragraphs (except for quotations; see below)
 Texts in English may follow British or US spelling, but must use these consistently (except for quotations, of course). Please follow the corresponding punctuation as well. For instance, US style asks for a comma before the last item in a list, commas and periods come before the closing quotation mark, and a comma before “wich.”
 Numbers should be written out (e. g. “nineteenth century”)
 Please use as few formatting commands as possible
 The margins of quotations longer than roughly five lines should be moved to the right by 1.2 cm, and written in 10 pitch. They are preceded and followed by an empty line. Avoid using quotations with a hiatus ([…]) at the beginning and the end
Indent paragraphs (one tab; 1.2 cm), no indentation after quotations and after title and subtitles
 Do not use bold, underline, or words in CAPITALS (except for your name as author)
 Use italics for cited titles, for (rare) emphasis, and for the English abstract heading the paper; titles of short stories and articles should be between quotation marks
 The text should be headed by the author's name in CAPITALS and below it the title in normal font, both centered
 Subtitles and section titles should be centered and in normal font. One empty line above and one below. No special heading formation

Abstract
 The article should be headed with an abstract of 150‑250 words in English, written in a single paragraph without indentation. The abstract should be in italics and placed right after the title. Please focus on the subject, its importance, and the argument, indicating in what sense the paper is innovative. Try to avoid phrases like “in this paper …”, “in my (our) view …” etc.

Suggestions
Limit your sentence length and the number of parenthetical remarks
Avoid jargon
Avoid paragraphs that are less than 5 lines and more than 30
Avoid square brackets and, as much as possible, even the normal ones
Be frugal in using quotation marks, dashes, and all other typographical means that make the visual image of the text restless and chaotic

Send your text as an attachment to your e-mail message to the Managing Editor. Dr. Jael Kraut jael125@hotmail.com