How to Submit

Those who wish to submit papers, book reviews or colloquia discussions to Versification should carefully observe the following guidelines.

Guidelines for Submissions

1. Attach a 250-word abstract with keywords to every paper. Keywords only are required for book reviews, and neither for colloquia contributions.
2. Follow the MLA Handbook for Writers of Research Papers, Third Edition, in matters of style. Deviations from the MLA Handbook are perfectly acceptable if justified by content or special formatting needs.
3. Use endnotes not footnotes, and keep them to the bare minimum.
4. Translate all passages from a foreign language and any unfamiliar words or phrases.
5. Avoid jargon, no matter how fashionable, and define any nonstandard semantic usages of common words.
6. Format submissions in HTML (Hyper Text Format Language) if possible. This will considerably speed up the process of publication.
7. Avoid long direct quotations (over three lines) in the body of the paper unless absolutely necessary for your argument.
8. Write as much as you need to state your case, but no more. Versification has no limits on length other than those dictated by economy of presentation and concision of statement.
9. Provide any key background information necessary for understanding your paper, since Versification will be read not only by prosodists but literary scholars, students, critics, writers and poets from many different fields.

Where to Send Submissions

• Send submissions by email as attachments (.doc or .rtf only) directly to the editors
  or
• Mail submission by disk (.doc or .rtf only) to
  
  Steven J. Willett
  University of Shizuoka, Hamamatsu Campus
  2-3, Nunohashi 3-chome
  Hamamatsu City
  Japan 432-8012
  
  or
  
  Joseph Tate
  University of Washington
  Department of English
  Box 354330
  Seattle, WA 98195
  

Please note: Although Versification is primarily an English-language journal, it will accept submissions in French, German, Italian and Spanish. Those wishing to submit in those language will, however, have to provide an English abstract and keywords.