Manuscript

The normal length of published manuscripts is a maximum of 8,000 words. A manuscript should begin with an abstract of 100–150 words. It should be submitted as a MS Word file. The entire manuscript (the body of the text, footnotes, and references) should be double-spaced and in a standard 12-point font.

Appendixes

Include appendixes in the manuscript file following the reference list. Each appendix should start on a new page.

Tables

Prepare tables using the MS Word table editor (i.e., do not use tabs or hard returns). Include tables in the manuscript file following the reference list. Each table should start on a new page.

Figures

When submitting manuscripts, authors should include all images, as well as a caption list. The author is expected to provide publication-quality images for the article as well as copyright permissions to reproduce them. Images must be 300 dpi TIFF or EPS files at a minimum of 20 picas wide (approximately 3.3 inches). All original charts, graphs, or other artwork must be professionally rendered and computer generated.

Ⅱ. Style Guide

Manuscripts should follow Chicago Manual of Style requirements. For manuscripts that do not do so, the editors may require style revisions before publication. The main style elements should be handled as follows:

Headings

Type subheads on a new line, flush left. In general, use no more than three levels of headings. In addition, there should be no header (e.g., “Introduction”) for the first section. The following Chicago Manual of Style guidance may be helpful: “A lower-level subhead may follow an upper-level subhead with no intervening text, but when a section of text is subdivided, there should ideally be at least two subsections.” (See The Chicago Manual of Style, 17th ed.)

Transcripts

If your paper contains a transcript, please set it up as a table and ensure that each line of the transcript is contained in its own table row. If transcript lines are to be numbered, line numbers should appear in a separate column.

Appendixes, tables, and figures

Appendixes, tables, and figures are numbered consecutively (app. A, app. B, table 1, table 2, fig. 1, fig. 2, etc.) and are called out in order in the body of text (i.e., table 1 would be mentioned before table 2).

In-text references

Submissions should follow the author-date system as outlined in chapter 15 of The Chicago Manual of Style.
Simple citations of works are given in the text in chronological order by enclosing the author's last name and the year of publication in parentheses—for example, (Friedman 2003)—and are linked to a reference list at the end of the article. Specific page or section citations follow the date, preceded by a comma: (Friedman 2003, 96). Other examples are as follows: for dual authorship of a single work, (Newman and Principle 2002); for three or more authors of a single work, (Koehlstedt et al. 1999); for two works by the same author, (McMullin 1985, 1990); for two works by different authors, (Westfall 1977; Burian 1980); for reprints, Hume [1740] 1978).

Footnotes

Footnotes are used for material commenting on or adding to the text, and should also be used for archival materials, unpublished interviews, or other sources that do not have a clear author or publication date or would be difficult to include in an author-date reference list.
Citations of websites are often included in footnotes as well; access dates should not generally be included.
Any author-date citations contained in footnotes should be styled as they would in the main text.
All footnotes begin at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced. Acknowledgments are included in a first unnumbered footnote on the first page of an article.

Reference list

Full documentation appears in a reference list. This list should include all works cited in the text, including author-date citations in footnotes. List works alphabetically by author and, under author, by year of publication. References not cited in the text should not appear in the reference list.

Book, one author or editor

Oswald, Laura R. 2012. Marketing Semiotics: Signs Strategies, and Brand Value. New York: Oxford University Press.
Sebeok, Thomas A. 1979. The Sign and Its Masters. Austin: University of Texas Press.
Talmy, Leonard. 2000. Toward a Cognitive Semantics, vol. 1, Concept Structuring Systems. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.
Untermeyer, Louis, ed. 1964. Modern American Poetry. New York: Harcourt, Brace.

Book, multiple authors and editors

Harris, Roy, and Talbot J. Taylor. 1989. Landmarks in Linguistic Thought: The Western Tradition from Socrates to Saussure.
London: Routledge. Bradley, Sculley, Richmond Croom Beatty, and E. Hudson Long, eds. 1967. The American Tradition in Literature>. 3rd ed. New York: Norton.

Reprint

Hume, David. (1740) 1978. A Treatise of Human Nature. Edited by P. H. Nidditch. 2nd ed. Reprint, Oxford: Clarendon
Pedersen, Holger. (1931) 1962. The Discovery of Language: Linguistic Science in the 19th Century. Translated by John Webster. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Book chapter

Dewell, Robert B. 1997. “Construal Transformations: Internal and External Viewpoints in Interpreting Containment.” In Lexical and Syntactical Constructions and the Construction of Meaning, edited by Marjolijn Verspoor, Kee Dong Lee, and Eve Sweetser, 17–32. Amsterdam: Benjamins.

Journal article

Rao, Chaitra, Shweta Soni, and Nandini Chatterjee Singh. 2012. "The Case of the Neglected Alphasyllabary: Orthographic Processing in Devanagari."Behavioral and Brain Sciences35 (5): 302–3.

Multiple works by single author

Parmentier, Richard. 2002. "Money Walks, People Talk: Systemic and Transactional Dimensions of Palauan Exchange."L'Homme162 (1): 49–80.
________. 2005. "Description and Comparison of Religion."History of Religions43 (3): 233–45.

Online journal

Dingemanse, Mark. 2012. "Coerced Iconicity in Writing and Speech."SemiotiX New Series: A Global Information Bulletin, no. 8, http://semioticon.com/semiotix/2012/07/coerced-iconicity-in-writing-and-speech/.

Translation

Barthes, Roland. 1972. . Translated by Annette Lavers. London: Paladin.
Lavoisier, Antoine-Laurent. 1965. The Elements of Chemistry. Translated by Robert Kerr. New York: Dover. Originally published as Traité élémentaire de chimie(Paris, 1793).

Terms, translations, and emphasis

Use double quotation marks when first citing an author's analytical terms, such as Peirce's concept of "infinite semiosis." Double quotation marks are changed to single quotation marks for quotes or terms within quotations, e.g., "containing a 'secret' meaning."
Glosses should be enclosed in single quotation marks immediately following the term they define, with no intervening punctuation: praxis 'practice'. Any following punctuation (here, a period) is placed after the closing quotation mark.
Use italics for words in foreign languages that are not part of regular English usage, e.g., the Greek term sēmeion.
Use italics for citing linguistic forms qua forms in any language, e.g., the English word speech doesn’t sound like the French word parole.
Use italics for rhetorical emphasis very sparingly and in general avoid using "scare" quotes for figurative usage.