STYLE SHEET

1. Please send the print-out of your manuscript on DIN A4 size paper, 1 1/2 line-spacing together with the diskette (MS WORD only). If this is not possible, please send in a typed manuscript (1 1/2 line-spacing).

2. Starting a Paragraph: Start always three spaces from the left margin.

3. Quotations in the text: Start always five spaces from the left. Use single spacing. Indicate what you have left out by (...). Please centre quotations longer than 5 lines.

4. Italics

Use italics for all titles in the running text, but not in the footnotes or bibliography.

5. Footnotes (to appear as end notes)

- continuous superscribed numbering

-"Title within Title" to appear in italics in the footnotes.

-If you are citing frequently from a particular source, indicate number and volume number in the running text itself in brackets: (III, 61) or just (61).

At the first mention of the source, indicate thus in the footnote:

"Further references follow this edition, with volume and page number indicated in the text itself."

6. Bibliographical references are to be made in complete detail in the first instance. Further references to be made using only surname, brief title and the foot-note number where the first mention was made (e.g. FN 21). See below for the use of Ibid.

EXAMPLES

Quotations from books

(a) First Name Surname, Title, Subtitle, Place year, pp. xx-yy. Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization, a History of Insanity in the Age of Reason, trans. Richard Howard, New York 1975, pp. 261-264.

(b) First Name Surname, Title, Subtitle, Year Place, pp. xx-yy. (Title of the series, vol. no.)

Example

Walter Gebhard, Der Zusammenhang der Dinge, Weltgleichnis und Naturverklärung im Totalitätsbewußtsein des 19. Jahrhunderts, Tübingen 1984, pp. 121-135. (Hermaea, Germanistische Forschungen, N.F. Vol. 47.)

(c) Quotations from critical text editions

First Name Surname,Title, Subtitle (e.g.historisch - kritische Ausgabe), ed. First Name Surname,First Name Surname,[in case of many editors First Name Surname et al]., vol. no., section title, title of volume, ed., First Name Surname, place/place/place Year, pp. xx-yy.

Example

Clemens Brentano, Sämtliche Werke und Briefe, historisch-kritische Ausgabe, veranstaltet vom Freien Deutschen Hochstift, ed. Jürgen Behrens et al., vol. 19. Prosa IV, ed. Gerhard Kluge, Stuttgart/Berlin/Köln/Mainz 1987, pp. 399-439.

(d) Quotations from essays in collected volumes

First Name Surname, Title, Subtitle. In: Title, Subtitle, ed. First Name

Surname, Place Year, pp.xx-yy.

Example

Richard Alewyn, Brentanos Geschichte Vom braven Kasperl und dem schönen Annerl. In: Gestaltprobleme der Dichtung, Festschrift für Günther Müller, ed.

Richard Alewyn, Hans-Egon Haas and Clemens Heselhaus, Bonn 1957, pp.143-180.

(e) Quotations from essays in journals or yearbooks

First Name Surname, Title, Subtitle. In: Title (of journal or yearbook,

abbreviated where title is well known like Dvjs), vol.no. (Year), pp. xx-yy.

Example

Peter Uwe Hohendahl, Heine’s Critical Intervention, the Intellectual as Poet.

In: Goethe Society of India Yearbook (1998), pp. 65-95.

(f) When a reference source recurs

Name, Brief title (FN xx), pp.xx-yy.

Example

Schiller, Ästhetische Erziehung (FN 17), pp.43-58.

(g) When successive references are made to the same source

please use Ibid.

7. A Note on Translations

We suggest you provide English translations of the sources you may be citing. However, should you prefer to cite in the language of the source material, you are at liberty to do so.

8. Clarifications:

Should you need any clarifications, you may get in touch through

Email: goethe@iitm.ac.in