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Mythlore

A scholarly, peer-reviewed journal devoted to the study of mythopoeic literature


Mythlore Style Sheet

Scholarly articles should be about 5,000 to 10,000 words and will be double-blind peer reviewed by at least one referee.
Notes and Letters may be as short as 500 words and up to 7,000, and are not peer reviewed. Notes and Letters are generally short, of a factual or speculative nature, or express opinions or responses to material in Mythlore, in contrast to scholarly articles.
Full-length reviews should be 1,000 to 7,000 words. Briefly Noted reviews may be as short as 500 words. They are not peer reviewed.
— Submitted works that are not in compliance with this style sheet may be reviewed by the editor but will not be passed on to a referee until corrected.

MLA Style

All in-text citations and your works-cited list should conform to MLA 9 style. See the current MLA Handbook 9th ed. (2021) for complete details.

Works Cited/Bibliography

In MLA style, short citations in the text refer the reader to a bibliography at the end of the work. Any full citations in your text should be replaced with abbreviated citations and moved to your bibliography. Use MLA format (with year at the end rather than after the author) for works cited list. MLA 9th no longer requires the place of publication for most publishers, and has changed the abbreviations used in citing periodical articles. It's best to refer to MLA 9th for specific information, as the examples below are for only the most common usage of each type of entry. The Purdue OWL site for MLA Formatting and Style is also a good resource.

Footnotes

Use footnotes, not endnotes. Use Arabic numerals. In Word, use the "Insert reference" function to insert your footnotes in proper format. In MLA, footnotes expand on a point in the text, rather than providing the citation for something in your text. Citations within footnotes should also be in MLA format, and cited materials should appear in your bibliography.

Additional Mythlore Style Points

Proofreading

Proofreading tips before final submission (you will be expected to correct these yourself if your submission is accepted in spite of not adhering to our style): Style sheet updated 21 July 2023 JBC







Editor of Mythlore

mythlore@mythsoc.org


Guidelines for prospective reviewers: Mythlore Reviewer Guidelines.



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