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Manuscripts to be considered for publication should be sent to The Editor, Prose Studies, Department of English, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 USA. Three copies of each manuscript should be submitted as well as a copy on disk. Manuscripts should be printed on one single side of A4 or 8 x 11 inch white good quality paper, double-spaced throughout with ample margins, and bear the title of the contribution and name(s) of the author(s). The full postal and email addresses of the author who will check proofs and receive correspondence and offprints should also be included. All pages should be numbered. Contributions should not normally be more than 7,000 words in length and should be written in English. They should also include an abstract of 150 words and approx. 6 key words suitable for indexing and online publishing purposes.

Book reviews should be sent to: Christopher Highley, Department of English, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio 44242 USA Reviews may vary in length from 300 words for a single-title review to 1,500 words for a substantial review essay. Reviewers should follow the guidelines given for papers, except that full bibliographical details for the books reviewed (including price and ISBN) should be given at the beginning of the review. Rejected manuscripts will not normally be returned.

Electronic Submissions. Authors should send the final, revised version of their articles in both hard copy paper and electronic disk forms. It is essential that the hard copy paper version exactly matches the material on disk. Save all files on a standard 3.5 inch high-density disk. We prefer to receive disks in Microsoft Word in a PC format, but can translate from most other common word-processing programs. Please specify which program you have used. For more details on Electronic Submissions, please see the Taylor & Francis website.

Illustrations and captions to illustrations. Authors must obtain permission to reproduce illustrations when necessary and pay the copyright fees and other costs. The place at which an illustration is to be inserted in the printed text should be indicated clearly on the manuscript with a figure number and caption, e.g. “Insert figure 2 about here”. A separate numbered caption sheet should contain artists name, title, print, process, date and owner. Illustrations should be on a separate sheet and not included in the text.

Quotations. Quoted material over forty words in length should be set out from the text by being indented three spaces. The original spelling and punctuation of the quotation should be reproduced exactly. Poetry, diagrams, line drawings, etc., should be reproduced as their original layout. In brackets at the end of the extract, give the author's name, the title and the date of the work quoted from, and the page numbers of the extract.

Notes. Keep textual notes to a minimum, indicate them with superscript numbers, and provide the note text as a list at the end of the article, before the references.

References are required to conform to the Modern Language Association Handbook for Writers of Research Papers (www.mla.org). A few examples are given below:

Journal articles Shome, Raka, and Radha S. Hegde. ‘Culture, Communication, and the Challenge of Globalization'. Critical Studies in Media Communication 19.2 (2002): 172-89.

Books Colley, Ann C. Nostalgia and Recollection in Victorian Culture. New York: St. Martin's, 1998.

Chapter in an edited book Malhotra, Sheena and Robbin D. Crabtree. ‘Gender, inter(Nation)alization, Culture. Implications of the Privatization of Television in India'. Transforming Communication about Culture: Critical New Directions. International and Intercultural Annual. Ed. M. J. Collier. Vol. 24. Thousand Oaks: Sage, 2002. 60-84.

Spelling and Style. Use US spelling, i.e. color not colour, center not centre, use “z” rather than “s”. Single ‘quotes' are used for quotations rather than double “quotes”, unless the ‘quote is “within” another quote'. Apostrophes should as follows, ‘the 1980s' [not ‘the 1980's']. All acronyms for national agencies, examinations, etc., should be spelled out the first time they are introduced in text or references.

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