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SUBMISSIONS Comparative Drama encourages submission of studies which are international in spirit and interdisciplinary in scope. In addition to the instructions posted below, please refer to our style sheet for more specific guidelines, particularly with regards to documentation of source materials. View Style Sheet Guidelines for Authors Comparative Drama follows the documentation style of The Chicago Manual of Style, 15th ed (“Documentation I,” pp. 593-640, no bibliography). Authors may submit articles electronically either on disk or via e-mail. Hard copies are also acceptable, but electronic copies are preferred. Length should be between 25-30 pages, double spaced including endnotes. Please include a 250 word abstract along with your submission. Submissions are expected to be exclusive and to follow Comparative Drama style. Hard copy must be double spaced, including indented quotations and notes, with all diacritical marks as well as archaic letters (e.g., Þ) clearly indicated. While it is hard to establish a rule in this regard, quotations of more than three lines of poetry or of more than ten lines of prose should be set off and indented without quote marks. Otherwise, quotations should be run into the text and placed within “double quotation marks”; quotes within quotes “should be placed within ‘single quotation marks’.” Elipses are three spaced dots (. . . ) with a period also required at the end of a sentence (. . . . ). Do not use elipses at the beginning of a quotation. Interpolations, including [sic], are placed within [brackets]. Do not double space following the period at the end of a sentence. Spelling should conform to American usage rather than British. Do not substitute the letter l for the number 1, or vice versa. Dates are to follow modern usage, beginning each year on 1 January, and are to be written in the following form: 2 March 1987. For conversion of English regnal years to modern usage, see C. R. Cheney, Handbook of Dates for Students of English History, Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 4 (London, 1970). Avoid jargon. Quotations if possible should be from original editions rather than reprints; standard editions of works must be used rather than anthologies (except in those cases in which an anthology presents a very superior text) or less accepted editions. Often it is wise to check sources against the readings in the original manuscripts or printed books. Accuracy is required in quotations as well as in all other aspects of preparation of the manuscript. Quotations from Latin or foreign languages are to be supplied with English translations; the original text should appear first, followed by the translation in parentheses. In those instances in which the author provides only his or her own translation of a quotation from a critical source, the translation may be identified by the words “translation mine” following the documentation in the endnote or in the text at the end of the passage. When documentation is placed at the end of a quotation in the text rather than in the notes, the reference to act, scene, and line numbers should be placed in parentheses following the quote but within the end punctuation, as in this example from Hamlet: “Here is your husband, like a mildewed ear,/ Blasting his wholesome brother” (3.4.64-65). If only line numbers are being cited, then use this form (64-65), but if there is a possibility of confusion add ll. (ll. 64-65). (If the reference appears with material already in parentheses, use brackets for documentation: “You cannot call it love” [3.4.68].) For references to mystery plays in cycles, citations should give the number of the play (using the form in the edition utilized) followed by the line number(s) (IV.1). In some instances it will be necessary to include also the name of the play or cycle as well (Chester IV.1). In certain other cases scholars will similarly wish to refer to page numbers, folio numbers, or signatures within their texts in order to reduce the number of notes. Abbreviations are to follow standard usage. A more comprehensive Style Sheet is available to guide authors in the preparation of computer files for publication. Please contact the editors with other queries.