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Lexicography in Asia,
Vol. 3 will be published by K
Dictionaries on October 1, 2008 to celebrate the tenth anniversary of Lexicography in
Asia (1998, Tom MacArthur and Ilan Kernerman (eds), Tel Aviv: Pasword
Publishers; http://kdictionaries.com/lia.html).
Lexicography in Asia
appeared on October 1, 1998 and comprised mainly a selection of papers from the
Dictionaries in Asia Conference, that was held the preceding year at the Hong
Kong University of Science and Technology and that served as a forum for the
establishment of the Asian Association for Lexicography (ASIALEX; http://kdictionaries.com/kdn/kdn5-3.html).
The language of the publication is English. Papers are
invited on all relevant topics of lexicography in Asia, and
will be distributed to referees for anonymous review. The timetable is as
follows:
- December 31, 2007 • deadline
for receipt of proposals
- March 31, 2008 • deadline for
receipt of notification of acceptance/rejection
- May 15, 2008 • deadline for
receipt of final versions
Papers are accepted by electronic submission only,
according to the specifications below. Please submit manuscripts for review
as MS Word attachment to lia3@kdictionaries.com.
A version of the paper in Adobe PDF format may be attached in addition to the
Word format. All indications of authorship should be removed from the text as
well as from the Properties files, Track Changes files, or other files which
store markers of ownership. Accepted manuscripts, after final revisions, may
be submitted only in MS Word.
Manuscripts should please adhere
to the following specifications:
- Use
surname (of the first author for co-authored papers) as the name of the
file.
- Cover
sheet including the paper’s title, author’s name (no titles),
affiliation, address, email, fax and telephone numbers (all centred);
abstract – up to 200 words; keywords – up to five.
- Times New
Roman 12 point font.
- Use ITALICS
and BOLD, no UNDERLINE.
- Double
line-spacing throughout, including blocked quotes.
- Single
spacing between words and sentences.
- All text
aligned only at left margin (i.e. not right-justified).
- Margins
of 2.5 cm (1.0'') all around.
- Do not
set special styles, headers, footers, tabs, etc; if special characters
are required, indicate them clearly in the text.
- Headings
flush left, in bold; no sub-sections, numbers or periods.
- Use
double quotes for direct quotation and shudder (irony) quotes; single
quotes for glosses and other citations of meaning; italics for emphasis
and citation of forms; bold to cite dictionary entries/headwords.
- Notes
typed as plain text at the end of the manuscript and before the
reference section, with corresponding superscript numbers inserted
manually at the appropriate points in the text. The footnote/endnote
feature should be disabled.
- Figures,
tables, charts and appendix in black and white, none longer than the
manuscript. Figures, tables and charts should be numbered consecutively
immediately below, centred, no legend. They should be camera-ready
in high resolution.
- Conform
to American or British English style, and ensure that these spelling and
other orthographic conventions are adhered to consistently. (Quotations
should retain the original spelling.)
- References
use the following style: (Carter 1998: 201-205; Jones 2003: 42).
- In the
reference section use the following style:
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BOOKS
Landar,
Herbert. 1966. Language and culture. New York: Oxford
University Press.
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BOOK
CHAPTERS
Deterding,
David. 2003. Tenses and will/would in a corpus of Singapore English.
In David Deterding and Ee Ling Low (eds), English in Singapore: research on grammar.
Singapore: McGraw-Hill. 31-38.
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EDITED
COLLECTION
Vincent,
Charlotte P. (ed). 2004. Words and
Sounds: A Festschrift for A. A.
Mitchell. Cambridge, MA: University of the Northeast Press.
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ARTICLE
IN JOURNAL
Geeraerts,
Dirk. 1993. Vagueness’ puzzles, polysemy’s vagaries. Cognitive
linguisitics 4(3): 223-272.
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ARTICLE/CHAPTER
IN COLLECTION
Mervin,
William and Jane Johnson. 2005. A matter of minutes. In The Dictionary as Wikipedia, vol. 1, edited by Martin Mulhern: 225-231.
Philadelphia: Colonial Press.
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DICTIONARY
Vanguard Dictionary of Vehicle Terms.
2003. Eleventh edition. Francis Moto et al. Los Angeles: Autokineton Press.
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ONLINE
British
National Corpus Sampler. Available online: http://thetis.bl.uk/lookup.html (accessed: 27 May 2007).
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NON-ENGLISH
PUBLICATION (use the standard romanisation if relevant)
Tokumaru, Sakoto. 2001. Sakubun
koukan katsudou no inta-netto riyou no kokoromi. (Composition exchange
project on the internet.) Gengobunka to Nihongo kyouiku (Japanese
language education) 22: 64-76.
Acknowledgement: These
specifications borrow from the instructions to contributors to Lexicography
in Asia, Vol. 2 and Dictionaries.
Please address enquiries to lia3@kdictionaries.com.
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