MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Modern Language Association of America,
2008.
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| Edition: | 3rd ed. |
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Table of Contents:
- pt. 1. Scholarly publishing
- Scholars and scholarly publishing
- Refereed and nonrefereed publications
- Deciding to submit a manuscript
- Placing a manuscript with a journal
- Placing a manuscript with a press
- Production and publication
- Conclusion
- pt. 2. Legal issues in scholarly publishing
- Introduction
- Copyright
- Publishing Contracts
- Defamation
- Right of privacy
- Further guidance
- pt. 3. Basics of scholarly writing
- Audience, genre, and the conventions of scholarship
- Language and style
- Spelling
- Punctuation
- Italics
- Names of persons
- Capitalization
- Titles of works in the manuscript
- Quotations
- Numbers
- Romanization
- Further guidance
- pt. 4. Preparation of scholarly manuscripts
- Introduction
- Physical characteristics of the printed manuscript
- Manuscripts for publication
- pt. 5. Preparation of theses and dissertations
- Student works as professional documents
- Prescribed guidelines
- Selecting a topic
- Preparing a prospectus
- Special format requirements
- Publishing the dissertation through ProQuest
- pt. 6. Documentation : preparing the list of works cited
- The purposes of documentation
- Documentation and ethics
- MLA style
- The list of works cited
- Citing periodical print publications
- Citing nonperiodical print publications
- Citing web publications
- Citing additional common sources
- A work in more than one publication medium
- pt. 7. Documentation : citing sources in the text
- Parenthetical documentation and the list of works cited
- Information required in parenthetical documentation
- Readability
- Sample references
- Using notes with parenthetical documentation
- pt. 8 Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Time designations
- Geographic names
- Common scholarly abbreviations and reference words
- Publishers' names
- Titles of works
- Names of languages
- Proofreading symbols
- Appendix : Specialized style manuals
- Sources of Examples in 3.4-5.