Authors` Guide and Tansliteration Symbols

International Journal of Arabic-English Studies (IJAES)
Vol. 14, 2013
Authors' Guide
Length of Manuscript
1. Articles should normally be no longer than 9,000 words.
2. Book Reviews should be in the range of 500– 750 words.
3. Notes and Discussion should normally be no longer than 2000 words. No
abstract is required for such pieces of writing.
Abstracts
A short abstract of up to 200 words should appear on the first page.
Submission of Manuscript
Manuscripts submitted for publication in IJAES should not have been published
previously or be under consideration for publication elsewhere in any form.
Articles should be sent as email. Contributors are kindly requested to observe
the following:
1. Do not send your article in the body of an email. Send it only as an
attachment.
2. We can only accept attachments which are formatted as Microsoft Word
document, with a file name yourname.doc, e.g. Hamdan.com
3. Please send two attachments. The one called yourname1.doc, e.g.
Hamdan1.com should contain your full name, rank, affiliation, postal
and email address, fax number, and the title of your article; the other
attachment called yourname2.doc, e.g. Hamdan2.com should contain
only the article without any reference to you, the author. This is the text
that will be used for our blind reviewing process.
Style
Authors are particularly requested to observe the conventions listed below.
1. References
Please give full bibliographical details of references and list them in alphabetical
order of author, following the style of the examples given below. Only
references mentioned in the text should appear in the list of references at
the end of the article (bibliography).
Books:
o
Author’s surname are followed by comma and first name (and full
points) in bold, with a word space between two or more first
names/initials. Initials of first names are used only if they appear
as such on the original work.
o
Spell out first names of authors and editors where known.
o
For books with more than one author, the first names and/or
initials come first on second, third, etc. authors.
o
Date is enclosed between parentheses followed by a full point.
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o
o
Authors with two books in same year should be labeled a and b,
on the basis of the alphabetical order of the title (immediately
after date, no space, e.g. 1991a).
Book titles (in Roman) should in italic; main words have initial
capitals including subtitles.
Example: Little, Arthur L., Jr. (2000). Shakespeare’s Jungle Fever: NationalImperial Revisions of Rape, Race and Sacrifice. Stanford: Stanford UP.
Bloor, Thomas and Meriel Bloor. (1995). The Functional Analysis of English:
A Hallidayan Approach. London: Arnold.
Articles:
o
Titles of journal articles appear in Roman with single inverted
commas
o
First word only has initial capitals except for names: Subtitles also
start with a capital letter.
o
Full point is provided after the final inverted comma.
o
If an entry is a paper from an edited collection, put the title in
Roman with single inverted commas.
o
Journal titles are in italic, followed by a comma; main words have
initial capitals
o
Please check that all details have been included: volume, issue (if
available), page numbers.
Edmonds, Philip and Graeme Hirst. (2002). 'Near-synonymy and lexical
choice'. Computational Linguistics, 28 (2):105-144.
Edited books:
o
If an edited book is referred to several times, put the full details as
a separate entry with just authors and dates elsewhere; however,
o
If it is referred to only once, put the full details with the entry for
the paper.
o
Please check that all works referred to have their full details
somewhere.
Examples
Moon, Rosamund. (1998). 'Frequencies and forms of phrasal lexemes in
English'. In Anthony Cowie (ed.), Phraseology: Theory, Analysis and
Applications, 79-100. Oxford: OUP.
Sapir, Edward (1929). ‘The status of linguistics as a science’. Language
5:207–14. Reprinted in David Mandelbaum (ed.), Selected Writings of
Edward Sapir, 160– 66. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1949.
Bibliographical references in the text:
 References are to be made in the text by giving in parentheses the name of
the author, year of publication, and, where relevant, the page(s) referred to:
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(Setecka 2004:5-18). If the author’s name is part of the text, use the form:
Setecka (2004:11) maintained that . . . .
o No comma between author’s name and date.
o Separate works referred to in the same parentheses should be in
chronological order: (Whitney 1867; Hymes 1981). Separate them with
semicolons as follows: (Fisiak 1985; Wenden 1986; Swain 1995). Initials
should be used before an author’s name only when an article refers to more
than one author with the same surname
o When a work written by two or more authors is referred to, all names should
be given in the first citation: (Weinreich, Labov and Herzog 1968). In later
citations, use an abbreviated form: (Weinreich et al. 1968).
o If more than one work was published in the same year, list these
alphabetically by author’s name as follows: (Farghal 1985; Fisiak 1985;
Asfour 1994; Bakir 1994; Atari 2004; Malzahn 2004)
2. Headings and subheadings
o
No more than three levels of heading below the title.
o Headings should be numbered consecutively using Arabic numerals and so
should subheadings (e.g. 2.1.1; 2.2.1; 2.3.1; etc.)
o In headings and subheadings first word only has initial capitals.
3. Footnotes
o Short notes can appear in the text within brackets.
o There will be no footnotes on individual pages.
o Longer notes should be collected together at the end of the article. Please
number notes consecutively; use Arabic numerals and give clear
superscript numbers in the appropriate places.
4. Paragraphs and long quotations
o No line space should be left between paragraphs.
o The first line of new paragraphs should be indented, except straight after a
heading.
o Quotations of more than three lines should be displayed and indented.
Check that page numbers of the source have been provided.
5. Tables and figures
Tables and Figures should be inserted in the text. A separate file is also
useful. Each Figure and Table should be clearly labeled with number and
caption. They should be numbered Figure 1, Figure 2, Table 1, Table 2, etc.
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Transliteration Symbols for Arabic Vowels and Some Consonants
Arabic Alphabet
Symbol
Example
Meaning
‫ء‬
ʔ
ʔamal
hope
‫ث‬
th
c
tha lab
fox
‫ج‬
j
jamal
camel
‫ح‬
h
hub
love
‫خ‬
kh
khubz
bread
‫ذ‬
dh
dhahab
gold
‫ز‬
z
zi:t
oil
‫ش‬
sh
shams
sun
‫ص‬
s
sayf
summer
‫ض‬
d
dayf
guest
‫ط‬
t
ti:n
mud
‫ظ‬
TH
THuhr
noon
‫ع‬
c
‫غ‬
c
abd
slave
gh
gharb
west
‫ق‬
q
qalam
pencil
‫و‬
w
ward
rose
‫ي‬
y
yawm
day
)‫(فتحة‬
a
kataba
he wrote
ُ )‫(ضمة‬
u
kutub
books
ِ )‫(كسرة‬
i
sin
tooth
‫ى‬/‫مد طويل ا‬
a:
ka:tib
writer
‫ضمة طويلة و‬
u:
fu:l
beans
‫كسرة طويلة ي‬
i:
fi:l
elephant
Diphthongs
aw
mawt
death
)‫)أصوات علة مركبة‬
ay
bayt
house
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