1) Scholarly articles in the length of 6000-7000 words are invited in comparative literature, cultural studies, comparative cultural studies, and communication and media studies. These fields include areas of study such as literary, critical, and culture theory and methods / comparative literary history / comparative cultural studies / cultural studies / communication and media studies / the comparison of primary texts across languages and cultures / translation studies / marginalities in comparison / diaspora, exile, migrant, and ethnic minority writing / feminist theory and criticism / gay/lesbian writing / comparative popular culture / film and other media and literature / lesser-known literatures in a comparative context / cross-disciplinary studies where literary texts and literary problems are examined with the use of sociological, economic, psychological, historical, etc., frameworks and methods / the history of publishing, the book, and writing / audience studies incl. readership / pedagogy and culture incl. literature / studies on new trends in the study of literature and culture / and the introduction of new works and authors in a comparative context. Please see also Aims and Objectives <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/aims.html> and Procedures of Publication <http://clcwebjournal.lib.purdue.edu/proced1.html> of CLCWeb.
    2) Contributions are accepted by e-mail only to the editor, Steven Tötösy at <clcweb@purdue.edu>.
    3) Authors of contributions accepted for publication in the journal are encouraged to explore and to implement hyperlinks to books, articles, and other sites of interest (including such as publishers' web sites) and input the name of the item with the URL of it in prantheses in the main text as well as in the works cited of the paper, as required (CLCWeb activates the hyperlink when uploading the text to the server).
    4) Authors of articles and book review articles submit an abstract of 200 words (placed on the page of the table of contents page of the issue) as well as an author's profile of 200 words (placed with the article).
    5) Publication of accepted material occurs upon official notification by the editor, normally in the next available issue of the journal and following the usual process of evaluation by peer-review, editing, formatting, etc. Contributors receive proofs of their material via e-mail in an attachment before publication and/or they have access to their work prior to official publication in the appropriate web page upon notification by the editor.
    6) CLCWeb Style Guide
    6.1 Material in CLCWeb is published following recommendations by the MLA: Modern Language Association of America.
    6.2 Papers are published with the author's first name (in bold), the author's surname (in CAPS and in bold), a paragraph-length biographical detail (if the author has a home page with his/her Curriculum Vitae and list of publications, the URL of the home page follows the name of the author) followed by the title of the paper (in bold); an abstract of the paper appears in the contents page of the issue (in the contents page of the journal issue, the name of the author and the title of the paper are linked to the page of the paper).
    6.3 The text of papers and book review articles is numbered by paragraphs; similar-length paragraphs are encouraged. In both text and sources commas and full stops are inside the quotation mark.
    6.3.1 Spelling in CLCWeb material is consistent whether American (e.g., "center" or "neighbor") or British, Canadian, Australian, etc. (e.g., "centre" or "neighbour"), possessive is "Jones's book contains..."; lists of items are with commas as in "her letters, articles, and books indicate that"; etc.
    6.4 No footnotes or end notes are used in CLCWeb publications; however, in exceptional circumstances such as an acknowledgement of the publication of the same paper elsewhere, a one paragraph text is placed after Note at the and of the paper and before the Works Cited.
    6.5 In the main text of a paper, sources are cited by name of author followed by the title of publication (the year of publication is listed only if the author has more than one publication) and the page number(s) of the source; in quotations of non-English sources the English translation is preferred, followed by the original language text of the quotation (and both sources are listed in the Works Cited).
    6.6 Papers are with a list of Works Cited as follows.
    6.6.1 Sources are in alphabetical order by the author's surname, full first name of author, title of publication, title of name of publication, place of publication, name of publisher (if in book), and year of publication.
    6.6.2 If more than one book or article by the same author, the surname and first name are repeated each time in full.
    6.6.3 Articles in journals or books include full page numbers.
    6.6.4 Journal articles include the number of the volume and the number of the issue in Roman and the year in of publication in brackets.
    6.6.5 Page numbers in hundreds are 112-45 (and not 112-145)
    6.6.6 Titles of journals and books are listed with their subtitles.
    6.6.7 University presses are listed as UP or The U of Michigan P, followed by the year of the publication
    6.6.8 Edited works are listed as Sollors, Werner, ed. Multilingual America: Transnationalism, Ethnicity, and the Languages of American Literature. New York: New York UP, 1998. and Welsch, Wolfgang. "Transculturality: The Changing Form of Cultures Today." The Internationality of National Literatures in Either America: Transfer and Transformation Cases and Problems. Ed. Armin Paul Frank and Helga Essmann. Göttingen: Wallstein, 1999. 287-308.
    6.6.9 If a source has two or more authors or editors, the order of their names is Bederman, Gail, and Catherine Stimpson. Manliness and Civilization: A Cultural History of Gender and Race in the United States, 1880-1917. Chicago: U of Chicago P, 1996.
    6.6.10 In the data of a translated work the full name of the translator is listed, following Trans.; wherever possible, the original work of the translation is also listed.
    6.7 Web sources by hyperlink of primary and secondary sources are encouraged: the web source is linked to in the main text: (on Bertalanffy, see also ISSS: International Society for the System Sciences <http://www.isss.org/>) and the same is listed in the Works Cited with its full bibliographical data as ISSS: International Society for the System Sciences (2001): <http://www.isss.org/>.