Linguistics 210 - Style Sheet
Below is the style sheet for research papers in Linguistics 210, Spring 98:
1. Use double spacing throughout for both first and final drafts.
Margins should be one inch on all sides.
2. Include a separate title page, containing the title of the paper,
your name, date submitted, course number (LING 210), and section number or
name of TA. Number all pages consecutively, starting with the title page
(which is page 1). Put the page numbers in the upper right margin of each
page.
3. Use a standard type font, no smaller than 12 characters to the inch
(elite), if nonproportional, such as Courier or Prestige; and no smaller
than 12 point if proportional, such as Times Roman or Helvetica.
4. Use footnotes or endnotes, but only for additional material that you
do not want to put into the text itself. Do not use footnotes or endnotes
for references.
5. Put references in the text, as in the following illustrations.
a. Basso (1989: 16) describes three ways in which the vocabulary of a
language changes as a result of cultural contact.
b. Greenberg (1987: 42-3) states that he arrived at his classification of
the languages of the Americas in 1956, and that Sydney Lamb proposed a
similar hypothesis three years later.
c. There are only minor differences in the writing systems of Tohono
O'odham and Pima (Zepeda 1983: 6).
If you refer to a specific work several times in a row, you may omit
the author's name and the date of publication in later references
using only a page number. However, include author and publication
date whenever there is any chance of confusion.
6. When you mention a word, phrase or sentence in the text, underline
or italicize it, as in:
Object nouns are formed from imperfective verbs in O'odham by means of the
suffix -a.
If you are glossing (translating) a word, the gloss should follow
the word in single quotes.
For example golon 'raking', ñ-golon-a 'the thing that I
raked', 'my raking'.
If you gloss a long example from another language, put it on a
separate line or lines, present a word-by-word gloss directly
beneath the example, and beneath that a free translation.
ALhosh-ígíí ashkii aLháá
sleep-REL boy snore
The boy who is sleeping is snoring.
Note that the example is not italicized or underlined, and the
translation is not enclosed in single quotes.
7. Your bibliography should follow the text and endnotes (if you use
them). The section should be headed by the word BIBLIOGRAPHY or REFERENCES.
References should be given in alphabetical order by surname of the first
author. A reference without an author (e.g., a government report), should
be alphabetized according to the first work (ignoring a, an, and the).
Each reference should give the author's name (last name first), date of
publication, and title. If it is a book, the place of publication and name
of the publisher should be given. If it is a journal article, the name of
the journal, volume number, and page numbers should be given. If you have
two or more references by the same author published in the same year,
distinguish them by adding the letters 'a', 'b', etc. after the year.
References in the text should include those letters, as in
(Basso 1990b: 22). Here are some examples:
REFERENCES
Basso, Keith H. 1990. Western Apache Language and Culture.
Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
Greenberg, Joseph H. 1987. Language in the Americas. Stanford:
Stanford University Press.
Platero, Paul H. 1974. The Navajo Relative Clause. International
Journal of American Linguistics 40: 202-246.
Zepeda, Ofelia. 1983. A Papago Grammar. Tucson: University of
Arizona Press.
8. Do not put your paper in any kind of binding or folder.
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