ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment

Style Sheet for Scholarly Articles

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General Style Guidelines

Font/Size: Palatino Linotype (PC) or Palatino (Mac) 10 pt. preferred

Spacing: Double-space text with an additional line space between Heading and Body. No line spaces between paragraphs.

Indents: Do not indent Heading or the first paragraph of the Body. All other paragraphs within the Body should be indented a half inch as standard. When indenting, please use the "tab" button rather than the space key.

Titles: Please italicize rather than underline titles.

Dashes: Use double hyphens ( -- ) to indicate dashes.

Notes: All notes (titled as "Notes") should be placed at the end of the article, prior to the bibliography (titled as "References"). DO NOT USE AUTO-FORMAT for Notes. Instead, place Note number in brackets where appropriate. Example:  . . .was in some sense preordained. [27]

Other: DO NOT USE PAGE BREAKS, SECTION BREAKS, OR HEADERS/FOOTERS (with the exception of page numbers).

Make a note of any special instructions, especially for graphics and quoted poetry (please include photocopies of published poems that need special formatting).

Highlight foreign words needing special accents or punctuation, and words with non-standard spellings.

An Example of Notes and References at the End of an Article :

(no spaces or tabs; no hanging indents; one space between each entry; "notes" and "references" all in lower case):

notes

1. All poems quoted are from A Human Pattern: Selected Poems. The dates given are the dates of their first publication in collections.
2. See "Judith Wright's Nature Poetry: The Problem of Living 'through a web of language,'" in which I discuss her concern about the problem of representation from an ecocritical perspective.
3. To be sure, Wright shows awareness (and in some cases almost envy) of North American environmentalism. In The Coral Battleground, she tells of using American evidence on the effects of offshore oil drilling, and in her essays she cites authors such as Aldo Leopold. But the flow of information and influence cannot be all one way.

references

Griffiths, Tom. Hunters and Collectors: The Antiquarian Imagination in Australia. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 1996.

Hope, A. D. Judith Wright. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1975.

Snyder, Gary. "Tawny Grammar." The Practice of the Wild. San Francisco: North Point Press, 1990. 48-77.

Strauss, Jennifer. Judith Wright. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1995.

Walker, Shirley. Flame and Shadow: A Study of Judith Wright's Poetry. St. Lucia: U of Queensland P, 1991.

Wright, Judith. Because I was Invited. Melbourne: Oxford UP, 1975.

-- . "Conservation as a Concept." Because I was Invited. 189-95

-- . The Coral Battleground. Melbourne: Thomas Nelson, 1977.

Zeller, Robert. "Judith Wright's Nature Poetry: The Problem of 'living through a web of language.'" Antipodes 12.1 (1998): 21-25.

Quotations

ALL QUOTATIONS NEED PAGE NUMBERS. Quotations from your sources should be cited parenthetically (MLA style), with page numbers at the end of the sentences, as follows:

Hope notes that many people "possibly do not realize how deeply the active and contemplative life may combine in a poet" (6).

All ellipses should be placed in brackets: [...]

Electronic File

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Special Needs

If there are any special needs or irregularities, please consult the Managing Editor.

Jim Bishop, jedwardbishop@unr.edu
Phone: 775-784-8015

ISLE
Department of English/0098
University of Nevada, Reno
Reno, NV 89557-0098