Although much of the material published in Debatte is commissioned by the editors, we welcome submissions of original articles not under consideration by another publication. Articles should not normally exceed 8000 words in length. We regret that unsolicited submissions cannot be returned. Manuscripts should be in English or German (if in another language, you should be prepared to translate them into either of the above on acceptance) and any quotes in German should be accompanied by an English translation. Please include a full address, telephone/fax numbers, and email address.

Submission of material: 1. Material should generally be submitted electronically as an attached file and sent to the e-mail address above.
2. Most wordprocessor file formats are acceptable, but Microsoft Word is preferred.
3. Illustrations such as diagrams, photographs etc. should always be submitted in the best possible form for reproduction, i.e. quality original photographs, and with any copyright issue clarified.

General presentation: 1. Title and subheadings: Please begin with a title followed by the author's name(s), without any additional formatting such as bold or italics. Include regular subheadings, again without any special formatting, but do not start the body text with a subheading immediately following the main title and author's name(s). The first paragraph should be ordinary text, preferably of an introductory nature.
2. References: Please use MLA referencing. Some examples are listed below.
More detailed guide.

JOURNAL: Mann, Susan. “Myths of Asian Womanhood.” Journal of Asian Studies 59 (2000): 835–62.

BOOK: Eggins, Suzanne, and Diana Slade. Analysing Casual Conversation. London: Cassell, 1997.

ED BOOK: Lopate, Phillip, ed. The Art of the Personal Essay: An Anthology from the Classical Era to the Present. New York: Anchor-Doubleday, 1994.

CONFERENCE Hualde, Jose Ignacio. “Patterns of Correspondence in the Adaptation of Spanish Borrowings in Basque.” Proceedings of the Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the Berkeley Linguistics Society, February 12–15, 1999: General Session and Parasession on Loan Word Phenomena. Ed. Steve S. Chang, Lily Liaw, and Josef Ruppenhofer. Berkeley: Berkeley Linguistics Soc., 2000. 348–58.

NEWSPAPER Jeromack, Paul. “This Once, a David of the Art World Does Goliath a Favor.” New York Times 13 July 2002, late ed.: B7+.

ELECTRONIC Keats, John. “Ode on a Grecian Urn.” Poetical Works. 1884. Bartleby.com: Great Books Online. Ed. Steven van Leeuwen. 2002. 5 May 2002 www.bartleby.com/126/41.htm.

DISSERTATION Boyle, Anthony T. “The Epistemological Evolution of Renaissance Utopian Literature, 1516–1657.” Diss. New York U, 1983.

3. Abbreviations: Please avoid as much as possible. Sets of initials (NATO, USA, DGB, SPD etc) should have no full stops between them.
4. Dates: should be given as: day month year, without punctuation: 13 August 1961.
5. Spelling: Use -ize and -ization for words like organize, recognize and so on. The following words are exceptions: advertise, advise, apprise, chastise, comprise, demise, despise, devise, disguise, enfranchise, enterprise, excise, exercise, franchise, improvise, incise, merchandise, prise (open), revise, supervise, surmise, surprise.
6. Punctuation: Use double quotation marks for all quotations, except single marks for a quotation within a quotation. Punctuation that is part of a quoted phrase should remain inside the quotation marks. When the end of a quotation coincides with the end of a sentence, the full stop should be before the quotation mark, unless the quotation is a single word or phrase not itself requiring a full stop.
7. Translations: When mentioning German or other non-English organizations, the name should be translated into English but the local abbreviation should be used, in parentheses after its first appearance (possibly alongside the full German name) and in the text subsequently: the German trade union federation (Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund, DGB), or Socialist Unity Party (SED).
8. General formatting: Please keep to a minimum, avoiding any indents, rules or other fancy elements that are not strictly necessary. They will only be stripped out again for page formatting, and make extra work for the editors. NEVER use underlines or bold for emphasis, always italics.

Proofs: Authors are expected to correct and return proofs of accepted articles within 48 hours of receipt. A fax number provided with the manuscript can greatly speed up the process.