Transference

This document provides details on typesetting and layout requirements pertaining to manuscript submission to Transference.

Formatting Requirements

• Do not include page numbers, headers, or footers. These will be added by the editors.
• Submit your manuscript as a single Word or RTF file.
• Single space your text.
• Use a single column layout with left margin justification.
• Font:
  1. Main Body—12 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available
  2. Footnotes—10 pt. Times or the closest comparable font available
  3. Indent all paragraphs except those following a section heading.
  4. Do not insert extra space between paragraphs of text with the exception of long quotations, special remarks, etc. These should be set off from the surrounding text by additional space above and below.

  Language & Grammar

  The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. and E. B. White (now in its fourth edition) is the "standard" guide to English Grammar, but other excellent guides (e.g., The Chicago Manual of Style, University of Chicago Press) exist as well.

  Submission Length

  Please limit your submission to a maximum of four poems with accompanying commentary, unless the poems are extremely short. The commentary should be at least three paragraphs in length.

  Emphasized text

  If necessary, use italics to indicate text you wish to emphasize rather than underlining it.

  Bold may be used to emphasize sounds.

  Foreign words

  Whenever possible, foreign words should be set in italics rather than underlined.

  Whenever possible, titles of books, movies, etc., should be set in italics rather than underlined.

  Footnotes

  Footnotes should appear at the bottom of the page on which they are referenced. Footnotes should be in 10 pt. Times or closest comparable font available, and be single spaced. Footnote numbers or symbols in the text must follow, rather than precede, punctuation.

  References

  If other works are cited, please provide complete references with the necessary information. After the last sentence of your commentary, please insert a line break—not a page break—and begin your references on the same page, if possible. References should be provided in MLA format.