Papers delivered at the 2012 SSA meeting are eligible for
publication in the Semiotics 2012
Proceedings Volume. Electronic texts of the papers “as
presented” (with minor editing reflecting discussion) should be sent by
email to Karen Haworth (khaworth@uwf.edu),
and followed with a hard copy, permission to publish form, and a check covering
page subvention costs to:
Karen A. Haworth
Dept. of English, Bldg 50
University of West Florida
11000 University Parkway
Pensacola, FL 32514
(850)474-3257
The electronic submissions should be in final form conformed
to the SSA Style Sheet in Microsoft Word or
.RTF format by 20 December 2012.
Typical papers are from 2000-3000 words (about 8-12 pages typed, double spaced,
in standard margins). Compute page costs at $4 per 250 words, plus $4 for each
special format page (full page graphs or illustrations). Small in-text diagrams in jpeg or bitmap format can be
included free unless they require special reformatting; photographic
figures should be in 600dpi resolution, if possible. Make sure that
illustrations, tables, or charts can be conformed to a 4.6 x 6 inch size.
Permission to publish and page costs should be sent in conjunction with the
electronic submissions and can be received no later than 20 January 2012. Please do not include special fonts, margins, reference
formats, headers or footers. Checks or money orders drawn in US dollars
should be made out to Semiotic Society of
America.
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(detach and send
this completed permission form with your hard-copy submission and page costs)
Permission to Publish
I __________________________________________ hereby grant the Semiotic Society of
America permission to publish my paper,
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in the Semiotics 2012 volume of the SSA proceedings project. I certify
that the text presented represents the material presented at the 2012 meeting
in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, and that it has not been published in any other
source. I understand that I may publish an expanded
version of this paper in another journal or collection.
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Manuscript
Submission Guidelines[*]
Manuscripts should be typed
single-spaced throughout the text. The font should be 11 point Times New Roman.
Margins must be set at 1” at the top and bottom of the page, and 1.5” for both
the left and right side of the page. Do not include any headers, footers, or
page numbers. The title of the manuscript should appear at the top of the first
page. The author’s name, and affiliation if applicable, should be entered below
the title. Abstracts and biographies are not necessary.
Use “double quotes” throughout the
paper, and ‘single quotes’ only within double. No punctuation should be
included inside quotation marks unless they are part of the original quoted
material. Emphasized expressions should be marked by italics. The References
section of the manuscript should appear at the end of the text and should only
include references to works cited in the body of the paper. Notes should be kept to a minimum and
must be included as footnotes, not
endnotes. Tables should be numbered
consecutively and titled, and must be referred to in the text. Avoid referring
to the “preceding” or “following” table, since the original position may become
shifted in the final page arrangement. Figures
and photographs should be carefully
numbered and labeled, and preferred placement in the text clearly indicated. Each
figure, table, line drawing, etc., should be provided in a separate jpeg or
bitmap file (of at least 300 dpi), with consideration of the final scale at
which it will be printed. For line drawings, bitmap files provide the best
results. Captions should be listed in a
separate document and carefully coordinated with the figure and table files.
References should be cited in the text by giving
the name of the author(s) and the year of the work cited from (in parentheses),
followed by a colon, a space, and the specific page number(s) (all within the
parentheses) when called for. In the text, the citation should look basically
like this: (Darwin 1859: 296). No comma should be placed between the author’s
name and the year.
Additionally, references as cited for
Society publications are expected to adhere to historical layering, meaning that the author should be aware of the
difference between source works and access works when the date of the source
publication differs from a more recent publication being accessed by the
author. In such a case, page references
are given to the access volume, but the reference
year is to be that of the source work. Historical layering prevents
anachronisms such as “Plato 1964”. The relation between source work and access
work—including any other relevant information regarding dates and
publishers—appears only in the list of References at the end of the manuscript.
In the list of References, authors
should be listed alphabetically by last name first, TYPED IN CAPITALS, followed
by a comma and the first name with only the first letter capitalized, and/or
initials, as appropriate, and a period. Each author’s name is to be on a line
by itself. All entries in the list of References will follow this basic format.
The original dates of the primary
sources used must be placed on the line under the name. The following are
several examples of entries in a list of References:
RANSDELL, Joseph.
1979. “Semiotic
Objectivity”, Semiotica
26.3-4, 261-288.
1979a. “The
Epistemic Function of Iconicity in Perception”, in Peirce Studies 1, ed. K. Kenter and J. Ransdell et al. (Lubbock, Texas: Institute for Studies in Pragmaticism), 1-56.
Note the period after the author’s
name and the period after each date. The tabs for the dates are set at .25”, and
the hanging indent for the title and publication information is set at .75”.
Notice in this example that both
sources are written by Joseph Ransdell. The author’s
name needs to appear in the References list only once, with sources listed
below in order of publication, beginning with the oldest publication date and
ending with the most recent date. In Ransdell’s case,
because there is more than one entry for the same year, entries are
distinguished by placing an “a”, “b”, “c”, etc., after the last numeral of the
year, following the first entry introducing that year.
Titles of books and journals should
be placed in italics, and the titles
of articles, poems, paintings, films, etc. should be placed within “quotation
marks”. Publishing details (publisher location and name) should be placed in
parentheses with the publisher’s location first, followed by a colon and then
the name of the publisher.
In dealing with some authors,
particularly ones from earlier historical periods, it is not always possible to
provide exact dates. Sometimes it is necessary to specify an approximate period
or interval within an author’s lifetime, rather than a single date. The prefix
“a.” before a date means ante or
“before”; “c.” before a date means circa
or “approximately”; “i.” means inter or “between” (“in the interval”); “p.” means post or “after”. Examples:
AQUINAS, Thomas.
i.1269-1272. The libros posteriorum analyticorum
exposition, cum textu ex recensione
leonine
cura et studio R. M. Spiazzi
(Turin: Marietti, 1955).
ARISTOTLE.
c.360 B.C. Categories,
Edghill trans. in The Basic Works of Aristotle, ed. R. McKeon
(New York: Random House,
1941), 1-37.
Note
in these examples how the original date—even though it is approximate—is placed
under the author’s name, and the date of the publication accessed (more recent)
follows the publisher’s name, preceded by a comma.
[*] Adapted
from John Deely’s “Semiotic Society of America Style
Sheet” (i.1981-1986), in American Journal
of Semiotics 4.3-4 (1986), 193-215. The style sheet provides more detailed
and comprehensive explanations than the summaries provided here.