Template and stylesheet (Title)

for articles to be published in Die Welt der Slaven (subtitle)

Author’s Name

English translation of the title: and subtitle

A short English abstract of a maximum of 1000 characters (including blanks; ca. 150 words) precedes the text. For a good abstract you first write down your central hypothesis in one sentence. Afterwards you might want to add a sentence or two before it in order to help the reader understand the context of your hypothesis, and then maybe a sentence or two at the end to give details about your method. And that’s all you need.

Keywords: xxx; xxx; xxx (up to 6 keywords)

Author’s last name, first name(s) with middle-name/patronym (or initial) (if your name is in Cyrillic, choose your favourite transcription) • affiliation(s) (in English if originally in Cyrillic) • e‑mail (repeat this paragraph for each co-author)

If the article is the result of an externally funded project and your sponsor requires you to mention it, this is the place to do so – as briefly as possible (max. 3 lines).

If your paper is in English, which spelling system are you using?
☐ British spelling with -ise	(realise, analyse, favour, centre, defence, travelling)
☐ British spelling with -ize	(realize, analyse, favour, centre, defence, travelling)
☐ US spelling	(realize, analyze, favor, center, defense, traveling)

Die Welt der Slaven xx (20xx) x, xxx–xxx	DOI: 10.13173/WS.xx.x.xxx

1. Important preconditions

The journal Die Welt der Slaven only accepts original research articles that have not been published anywhere else in any similar form. Authors are expected to thoroughly indicate all their sources (including self-quotations) and to have secured copyright for any illustrations. In cases of doubt, please address the editors.

You can write your article in English or German. If the language of your article is different from the language (of the literature) you describe, please consider potential interdisciplinary readers not familiar with that language, and provide translations and/​or transliterations where necessary.

The maximum length of an article is 25 printed pages (i.e. 70,000 characters including spaces, minus 1,500 characters for every figure or table).

All articles are subjected to a single-blind peer review before publication.

2. Working with the template

You can help us and see your article almost exactly in the final layout if you write it directly into this document template (a .dotx file, which can be opened in all common text processing programs).

The template includes several predefined paragraph styles. You start your text in “Standard”; for all the following paragraphs of a chapter you use the style “NextParagraph”. The styles “ChapterHeading”, “Quotation”, “Poem”, “Caption” (for figures and tables), “Bibliography” and “Motto” are self-explanatory. Some styles are used only once in your article (e.g. “Title”, “Subtitle”, “Author”, etc.); they are already assigned to an element in this template, which you can simply overwrite (without deleting the ¶ at the end of the paragraph).

3. General issues of formatting

Please do not enter any blank lines; the predefined paragraph styles automatically keep the necessary distance. Space bar and tabulator key should never be pressed more than once, and never at the beginning of a line. For horizontal alignment please define tabulator stops in the necessary position or use a table. Please do not enter hard hyphens for hy­phen­a­tion; word-wrapping will be taken care of by the editors. If possible, make a difference between hyphens (-), which are used within words like code-switching or first-person narrator, and dashes ( – ), which – always surrounded by spaces – connect parts of sentences. Use a dash without spaces for ‘to’, e.g. 16–19, 1753–1829, etc. Multi-part abbreviations follow language-specific norms, i.e. they have a narrow non-breaking space in German (“z. B.”, “u. a.”, “d. h.”, etc.) but no space in English (“e.g.”, “i.e.”).

Please exclusively use Unicode fonts, no custom encodings. Even for Old Cyrillic and Glagolitic we nowadays have sufficient Unicode support (with fonts like Bukyvede and Method by Sebastian Kempgen, Dilyana by Ralph Cleminson, Menaion Medieval by Viktor Baranov and David Birnbaum, Ponomar, Fedorovsk and Menaion Unicode by Aleksandr Andreev and Nikita Simmons, etc.; the preferred fonts in Die Welt der Slaven are Bukyvede for Old Church Slavonic and Ponomar for Synodal Church Slavonic). For all Latin characters, phonetic transcription, Cyrillic, Greek (including polytonic Greek), Arabic and Hebrew use Times New Roman (which will be replaced with Campus Garamond when printed).

All articles should have numbered chapter headings (starting with 1) and preferably one or two levels of subchapters (numbered 1.1, 1.2, 1.2.1, etc.).

For highlighting, use italics or increase letter-spacing by 1 point. (Please do not add spaces to space out text!) Bold type is only used in linguistic examples or, exceptionally, to guide the reader in long stretches without chapter headings. Underlining can be used in linguistic examples as an alternative to bold type. Small caps are only used for linguistic categories in glossed examples. All-caps are not used; please also do not write the title of the article in capitals.

Fig. 1: Caption

If you add illustrations (if possible, inside a floating invisible table containing the caption, as demonstrated in Figure 1), please additionally also send us the original image file separately (with the highest resolution you can get).

Font sizes, line spacing, page margins, indentations, etc. are not your concern, they are taken care of by the document template (or by the editors).

4. Quotations and references

All verbatim quotations are marked by the typographic quotation marks appropriate for the respective language („deutsch“, “English”, « français », «русский», „polski”, etc.; never these: " "; “‘quotations’ within quotations” also follow language-specific usage). We always quote from the original language. A translation (also in quotation marks) can additionally be provided in parentheses. Quotations are neither transliterated nor adapted to modern spelling.

“Longer quotations are indented (by assigning them the paragraph style ‘Quotation’). Quotation marks are not omitted. Translations can follow as a separate paragraph underneath.”

„Alternativ kann auch eine unsichtbare Tabelle mit zwei Spalten mit 0 cm Zellenbegrenzungen verwendet werden, um Original und Übersetzung nebeneinander anzuordnen. Beide Spalten der Tabelle benutzen die Formatvorlage ‚Quotation‘.“	“Alternatively, you can use an invisible table of two columns with 0 cm padding to arrange original and translation side by side. Both columns of the table use the paragraph style ‘Quotation’.”

Poems: if you want to show’em
You just use the style called “Poem”.
At the end of ev’ry line
<Shift> + <Enter> (⮠ ) works just fine.

<Enter> only (¶) looks all wrong,
Makes the spacing much too long.
But it’s needed, let’s be terse,
At the end of ev’ry verse.

If a poem needs translation, / You should use the style “Quotation”, / Marking line breaks with a slash, / Which saves space and therefore cash. // If you want to mark a new / Stanza, you use simply two / Slashes, which is rather neat, / Very easy, and discreet.

Omissions and additions within quotations are always indicated by square brackets [ ] (not by ( ) or < >, and without author’s initials), and omissions are always indicated by exactly three points in square brackets: […].

Sources are never indicated in footnotes but in parentheses directly after the quotation, according to the International Harvard Notation, e.g. “(Novák 1991: 123)”. If the author is mentioned in the text, the year and page numbers directly follow the name, e.g. “As Novák (1991: 123) points out…”. Unless you refer to a whole publication very generally, concrete page numbers are needed. Do not use the vague abbreviation “ff.” (e.g. instead of “196ff.” write “196–203”). However, “f.” can be used to indicate exactly one following page (e.g. “196f.” is equivalent to “196–197”).

5. Linguistic notation

Linguistic forms and examples are always italicized and often followed by a translation in inverted commas ‘ ’ (always in this form, irrespective of the language of the article, and without parentheses, dashes, etc. to separate it, e.g. častʹ ‘part’). In contrast to quotations, object language is usually transliterated, using the International Scholarly Transliteration (with č, š, ž; ʺ and ʹ for hard and soft sign, etc.; see transliteration table; and yes, this system, being international, is also used in an English text or abstract!). Numbered linguistic examples use the style “Linguistic​Example” and can be equipped with glosses according to the Leipzig Glossing Rules (with grammatical information in small caps, not caps). To achieve alignment, you separate the words by single tabulators and individually define the position of each tabulator stop (and use line breaks, i.e. <shift> + <enter>, rather than paragraph breaks between the lines of the example):

(1)	Naš	professor	so-šël	s	um-a.	(Russian)
our	professor	down-go.pst.3sg.m	from	mind-gen.sg
‘Our professor has gone crazy.’

Please never use tables or sequences of spaces or tabulators to achieve alignment.

Phonetic and phonological transcriptions always use the International Phonetic Alphabet (i.e. [prɐɪznʌˈʃɛnʲɪi̯ɪ], never [prəɩznʌšén’ɩjɩ], [пръьзнʌшéн’ьйь], etc.). Only in historical grammar is it acceptable to use the traditional transcriptions (e.g. *čelověkъ rather than */t͡ʃɛlɔvækə/).

6. Bibliographical style of the references

Every article has to include a list of references, which is designed according to the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics. A few examples follow below. Most importantly, please do not abbreviate first names! Middle names and patronyms, however, can be abbreviated. When quoting an article from an edited volume, the editor(s) of the volume cannot be omitted. Please make sure to make a clear distinction between articles in journals or edited volumes (e.g. Bierwald 1966, Trostla 1958 below) and books in a book series (e.g. Barthel & Tolpach 1987; the indication of the series is optional).

All Cyrillic sources are transliterated according to the International Scholarly System. In English, only the titles of journals and series are in Title Caps, other titles have capital letters only where they are prescribed by the general orthography (including subtitles, which always start with a capital letter).

The following abbreviations can be used:

English	German
editor(s)	ed(s).	Hg.
edition	edn.	Aufl.
in a book	In	In
volume	vol.	Bd.

Webpages are not placed in a separate section of the references but are cited just like printed documents, i.e. the indication of their author(s), title, and year of publication are obligatory. Webpages contained within a website are treated like chapters in a book (e.g. Ager 1998–2019, Stojnova 2016) or articles in a journal (e.g. Đorđijević 2010, Wikipiedia authors 2005–2019). The URL (with the date of retrieval, i.e. the last date for which you can confirm that the URL was still valid) replaces the place of publication. If possible, use permanent URLs, DOIs or URNs or at least the shortest URL possible (by trying to omit “www.”, “index.html”, referring to newspaper articles by their ID without the ‘human-readable’ part of the URL, or by using the ‘short URL’ options provided e.g. in Wikipedia or YouTube, but without using external URL shorteners like tinyurl.com or bit.ly). Texts published in a printed journal or book that happen to be available on-line as well are cited according to their printed form, i.e. without giving a URL. However, we always indicate the DOI in brackets before a citation’s final period if a DOI is available.

References

Ager, Simon. 1998–2019. Glagolitic alphabet. In idem, Omniglot: The online encyclopedia of writing systems & languages. https://omniglot.com/writing/glagolitic.htm (retrieved 13 Dec 2019).

Barthel, Walther & Tolpach, John. 1987. Das performative System der Dramen Tschechows: Studien zur Rezeption. (Slavistische Akzente, 86.) München: Sagner.

Bierwald, Manfred. 1966. Basic rules of Russian intonation: A new description. Studies in Slavic Philology 7(2). 19–43 [DOI: 10.13173/SSlPh.7.2.19].

Dieckmann, Eberhard (ed.). 1976. Positionen polnischer Literaturwissenschaft der Gegenwart: Methodenfragen der Literaturgeschichtsschreibung. Berlin: Akademie-Verlag.

Đorđijević, Milena. 2010. Demistifikacija glumca u filmu Turneja Gorana Markovića. Südslavistik online 2. 9–22. http://suedslavistik-online.de/02/djordjijevic.pdf (retrieved 13 Dec 2019).

Ėko, Umberto. 2003. Kak napisatʹ diplomnuju rabotu: Gumanitarnye nauki. (Transl.: Elena Kostjukovič.) 2nd edn. Moskva: Knižnyj dom “Universitet”.

Padučeva, Elena V. 2014. Nestandartnye otricanija v russkom jazyke: Vnešnee, smeščennoe, globalʹnoe, radikalʹnoe. Voprosy jazykoznanija 2014(5). 3–23.

Stojnova, Natalʹja M. 2016. Buduščee vremja. In Plungjan, Vladimir A. et al. (eds.), Russkaja korpusnaja grammatika. http://rusgram.ru/Будущее_время (retrieved 13 Dec 2019).

Strakhov, Olʹga B. 2003. The linguistic practice of the creator of the Igorʹ Tale and the linguistic views of Josef Dobrovský. Palaeoslavica 11. 36–67 [DOI: 10.13173/​123456789​-11​-Strakh].

Trostla, Petr. 1958. O dativu absolutním. In Horálek, Karel & Kurz, Josef (eds.), Sborník slavistických prací, věnovaných IV. mezinárodnímu sjezdu slavistů v Moskvě, 33–46. Praha: Univerzita Karlova.

Wikipedia authors. 2005–2019. Olga Tokarczuk. Wikipedia: Wolna encyklopedia. https://​w.wiki/​9Q$o (retrieved 9 Mar 2024).

Zaliznjak, Andrej A. 2003. Problemy izučenija Novgorodskogo kodeksa XI veka, najdennogo v 2000 g. In Moldovan, Aleksandr M. (ed.), Slavjanskoe jazykoznanie: XIII Meždunarodnyj sʺezd slavistov, Ljubljana 2003: Doklady rossijskoj delegacii, 190–212. Moskva: Indrik.

This means that only explanatory comments are placed in footnotes. Footnotes always start with a capital letter and end with a period. In the main text, the footnote symbol is usually placed after punctuation marks (except if the footnote refers to an individual word).