Author Guidelines
General guidelines
Submissions should be between approximately 7,000 and 10,000 words. Please keep in mind that this is a general, and somewhat flexible, guideline—pieces shorter than 7,000 words will be considered, as will pieces not far beyond the 10,000 word guideline.
Please also note that the boundaries between our different sections are somewhat porous and fluid. There are certainly articles which could also count as teaching and learning pieces, essays which could also count as dialogues, etc. Please submit your work to the section into which you feel it best fits, but do not worry about it being confined or limited to that section. If we feel that a piece which you submit as an essay would be a better fit as an article, etc., we will be sure to be in touch with you.
And if you have any questions about our submission guidelines or our review process, please be in touch with us at info@thirdspace.ca.
Submission parameters
For word counts and other specific policies for each of our submission categories, please see our Section Policies.
Punctuation
Lists of more than two items have a comma after each item: one, two, and three.
Symbols
% and & are acceptable to use.
Headline style for titles
Capitalize all interior words except articles (a, an, the), coordinate conjunctions (and, but, for, nor, as), and prepositions, regardless of length (against, between, during, toward).
Spelling
Canadian English is a mix of UK and US spellings, and Microsoft’s spell-checker doesn’t get it right: thus, ‘favour’ and ‘neighbour’ and ‘emphasize’ and ‘realize.’ Using the Canadian or UK English setting in Word will do a lot of the work, except for the ‘z’. Please make sure your document conforms to this style; the standard we use is the Canadian Oxford Dictionary.
Quotations
Use full (“ ”) quotes for quotations, including titles of articles; single (‘ ’) quotes for contested, proposed, or otherwise highlighted terms. All punctuation should be placed inside quotation marks.
When cutting material from a quotation, use "[â¦]" rather than plain "â¦" and punctuate normally.
Long/block quote quotations (over 40 words) should be indented on both sides, 11pt font, single spaced. Do not use quotation marks.
Citing your sources
All citations should be ‘in-line,’ using simply the author’s last name and a page number in parentheses at the end of the sentence. This includes both direct quotations and paraphrased ideas. Periods should go after the citation - like this (Author last name 1). The exception is the final period in a long/block quote, which comes before the parentheses - like this. (Author last name 2)
o Author with one publication cited in paper: either name the author in the text or include the author’s last name in parentheses:
As a result, Burnham argues, “‘America’ as a political, cultural and national category has in large part been articulated through the bodies, especially the reproducing bodies, of women” (171).
In “body horror” films “the monstrous threat is not simply external but erupts from within the human body, and so challenges the distinction between self and other, inside and outside” (Jancovich 6).
o Author with more than one publication cited in paper: either name the author (and publication) in the text or give the author and a short title for the publication in parentheses, or some combination that gives the author, title, and page in the same sentence:
As Grosz puts it in Volatile Bodies, for corporeal feminists, “the body can be seen as the crucial term, the site of contestation, in a series of economic, political, sexual and intellectual struggles” (19).
As Grosz puts it, for corporeal feminists, “the body can be seen as the crucial term, the site of contestation, in a series of economic, political, sexual and intellectual struggles” (Volatile Bodies 19).
For corporeal feminists, “the body can be seen as the crucial term, the site of contestation, in a series of economic, political, sexual and intellectual struggles” (Grosz, Volatile Bodies 19).
o Quotation of electronic source: give the paragraph number if it is not paginated:
Maria Buszek notes: “many of us third wavers just made feminism up as we went along, fashioning ourselves after the models that best resembled our cursory ideas about the women’s movement” (para.2).
o Quotation of a source within another source: give the author of the quote (in text or in parentheses) and note the source you found it in, in parentheses:
Similarly, according to Lauren Berlant, the emergence of the foetus via ultrasound relegates the maternal body to the “fuzzy, unfocussed part of the picture, throwing her body into a suspension of meaning and value” (qtd. in Michaels 119).
Footnote citations
Footnotes should be kept to a minimum, and be utilized only for additional/parenthetical information that adds value to the discussion but does not have a clear space in the body of the text, for stylistic considerations or maintaining the flow of an argument.
Quotations inside footnotes from works in the Works Cited list should be treated as above, with in-line citation of page numbers and inclusion of the full citation in the Works Cited list. Give a title when introducing a new text in a footnote.
1 In Bodies that Matter, Judith Butler talks about disidentification as a productive act of resistance: "disidentification is crucial to the rearticulation of democratic contestation. [â¦] Such collective disidentification can facilitate a reconceptualization of which bodies matter, and which bodies are yet to emerge as critical matters of concern" (4).
If a citation is for reference purposes only and is not used elsewhere in the body of the paper, give the full citation in the footnote itself, following this style. Do not include in the Works Cited list.
2 The most thorough work on the burden of proof placed on black women and the strategies they employed to navigate the "politics of respectability" in this time period is that of Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women's Movement in the Black Baptist Church, 1880-1920 (Harvard University Press, 1993).
3 The germinative work on this can be found in Joan W. Scott, "Gender: a Useful Category of Historical Analysis" The American Historical Review vol. 91, no. 5. (December 1986): 1053-1075.
Works cited list (bibliography)
All titles of articles or other portions of works should use double quotation marks (“x”) not single (‘x’). Titles and subtitles should be capitalized. Full names of presses should be used (i.e. not UP - use University Press). Location of publication (i.e. New York) is acceptable to include but not mandatory. All titles of books should be in italics, not underlined.
o Books & monographs
Kristeva, Julia. Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. New York: Columbia University Press, 1982.
o Translated works
Irigaray, Luce. Speculum of the Other Woman. Gillian C. Gill, trans. 1985. New York: Cornell University Press, 1974.
o Journal article
Goslinga-Roy, Gillian. “Body Boundaries, Fiction of the Female Self: An Ethnographic Perspective on Power, Feminism, and the Reproductive Technologies.” Feminist Studies 26/1 (Spring 2000): 113-140.
o Article in an edited collection
Klein, R. “Genetic and Reproductive Engineering – The Global View.” In Jocelyn A Scutt, ed. The Baby Machine: The Commercialization of Motherhood. Carlton: McCulloch Publishing Ltd, 1988. 235-73.
o Electronic citations
Please note that newspaper and journal articles accessed through online databases should not include the URL of the database; instead cite the article normally as if it was on paper (including page numbers). News and journal articles found in web-only formats (not in a database) should be cited as per our electronic citation guidelines below.
Basic:
Author’s Last Name, First Name. “Title of Work.” In “Title of Complete Work” or Title of Site, as appropriate. (Date of posting, if available.) [internet address]. (Date of your viewing).
Website:
The Guerrilla Girls. The Official Site of the Guerrilla Girls: Fighting Discrimination with Facts, Humor and Fake Fur Since 1985. [http://www.guerrillagirls.com/]. (16 Sept 2003).
Blog:
Smith, Keri. "Collage revolution." Wish Jar Journal.
Feb 3 2005. [http://www.kerismith.com/blog/]. (5 Feb 2005).
Online periodical (unpaginated):
Matthews, Shanelle. “ The B Word.” Said It 4/2 (2006). [http://saidit.org/archives/jun06/article4.html]. (2 Aug 2006).
Periodical with page numbers (including article databases) or using our PDF:
Durden, Michelle. “Not Just a Leg Show: Gayness and Male Homoeroticism in Burlesque, 1868 to 1877.” thirdspace 3/2 (March 2004): 8-26. [http://www.thirdspace.ca/articles/3_2_durden.htm]. (5 Feb 2005).
