College of Charleston

Instructions for Authors

1. All papers are to be submitted electronically, in Microsoft Word (and PC-readable) format, by e-mail to one of the co-editors, Timothy Carens (carenst@cofc.edu) or Larry Krasnoff (krasnoff@cofc.edu). Authors who are not certain how to convert their files to Word should contact one of the editors or the editorial board member from their department for assistance.

2. All text in the paper – including endnotes, endnote numbers and indented quotations – should be double-spaced, in 12 point Times New Roman font.

3. References should conform to Modern Language Association (MLA) style. When you quote an author in the text of your essay, you provide his or her name and, in parentheses at the end of the sentence, the number of the page on which the quotation appears. For example:

Ian Baucom insists that a “sense of collective identity rarely, if ever, proceeds from stipulation” (12).

It is also possible to include the author’s name in the parenthesis rather than in the sentence itself, although this option is generally reserved for facts and statistics. For example:

In the period 1810 to 1830, the East India Company quadrupled its sales of opium to China (Lloyd 183).

Your essay should end with a Works Cited list that includes the relevant bibliographic information for the sources from which you have drawn quotations. In the MLA format, citations follow this format:

Barrel, John. The Dark Side of the Landscape: The Rural Poor in English Painting 1730-1840. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1983.

Citron, Marcia J. “Operatic Style and Structure in Coppola’s Godfather Trilogy.” Musical Quarterly 87.3 (2004): 423-67.

There are of course other types of sources that you might cite in your research. For more information, consult the following style sheet.

4. There should be no page numbers, headers, footers or other text appended to the main body of the file. Figures, charts and/or illustrations should be submitted as separate files, with a notation at the appropriate place within the main text (e.g. “Insert Figure 1 here”). There should be no cover sheet; the title and author’s name should simply appear at the start of the paper.

5. Authors should include, as a separate file, a brief biographical statement that includes at least their hometown, their year and major at the College, the class for which and the professor for whom the paper was originally written. Authors may also include anything else they wish about their intellectual interests and future plans, subject to editorial revision.

6. Authors must also provide the editors with e-mail and/or phone contact information, and must be available for consultation and revision during the summer months. Acceptance of a paper in the journal is conditional on agreeing to work with the editor on any requested revisions, and on the proofreading of the final text.

7. The journal operates on a "one-time only" copyright basis. Papers published in the journal are copyrighted, but authors retain all future rights, and are free to publish their papers anywhere else they choose.