TY  - BOOK
AU  - Gibaldi,Joseph
TI  - MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing
SN  - 9780873522977
AV  - PN147 .M537 2008
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New York
PB  - Modern Language Association of America
KW  - Academic writing
KW  - Handbooks, manuals, etc
KW  - Authorship
KW  - Style manuals
KW  - Humanities literature
KW  - Scholarly publishing
N1  - Rev. edition of: MLA style manual and guide to scholarly publishing; 2; Foreword; Domna C. Stanton --; Preface; David G. Nicholls --; 1. Scholarly publishing.  Scholars and scholarly publishing --; Refereed and nonrefereed publications --; Deciding to submit a manuscript --; Placing a manuscript with a journal.  Scholarly journals ; Types of scholarly articles ; Selecting a journal ; Submitting a manuscript to a journal ; Evaluation of a manuscript ; Acceptance of a manuscript --; Placing a manuscript with a press.  Scholarly presses ; Types of scholarly books ; Selecting a press ; Submitting a prospectus for a book ; Submitting a manuscript to a press ; Evaluation of a manuscript ; Acceptance of a manuscript --; Production and publication.  Copyediting ; Proofreading ; Preparing an index ; Design ; Composition, printing, binding, electronic production ; Marketing --; Conclusion --; 2. Legal issues in scholarly publishing.  Introduction --; Copyright.  Development of copyright law in the United States ; Subject matter of copyright ; Ownership of copyright ; Co-ownership of copyright ; Works made for hire ; Material objects ; Term of copyright ; Registration of copyright ; Copyright notice ; Renewal of copyright ; Rights of copyright owners ; Transfers and terminations ; Fair use of copyrighted works ; Requesting permission ; Damages for copyright infringement and attorney's fees ; International copyright ; Copyright and computer networks --; Publishing Contracts.  Books ; Journal articles and contributions to edited works --; Defamation.  Libel ; Opinion ; Truth as defense ; Actual malice --; Right of privacy.  Emergence of privacy law ; Unreasonable publicity of private life ; Publicity placing another in a false light ; Consent as defense --; Further guidance --; 3. Basics of scholarly writing.  Audience, genre, and the conventions of scholarship --; Language and style --; Spelling.  Consistency and choice of spelling ; Word division ; Plurals ; Accents ; Umlauts ; Ligatures and other special characters --; Punctuation.  Purpose of punctuation ; Commas ; Semicolons ; Colons ; Dashes and parentheses ; Hyphens ; Apostrophes ; Quotation marks ; Square brackets ; Slashes ; Periods, question marks, and exclamation points ; Spacing after concluding punctuation marks --; Italics.  Words and letters referred to as words and letters ; Foreign words in an English text   ; Emphasis --; Names of persons.  First and subsequent uses of names ; Titles of persons ; Names of authors and fictional characters ; Dutch and German names ; French names ; Greek names ; Hungarian names ; Italian names ; Russian names ; Spanish names ; Latin names ; Asian names ; Names in other languages --; Capitalization.  English ; French ; German ; Italian ; Portuguese ; Russian ; Spanish ; Latin ; Other languages --; Titles of works in the manuscript.  General guidelines ; Italicized titles ; Titles in quotation marks ; Titles and quotations within titles ; Exceptions ; Shortened titles --; Quotations.  Accuracy of quotations ; Prose ; Poetry ; Drama ; Ellipsis ; Other alterations of sources ; Punctuation with quotations ; Translations of quotations --; Numbers.  Arabic numerals ; Use of words or numerals ; Commas in numbers ; Percentages and amounts of money ; Dates and times of the day ; Inclusive numbers ; Roman numerals --; Romanization --; Further guidance --; 4. Preparation of scholarly manuscripts.  Introduction --; Physical characteristics of the printed manuscript.  Divisions of the text ; Margins ; Text formatting ; Title and author's name ; Page numbers ; Tables and illustrations ; Paper and printing ; Corrections and revisions ; Binding --; Manuscripts for publication --; 5. Preparation of theses and dissertations.  Student works as professional documents --; Prescribed guidelines --; Selecting a topic --; Preparing a prospectus --; Special format requirements.  Theses and dissertations as published works ; Divisions of the text ; Page numbers ; Margins ; Spacing ; Binding of print copies ; Submission of electronic files --; Publishing the dissertation through ProQuest.  Terms of agreement ; Abstract ; Copyright ; Permissions --; 6. Documentation: preparating the list of works cited.  The purposes of documentation --; Documentation and ethics --; MLA style --; The list of works cited.  Introduction ; Placement of the list of works cited ; Arrangement of entries ; Two or more works by the same author ; Two or more works by the same authors ; Cross-references --; Citing periodical print publications.  Introduction ; An article in a scholarly journal ; An article in a scholarly journal that uses only issue numbers ; An article in a scholarly journal with more than one series ; An article in a newspaper ; An article in a magazine ; A review ; An abstract in an abstracts journal ; An anonymous article ; An editorial ; A letter to the editor ; A serialized article ; A special issue --; Citing nonperiodical print publications.  Introduction ; A book by a single author ; An anthology or a compilation ; A book by two or more authors ; A book by a corporate author ; A work in an anthology ; An article in a reference book ; An introduction, a preface, a foreword, or an afterword ; An anonymous book ; A scholarly edition ; A translation ; An illustrated book or a graphic narrative ; A book published in a second or subsequent edition ; A multivolume work ; A book in a series ; A republished book or journal issue ; A publisher's imprint ; A book with multiple publishers ; A brochure, pamphlet, or press release ; A government publication ; The published proceedings of a conference ; A book in a language other than English ; A book published before 1900 ; A book without stated publication ; Information or pagination ; An unpublished dissertation ; A published dissertation --; Citing web publications.  Introduction ; A nonperiodical publication ; A scholarly journal ; A periodical publication in an online database --; Citing additional common sources.  A television or radio broadcast ; A sound recording ; A film or a video recording ; A performance ; A musical score ; A work of visual art ; An interview ; A map or chart ; A cartoon or comic strip ; An advertisement ; A lecture, a speech, an address, or a reading ; A manuscript or typescript ; A letter, a memo, or an e-mail message ; A legal source ; An article in a microform collection of articles ; An article reprinted in a loose-leaf collection of articles ; A publication on CD-ROM or DVD-ROM ; A digital file --; A work in more than one publication medium --; 7. Documentation: citing sources in the text.  Parenthetical documentation and the list of works cited --; Information required in parenthetical documentation --; Readability --; Sample references.  Citing an entire work, including a work with no page numbers ; Citing part of a work ; Citing volume and page numbers of a multivolume work ; Citing a work listed by title ; Citing a work by a corporate author ; Citing two or more works by the same author or authors ; Citing indirect sources ; Citing common literature ; Citing more than one work in a single parenthetical reference ; Citing a book with signatures and no page numbers --; Using notes with parenthetical documentation.  Content notes ; Bibliographic notes --; 8. Abbreviations.  Introduction --; Time designations --; Geographic names --; Common scholarly abbreviations and reference words --; Publishers' names --; Titles of works.  Bible ; Works by Shakespeare ; Works by Chaucer ; Other works --; Names of languages --; Proofreading symbols.  Symbols used in the text ; Symbols used in the margin ; Sample marked proof --; Appendix: Specialized style manuals --; Sources of Examples in 3.4-5; 2
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