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GENERAL

Submission of a manuscript will be held to imply that it contains unpublished original material and that it is not being considered for publication elsewhere. Contributions should not normally exceed 9,000 words in length for full papers. Shorter articles (con-training material of a more general nature) should not exceed 5,000 words and reports on research in progress should not be longer than 3,000 words. Each category may well be less than the limits indicated.

PROOFS

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LICENCE TO PUBLISH

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TYPESCRIPT FORMAT

Paper size: The text should be on A4 paper (210 x 297 mm) or the nearest equivalent with ample margins. Only one side of the paper should be used. Two copies (top copy 1) of each manuscript must be submitted. The first page must give: title of the paper; names(s) of author(s) and address(es) where the work was done; name and address of the author designated to receive proofs and correspondence. Spacing in all copy, including notes and references, must be double-spaced.

ABSTRACTS

An informative abstract of 220 words or less that concisely outlines the substance of the paper and states its principal conclusion should accompany the manuscript on a separate sheet.

TYPESCRIPT TEXT

Paragraphs There should be no line spaces between paragraphs. The first paragraph of the article, and of new sections should not be indented; subsequent paragraphs should be indented.

Headings and subheadings Main headings should be in bold and subheadings in italic. Capitalise main words (e.g. Texts Used in This Study). No full point should be used at the end of the line.

Sections Where numbered sections are used, numbers of sections should be followed by a full point and EN space (e.g. 2 ), but subsection numbers should not have a full point (e.g. 2.1).

Spelling Use the system which you are most accustomed to using, but be consistent. British authors, please use Oxford (-ize) spellings. When in doubt, refer to the Concise Oxford Dictionary, or the Oxford Dictionary for Writer and Editors.

Italics and bold Use italic and bold founts; otherwise represent italics by using an underline, and bold by underlining with a wavy line.

Quotations Quotations should be in small type, set full left with a minimum of 5 lines of type. Quotation marks should not be used, except for short quotations within the text in which case single quotation marks should be used. Double quotation marks should be used for quotes within quotes.

Punctuation Endnote cues should always follow punctuation, e.g . . . certain secrets of fabrication. Initials should be followed by a full point and a space, e.g. E. M. Forster, W. H. Smith. There is no full point after Dr, Mrs, Ms, or Mr.

Computer programs A brief outline should be given of what the syntactic rules are for lines of code that are to be typeset and embedded within the text. Alternatively, program code could appear as figures. Authors should then send camera-ready copy of the figures with their text.

Names of computer programs These should appear in capitals or another consistent style.

Words under discussion These should be in italic.

Electronic mail addresses Addresses should appear in lowercase only.

Miscellaneous points of style & should be written out as 'and', and use a % sign for 5%, 25%, etc. No apostrophe in 1920s, 1950s, etc. Decimal point should be on the line: 5.2, 3.9, etc. et al. should be in italic. e.g. and i.e. are never capitalized even at the beginning of a sentence. There should be no comma after e.g. or i.e. Numbers below 100 and vaguely expressed numbers should be spelt out. Precise numbers, units of measurement, and numbers above 100 should be in figures. If mentioned at the beginning of a sentence, spell Figure in full. NB the use of the 'Oxford comma' in the previous sentence (comma before 'and' in lists). Please do likewise. Cross-references in the text should be as follows:

see Section 2.5
see Appendix I
see Fig. 1.

Illustrations, Figures, Tables, and Graphs Artwork All artwork for figures, tables and graphs must be submitted in clean, camera-ready form. They must be suitable for reproduction on text paper. Laser- printed figures are acceptable. If in doubt, contact the editor. Each table/figure/graph should be presented on a separate piece of paper, or as a bromide, even if it is already incorporated in the typescript. Diagrams must be drawn in black ink on a white background with numbers and descriptive matter written lightly in pencil. Black-and-white photographs should be glossy prints of good quality, each bearing a bar representing a stated length to denote magnification, and labelled on the back. Where a table/figure/graph is not presented within the text, please flag the position where it should go in the margin (e.g. Table 1 near here).

Captions 'Table' should be spelt out in full but 'Figure' should be contracted to Fig. (with full point); both should have an initial capital. The number of the table/figure should not be followed by a full point. The caption itself should have the first word capitalized, and should not be followed by a full point, unless it consists of more than a single sentence, e.g. Table 1 Proper nouns and syntactic organization Fig. 3 Varieties of biblical citations. Please supply table and figure captions as a separate list: do not type on the table/figure itself. To ensure correct matching up of tables/figures to captions, put table/figure number on the back of the artwork, and author's name. The order of items after the main text should be:

Notes
References
Appendices

Notes All notes should be gathered together at the end of the article, double spaced, on a separate sheet or sheets. They should not consist simply of a bibliographic reference. Notes should be numbered consecutively throughout the text, with numbers inserted above the line, e.g. 1. They should be listed in numerical order at the end of the main text:

1. Smith, T . . .
2. These results . . .

Funding Details of all funding sources for the work in question should be given in a separate section entitled 'Funding'. This should appear before the 'References' section.
The following rules should be followed.

• The sentence should begin: ‘This work was supported by …
• The full official funding agency name should be given, i.e. ‘the National Cancer Institute at the National Institutes of Health’ or simply ‘National Institutes of Health' not ‘NCI’ (one of the 27 subinstitutions) or ‘NCI at NIH’ (full RIN-approved list of UK funding agencies) .Grant numbers should be given in brackets as follows: ‘[grant number xxxx]’
• Multiple grant numbers should be separated by a comma as follows: ‘[grant numbers xxxx, yyyy]’
• Agencies should be separated by a semi-colon (plus ‘and’ before the last funding agency)
• Where individuals need to be specified for certain sources of funding the following text should be added after the relevant agency or grant number 'to [author initials]'.

An example is given here: ‘This work was supported by the National Institutes of Health [AA123456 to C.S., BB765432 to M.H.]; and the Alcohol & Education Research Council [hfygr667789].’

Oxford Journals will deposit all NIH-funded articles in PubMed Central. See Depositing articles in repositories – information for authors for details. Authors must ensure that manuscripts are clearly indicated as NIH-funded using the guidelines above.

References and Bibliography Please use the version of the Harvard system described below. References should be cited in the text using the author's name and year of publication, e.g. (Bloggs, 1990; Bloggs et al., 1991). The list of references should be headed References and placed at the end of the article on a separate sheet or sheets. It should be double-spaced. The list should be in alphabetical order. Where an author has more than one publication, they should be arranged in chronological order, and if there is more than one publication within a year, they should be alphabetically ordered by title and labelled a, b, etc. (e.g. 1989a, 1989b). Single-author works precede co-authored works. If citing an electronic publication, please supply the full URL and a date accessed. Please follow the examples given below for bibliographic layout.

Biber, D. (1988). Variation Across Speech and Writing. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Calzolari, N. (1989). A Typology of English Text. In Batori, I.S., Lenders, W. and Putschke, W. (eds), Computational Linguistics. New York: ACM Press, pp. 510-19.

Ellis, D. (1987). The Derivation of a Behavioural Model for Information Retrieval Design. Ph.D. thesis, University of Sheffield.

Halliday, M. A. K. (1985). An Introduction to Functional Grammar. Edward Arnold, London.

Oostdijk, N. (1988). A Corpus Linguistic Approach to Linguistic Variation, Literary and Linguistic Computing, 3: 12-25.

Richardson, S. D. and Braden-Harder, L. (1988). The Experience of Developing a Large-Scale Natural Language Text Processing System: CRITIQUE, Proceedings of the Second Conference on Applied Natural Language Processing, Austin, TX, February 1988.

Garfinkel, M. S. and Weiss, S. C. (1999). In the court of history, Ehlers v. Bush. Recent Science Newsletter, 1(1): 6-7. http://web.archive.org/web/20030604160332/recentscience.gwu.edu/RSN/ (accessed 27 February 2004).

Nerbonne, J. (2005). Computational Contributions to the Humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing, Advanced Access published January 17, 2005: 10.1093/llcl/fqh041.
Nerbonne, J. (2005). Computational Contributions to Humanities. Literary and Linguistic Computing, 1: 1-16. First published January 17, 2005: 10.1093/llcl/fqh041.

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