SLS Style Notes

SLS STYLE NOTES William C. Stokoe, Jr. Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be typed with double spacing throughout and with ample margins. The original and two copies should be sent to the Editor: Linguistics Research Laboratory, Gallaudet College, Kendall Green, Washington, D.C. 20002. Authors should retain at least one copy to insure against loss in transit. Heading. The title should be as brief as is consistent with the descriptive accuracy, typed in capitals, and followed by extra space. The author's name or the names of joint authors should follow, without degrees, titles, or affiliation. However, a brief vita containing the current position and address of the author and educational and professional background should be sent with the manuscript. Four spaces below the author's name the text should begin, either with the usual five-space indentation, or if a subheading is used for the first section, as follows: Subheads. The subheading should be typed in capitals and set off by a period. On the same line the text material follows, as here. Sources. Citations of sources is to be by author's last name and year of publication in parentheses (Starkadder 1679). With a quotation or a citation of a specific rather than a general idea, pagination follows a colon (Mallery 1881:265). Brief quotations-not more than two lines-should be run into text, but set off by double quotation marks. Longer quotations should be begun at the left margin and marked by drawing a vertical line SLS Style Notes along the left margin of the quotation. The next word of text following such a marked quotation should begin a new line. Inserts. Tables of data and illustrative figures should each be typed or drawn on a separate sheet. Indicate the approximate INSERT Table 3. Informants' age, sex, and education. place for the insertion in the body of the text as shown here. All tables and figures should be numbered serially in Arabic numerals and given brief descriptive captions. SLS Conventions. Manuscripts should in general follow good journal style appropriate to the matter, i.e. underline (for italics) linguistic forms cited, and enclose translations in single quotation marks. However, the signs of a sign language may be cited by words conventionally used to gloss them typed in CAPS, or drawn in cheremic notation. E.g. readers at all acquainted with ASL will recognize the sign written thus, WITH; but the sign which means '(someone) commutes between (some indicated or specified place) and here regularly' may better be written thus, 0AA$ (Stokoe, Casterline, and Croneberg 1965:vii-xxi). NOTES Acknowledgements of grant support or information about the previous delivery or publication of a paper should be in a note at the foot of the first page. Citations and quotations are dealt with above and below. Other footnotes should be avoided; authors are strongly advised to use the body of the text for exposition, explication, and discussion so that only full bibliographical information will need to follow the end of the text. However, if footnotes are unavoidable, they should be indicated thus' with a raised numeral and typed in a list to appear between the end of the text and the list of references. Sign Language Studies 4 NOTE 'Note that if the Editor had followed his own advice, the reader would have been spared this needless interruption. REFERENCES The list of sources cited should follow the text matter after quadruple space, or should begin on a new page if less than half a page remains. Again, double-spacing throughout. List authors in alphabetical order, last name first, and works in chronological order. Only the author's or authors' name appears on the first line of a citation. On the second line, indented five spaces, the year of publication should be typed without punctuation. Five spaces to its right begins the title, underlined if a book, in ordinary type if an article or a chapter. A comma should separate article and journal titles, the word in, chapter and book titles. Other rules are best inferred from examples: Bellugi, Ursula 1972 Studies in Sign Language, in Psycholinguistics and Total Communication: The State of the Art, ed. T. J...