Style
Guide
and
General Information to Contributors
Freelancers:
Enkidu
considers articles, opinion pieces,
reviews, graphic art or photos from
external freelancers on a regular basis.
If you have talent and skill in one or
more of these or other relevant areas,
we would like to get to know you. Our
need for contributions from freelancers
will probably increase next year when
the print edition of Enkidu will be a
reality. If you are interested in being
considered for publication in our
web-edition, please submit your work to
the Enkidu Editorial Board (enkidu_editors@hotmail.com).
The
Web edition is updated every Tuesday and
if you want to have a contribution
considered for publication in the next
edition, we must receive it by SUNDAY at
the latest. Good work will be rewarded
by being published in Enkidu and
accessible to an international audience.
Enkidu offers you a platform to present
your work and build up a reputation.
Since Enkidu at the moment cannot pay
for materials published by freelance
authors, external contributors will
generally maintain all rights to their
own material. If you have questions or
concerns regarding the electronic
distribution of your intellectual
property through Enkidu, do not hesitate
to contact us.
Writers
Enkidu
also considers fiction, short stories or
poetry by promising young GLBT-authors
for publication online and in print.
Students
Young
scholars working with GLBT-related
topics, for instance in their
dissertation, are encouraged to present
their work in Enkidu.
Employment
Enkidu
is expanding rapidly and we are always
looking out for potential candidates for
future employment. If you would be
interested in a permanent engagement in
Enkidu, please submit a letter of
interest and a resume and we will
include you in our applicant database.
We expect that a number of exiting and
challenging positions will be available
in the second half of 2003.
Manuscripts
Enkidu
welcomes contributions on a large
variety of subjects. Contributors are
kindly asked to prepare their
manuscripts in accordance with these
guidelines:
Enkidu
da la bienvenida las contribuciones
sobre una variedad grande de sujetan.
Amablemente piden a contribuidores
preparar sus manuscritos conforme a este
guidelines:.
- Enkidu
publishes articles in Spanish and
English. Other languages may be
considered, but will be published
with a summary in one of the two
main languages that is accessible to
the large majority of the readers or
should be translated before
publication. Articles may also
appear in different language
versions in Enkidu Web Edition.
2.
We also remind
contributors that material quoted in
extracts and other quotations may be
subject to copyright laws, and that it
is the responsibility of the author to
obtain permission to make such
quotations. The same goes for
accompanying images, links and logos.
3.
Please submit your contribution
digitally, if possible. It may be sent
to the Enkidu editorial board as e-mail
attachment or on a floppy disk or
CD-ROM.
4.
The contributions may be
submitted as MS WORD documents or as
text only. Contributors are requested to
use a common standard font (12 p. Times
New Roman, Courier New or Arial etc.)
and for the rest to use further
formatting as little as possible. Images
are preferably submitted as jpeg-files
or other common standard formats. It is
preferable if the image resolution is as
high as possible in case they need
further processing or formatting before
they are digitally published.
5.
Each submission should have a
clear heading and also subtitles should
be clearly indicated. It is preferable
if titles and subtitles are places
centrally over the text. Please avoid
numbering subtitles, especially if your
article is subdivided. If sectional
divisions are used, each section should
be fairly self-contained and of
substantial length (perhaps one-fifth to
one-quarter of the article each). Keep
in mind when organising your text that
depending on the length of your
submission, the different subdivisions
may be published on separate chained
pages in the web edition.
6.
Please note, however, that the
first paragraph of the article or of any
section should not be indented.
7.
If you wish a word or phrase to
be printed in italics, please underline
it in the manuscript. No word or
character should be underlined in the
manuscript unless it is to appear in
italics. Any other word or phrase that
is underlined will easily be interpreted
as a link by the readers, and should
therefore be avoided to prevent
confusion.
8.
Double quotation-marks are used
for all quotations from other authors
(except quotations to be set as
extracts) and also for dialogue, for the
titles of articles, essays, unpublished
theses, and songs, and also for words
about which a special comment is being
made or implied by the author.
9.
Single quotation marks are only
for quotations etc. within matter that
is enclosed in double quotation-marks.
10.
Punctuation with quotation-marks
is as follows. Commas and periods (full
stops) go inside the closing
quotation-marks. Semi-colons and colons
go outside. Question-marks and
exclamation-marks go inside if they
belong exclusively to the quoted matter,
and outside if they are the author's
marks.
11.
For whole sentences or paragraphs
within quotation-marks, the original
punctuation should be reproduced, save
that any double quotation-marks in it
should be replaced with single
quotation-marks. If the quotation
includes more than one paragraph (as in
a short dialogue), opening double
quotation-marks are placed at the
beginning of each paragraph and at the
end of the last one. Such quotations,
though, are probably better set as
extracts.
12.
Prose quotations and extracts of
more than six or eight lines, or of more
than one paragraph, are usually indented
and set in smaller type. Quotations from
poems, plays and letters should also be
treated this way. All such quotations
are called extracts. In the web edition
they will mostly appear indented five
spaces from the margin. They should not
be given opening and closing quotation
marks. Such extracts must reproduce the
original exactly, unless the author
explicitly assumes responsibility for
modernizing the spelling or making some
similar change. Omission of any part of
the original, except at the beginning
and end of the extract, must be shown by
three points of ellipsis (dots)
separated from each other by single
typewriter spaces. If the omission comes
at the end of a sentence, the three
points follow the full stop.
13.
Unless the extract begins
part-way through a sentence, points of
ellipsis should not be used before the
first word of the extract. Only if the
final sentence is incomplete should they
be used at the end. Any words the
original placed in parentheses (round
brackets) must be kept that way. Any
comments by the current author must be
put within square brackets; any words he
puts into italics which were not so set
in the original must be noted,
preferably with [my italics] immediately
after the alteration.
14.
Enkidu has readers in several
countries, speaking several languages.
Therefore abbreviations should be
avoided, unless the abbreviation is in
general use and considered to be
universally recognized by all speakers
of a particular language, at least among
the target group of the article. The
full expression of a word or phrase is
usually preferable unless the short form
is the only one in general use.
Shortened forms may be used more freely
in the notes, if there is no question
about clarity.
15.
While notes will appear as
footnotes, they must be typed on pages
at the end of the text, with
double-spacing and an extra space after
each note for formatting reasons. The
first line of each note should begin
with the reference number, which should
not be indented and should not be
followed by a period.
16.
The first reference to a printed
book should begin with the name of the
author (or names of the authors, linked
by "and"), followed in
parentheses by the names of editors or
translators. After a comma, there
follows the full title of the book
underlined for italics, followed
immediately in parentheses by the place
of publication, a comma, the year of
publication, a comma outside the closing
parenthesis, and then the page
reference.
17.
When a publication from a
periodical or newspaper is cited it
should be given its full title or at
least a popular form of it. The volume
number should be set in Roman or in
Arabic numbers, according to the form
used by the periodical quoted. When a
periodical has been published in several
series, the number of the series (after
the first) should be cited before the
volume number; the year of publication
should follow, in parentheses; then
should come a comma and the page number.
Links to online articles are reproduced
as they appear in the address line on
the original site, together with the
title of the web page, the author’s
full name and the full title of the
article. Please check that links really
work before you submit your article. The
Enkidu editors do not always have the
capacity to control each and every link
in received articles before the appear
on the page.
18.
…AND check your spelling once
before you submit your manuscript. If
you use a regional variety of a standard
language with deviant local forms or
slang, please indicate this in the cover
letter. Local forms of expression and
spelling varieties may be an important
part of the author’s identity and
individual style and will be respected
if used coherently. However, you should
indicate this in advance since the
Enkidu-editors do not always immediately
recognize each and every regional
variety of Spanish, English or other
languages, and may by accident interpret
deviant forms as spelling errors.
Submissions in Mexican languages
are enthusiastically encouraged and will
appear together with a translation to
Spanish or English in a separate column.
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