JOURNAL OF ARABIC AND
ISLAMIC STUDIES
(ISSN:
0806-198X)
STYLE GUIDE
This file contains notes
and guidance on the preparation of electronic manuscripts for the Journal.
For the convenience of
authors, the Journal treats submission and publication as a two stage process.
Guidelines on submission will be found in part one of this document.
Guidelines on preparing an accepted manuscript for publication will be
found in part two.
All authors should follow the
guidelines for submission. The guidelines for publication concern
only those authors who have been informed by the Journal that their work has
been accepted for publication.
PART ONE: SUBMISSION
The Journal currently
accepts contributions in English, French, German, Italian, and Spanish.
Manuscripts should
preferably be submitted in Microsoft Word for Windows, any version up to the
latest, but it should be noted that the Journal does not currently make use of
any Word features in versions above 2003. Please try to avoid submissions in
word-processors other than Word. On the Macintosh platform, submissions in
Microsoft Word are acceptable, although this program has no left-to-right
support. Converting transliterated texts is not a very big problem. Remember
that in the production process your file will be converted to Microsoft Word
for Windows. We have had considerable trouble converting Nisus files, and as
yet have no experience with Mellel, although we are willing to try. Mac authors
may be asked to have longer Arabic texts typed again in Word for Windows. For
more on Arabic for the Mac, consult Knut Vikør's page The Arabic Mac: An Informal Resource Center.
In all cases send both the
original word-processor file and an Adobe Acrobat PDF file produced on your own
machine or one with the same diacritic fonts installed. (We have too little
experience with Microsoft's MDI files to be able to recommend them.) If you
cannot send a PDF file, send hard copy separately.
A. All submissions should
be preceded by a header containing the title of the manuscript, certain
information about it, the name(s) of the author(s), any affiliations, mail and
e-mail addresses, and telephone and telefax numbers. The header should be formatted
as in the following example:
a) Category of submission: Research Article,
Review Article (Book, Article),
Review Article (Software), Communication,
Software Review.
b) Title: Ghazal in Early Arabic Poetry
c) Author(s): Jane Doe and John H. Smith
d) Word length: 9,999 words
e) Fonts used in file: Times New Roman (Vista
Version), JaghbUni, Gentium, Doulos SIL, etc.
f) Date of submission: 1 January 2007
g) Address:
Name of Institution
Name of Department
Full Postal Address
E-Mail Address
Telephone Number
Fax Number
B. In the
case of research articles or review articles, please include an abstract of no
more than 150 words after the header.
C. Send all electronic
files to the Editor, Alex Metcalfe <a.j.metcalfe@lancaster.ac.uk>. Hard copy may be sent to him at the
following address:
Dr Alex
Metcalfe
Department
of History
Tel: 0044
(0)1524 592548
Please note that
submissions to the Journal on paper or diskette will not be returned. The
Journal of Arabic and Islamic Studies cannot be held responsible for loss of or
damage to unsolicited material.
PART TWO: PUBLICATION
The information contained
in this section concerns only those authors who have received notification that
their submission has been accepted for publication.
A. Manuscripts should be
preceded by a header containing the same information and formatted in the same
manner as the example under A above.
B. In the case of articles
and review articles, please include an abstract of no more than 150 words after
the header. The abstract should be followed by the text of the manuscript
according to the format described below.
C. Manuscripts should
conform to the Chicago Manual of Style, the MLA (Modern Language
Association), or other standard guidelines, and should preferably be submitted
in a fully formatted word processor version in accordance with the style sheet
given below. Use preferably the fonts we recommend in the file Fonts.
Please do not use the transliteration font for your whole article, unless it is
entirely in English. Spell-checking only works for English and other languages
with no diacritics, so any German titles you cite, for example, will have to
checked by eye.
Greek, Cyrillic, and other
non-Latin characters may be transliterated. Authors planning to use an Arabic
font other than
D. Style sheet for the word
processor version (for those who wish to get involved in this):
Paper size: A4
Margins
Top: 5.2 cm
Bottom: 6 cm
Left: 4.8 cm
Right: 4.8 cm
Gutter: 0
Header: 4.35 cm from edge
Footer: 3 cm from edge
Gutter position: left
Text height: about 19.2 cm
Text width: 11.4 cm
Font (e.g.): Times New Roman (Vista version) or
JaghbUni.
font size: 11
footnotes: 10
footnote references: 8 (automatic)
block quotations: 10
poetry: 10
page numbers: automatic from word processor
title: 13 caps, centered, not bold, size 11 space
after
author: size 11 italics, centered, size 11
space after
place/institution: size 10 small caps, centered, size
8 space after
abstract: font size 10, indent 0.4 cm before
text, 0.25 after; begin with flush paragraph, 8 point space after
A-level subheads: 11 caps, centered, 12 points
before, 6 after paragraph
B-level subheads: 11 italics, title
capitalization, flush, 6 points before paragraph, followed by flush paragraph
C-level subheads: 11 italics indented with
paragraph, followed by period
Line spacing: normally automatic, or
single
Paragraph spacing: no extra leading
Paragraph indentation: 0,4
cm
Block quotation spacing: 6 points before and
after
Block quotation indentation: none
Paragraph indentation in block quotations: 0,4 cm (Indent first line if it is the beginning of a new
paragraph in the source.)
Poetry indentation, first hemistich: 0,8 cm
Poetry indentation, second hemistich: 1,2 cm
(On
subheads see The Chicago Manual of Style [
E. Notes may either be
embedded in the text (author-date system) or placed at the bottom of the page
as footnotes. Endnotes should not be used in fully formatted documents.
The Journal does not require that all authors adhere to the same system for
references to sources or other notes, but consistency is expected.
F. In
G. Adjectival and adverbial
hybrids formed from foreign words (example: "Hanbalite") should not
be italicized.
H. Authors of accepted
manuscripts enter into an agreement with the Edinburgh University Press. For
details see the JAIS Author Agreement.
I. For each article
published by the Journal the editors hope to maintain a folder for discussion
and reactions.
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modified October 22, 2007.
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