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All quotation marks should be curved according to English language convention irrespective of the language quoted or language of a title in the bibliography.
Quotations of 30 or more words or of three or more lines of verse should appear as an indented quotation without quotation marks.
All quotations require accurate citation.
Non-English words and phrases not in quotation marks should be in italic font.
All non-English terms and quotations must be accompanied by English translation when first introduced.
In-text translations should follow the non-English text in ['square brackets and single quotation marks'].
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Please use in-text citation referring to items in a Works Cited list. References should appear in parentheses by author name and year followed by a full colon and dash (NOT hyphen) between page numbers:
(Barthes 1972: 44–55)
Separate works within a citation using a semi-colon organized by year of publication:
(Lévi-Strauss 1956: 14; Barthes 1972: 44–55; Andrews 1996: 10)
Separate two authors for the same work with ampersand:
(Ganander & Borges 1998)
Please include a bibliographic entry for each work cited in one list organized alphabetically, organizing by year where more than one work is attributed to the same author, and adding alphabetical characters to the year where necessary (2008a, etc.).
When citing books, please use the following format, reserving italic font for the book’s title and subtitle. For example:
Last name, First name. Year. Main Title: Subtitle. Publication Series #. Publisher location: Publisher.
Dégh, Linda. 1995. Narratives in Society: A Performer-Centered Study of Narration. FF Communications 255. Helsinki: Academia Scientiarum Fennica.
When citing an article published in a book or collection, please include the pages of the article:
Author’s last name, First name. Year. “Main Title: Subtitle”. In Main Title: Subtitle. Ed. Editor’s first name last name. Publication Series #. Publisher location: Publisher. Pp. First page–Last page.
Bybee, Joan, & Rena Torres Cacoullos. 2009. “The Role of Prefabs in Grammaticization: Perspectives on Language Change”. In Formulaic Language. Ed. Roberta Corrigan et al. Typological Studies in Language 82. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing. Pp. 187–217.
When citing an article published in a journal, please place the journal title in italic font and include pages of the article following a full colon:
Author’s last name, First name. Year. “Main Title: Subtitle”. Journal Title #: First page–Last page.
Briggs, Charles L., & Richard Bauman. 1992. “Genre, Intertextuality, and Social Power”. Journal of Linguistic Anthropology 2: 131–172.
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