Information for SEEJ Contributors

TRANSLITERATION
When using transliteration please follow the LC system, except for papers in linguistics and pedagogy, where the international system is appropriate (see transliteration charts published regularly in the Journal). In shorter quotes, please use transliteration instead of Cyrillic, since this broadens the potential readership of the journal. However, for poetry, block quotations, and when a point can be better made by reference to the Cyrillic, Cyrillic should be used. When transliterating the Cyrillic hard and soft signs, please use straight quotes ('), not curly quotes (’).

1. Anglicized words such as “ruble,” “kopek,” “kolkhoz,” “glasnost” should be used except
in linguistic or directly quoted Cyrillic text, in which case the words are to be transliterated according
to the transliteration tables in the journal.
2. All Slavic names of real people, living or dead, must be transliterated according to one of
the above tables (e.g., Gor'kii, Ol'ga, etc.).
3. Slavic names of fictional characters may be Anglicized as in commonly found English
translations (e.g., Olga, Lensky, Fyodor, etc.), provided that they are written consistently throughout the article.
4. Bibliographical references should contain names as they are spelled on the original
sources quoted, and, if necessary, transliterated according to one of the tables referenced in the journal.
5. Geographical names with Anglicized spellings should be mentioned using their common
appellation; e.g.: Yalta, Moscow, St. Petersburg, Kiev, etc. Those foreign names which appear
in bibliographic references should be transliterated from the original.

TRANSLATION
Whenever possible, quotations should be given in English translation. All non-English quotations must be provided with an English translation. However, secondary literature coming from a non-English-language source should be quoted in English translation only, unless there is some specific need for quoting the original.

A translation (and conversely the original wording within an English translation) that is provided for a sentence or paragraph should be set off in parentheses after the original (or conversely after the translation)—for example, "Kakoi durak!” (“What a fool!”) (Ivanov 15). If a single word or phrase within the foreign-language quotation is translated, that translation should appear italicized in square brackets inside the quotation marks, thus: "What a fool [durak]!" (Ivanov 15). If the original is given as a block quote, then the translation should also be set as a block quote below it, but the parentheses should be omitted. Reference information for the original should be attached to the original quote, and a source for the translation should be attached to the translation if the translator is not the author of the article. Repeated words or short phrases in a foreign language should be italicized and translated on first occurrence and italicized without quotation mark thereafter—e.g.: bulochnaia-konditerskaia (bakery-patisserie), and bulochnaia-konditerskaia thereafter; likewise: poshlost' (approximately ‘kitsch’) and poshlost' thereafter.

REFERENCES (formerly Works Cited)
All works mentioned in the article, whether they are quoted from or not, should be listed under "REFERENCES" alphabetically by author or editor (as applicable) in a section at the end of the document with full bibliographical information following the basic MLA style (multiple works by the same author should be listed chronologically). Please provide a state code for all but the most major US cities, e.g., Bloomington, IN: Slavica. Indigenous spelling of city names is preferred: Moskva, Wien. American publisher citations should be abbreviated to, e.g., U of California P, Yale UP.

CITATIONS
In the text, citations should follow the basic MLA style and be as brief as possible, supplying only as much information as necessary to locate the work and page using the REFERENCES section, e.g., (Smith 45, 67), (Pushkin 9: 25), or for a general reference (Smith), or perhaps nothing if Smith is already named in the text and there is only one entry for Smith in the REFERENCES section. For multiple works by the same author, use author, abbreviated title, and page number—e.g., (Smith, “Allusions” 23) or (Tolstoi, Kazaki 75). If there are several works by an author in the same year, again use abbreviated titles. Multiple references within a single set of parentheses can be separated by commas, unless commas are already used within a single reference—e.g., (Smith, Jones, Pushkin), but (Smith, “Conjugation” 23; Jones; Pushkin) or (Smith, Jones, and Davis [i.e., three co-authors]; Pushkin).

References to major canonical texts, e.g. Eugene Onegin, Crime and Punishment, Dante's The Divine Comedy, may be given by chapter, stanza, etc., to facilitate the use of various editions, but at least one edition of the work should always be given in the references.

Sample References:

• Jackson, Robert L. "Chekhov's 'The Student'." Reading Chekhov's Text. Ed. Robert L. Jackson. Evanston, IL: Northwestern UP, 1993. 127-33.
• Pushkin, A. S. Polnoe sobranie sochinenii v desiati tomakh. Moskva: ANSSSR, 1956-63.
• Smith, John. "Pocahontas in Russian Literature," Slavic Review 34.1 (1977): 35-49.
• Smith, John, Martha Jones and Ivan Ivanov. "The Last of the Slavic Mohicans." Slavic & East European Journal 55.3 (1999): 102-31.