Style Sheet for IES Bulletin Book Reviews and Articles

Submission of Manuscripts

Articles and book reviews should be double-spaced, using 12-point type. Article submissions may be MS Word attachments, or for shorter reviews, as text within the body of an e-mail message with an explanation of any diacritics or symbols. A floppy disk is also acceptable in lieu of electronic transmission via email.

All articles and reviews will be refereed by the editorial board. Please review the style sheet guidelines carefully before submitting articles.

Please send book reviews (in hard copy and, if possible, in an electronic version) to:

Brent Vine, IES Bulletin Book Review editor
UCLA Program in Indo-European Studies
100 Dodd Hall
405 Hilgard Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417
USA

E-mail: <vine(at)humnet(dot)ucla(dot)edu>.

The final version of all articles and book reviews should be sent (in hard copy and with an electronic version) to:

Deborah Anderson
1348 Burkette Drive
San Jose, CA 95129
USA

The electronic version may be on a floppy disk or may be sent electronically to <dwanders(at)berkeley(dot)edu>.

Fonts

If at all possible, please use a Unicode-compliant font. There are a variety of Unicode fonts available, and use of these will prevent delays in production.

Suggested fonts:

For IPA: Doulos SIL (free download from SIL: from http://scripts.sil.org/; go to Doulos SIL Font Home)

For Greek: see listing at: http://www.tlg.uci.edu/help/UnicodeTest.html

For PIE symbols not in common fonts: TITUS Cyberbit (PC or Mac, see website above)

For basic fonts: Lucida Grande (Mac OS X+), Arial Unicode MS, Times New Roman, Gentium (available from SIL at the above site).

If you need a symbol not found on any of the above fonts, devise a system to designate it and describe its use at the beginning of the article (i.e., #i is a Turkish dotless “i”).

Footnotes

Typescripts should have footnotes (or endnotes) in a 12-point font, double-spaced. For final print publication, we will make an attempt to incorporate short footnotes, but lengthy or numerous footnotes will be converted to endnotes. Extremely long footnotes with substantive comments should be either incorporated into the main body of the text or made into an appendix to the article.

Language

English is the language of the Bulletin. If English is not your native language, you must have a native speaker read your article before submitting it.

Spelling

Please use American spellings.

General Style Format

• In general, the IES Bulletin follows the Chicago Manual of Style.
• Reconstructed forms and foreign words should be italicized.
• Glosses should be surrounded by single quotes: chien ‘dog’.
• Use an n-dash between page numbers and dates, and repeat all the digits after the n-dash: 95–99 (not 95–9).
• Use three m-dashes for repeated bibliographic items (see examples of bibliographic entries).
• Numbers, in general, should be written out if under one hundred. (i.e., “We find three copies...”).
• Section numbers (§1.2.1., etc.) should not go beyond four digits (hence, §1.2.1.4.5 is too long).

Bibliographic format

• Please include all books and articles referred to in the text in the bibliography.
• The author-date system is used in the Bulletin (i.e., Clackson 1994). Within the body of the article, provide in-line bibliographic information in parentheses:

  “…and the scenarios postulated by Clackson (1994: 131)”;
  “Many new works have appeared, including Clackson 1994, Jones and Smith 1997…”

• Abbreviations for common reference works (“GOI” for A Grammar of Old Irish) are permissible in the text, but the abbreviation and its full title should be included in the bibliography.
• Only book reviews may include the pages only, without repeating the author’s name and the date: “He is forced to allow some reconstructions based on morphology (16)”
• Note that the place of publication is included in the bibliographic entry before the publisher.

See examples of bibliographic entries (PDF).