Submission Guidelines for Watcher Junior Word Length: 3,000 ­ 4,000…

Submission Guidelines for Watcher Junior

Word Length: 3,000 ­ 4,000 words. Longer articles will be considered, but please
consult with the editors prior to submission.

Submitting:

   ·   All submissions to Watcher Junior should be submitted as email attachments
       in either MS-Word or MS-RichText format.

   ·   The text of the submission should not identify the author or institutional
       affiliation, but authors should include contact details (name, institutional
       affiliation, email and surface mail addresses) and a brief biographical
       statement (of less than 75 words) in the body of their email.

   ·   Author biographies should include information such as name, institution,
       research interests, and any recent publications or academic achievements.
       See the Contributors page for examples.

E-mail copy should be sent to the editors at: edwards@slayage.tv and
stevens@slayage.tv

Upon acceptance of a paper, the author must complete and return a publication
permission form to the editors (downloadable from
http://www.watcherjunior.tv/files/WJpermissionform.pdf). Authors retain copyright
of published material.

Style Guide

Watcher Junior follows the conventions of the MLA style (www.mla.org), except
where there are specific requirements for the nature of the journal. Submissions
using other styles will be considered but upon acceptance of a paper the author will
be required to revise the work incompliance with the following:

Layout:

   ·   All submissions should be 1.5 or double spaced, using a serif font such as
       Times New Roman.

   ·   Do not use formatting such as underlining or bolding in the text of the
       article: for emphasis use italics.
   ·   Do not use tabs or extra whitespace at any time.

Paragraph format: each paragraph should be numbered sequentially at the
beginning of each first line using the format [6], [18] (note square brackets). This is
to ensure that a second party can provide an accurate citation of the work.

All paragraphs should be preceded by a hard break or carriage return so that there
is a blank line between paragraphs.

Quotations: All quotations and reference to another author's terms should appear in
double quotation marks, "like so." Single quotation marks are used to indicate
"quotes 'within' quotes."

Indent quotations longer than two lines

Titles cited in-text: all book, programme, film, journal titles should appear
italicised in the body of the text e.g Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Buffy, BtVS, Slayer
Slang, Slayage. Titles of journal or other articles and chapters in books should be
given in double quotation marks.

Where episode titles appear in the body of the text they should be italicised and
appended with the season and episode number e.g Restless (4022), Intervention
(5018). For Angel, episode numbers should be preceded by the letter `A' i.e City
Of...(A1001). Use the Slayage Episode Guide (www.slayage.tv) for episode titles,
season and episode numbers.

In-text citations: Should follow the MLA style. Citations within the text should give
the author's name and page number(s) in parentheses, e.g. (Kaveney 36). See here
(http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/intext.html) for an online guide
to in-text citations. Do not use endnotes or footnotes.

Referencing:

All submissions must include a Works Cited page with references in the format
identified below.

A book:

Adams, Michael. Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon. New York: Oxford
University Press, 2003.
An anthology:

Tonkin, Boyd. "Entropy as Demon: Buffy in Southern California." Reading the
Vampire Slayer: An Unofficial Critical Companion to Buffy and Angel. Ed. Roz
Kaveney. London: Tauris Parke Paperbacks, 2003, 37-52.

An article:

Schele, Linda. "Reading Mayan Images." Americas Mar. 1987: 38-43.

An online article:

Millman, Joyce. "Twenty Ways the Nineties Changed Television." Salon. 22 Dec.
1999. http://www.salon.com/ent/col/mill/1999/12/22/tvdecade/.

An article from an online journal:

Wilcox, Rhonda V. "T. S. Eliot Comes to Television: Buffy's `Restless'." Slayage 7
(2002). http://www.slayage.tv/essays/slayage7/Wilcox.htm.

Film or video:

Serenity. Dir. Joss Whedon. Perf. Nathan Fillian, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk and Morena
Baccarin. Universal Pictures, 2005.

Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Dir. Fran Rubel Kuzui. Perf. Kristy Swanson, Luke Perry,
Donald Sutherland and Paul Reubens. DVD. 20th Century Fox, 1992.

Do not create a bibliographic reference to the Mutant Enemy programme
episodes quoted in the text.

Compliance with this guide will ensure that the interim between acceptance and
publication of a paper is kept to a minimum.

A more complete resource can be found here
(http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/humanities/list.html) and here
(http://www.lib.berkeley.edu/MRC/mla.html) for referencing media.