Submission Guidelines

Addresses:

Editors' Address:

Send correspondence or submissions to

pmc@uci.edu

Snail Mail:

Claire Chantell

Managing Editor/Postmodern Culture

University of Virginia

English Department

P O Box 400121-4121

Charlottesville, VA 22904-4121

The current MLA format is required for documentation in essays; please use a Works Cited page.

PMC does not have a specific word length requirement, but essays appearing in the journal tend to be between 6,000 and 11,000 words.

PMC ASCII Conventions:

If you submit an essay in ASCII format, we ask that you follow the conventions below with regard to special characters and emphasis:

*bold* (emphasis)

%italics% (foreign language)

_underline_ (titles)

^superscript^ (endnote numbers within the text)

[1], [2], etc. (paragraph numbers)

Multi-Media Elements:

Postmodern Culture can publish still images, sound, animations, and full-motion video as well as text. For the time being, the following formatting restrictions should be observed:

In-line images (on the page) must be in .jpg or .gif formats, and must be the size at which you want them to display, with the maximum allowable width being 420 pixels. In special situations, PMC may be able to utilize wider images or other image formats such as the dejavu plugin. HTML markup should indicate the placement of such images, using the <img> tag and the exact filename of the image file.

Sound files can be in .au, .wav, Real Audio, or Quicktime formats. As with image files, HTML markup should indicate placement of the audio clip, using the exact filename.

Video should be in MPEG or Quicktime formats. As above, indicate placement of the video clip in the HTML markup of the document to which it is attached.

Bear in mind that your document still needs to be intelligible without the multi-media elements, since many of our readers will not be able to see these elements. Also, do remember that you must have appropriate permissions in order to use photographs, drawings, sound, or video that was originally produced by someone other than you: the same intellectual property rules apply to the Web as apply in print.

PMC's Implementation of HTML:

Although HTML does not have many tags that describe content, we do use the ones that exist: <cite>, <blockquote>, <dfn>, <address>, etc.

Emphasis (rarely used) should be tagged <em>like this</em>

Foreign language should be tagged <em>like this</em>

Paragraphs and the text of endnotes should be tagged with <li>, as items in an <ol> list. Start a new <ol> list for notes, and use a <dl> list for works cited.

Note numbers in the text should be tagged as follows:

<a name="ref1" href="#foot1">[1]</a>
(in note number two, "ref2" and "#foot2" would be substituted for "ref1" and "#foot1", etc.)

The text of endnotes should be tagged as follows:

<p><a name="foot1" href="#ref1">1</a>
(in note number two, "foot2" and "#ref2" would be substituted for "foot1" and "#ref1", etc.)

For PMC-specific examples, use the "Page Source" (Netscape) or "Source" (IE) option on the pull-down View menu while viewing any PMC article from January, 1994 or later.

For general information on HTML, see A Beginner's Guide to HTML

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