Working languages of the Congress are English and French. Abstracts should not exceed 3000 words, including data, examples and references.
1. Page setup
Use a Unicode font (ex. Doulos SIL) both for the body of the text and the examples.
Page format: Customised Size of page (Microsoft Word), A4 sheet
Margins: 2.5 cm all around.
Footnotes: Custom marks are numbered continuously.
2. Typing format; type face
Please gloss all phrasal examples.
For emphasis, the options are: bold; or an option to be identified on the face sheet.
For italics in print, mark the following:
Cited data (including English and French) in the body of the text. (The gloss follows, without a comma, in single quotes.) Example: tulo - tule 'ear', donso - donsee 'hunter'.
Illustrations and tables These should appear on separate sheets; the places where they are to appear in the body of the text should be clearly marked on the hard copy. All should be numbered consecutively with Arabic numerals. (Do not use expressions like “the following table”.)
References body of the text For reference to a publication, use author's last name plus year (plus page numbers if required). Parenthesize as needed. Examples:
Marshall (1964: 12) finds complications in this regard in some NAN languages.
As several phonologists have noted (Banke 1975: 15; Rubo 1979a: 1134 and passim), epenthesis presents special problems for this type of interpretation.
List of references Titles of books, journals, and series are to be underscored or italicized. Use caps to begin all operative words in a title only for titles of journals and titles of series (not for titles of books and titles of articles). If you wish to add a series title, place it at the end of the entry, enclosed in square brackets. Do not abbreviate titles of journals, such as “Language”. (Volumes of the Berkeley Linguistics Society and Chicago Linguistics Society are in the book, not journal, category; see format Article in collection, below.) Note the use of punctuation and of periods for abbreviation, in the following examples. For second and following authors or editors: last name first as in the first. (Use “et al.” only for more than three authors.) Do not use dashes for repeats of same author/editor.
3. General observations
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Title of your paper
Name(s) of author(s)
Affiliation (department and university)
Preferred email address (where notification of acceptance should be sent).
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