Text Processor & File
The file should be in the following format: Microsoft Word for PC or Macintosh, but any IBM-compatible format (Word, Word Perfect or Lotus Word) is preferred. Files in postscript (ps) or portable document format (pdf) will not be accepted.

Number of pages
limit: 15 pages (including bibliography)

Fonts
Please use fonts of the "Times" font family for Latin and Cyrillic text (Times, Times New Roman, and their Cyrillic equivalents). If you cannot avoid using special fonts (special Cyrillic characters, tree drawing, etc.), let us have copies of them. Copy the fonts on the diskette with the text file that you will send us. In this case, we would like to ask you to indicate the special fonts you used on the label of the diskette.

Font size and line spacing
main text: 12-point characters / line spacing: 14 point
footnotes: 10-point characters / line spacing: 12 point

Margins
A4-size (21 cm x 29.7 cm) paper will be used for the publication.
Margins: 2.5 cm (top, bottom, left, right)
If you have no A4-size paper available and / or cannot adapt your printer for this paper size, we will accept print-outs and files made for US letter paper, which is 21.6 x 27.9 cm. In this case, you will have to use the following margins:
top: 1.6 cm, bottom: 1.6 cm, left: 2.5 cm, right: 3.1 cm

Footnotes
Footnotes should be used only for further explanations, not for references to literature (include those references in the main text). The footnote number is a 8-point superscript. The footnote text must appear at the bottom of the page, not at the end of the document.

Headings
italic, preceded by one blank line, 12-point characters, and followed by one blank line, 6-point characters

Name & affiliation
The very first line contains your name and affiliation in 12-point plain characters. It is followed by a blank line and the title.

Title of the paper
14-point characters, bold, preceded and followed by one blank line

Headers, Footers, Page numbers
Do not insert headers, footers, and page numbers. Write the page number manually in pencil on the reverse side of each sheet.

Object-language expressions
Put object-language expressions in italics. Give a gloss if the language you write your paper in is not the language described.

Emphasizing
Emphasize text by italicising. If some part of an object-language expression must be emphasized, underline it.

Transliteration
Transliterate examples and object-language expressions from Slavic languages that use Cyrillic characters if the language you write your paper in is English, German, or a Slavic language written in Latin characters.

Use the following Transliteration tables:

Examples
Object-language examples that you separate from the text should be preceded and followed by one blank line. Number examples. If the language your paper is written in is not the one you describe, add glosses (word-for-word translations plus the necessary grammatical information) as well as translations. This should prove helpful for general linguists that do not read Slavic.

If you do not cope with (some of) the formats, try to reduce your own formats to an absolute minimum so that we will be spared too much reformatting.