Proceedings: Call for papers

Submission deadline

Workshop papers must be submitted by 15 March 2016.

Content and length of submissions

Papers should not exceed 10,000 words, bibliography included.

Please provide a short abstract (c. 200 words).

Form of submissions

Contributions should be submitted in electronic form to traces"AT"uni-hamburg.de in both Word/RTF/ODT and PDF.

Images must be submitted as separate JPEG or TIFF files (not embedded in the Word file). NB: The resolution for colour images must be at least 300 dpi, for grayscale images at least 600 dpi. This means file size for a quarter-page size JPG image of at least 1.2 MB.

The paper must carry the full name and current affiliation of the author.

Formatting and style

Do not use any special formatting features in your file(s), apart from paragraphing (each new paragraph should be indented), italics, and tabs (where necessary). Please only use Unicode fonts (such as Times New Roman). Please avoid using special non-unicode fonts; if such use is indispensable please submit the font together with the text file.

The New Oxford Style Manual should be followed wherever possible.

• Transliteration: Transliteration of oriental alphabets should be full and consistent throughout the article. For Arabic, Hans Wehr transliteration (1961/1979, not 1994) should be followed at all times.
• Dates: For non-Common Era dates specify the calendar used and provide the Common Era equivalent (e.g. AH 450/1058 CE).
• Quotations: Short quotations in the text should be punctuated with single quotation marks. Lengthy quotations (over 40 words) should be displayed, indented, in the text, without quotation marks.
• Notes: Use footnotes, not endnotes, when necessary.
• Abbreviations: Avoid the use of abbreviations wherever possible. Do not use abbreviations for publications, institutions, libraries, etc. Common abbreviations (e.g.; i.e.; etc.; cp.) are acceptable.

References

Please use the author-year reference system: the items quoted are abbreviated in the text or in the footnotes as author's name, the year of publication and the page(s): (Bausi 2010, 14). Do not use "op. cit.", "ibid." or similar types of reference. Do not use "f. or ff." for page numbers, but always give a specific page reference or a specific page-number range.

Items should be written out in full in a bibliographical list at the end of the article as follows:

Books

Author's Last Name, First Name[, other authors if applicable] Year. Monograph Title, Series Title, Series Volume Number (Place: Publisher, Year).

Editions and translations

Editor's Last Name, First Name[, other editors if applicable] Year. Monograph Title (comprising the name of the original Author, if applicable), ed. Editor's First Name, Last Name, tr. Translator's First Name, Last Name, Series Title, Series Volume Number (Place: Publisher, Year).

Articles in periodicals

Author's Last Name, First Name[, other authors if applicable] Year. 'Article Title', Journal Title, Issue Number (Year), Page-Page.

Articles / Chapters in collective volumes

Author's Last Name, First Name[, other authors if applicable] Year. 'Article Title', in Editor's First Name, Last Name, Edited Volume Title, Series Title, Series Volume Number (Place: Publisher, Year), Page-Page.

Reviews

The names of places and publishers should be left in the original language.

For titles in languages using non-Latin scripts, please provide the title in the original script, accompanied by a scientific transliteration and a translation in parenthesis. Please be consistent in your transliterations and, when applicable, specify your transliteration system so that the Editors may adjust the systems used in different contributions where necessary.

Electronic publications should be cited like printed sources, accompanied by the permalink URL/DOI and the date of access. Quoting dynamic/unstable Internet pages should be avoided.

For future publications that are about to appear, use "forthcoming" instead of the year.

Manuscripts should be cited by city (in English), library (name in the original language), collection (in the original language), shelfmark.

Do not use any abbreviations for journals, series, libraries, etc.

Copyright and responsibilities

Authors bear the responsibility for securing permission, when necessary, for figures, tabular materials, or any other material protected by copyright laws.