3rd ROASS CONFERENCE Semiotics’Creativity:Unifying Diversities, Differences, Divides
GUIDELINES FOR PAPERS SUBMISSION DEADLINE:
January, 10, 2011
to dcmeciu@yahoo.com Papers must be singlespaced, TNR, 12, and they should run from 5 to 15 A4 pages, including all quotes, footnotes, references and selected bibliography. They must include:
an abstract (of about 150 words) and up to 6 keywords (in English or French);
the author's biographical information (professional title, didactic position, institutional affiliation and email address);
introduction, chapters and subchapters: 1. (the title of the chapter in bold), 1.1. (the title of the subchapter in italics), 1.2., 1.3. etc.;
pictures saved as jpeg;
quotations in the text (up to 2 lines)should be enclosed in “double quotation marks”. Use ‘single quotes’ only within double quotes. Words from other languages and word intended to be especially emphasized should be italicized;
quotations, longer than 2 lines, should be identified in the text by leaving 1 line before and after the quotation;
footnotes should be identified in the text by subscript numbers;
references should be identified in the text by the name of the auhor(s) any the year of publication according to the following example: “… as mentioned by Barry (2002)”; “… as has been argued (Barry 2002: 25)”. The abbreviation “et al.” should be used for references with three or more authors. For References to two or more papers by the same authors in the same year, the year should be followed by a letter (a, b, c, etc.);
all citations and references in the text must be listed fully in the Selected bibliography section at the end of the paper, by alphabetical order of authors, with complete bibliographical details;
journal and book titles must be given in full and italicized;
selected bibliography. The (Selected) Bibliography should be presented as follows:
Barthes, Roland (1970), Elements of Semiology, A. Lavers and C. Smith (trans.), Beacon Press, Boston. Bouissac, Paul (1976b), “The ‘Golden Legend’ of Semiotics”, in Semiotica 17 (4), Marcel Danesi (ed.), 371–382, Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin and New York. Lester, R. K. (2005), Universities, Innovation, and the Competitiveness of Local Economies: Summary Report from the Local Innovation Project. Available at http://ekstranett.innovasjonnorge.no/Arena_fs/Local%20nnovation%20Project_MIT.pdf, retrieved March, 20, 2010. Sebeok, T. A. (1991), “The doctrine of signs”, in A Sign is Just a Sign, Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
The articles submitted will undergo the following stages of peerreviewing:
the first stage: the articles are assessed by the technical editor in order to see whether they meet the editing requirements. Unless the articles do not meet this criterion, the authors will be kindly asked to revise their manuscripts.
the second stage: all the articles will be published in English or French and will be peerreviewed. The author’s identity and his/ her affiliation are unknown to the reviewers who will recommend/will not recommend the paper for publication. The English or French version of the paper submitted for publication must be corrected either by a native speaker of English/French or by colleagues from the departments of foreign languages.
the third stage: in case there are corrections to be made, the authors will be politely asked to send the final article.