Brecht Yearbook Style Sheet

The Brecht Yearbook accepts submissions in either English or German. All submissions must be made in hard copy; electronic submissions are accepted, but they must be accompanied by a hard copy. Submissions in English should use American spelling conventions; submissions in German should use the new spelling conventions. All submissions should include Arabic-numbered footnotes. All submissions should have double linespacing. Type-size should be 12-point. There should be no empty line between paragraphs, and the first line of every paragraph should be indented. Submissions should not be longer than twenty-five pages, including footnotes, or shorter than ten pages, including footnotes. For submissions in English and in German the following style is preferred:

Quotations:

Quotes under three lines should be in double quotation marks with regular linespacing (not set off from the text). Quotes longer than three lines should be single-spaced and set off from the rest of the text through block indentation of one inch (2 cm.). With the exception of colons and semicolons, all quotations should include punctuation inside the quotation marks, e.g.:

"Please include punctuation marks inside the quotation marks," he said. [NOT: "Please include punctuation marks outside the quotation marks", he said.]

Quotations within quotations should be indicated by single quotation marks within the double quotation marks (e.g. "I told him, 'I don't think so.'"), etc.

Words left out of a quotation should be indicated by an ellipsis, three periods spaced directly after each other, like this: …, without brackets or extra spaces. Explanations within quotations that are not part of the original quotation should be in square brackets, like this: [my explanation]; it is not necessary to include your initials after such explanations. If you wish to emphasize something in a quotation that was not emphasized in the original, please indicate that the emphasis is yours in brackets or in a footnote. Footnote numbers should be in superscript, and should be placed after the quotation's punctuation at the very end of the sentence. If you footnote something other than a quotation, please try to place the footnote at the end of a sentence, if at all possible.

References to Works

All book-length titles should be italicized, e.g. Brecht-Chronik. All short stories and articles that are not book-length should be placed in quotation marks, e.g. "Der Augsburger Kreidekreis." All plays, including all short plays should be italicized, e.g. Das Leben des Galilei and Die Maßnahme.

Citations:

The general style of footnote citation of books in the Brecht Yearbook is modelled below with appropriate punctuation and parentheses: include author's first and family name, title, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, and page number(s). German contributors should be particularly careful to include the publisher, since this information is frequently left out of citations in German. Here is an example of the preferred style for a book reference:

Werner Hecht, Brecht-Chronik (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1998), S. 18.

For references to an article in an anthology of essays, this is the preferred style:

Friedrich Dieckmann, "Brechts Utopia. Exkurs über das Saturnische," in Friedrich Dieckmann, Hrsg., Hilfsmittel wider die alternde Zeit (Leipzig/Weimar: Gustav Kiepenheuer, 1990), S. 135-177; hier, S. 153.

Citations of articles, as above, should include the entire page range of the article as well as the specific page of the citation. Submissions in English should include a colon between a book's main title and subtitle, if there is one; in English, use pp. & p. instead of S. to indicated page numbers. Submissions in German may use a period between main title and subtitle. Citations from journals follow the same general style:

James Pettifer, "Against the Stream: Kuhle Wampe," Screen 15.2 (Summer 1974): pp. 49-64, here p. 52.

In the above citation, "15" refers to the volume number and "2" to the issue number, i.e. issue number two of the fifteenth volume of Screen.

Citations from the Berliner und Frankfurter Ausgabe of Brecht's works should, after the first full reference, be labeled BFA; the Yearbook editor prefers this style to GBA, which is sometimes also used.

For references to the same work, use Ibid (English) or Ebd. (German) when it refers to immediately prior title; for a reference to a title cited earlier, use a short reference including only author's last name, (short) title, and page number. Do NOT include a bibliography or list of works cited; this should be clear from the information in the footnotes.

Abstracts

All articles submitted should be accompanied by brief abstracts (160 words maximum) in both English and German, including a title in the language that the article is not written in. (For instance in Yearbook 27 the article "Through the Lense of Heiner Müller" by Jonathan Kalb, which is in English, is preceded by abstracts in German and English and a German-language title: "Durch die Linse Heiner Müllers.")

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