Deep South :: The English Department Ezine, Otago University

Submissions

Check back on the 1st of April for information on the 2010 submission period. Please do not submit material until then.

Deep South welcomes critical essays in the Humanities and Arts, extracts from work in progress, reviews, short stories, poems, and work by artists and photographers. We would encourage graduate students in particular to submit work to us, but submissions from anyone are welcome.

Email submissions are encouraged. Submissions should be made in the form of an attachment, preferably a Word file. If you are submitting more than one text, please collect them together into one Word file; do not send a different file for each piece. Please do not submit more than five pieces of work at any one time.

You can also submit hard copies to the below address:

Deep South
Department of English
University of Otago
P.O. Box 56
Dunedin
New Zealand

Notes for contributors

Please do not submit more than five pieces of work at any one time.

Graphics which are to be included with the document should be in GIF format. If they are in a different format we will attempt to convert them, but the difficulty of conversion will be taken into account when we decide on which papers will be selected for publication.

Photographs and other illustrative material, in GIF format, should be submitted separately from the typescript, with a note indicating appropriate position in the text.

Notes and references, which should be kept to a minimum, are to be typed and attached to the main body of the paper. They should not appear at the foot of individual pages. Please do not use smart quotes. Do not use footnotes or endnotes. Include the notes in the body of the paper. Converting from various footnote and endnote formats to HTML is extremely time consuming. Clearly mark in your paper where a note is located (e.g. using [1] ) and at the end of the paper include the note. For example:

Mission Earth

[1]

[1] New Era Publications UK Ltd, 1987.

If you wish your manuscript or disk to be returned, please include return postage, and a self addressed envelope.

The preferred style for citations of written sources follows current MLA conventions. However, any of the recognised citation forms is acceptable, as long as you are consistent.

HTML formatting

If you know HTML it would be helpful if you formatted your work. We are not using complex markup. Most of the papers submitted to Deep South are simple text articles which do not need a lot of layout so doing your own markup is not impossible. To see examples of Deep South's tagged text use the "View Source" option on the pull-down menu of your browser while viewing a Deep South article.

Alternatively you might like to look at add-on products for your favourite word processor to let you generate the HTML. We know of WordPerfect Internet Publisher and Internet Assistant for Microsoft Word. Both are free and available via the net. There are certainly others.