HOW TO FORMAT YOUR PAPER

THE SWPL STYLE SHEET

Cornelia Gerhardt, Susanne Ley, Anglistik, Saarland University

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KEYWORDS: style sheet, working papers, linguistics

1 INTRODUCTION1

The following rules and regulations apply for submitting to

Saarland Working Papers in Linguistics (SWPL). The style sheet will
be updated regularly following the needs of individual
authors/disciplines.

2 SUBMISSION

Your article should be submitted electronically to swpl@mx.uni-

saarland.de in PDF-format. All links, videos, sound files etc. should
be linked and working. Tables, diagrams, pictures etc. should be
placed where they belong. Adhere strictly to the rules given here.
The editors will take care of the final formatting if needs be (for
example when a heading appears separated from its text).
Together with the text you should provide a separate
attachment with your full name and institutional address, the title
and abstract(s) of the article, and key words (up to five) in the
language of your article (and up to five SWD keywords if at hand).

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We heartily thank Neal R. Norrick and Gerardine Pereira for their help
with the style sheet. Needless to say, any remaining inconsistencies
are our sole responsibility.
 Furthermore, indicate on that sheet who reviewed your paper.
Generally, the dissertation supervisor or any other full professor at
Saarland University is eligible. For further information, see the
editorial (Gerhardt 2007).

3 SETTINGS AND TEXT

The style sheet may be used as a template. You can replace

the different passages with your own. Make sure you tick ‘An
Zielformatierung anpassen’ under ‘Einfügen-Optionen’ after
inserting the text. ‘Einfügen-Optionen’ will appear automatically
underneath the inserted text (on the right). Alternatively, you can
use ‘Format’  ‘Formatvorlagen und Formatierung’ to produce a
document in accordance with the SWPL guidelines.
Since SWPL intends to function as a forum for first
publications, we would like to emphasise at this point that ANY
questions may be sent to us. Please do not hesitate to contact us if
you have trouble with this template.
Generally, do not enter further empty lines unless specified in
the style sheet. The only exception is the insertion of tables, charts
etc. where an extra carriage return may be necessary.

3.1 DIFFERENT FORMATS AVAILABLE

Please refer to the following table concerning the different styles

and formats for SWPL.

Diagram 1: Styles and formats

4 TYPEFACES IN THE TEXT

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Use italics for all cited linguistic forms and examples in the text. Do
NOT use italics for emphasis, or to mark loanwords or technical
terms.
Use CAPITAL LETTERS to mark a technical term at its first use
or definition, or to give emphasis to a word or phrase in the text.
Use ‘single quotation marks’ for any other matters. In this style
sheet, it was used to refer to the different formatting styles in the
text. It can also be used e.g. to refer to meanings: “In this case,
haha means ‘sunk fence’, not ‘laughter’.” Be consistent! When in
doubt, contact the editors.

5 TITLE

Capitalize lexical words in the title, but NOT in sections (sub-)

headings. Use style ‘title’.

6 ABSTRACT

Format your abstract with the help of ‘abstract.’ It should contain

around 100 words. If the language of the paper is other than
English, you may want to provide an English abstract as well. In
this case, insert the English abstract first.

7 KEYWORDS

Give up to five keywords in the language of your article. The word

KEYWORDS itself should be in SMALL CAPITALS (and capitalised). If you
know how to handle SWD, you may also give up to five keywords
(in addition to the free keywords.) However, do not insert them in
your paper, but put them on the second sheet containing your
name, title of article… (cf. section 2).

8 QUOTATIONS

Short quotations should be inserted in the text using double

quotation marks: “xxx.” Extensive quotations (longer than three
lines) should be given as a separate paragraph using the format
‘long quotation’:

long quotation xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxx xxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xx

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 xxxx xxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
xxxxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxxx xxxxxxxx xxxxxxxxx xxxxxxx end
of long quotation.

The following style should be used for quotations in the text:

(Iverson 1983) or (Iverson 1983:196). When the name of the
author is given in the text, do not repeat it: Johnson (1989) …
When quoting more than one author/editor, give the family name
of the first author/editor only and add et al. (Johnson et al. 1989).

9 EXAMPLES

Longer examples, transcriptions, lists of examples, or examples

that will be referred back to should be given in a separate
paragraph and numbered (use ‘long example’)

(1) This is my first example.

(2) This is my second example.

10 FOOTNOTES

Use the footnote editor of your text processing software and the
style ‘footnote’ for the text of the footnote proper. Keep footnotes
to an ABSOLUTE minimum.

11 SPECIAL MATTERS

Insert charts, diagrams, tables, pictures, video clips, audio files…

where they belong in your text. You can use any file-format; just
make sure it will work in the pdf-version of your paper. In case you
have to use a link to another file (e.g. audio data), make sure you
include that file when submitting your paper. Do make sure that
the items are not copy-righted by a third person. The author(s) will
be held liable if problems arise.

12 REFERENCES

The bibliography should only contain items referred to in the body

of the article. The style follows the initiative for a unified style
sheet in linguistics journals

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(https://cf.linguistlist.org/pubs/tocs/index.html). Use the following
examples as models for your reference section. Do NOT number
the bibliography like a section of your paper (use ‘heading:
references’).
Insert four carriage returns (four empty lines) before your
references section. Do not forget to link internet sources. Use
‘Hyperlink’ as format.

REFERENCES

Blevins, Juliette. 2004. Evolutionary phonology. Cambridge:

Cambridge University Press.
Casali, Roderic F. 1998. Predicting ATR activity. Chicago Linguistic
Society (CLS) 34(1). 55-68.
Chomsky, Noam. 1986. Knowledge of language. New York: Praeger.
Coetsem, Frans van. 2000. A general and unified theory of the
transmission process in language contact. Heidelberg: Winter.
Franks, Steven. 2005. Bulgarian clitics are positioned in the syntax.
http://www.cogs.indiana.edu/people/homepages/franks/Bg_cliti
cs_remark_dense.pdf (17 May, 2006.)
Gerhardt, Cornelia. 2007. Editorial. Saarland Working Papers in
Linguistics (SWPL) 1. 1-4.
Iverson, Gregory K. 1983. Korean /s/. Journal of Phonetics 11. 191-
200.
Iverson, Gregory K. 1989. On the category supralaryngeal.
Phonology 6. 285-303.
Johnson, Kyle, Mark Baker & Ian Roberts. 1989. Passive arguments
raised. Linguistic Inquiry 20. 219-251.
Lahiri, Aditi (ed.). 2000. Analogy, leveling, markedness: Principles
of change in phonology and morphology (Trends in Linguistics
127). Berlin: Mouton de Gruyter.
McCarthy, John J. & Alan S. Prince. 1999. Prosodic morphology. In
John A. Goldsmith (ed.), Phonological theory: The essential
readings, 238-288. Malden, MA & Oxford: Blackwell.
Murray, Robert W. & Theo Vennemann. 1983. Sound change and
syllable structure in Germanic phonology. Language 59(3).
514-528.
Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edn. 1989. Oxford: Oxford
University Press.
Pedersen, Johan. 2005. The Spanish impersonal se-construction:
Constructional variation and change. Constructions 1,
http://www.constructions-online.de. (3 April, 2007.)

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Rissanen, Matti. 1999. Syntax. In Roger Lass (ed.), Cambridge
History of the English Language, vol. 3, 187-331. Cambridge &
New York: Cambridge University Press.
Stewart, Thomas W., Jr. 2000. Mutation as morphology: Bases,
stems, and shapes in Scottish Gaelic. Columbus, OH: The Ohio
State University dissertation.
Webelhuth, Gert (ed.). 1995. Government and binding theory and
the minimalist program: Principles and parameters in syntactic
theory. Oxford: Blackwell.
Yu, Alan C. L. 2003. The morphology and phonology of infixation.
Berkeley, CA: University of California dissertation.

13 APPENDIX

For the appendix, insert four more carriage returns (four empty
lines). Then write Appendix (without a number) using ‘heading:
references’. Use ‘heading: references’ again for the title of the
item. Do NOT number any of the headings in the appendix.

APPENDIX

TRANSCRIPTION CONVENTIONS

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14 CONTACT INFORMATION

At the end of your article, enter four carriage returns and give the
following information (as in the example provided): first name
family name, affiliation incl. department, postal address, email
address.

Cornelia Gerhardt & Susanne Ley

FR 4.3 Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen
Universität des Saarlandes
PF 15 11 50

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D-66041 Saarbrücken

swpl@mx.uni-saarland.de