September 26, 2001

Dear Contributor to FASL10:

            We wish to include the written version of your paper in the proceedings of the Tenth Formal Approaches to Slavic Linguistics meeting, which, like the previous nine, will be published by Michigan Slavic Publications. It is intended that the FASL10 proceedings appear in book form in time for the 11th FASL meeting in 2002. Please look through the following guidelines and deadlines with this in mind.

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Michigan Slavic Publications — Guidelines for contributions to FASL10
Volume editor — Jindrich Toman

Electronic submission
Papers should be submitted electronically, on disk or via e-mail attachment to Jindra or Jo. Almost any format is acceptable, for PC or Mac. If you are in doubt, contact Jo.

Length of the paper
We are setting a limit on all papers: please no more than 20 pages, preferably less.

Deadlines and procedures
There will be a two-step procedure. Please send one hard copy and the electronic file of the first version to Jindra or Jo at the above address by October 9, 2001. The papers will be divided among the reviewers and you will receive comments as soon as possible.

Return the revised version (hard copy and electronic file) by 10 January 2002, also to Jindra or Jo.

Note that these are absolute deadlines and will be strictly enforced. If you do not meet these deadlines, your paper cannot appear in the volume.

 First version: The editors will scan the article for major weaknesses, suggest improvements, cuts, etc., and check the style sheet (see below). It is thus crucial that you do not send an informal draft, but a copy that approximates the final version as closely as possible. In most cases only minor changes will be necessary; in others, more extensive revisions may be requested. Your article has been accepted on the basis of the abstract; however, in cases where there is a drastic clash in quality between the abstract and the article, the editors reserve the right to reject the article. Such decisions will involve an additional peer reviewer and are not expected to be the rule, in any case.

 Second version: This version should incorporate the reviewers’ suggestions. These will be sent to Jindra or Jo.

Copyright
Copyright for individual contributions remains with individual authors; copyright for the entire collection stays with Michigan Slavic Publications.

Style Sheet
In general, try to imitate the style of a professionally edited journal, such as Linguistic Inquiry, NLLT, Journal of Slavic Linguistics, etc., rather than the style of a term paper, an administrative report, or, for that matter, CLS and similar proceedings. Since our intention is to insure as much uniformity as possible, we ask that you consult earlier FASL volumes. These will serve as good examples to imitate.

PrinterPlease submit a hard copy of your paper in addition to the electronic file. The hard copy should be printed on a laser printer, if at all possible. Look for high resolution laser printers if you can.

Margins
This is perhaps the only unusual thing about this style-sheet. Assuming that you print on the standard US paper-size 8 1/2 by 11 inches, set the margins as follows (in inches): 

• left: 2
• right: 2
• top: 2
• bottom: 2.25.

This will yield a writing area four-and-a-half inches wide and six-and-three-quarter inches high (in centimeters: 11.5 by 16.5), placed in the middle of each sheet. This will be the real-life size of your article as it will appear in the book — there will be no reduction during the production process. We ask that you set these margins when you prepare your first draft, so that we don’t have to guess how long your article is actually going to be.

Font type
Try to use a font from the Times font family. New Century Schoolbook, Baskerville, Palatino and similar fonts are also acceptable; avoid self-made, idiosyncratic, or just poorly designed old fonts. FASL 1 is a combination of Macintosh versions of Times and Times Czech. The latter also has all the Slavic diacritics necessary. 

Font size
Recommended: 12 points main text (9 points footnotes) if you select Times; other fonts may make the same visual impact with 11 points (8 for footnotes). In any case, do not print your article in too small a character size. 

Line spacing
If you can, use a value between single-spaced and one-and-a-half spaced (e.g. 13 pts). Otherwise use single spacing. Use of diacritics, superscripts, and subscripts should not change line spacing. 

Alignment
Paragraphs should be right and left justified throughout, including the bibliography and footnotes. 

Hyphenation
Standard word-processing programs may occasionally produce huge gaps within lines when you justify paragraphs. Try to fix the gaps through moderate hyphenation when you are finished; i.e., hyphenate compounds, clear prefixes and suffixes, etc. Thus: under-stand, some-thing, pre-cede, etc. Use moderate hyphenation also in the bibliography and footnotes if required.

Footnotes
Use footnotes at the bottom of each page following the style of most journals. 

Title
Give the title, your name(s) and affiliation(s). These should be centered, on the first page 

Address
If you wish, place snail-mail and/or e-mail addresses at the very end of the paper, after the bibliography. 

Bibliography
Follow recent issues of Linguistic Inquiry. 

Pagination
Please, do not paginate, but write page number lightly with pencil on the reverse side of each sheet of the hard copy. 

Underlining
Refrain from underlining; use italics where older style sheets recommend underlining (both in the main text and in the bibliography).  

Widow control
Use the "widow control" feature to avoid stranded half-lines overflowing onto the next page; use this feature also in bibliography and footnotes. In indented examples, use "keep together" or similar commands so as not to separate glosses or translations from the actual example. (The two or three lines of an indented example always stay on the same page.) 

Section headings
If you have several levels of section headings, use the same system as Linguistic Inquiry, i.e. boldface for the first level, italics for the second level, italics run into the paragraph for the third level. Again, do not underline. 

Graphs (trees)
You probably cannot avoid them, but note that life becomes much easier once you render simple graphs by bracketed strings (on a single line). 

Jindrich Toman ptydepe@umich.edu
Josephine Dickinson dickinsj@umich.edu 

For further details, with questions or with comments, please contact

Josephine Dickinson, Assistant Editor
Modern Languages Building 3040
812 E. Washington Street
Ann Arbor, MI  48109-1275, U.S.A.
Tel: (734) 764-5355, Fax: (734) 647-2127
E-mail: dickinsj@umich.edu