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BULLETIN OF SPANISH STUDIES

HOUSE STYLE

Notes of Guidance for Contributors

Articles submitted for publication must be original materialneither published nor underconsideration for publication elsewhere. The language used should be English, Spanish,Portuguese, or Catalan.

Articles should not exceed 12, words and should preferabl! be shorter. The! should besubmitted b! attachment or on C"#om, preferabl! in $%#" and accompanied b! a print&

out of the dis' in duplicate, double&spaced throughout, in twel(e&point t!pe, and with )cm margins.

Additionally, autors must !ro"ide a brief abstract of teir article. Please note*

+our abstract should summarise the main points of !our article, and highlight itsfocus and conclusion.

Each abstract should be c.1 words, and must not exceed 2 words. -e! words up to a maximum of 1/ should be highlighted in bold. Abstracts should be written in English. 0f !our article is written in Spanish,

Portuguese, Catalan or rench, please also pro(ide an abstract in the rele(antlanguage. Contributors whose 'nowledge of English is limited should ha(e theirabstracts in English chec'ed b! a nati(e spea'er before submission.

All #uotations and references must a"e been "erified. Contributors should note thattheBulletindoes notuse the author&date s!stem with a bibliograph! at the end. Articlesmust notcarr! an appended critical bibliograph!. ibliographies ma! be used onl! wherethe! form part of the original research material, e.g. newl!&disco(ered archi(al material.0n&text note references to critical wor's must be a(oided and all such references consignedto footnotes. 0n general, contributors should follow the 34#A Style Book, th edition,except where it conflicts with the instructions gi(en below, in which case, BSSinstructionsshould be followed.

ootnote references should be used as follows*

References to Primary SourcesThere should be a footnote at first citation gi(ing all the rele(ant details of the wor',including the date of first publication if a later edition is being used. Subse5uent referencesto primar! sources do not normall! re5uire footnotes, pro(ided the reader has been


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informed of what to expect6 these subse5uent references are incorporated parentheticall!i.e. within round brac'ets/ in the main text of the article with an indication of (olume andpage number. 0f se(eral primar! sources are being used, each wor' should ha(e anappropriate and distinguishing form of abbre(iation to a(oid confusion. Titles should be

italici7ed e(en where abbre(iated.

References to Secondary SourcesAll references to secondar! sources should be made in footnotes. The first citation shouldcarr! all details of the wor'* author, title, edition if rele(ant/, total number of (olumes ifmore than one/, place, publisher, date, and (olume and page references if rele(ant/. Atsecond and subse5uent citations it is not necessar! to repeat all the details6 usuall! theauthor, an abbre(iated form of the title and the page references will suffice, but if there isambiguit! or the possibilit! of confusion for example because se(eral wor's b! the sameauthor are being referred to/, then additional information ma! be gi(en.

0n the case of edited boo's, the names/ of the editors/ should follow not precede/ thetitle and the abbre(iation ed.

8atin terms such as op. cit., loc. cit., ibid. and the li'e, which can be confusing, should bea(oided.

0t is often possible, when there are two or more references to the same wor' in rapidsuccession, and without other inter(ening references, to include all references in a singlefootnote. The footnote reference number should normall! come at the last mention.Clarit! must not be sacrificed* the reader must at all times be able to tell b! glancing at thebottom of the page what authors and wor's are being referred to.

$here a footnote contains a 5uotation or paraphrase, the reference should be gi(en inparentheses after the 5uotation or paraphrase, not before it.

$here reference to a rele(ant critical wor' is made in a footnote but no 5uotation orparaphrase has been offered the reference should normall! be preceded b! 9See: or itse5ui(alent in the language concerned.

Presentation of Footnotesootnotes should be used to pro(ide essential information, normall! a source reference.The text of a footnote should be 'ept to the minimum compatible with clarit!. TheBulletin does not encourage the use of footnotes for pro(iding extra expositor! or

discursi(e material, although additional bac'ground information of a factual or illustrati(enature considered essential for the reader ma! be gi(en in footnotes.

A footnote reference number should be placed at the end of a sentence, after thepunctuation, and should be superscripted. 3id&sentence reference numbers should bea(oided if at all possible. A footnote reference number must not form part of the title of anarticle. An asteris' ma! be used, howe(er, if in special circumstances a footnote needs tobe 'e!ed to the title.

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References to Books and Artices$ #eferences to boo's should pro(ide rele(ant information in the following order* Author name, or initials, before surname/

title in italics editor;translator;compiler edition if other than the first edition and stated in the boo'/ if rele(ant, the series in which the boo' appears, and its number number of (olumes if more than one/ place, publisher, date within round brac'ets6 plus, if not first edition, date of latter/ if rele(ant, (olume and pages/ being referred to without p. or pp./

Examples*Pascual de ?&@)/.

0sabel Allende,De amor y de sombra arcelona* Pla7a ! anBs, 1@@ 1st ed. 1@>=D/,1@.

8eopoldo Alas,La Regenta, ed. 1/, 0,11.

.E.Fare!,Los tteres y otras diversiones populares de Madrid !"#$%!$&'( estudio ydocumentos, uentes para la historia del teatro en EspaGa ? 8ondon* Tamesis, 1@?2/.

ohn $!ndham,)s cris*lidas, trad. ernanda Pinto #odrigues 8isboa* EditorialCaminho, 1@>= 1st ed. 1@D/.

ernHo 3endes Pinto,+eregrina,-o, EdiIHo, introduIHo e anotaIJes de Ke(es Lguas, )MediIHo, 2 tomos 3em 3artins* PublicaIJes Europa&AmBrica, s.d. 1M ediIHo 1N1=D/.

Teresa 3aria 4enri5ue,,a de /ueir0s( 1) Cidade e as Serras2, Apontamentos Europa&AmBrica Explicam =@ 3em 3artins* PublicaIJes Europa&AmBrica, 1@@1/.

% #eferences to articles should pro(ide rele(ant information in the following order* Author name, or initials, before surname/ title of article within single 5uotation mar's title of ournal in italics (olume followed b! colon and issue number within (olume if separatel! paginated/

The (olume number should be gi(en in roman numerals, if that is the custom of theournal concerned.

!ear in round brac'ets/ pagination of the article i.e first page and last page, without pp./ within round brac'ets, page number of the specific reference preceded b! p.

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Examples*Alexander A. Par'er, 9Towards a "efinition of Calderonian Traged!:,Bulletin of3ispanic Studies, OOO0O 1@N2/, 222&)? p. 2))/.

ohn "owling, 9Traditional Spain in the $or's of osB orrilla* The Poet and the ather:,Crtica 3isp*nica, 2*2 1@>/, @?&11.

3arina S. rownlee, 9Permutations of the Karrator&Protagonist* The SerranaEpisodes oftheLibro de buen amorin 8ight of the "oGa Endrina Se5uence:,Romance 4otes, 22*11@>1/, @>Q11.

& #eferences to articles or essa!s in boo's should pro(ide rele(ant information in thefollowing order* Author of the article or essa! name, or initials, before surname/

title of article or essa! within single 5uotation mar's the word 9in: or its e5ui(alent/ followed b! the title of the boo' in italics the abbre(iation 9ed.: followed b! the name of the editors/ place, publisher, and date within round brac'ets/ page numbers of the article or essa! within round brac'ets, page number of the specific reference preceded b! p.

Examples*3ario Fargas 8losa, 9Preguntas a ulio CortR7ar:, in Cinco miradas sobre Cort*5ar, ed.Ana 3ara Sim uenos Aires* Editorial Tiempo ContemporRneo, 1@N>/, >)&@1 p. >/.

Susan ames, 9#eason, the Passions and the


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$here a short 5uotation forms part of a longer sentence, the full stop at the end shouldcome outside the closing 5uotation mar' irrespecti(e of the original punctuation. 0f, on theother hand, the 5uotation forms a complete sentence b! itself often preceded b! a colon/

the full stop should be placed inside the closing 5uotation mar'. S5uare brac'ets are notre5uired to indicate a 5uotation started in mid&sentence. The! should be used onl! toindicate an editorial change or addition re5uired for clarit! or grammatical accurac!. Seealso 7mitted 6e8t in /uotationsbelow.

Vuotations of more than two lines should be bro'en off from the main text and indentedor centred if (erse/. The! should not carr! 5uotation mar's. 0f two 5uoted passages arebeing compared, it ma! be more appropriate to present them in columns side b! side, ifspace permits.

$here primar! source references are gi(en at the end of the 5uotation, the! should appearin round brac'ets before the punctuation mar' if part of the running text, or after thepunctuation mar' if the 5uotation is set apart from the main text.

Vuotation mar's are meant to indicate 5uotations. Their use to signal semanticadustments to the contributor:s own words and phrases should be used (er! sparingl!.

+unctuation in /uotationsPunctuation leading to 5uotations and at the end of 5uotations should follow normalpunctuation rules6 it is not necessar! to preser(e the punctuation of the original pro(idedthe sense is unaffected. A 5uotation will normall! end with a full stop irrespecti(e of theoriginal punctuation. Similarl!, a colon immediatel! before a 5uotation whether indentedor not/ will be superfluous if the 5uotation forms part of the sentence that precedes it.

7mitted 6e8t in /uotationsThe use of ellipses in 5uotations to reduce their length is normal, but it is important toindicate each ellipsis or omission b! inserting three points without inter(ening spaceswithin s5uare brac'ets. The use of s5uare brac'ets is meant to distinguish a contributor:sellipsis from the ellipsis orpuntos suspensivos9occurring in the original text of a5uotation. 0f the ellipsis follows the end of a sentence, the three ellipsis points withins5uare brac'ets ma! be followed b! the original full stop, but the! should not be followedb! a full stop.

0f the beginning of a sentence is omitted in a 5uotation, the 5uotation ma! be gi(en a

capital letter at the new starting point. 0t is not necessar! to indicate an ellipsis at thebeginning or end of a 5uotation unless the sentence is ob(iousl! incomplete. 0n the lattercase, the ellipsis should be indicated in the normal wa! b! three points within s5uarebrac'ets.

0f the ellipsis occurs in a poem, the three dots within s5uare brac'ets should be inserted atthe end of the line preceding the omission, not as a separate line.


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6ranslations of /uotationsSince readers of theBulletin of Spanish Studieswill be familiar with Spanish, Portuguese,and Catalan, 5uotations in these languages do not re5uire translations into English.Similarl!, an article written in one of these languages but which includes 5uotations in

English, should not normall! re5uire translations from the English.

7ther +oints of 6ypescript +reparationSubdi(isions and subheadings. These should be used sparingl!. Simple subdi(isions shouldcarr! centred roman numerals at the beginning of each section. Subheadings should beleft&hand ustified and if numbered should carr! arabic numerals with no full stop.

Paragraphing. Kew paragraphs should be indented b! the use of a single tab, ne(er b!se(eral pulses of the space bar. The initial paragraph and the paragraph immediatel!following a sub&heading/ should not be indented.

#ight&hand ustification should not be used. 4ard returns should be used onl! at the end ofa paragraph or line of (erse. ormatting commands should be 'ept to the minimum thatwill compl! with these guidelines.

ootnote numbering. ootnotes must be generated automaticall! b! the word&processor.0t does not matter whether the! ta'e the form of footnotes or endnotes pro(ided the! ha(ebeen inserted automaticall!. Articles with manuall!&added notes will be returned toauthors with a re5uest for re&insertion.

SpellingTheBulletin of Spanish Studies as a British%based :ournal uses ritish spelling.Therefore, American usage will be changed, before publication, to ritish usage b! the

editors. The spelling used should be consistent throughout. This applies in the case ofwords that ha(e two generall! accepted forms in English, e.g. certain words ending in Qiseor Qi7e, or ac'nowledge/ment, udge/ment. 4!phenated words can be problematical andshould be chec'ed. 0n all cases of doubt we recommend that the Shorter %xford English"ictionar! be consulted.

Style and +resentationThe editors expect the text of an! article submitted to theBulletin of Spanish Studiestobe full! researched as to content and in a st!le and form alread! suitable for publication.The principal responsibilities of the editors and specialist peer&assessors consulted b! themare to e(aluate the originalit!, (alidit! and importance of articles submitted. 0t is not their

tas' to address and eliminate deficiencies in expression etc. $e expect contributorsthemsel(es to rectif! an! such deficiencies prior to publication. As befits a researchournal, we encourage the highest possible degree of precision and clarit! of (ocabular!and expression. $e will not edit or publish articles that are obscure, argon&ridden or(erbose. $e hold it to be essential for the benefit of other researchers that all researchfindings be communicated in an accessible and lucid manner.

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