General
For the benefit of production efficiency and the production of texts of the highest quality and consistency, we urge you to follow the enclosed submission guidelines. Manuscripts should be in American English consistently throughout; if you are not a native speaker of English it is advisable to have your text checked by a native speaker before submission. When submitting the final manuscript please add a cover sheet with the full title of the work, the contributor’s full name, affiliation, as well as current address and e-mail address. 

Format

Please provide two (2) hard copies. Please make sure that the original is in MSWord or Corel WordPerfect. Once selections are made, we will require a soft copy in one of those formats.

Papers should be submitted single-spaced, no more than fifteen (15) pages long, including bibliography.

Lay-out 
Do’s and don’ts

• Please use a minimum of page settings. The preferred setting is 12 pt Times Roman, single line spacing, on 13 x 22 cm text area. 
• Do not use full justification or forced hyphenation. The only relevant codes are those pertaining to font enhancements (italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc.), punctuation, and the format of the references. Whatever formatting or style conventions are employed, please be consistent. 

Section headings: Section headings show a hierarchy which can be expressed in the following way:

Level 1 = bold italics, 1 line space before, section number flush left. Text immediately below with 
paragraph indent.
Level 2 = italics, 1 lines space before, section number flush left. Text immediately below with 
paragraph indent.
Level 3ff = italics, 1 line space before, section number flush left, full stop and text following on the same 
line.

Symbols and special characters: In case you have no access to certain characters, we advise you to use a clear convention to mark these characters in the electronic files (e.g., $s for _) and highlight their positions in the hard copy.

Emphasis and foreign words: Use italics for foreign words, highlighting, and emphasis. Bold should be used only for highlighting within italics and for headings. Please refrain from the use of FULL CAPS (except for focal stress and abbreviations) and underlining (except for highlighting within examples, as an alternative for boldface).

Quotations: Please use so-called smart quotes (‘’ “”). Short quotations in the main text should be given in double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 3 lines should have a blank line above and below and a left indent, without quotation marks, and with the appropriate reference to the source. For translations and citation forms, please use double quotes. For terms or expressions, please use single quotes.

Listings: Should not be indented. If numbered, please number as follows:

1. ..................... or a. .......................
2. ..................... or b. .......................

Listings that run on with the main text can be numbered in parentheses: (1).............., (2)............., etc. 

Tables and Figures. Please keep in mind that in the published volume, the printed area of each page is 11,5 x 18 cm, and that tables and figures should fit – if necessary after reduction – within those dimenstions and still be legible. Tables and Figures should be numbered consecutively and provided with concise captions (max. 240 characters, incl. spaces). Reference should be made in the main text; e.g., “as illustrated in Fig. 1”, but please do not use references of this kind “as illustrated in the figure below:   “.

Examples and glosses
Examples: should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc.) in parentheses and indented:

 (1) John drank yet another glass of water.

Linguistic examples generally consist of three lines:

(2) Kare wa    besutoseraa  o          takusan kaite-iru. 
he     TOP best-seller     ACC    many     write-PERF 
“He has written many best-sellers.” 

Every next level in the example (a), (b) gets one indent:

(3) a. Ed en   Floor   gaan samen-wonen.
Ed and Floor   go      together-live.INF
‘Ed and Floor are going to live together.’
b. Maarten en   Stefanie zijn uit elkaar.
Maarten and Stefanie BE  out RECP
‘Maarten and Stefanie have split up.’

Notes
Notes should be kept to a minimum. Note indicators in the text should appear at the end of sentences and follow punctuation marks. Please supply the notes as end notes, as these are easier to change into footnotes and place in the correct location than the other way around.

References
It is essential that the references be formatted to the specifications given in these guidelines.

References in the text: These should be as precise as possible, giving page references where necessary; for example (Clahsen 1991:252) or: as in Brown et al. (1991:252). All references in the text should appear in the References section. 

References section: The References section follows the Notes section. References should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically. Please note the use of initial capitals, italics and punctuation. Author’s names should be given in the way the authors do themselves, i.e., with full first name(s) and/or initials. For states in the US, please use standard abbreviations (Calif., Flo., etc.) instead of postal abbreviations (CA, FL).

References: examples:
a. Book (monograph)

Kess, Joseph F. 1992. Psycholinguistics: Psychology, linguistics and the study of natural  language. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. 
Kess, Joseph F. & Ronald A. Hoppe. 1981. Ambiguity in Psycholinguistics. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

b. Book (edited volume)

Cowan, William, Michael K. Foster & Konrad Koerner, eds. 1986. New Perspectives in Language, Culture and Personality: Proceedings of the Edward Sapir Centenary Conference (Ottawa, 1-3 October 1984). (= Studies in the History of the Language Sciences, 41.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

MacMahon, William E. 1990. “Some Formal Aspects of Aristotelian Componential Sentences”. History and Historiography of Linguistics: Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on the History of the Language Sciences (ICHoLS IV), Trier, 24-28 August 1987 ed. by Hans-Josef Niederehe & E. F. Konrad Koerner, vol. II, 97-110. Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins.

or, if the source volume is also in the references:

MacMahon, William E. 1990. “Some Formal Aspects of Aristotelian Componential Sentences”. Niederehe & Koerner 1990. 97-110.

Joseph, John E. 1995. “The Structure of Linguistic Revolutions”. Historiographia Linguistica 22.379- 399.
Koerner, E.F. Konrad 1992. “Vil’hel’m fon Gumbol’dt i etnolingvistika v Severnoj Amerike: Ot Boasa do Xajmsa [Wilhelm von Humboldt and ethnolinguistics in North-America: From Boas to Hymes]”. Voprosy Jazykoznanija 41:1.105-113.

Appendixes
Appendixes should follow the References section. Please make sure you refer to the appendix in the main text.

Index
Please mark in the hard copy of your contribution every occurrence of terms or names that you feel should be included in the index. 
 
 
 
 
 
 

(c) John Benjamins Publishing Company
ASHOLS contributors. October 2000