Articles submitted for publication in Transformations should generally conform to the MLA Style*. Listed below are some of the key features to keep in mind.
- Use in-text referencing. Do not use footnotes.
- Endnotes — A limited number of manually placed endnotes to provide further information is allowed. Do not use footnotes.
Do not embed endnotes in texts using Word’s endnote facility. They need to be written in manually at the end of the document, and noted in the body of the text as [1] and so forth. Endnote reference should appear at the end of a sentence or paragraph and not in mid sentence. - Spelling – retain ‘s’ (and not ‘z’) except in quotations.
- Keep formatting and emphasis to a minimum.
- Articles to be single spaced, and left-aligned. Do not justify.
- No special spacing between paragraphs. Mark paragraph breaks with an extra return key only.
- Do not use tabs.
- Emphasis — Use italics for emphasis. Do not use bold or underlining
- Titles — Use italics for titles instead of underlining.
Quotations
Quotations less than four lines:
- run these in-text
Quotations four lines or over:
- run these as a separate paragraph without quotation marks
- single space;
- left and right indent by .5 cm;
Images
Images to be included in the submitted article; however, to facilitate publication the images are also to be sent separately as .jpg files. Files should be 72dpi and between 800-1000 pixels wide. For further information on this please contact the issue editor.
Referencing examples
In-Text Referencing:
MLA permits the following forms dependent upon context — see MLA Handbook for full details. These examples are for the following text:
Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Trans. Daniel W. Smith. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
(Deleuze 23)(Deleuze)
(23)
(Deleuze Francis Bacon 23)
(Francis Bacon 23)
(Francis Bacon)
Works cited:
Books:
O’Regan, Tom. Australian National Cinema. London: Routledge, 1996.
Deleuze, Gilles. Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation. Trans. Daniel W. Smith. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.
Articles:
Gillespie, Sam. “Placing the Void: Badiou on Spinoza.” Angelaki 6.3 (2001): 63-77.
Web Addresses:
Sullivan, Nikki. “Being-Exposed: ‘The Poetics of Sex’ and Other Matters of Tact.” Transformations 8 (July 2004). 17 Nov. 2004 <transformations.cqu.edu.au/journal/issue_08/article_04.shtml>
For more detailed information on referencing and style, you will need to consult the MLA handbook.
* Gibaldi, Joseph. MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers. 6th. ed. New York, The Modern Language Association of America, 2003.