Postmodern Culture
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Addresses:
Critical essays, reviews, and notices may be submitted by electronic mail
(as an attached word processing document, if possible), anonymous ftp, or
snail-mail. Please note that PMC is no longer accepting unsolicited works
of fiction or poetry.
Editors' Address:
- Send correspondence or submissions to
pmc@uci.edu
Anonymous ftp:
- [First, make sure you are in the local
directory that contains the file(s) you want to transfer...]
- ftp
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- Password: [type your email address here; hit the enter key]
- cd submission/pmc
- [If you are transferring image or word-processor
files, type "bin" and hit the enter key at this point]
- put [filename]
- quit
- (If you submit by ftp, please notify the editors by
e-mail. Otherwise they may not know how to reach you regarding your
submitted essay.)
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Snail Mail:
- PMC / IATH
- University of Virginia
- 319 Alderman Library
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Author's Guide:
Electronic submissions may be in plain ASCII, ASCII with HTML tags,
Microsoft Word, or Wordperfect. Always indicate the the program and
operating system used (e.g., MSWord for Macintosh). Hard copy should be
accompanied by a disk, if at all possible. All else being equal, PMC
prefers to receive email attachments in MSWord or WordPerfect for Windows
format. We can, however, handle other formats with no difficulty.
The current MLA format is recommended for
documentation in essays.
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.)
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