Instructions for Authors (English/Deutsch)
Last revised on 27 June 2024
If more than two places of publication are listed, please name only the first one. If there are more than
two editors (separated by slash), please name the first one and replace the rest with ‘et al.’.
Please give the unabbreviated titles of periodicals, do not put a comma after the title, indicate the
number of the volume and give the year of publication in round brackets.
Examples
Complete works:
Laurence Sterne, “A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy”, in: A Sentimental Journey and
Continuation of the Bramine’s Journal, The Florida Edition of the Works of Laurence Sterne, vol. 6, ed. by
Melvin New / W.G. Day, Gainsville: University Press of Florida, 2002, pp. 3–165, here p. 77.
Monograph:
Hugo Friedrich, Die Struktur der modernen Lyrik. Von der Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts bis zur
Mitte des zwanzigsten Jahrhunderts. Erweiterte Neuausgabe, Hamburg: Rowohlt, 91967 [1956].
Edited volume:
Albrecht Koschorke, „Das Problem der souveränen Entscheidung im barocken Trauerspiel“, in: Cornelia
Vismann / Thomas Weitin (eds.), Urteilen, Entscheiden, München: Fink, 2006, pp. 175–195.
Journal article:
Cynthia Chase, “Models of Narrative: Mechanical Doll, Exploding Machine”, in: Oxford Literary Review 6
(1984), pp. 57–69.
Typography, Footnote Numbers, Dashes
- Please use italic typeface to mark complete works such as novels, poems, plays, and also periodicals.
Depending on discipline conventions, primary sources may as well be quoted in italics. Foreign
words should be italicised, too.
- Use double quotation marks.
- Footnote numbers appear after the punctuation mark of the phrase to which the note refers, except
if the footnote refers exclusively to a particular part or word of that phrase.
- Longer quotations should be separated from the surrounding text by inserting a blank line before
and after and be printed without quotation marks.
- Please use hard spaces (non-breaking spaces) between letters and/or numbers in abbreviated forms,
such as ‘p. 2 f.’; ‘e. g.’; ‘vol. 4’.
- Please use en-dashes (–) before and after insertions (with space characters before and after) and to
signify “from … to”; e. g. pp. 134–138; vols. 4–6; 1821–1867. Please do not use em-dashes (—).
- Please give complete page indications: pp. 134–138 (not pp. 134–8).