CorditePoetryReview

HouseStyleforWrittenWorks(includesfootnoting,seepp56)
Thisisaguidetoverybasicelementsofstyleandhowtotreatfootnotingforonlinepurposesonly.It isintendedtohelpeditorsandauthorsavoidreinventingmaintainadegreeofconsistencyacross features,reviews,interviews,newspostsandblogpoststhatwepublish.Itistobeappliedto features,interviews,reviews,newsitems,blogposts.

ThisguideisNOTtobeappliedtopoetryandprosepoempublications.

Therewill,ofcourse,betimeswhensomeoftheseconventionsareoverriddenforgoodreason,butif theyreadheredtowhenwriting/editingmostpieces,theyllalsomakethetaskofchecking/proofing easier. Notallpointsareapplicabletoyourpieceasthisisamasterreferenceguide.Pleaseconsultthe editoryouareworkingwithorCorditescopyeditorifyouhavespecificqueries.

**AllwrittenworksthatarenotpoetryorprosepoemsaretobepublishedinUKEnglish.

Abbreviations,Acronyms&Initials

Useafullstopforabbreviations(suchasetc.),butnofullstopforcontractions(suchasMr) Nofullstopsarerequiredinacronyms

Apostrophes

Theonlyinstanceinwhichanapostropheisusedforapluralisinthecolloquialabbreviation ofkilometresindialogue,orinfictionalnarratives,asinIdroveahundredksbeforesunrise. Forpossessives,followwhatyoudsayinspeech.Thismeansthatthetextwillbe inconsistentbutreadnatural:MrJonessarticlebutMrCassisresearch.

BulletpointLists

Whereeachiteminthelistislessthanacompletesentence,theresnoneedtocapitalisethe initialwordorincludeafullstop,exceptforthefinaliteminthelist. Whereeachiteminthelistisacompletesentenceorlonger,theinitialwordshouldbe capitalisedandafullstopincluded.Donotuseasemicoloninlieuofafullstop. Thismeansthatwithinanygivenlistallbulletpointitemsaretreatedconsistently,but differentlistsacrossthetextmayvary

Dashes

Usespacedendashesforparentheticalbreaksandemphasis. Useunspacedendashesfornumbers(1415,193572,190708;e.g,alwaysusetwo numeralsfollowingthedashwhenshowingaspanofyears)andrelevantadjectival compounds:LondonTokyoflight.

Useanunspacedemdashtoindicateabrokenoffword:Thankgoodhebegan. Useaspacedemdashtoindicatetheomissionofafullwordorpartofasentence:Iwasjust abouttosaythat

Usetwoemdashes,withnospaceinbetween,inbibliographiesinlieuofrepeatingthe authorsname.

Dates

Usetheformatday+month+year:7November1999.Onlyuseacommaiftheactualdayis included:Sunday,7November1999. Decadescanbeshownaseither1930s,30sorthirties,aslongastheseareconsistent. Note:noapostropheforthirties.

Ellipses

Whenusedattheendofsentences,anellipsisindicatesthatathoughtorpieceofdialogue trailsoffunfinished,asopposedtobeingbrokenoff,inwhichcaseanemdashisused. Ellipsesconsistofthreedotsonly,withequalspacebetweenthetextandeachofthedots. Forexample...likethis.

Ellipsescanbefollowedbyaquestionmarkorexclamationmark,butnotbyacommaora fullstop.

Endmatter

AllendmatterformatswillbelefttothediscretionoftheindividualCorditeeditorforwhicha pieceiscommissionedaslongasconsistencyisobserved.

Hyphens

Useincompoundadjectives:anuptodateassessment. Useinnumericalcompounds:aonewaystreet. Useinordinalcompounds:afirstclasspoem. Donotusemultiplehyphensinphraseswithnumbers:a46yearoldratherthanafortysix yearold.

Whenproofreading,avoidhavingmorethantwoconsecutivelinesendingwithhyphens.

Italics

Use,withdiscretion,forforeignwordsandphrases.Exceptionsincludebooksinwhichnon Englishwordsareintrinsictothetext(inaworkbyanIndigenousauthor,forexample,words intheirlanguagewouldnotbeitalicised),andwordsthathavebeenincorporatedintodaily Englishuse.Ifitalicisingforeignwords,retainalloriginalaccents.

Usefortitlesofbooks,paintings,sculptures,operas,majorworksofmusic,films,plays, newspapers,magazines,journals,televisionandradioprograms Useforspeciesandgenuselementsofscientificnames:Eucalyptusregnans Useforemphasiswhenneededandwithinreason.

Numbers

Numbersonetotenaregenerallywritteninwords,exceptwhenusedwithmeasurements, currency,percentagesandstreetnumbers.Beyondthat,13,67,241 Forverylargenumbers,useacombinationofnumeralsandwords:13thousand. Usenineteenthcentury,ratherthan19th century,asexample. Showpercentagesthus:15percent. Usewordsratherthanfigurestobeginnewsentences.

QuoteMarksandQuotedMatter

Usesinglequotemarks,withdoublequoteswithinsinglewherenecessary:Ithoughtyou werereadingthecollectioncalledHowl,shesaid. Allquotemarksindialogue(includingbrokenoffsentences)gooutsideanyother punctuation:Igotwokeninthemiddleofthenightbyaburglar,hetoldher. Dialoguebeginswithanuppercase:Ilookedathimandasked,Howcanyouclaimthat? Continuationofdialoguethatissplitbynarrativetakeslowercase:Ifyoudontwanttodo theresearch,hesaid,glancingathissubmissionyoullhavetoleavenow.

Whenthespeakerisidentifiedbeforethedialogue,useeitheracolonoracomma:MrHill said:Idontlikeyourmanner.or MrHillsaid,Idontlikeyourmanner.Butbeconsistent throughoutthemanuscript.

Theplacementofquotemarksforquotedmaterialinnonfictiondependsonhowmuchof theoriginalisbeingquoted.Forshort phrases,thequotemarksgoinsidethepunctuation: Theletterincludedreferencestothingslikeballbreaker,atermIhadntheardsincethe eighties,andstrongwilledsheilas.Whencomplete sentencesarebeingquoted,thequote marksgooutsidethepunctuation:Inhisawardwinningnovelof1980,Homesickness,he

wrote,Acertainworldlinessshowedinthewaytheysauntered.Whenpart of one sentence and all of a subsequent sentence are being quoted,thequotemarksgooutsidethe punctuation:Inhisawardwinningnovelof1980,Homesickness,hewroteaboutpeoplebeing followedbytheirshadows.Acertainworldlinessshowedinthewaytheysauntered.

Time

Retainfullstopsina.m.andp.m.andprecedewithafullspace. Usesixoclockratherthan6oclock,asexample.

Titles(tobereferencedaccordingtoMLAstyle)

Books,paintings,sculptures,operas,majorworksofmusic,films,plays,newspapers, magazines,journals,televisionandradioprogramstakethetitlecasementionedearlier. Chaptersinbooks,songs,poems,exhibitioncatalogues,articlesinnewspapersormagazines, bookletsandpamphletstakequotemarks. Withnewspapers,allwordsthatappearonthepapersmastheadareitalicised,e.g.,The Times,TheEconomist,TheAgeorTheBulletin.Thereareinstanceswherethecontext demandswedroptheitalicisedarticleslikethe,HewasanAgejournalist.

UseofTitleCaseinArticleTitles

Capitaliseallmajorwordsofatitle. Uselowercaseforarticlethe,a,an. Uselowercaseforconjunctionsand,but,for,or,nor. Uselowercaseforallsingle,doubleormultiplewordprepositionsunlesswherestressedor usedadverbiallyoradjectivally,e.gwith,of,until,in,into,dueto,thatof,aswellas. Uselowercasetoandasforsimplicityofgrammaticalfunction. Uselowercasethesecondpartofascientificname,e.g.Thylacinuscynocephalus.

Examples

FourPoemsTranslatedbyGabrielSylvian

ElizabethGralton:TheImmortalMalleyandtheEndofModernity

AnInterviewwithRobertAdamson

Howtoincorporatefootnoteswithinyourtextsothattheyappearaccuratelyonline
CorditePoetryReviewcurrentusesafootnotingplugindesignedforWordPressthatissimpletouse,but strictinitsformattingrequirements Whereverafootnoteisneededinyourresearch,itmustbebeginwithanumber,afullstop,thenaspace precedingit.Allofthismustbewrappedinbrackets[]. Forexample,apoemthatislinkedtoitsonlinesourceandisreferencedcorrectlylookslikethis: Writtenas:
Whatisbranding?Thelyrebirdhascreated thissystem&preachesit. (TheLyrebirdVariation[2.JamesStuart,thelyrebirdvariation,<ahref="http://cordite.org.au/poetry/mulloway/james stuartthelyrebirdvariation/">http://cordite.org.au/poetry/mulloway/jamesstuartthelyrebirdvariation/</a>])

Willdisplayslikethiswithinthewebpage:

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Noteinredtheopeningbracket,therelevantfootnotenumber,thefullstop(period)andthespace beforethereference.Then,theclosingbracketafterthereference.Thissequenceiscriticalforthe footnotetodisplayproperly.Pleasealsonotethatwithinreferences,furtherinstancesof[and] bracketscannotbeused,asthiswillaffectthefinaldisplayonline. Anotherexample Writtenas:

Apoeticregisterbasedonlinguisticeconomyandunderstatementfounditselfdeflected,afterIOftheManyFaces (1960),intobroodingontheconsequencesofMalaysiannationalism.[1.KirpalSingh,PoetryandthePoliticsofHistory: RevisitingEeTiangHong,<em>Asiatic</em>,Volume3,number2,December2009]

Willdisplayslikethiswithinthewebpage:

Withthisdisplayingatthebottomofthewebpage:

Eachusageofafootnoterequiresasequentiallyincreasingnumber.Thisistosaythatthroughoutyour research [1.enterfootnotehere] [2.enterfootnotehere] [3.enterfootnotehere] [4.enterfootnotehere] [43.enterfootnotehere] willlikelyaccumulate. Whereyouneedtoitalicisewithinafootnote,pleasewrapthewordsinthesetags: <em>titletitle</em> Whereyouneedtoboldwithinafootnote,pleasewrapthewordsinthesetags: <b>titletitle</b> Whereyouneedtoincludealinkwithinafootnote,pleasewrapthetitleinthesetags: <ahref="http://cordite.org.au/poetry">wordswords</a>