Submissions
Contributions for The Use of English should be sent to us by email: hello@englishassociation.ac.uk.
Guidelines:
It helps the editor greatly in the preparation of manuscripts for the printer if authors adhere to a few ground rules. Articles and reviews should keep to the following conventions:
- Manuscripts should be typed and submitted as an electronic document as an email attachment.
- Titles and authors of articles should follow the example given here:
Teaching the Eighteenth Century
Ian Brinton - In the case of articles with subheadings, the subheading should not be capitalised, e.g.
16+ English Parties: What is going on?
Martin Hayden - Titles of books and plays should be in italics and not set between quotation marks: e.g. Bleak House
- Titles of poems, short stories, essays and articles should be set within single quotation marks: e.g. ‘The Snake’.
- Quoted matter inside a sentence should be set within single quotation marks: e.g. Plainly there can be no ‘right’ answers to such questions.
- Extensive quoted matter, whether prose or poetry, should be set clear of the body of the article or review and indented on the left only.
- References and notes at the end of the article should follow the style of this example:
References:
1) Westall, R. (1979) The Vacuum and the Myth, in Teenage Reading, ed. P. Kennerly (London: Ward Lock Educational) p. 38.
2) Chambers, A. (1983) The Child’s Changing Story, Signal 40, p. 52.
3) Grieg, S. et al (1989) Greenprints: for changing schools (London: Kogan Page), p. 12.
4) Gould, S.J. (1993) Eight Little Piggies: Reflections in Natural History (London: Jonathan Cape), p. 281.
5) Dickinson, P. (1992) A Bone from a Dry Sea (London: Victor Gollancz)
- Numerals: one to ninety-nine should be spelt out, 100 and over should be given as figures.
Additional Information
- Articles and reviews should show the number of words used; manuscript pages must be numbered.
- Writers of articles should provide brief personal descriptions suitable for inclusion in the ‘Contributors’ column of the journal.
- Illustrations for articles may be accepted (either line drawings or good quality black and white photographs) and should be accompanied by caption and credit, if required. Permission to re-use images is the author’s responsibility.
- Reviews should be set out in exactly the same style as the current issue: e.g.
Children’s Literature: an Illustrated History, edited by Peter Hunt. (Oxford University Press, £22.50)
