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- Your text will be reviewed by our Editorial Board who also decides about publishing. If accepted, you can edit the text before our copy editors prepare it for publication.
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Length and formats
- Multilingual and multiscriptual contributions are welcome.
- Various lengths of contributions from 300 to 15,000 words are accepted.
- Send us your contribution as an odt, doc or docx file. No special formatting or page numbers are needed; only mark headings with bold.
- Write the title, your name, possible affiliation and e-mail address at the top.
- Then add an abstract of minimum 20 words (short contributions) and maximum 150 words. If your contribution is multilingual, please provide a longer (up to 300 words) English summary.
- Add 3–5 keywords after the abstract.
- Do not use footnotes; provide quotations and references in the text.
- Use ‘single’ quotation marks for translations and language examples and “double” for short text quotations. Longer quotations should be separated by empty lines before and after the paragraph(s).
- Add links to audio or video materials at the end; do not embed them in the text.
- Acknowledgements and other similar information: add before References.
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- Send images separately; do not add images to the text file.
- In the text file, note in relevant places Figure 1.,Figure 2., etc. with captions and sources.
- Tables can be added to the text file.
References
Multilingual and multiscriptual references can be translated into English if you prefer, but is not required.
In the text:
(Domokos & Deganutti 2023: 56)
As Domokos & Deganutti (2023: 56) explain…
In References:
Domokos, Johanna & Marianna Deganutti 2023: Literary code-switching and beyond. Budapest: L’Harmattan/Károli.
Domokos, Johanna & Marianna Deganutti 2021: Four major literary code-switching strategies in Hungarian literature. Decoding monolingualism. Hungarian Studies Yearbook, Vol. 3, No. 1: 43–63.
Ståhlberg, Sabira 2023: Meine lieben fellow-pupils: Edith Södergran’s Hidden Multilingualism. Hidden Multilingualism in 19th-Century European Literature, Jana-Katharina Mende (ed.). Berlin/Boston: DeGruyter. 185–216. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110778656-009