2008 editorial check list

SUBMISSION PACKET REQUIREMENTS:

Note: The quality of each paper is asessed using a blind review. In order to insure an unbiased consideration of all papers, the name of the author must appear ONLY on the cover page and NOT on the paper itself.

Papers should not exceed 20 pages.

____Send submissions to:

TINTA
Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese
University of California, Santa Barbara
4206 Phelps Hall
Santa Barbara, CA 93106

____Cover page. All submissions must have a cover page that contains the following information:

• Title of paper
• Name of author
• Affiliated university
• Contact information (address, email, phone number)
• A brief biography that explains where you are in your career, what you are working on, future interests, etc.

____First page of paper: The first page of the paper should include the TITLE and the text of the paper. The author's name should NOT appear on this page, or anywhere else on the paper.

____Digital and paper copies: Submit three hard-copies of your paper and one digital copy by email to tinta@mail.lsit.ucsb.edu.

____SASE: Include a self-addressed stamped envelope for decision notification.

FORMAT, STYLE and LANGUAGE REQUIREMENTS for RESEARCH PAPER:

____Language: English, Portuguese or Spanish. Please note that due to time constraints, we are unable to work with authors to resolve grammatical errors. Please keep this in mind when chosing the language in which to submit your paper.

____Citation and reference style: MLA. Refer to the most recent edition of the MLA Handbook for formatting and style requirements for parenthetical references, block quotes, footnotes, and works cited (bibliography). Papers using the Chicago Manual, or any other style will be returned.

The list below includes some common problems in MLA Style. Please note that this list is not designed to serve as a substitute for the manual:

• Punctuation with quotations: Colons and semicolons must be outside quotation marks. In English, periods and commas must be inside quotation marks whereas in Spanish, periods and commas must be outside of the question marks.
  
• Quotation style: quotations longer than four lines must be separated from the text in a block quote. Block quotes do not require quotation marks and should be double-spaced like the rest of the paper.
  
• Punctionation: use TWO spaces after periods and one after commas, colons and semicolons.

____Format of titles of major works: italicized. We request that you italicize titles of major works instead of underlining them.

____Title and subtitle format:

• Font: Arial
• Font style: bold
• Font size: 12 point
• Justification: centered
• Spacing: 2 lines above text
  

____Body text format:

• Spacing: double (includes long quotes)
• Font: Times New Roman
• Font size: 12 point

____Endnote text format - use endnotes, not footnotes

• Spacing: single
• Font: Times New Roman
• Font Size: 10 point

____Page numbers: Please include page numbers on the bottom right corner of each page.

____Quotation mark style: all quotation marks should be round, not straight. In order to achieve this, you might have to insert opening and closing quotation marks as special characters under the symbol options.

____Corchete style: No use of << >> is permitted, instead « ».

____Foreign words: Foreign words in the body of your paper should be italicized.