Dear colleagues,
St Petersburg State University invites you to participate in the 46th International Philological Conference held on 13-22 March 2017. The following fields of study are supposed to be explored within the framework of the conference:
The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.
Employees and doctoral students of educational and academic institutions are invited to take part in the conference in person. There is no virtual participation option. Each speaker is allowed to register no more than one application (it is however deemed eligible to send one more paper, of which the participant is a co-author).
Applications with abstracts attached will be accepted through 25 January online:
http://conference-spbu.ru/conference/36/. Please note that applications sent via e-mail as well as ones submitted after the deadline will not be considered.
The programme board's decision to include your report into the conference programme will be e-mailed to you until 16 February 2017.
We are planning to publish the conference proceedings. They will comprise papers selected by the programme board. The proceedings will be indexed by the Russian Science Citation Index. An application to index the proceedings in the Conference Proceedings Citation Index (Web of Science) will also be submitted.
Please note that it is the sending party that bears all travel expenses connected with the fares and accommodation.
The conference will take place at the following location: St Petersburg State University Faculty of Philology, 11 Universitetskaya Naberezhnaya, St Petersburg, Russia. For further information please call the conference organisers at +7 911 254 22 58 or e-mail march.philol.conference@gmail.com.
Paper requirementsYour application must include the following items:
1. the paper titles (entered into a particular window when submitting the application; no quotation marks required);
2. key words (from 5 to 7; provided in the 'abstract' field);
3. a brief outline of the report (from 900 to 1800 characters with spaces; provided in a particular window when submitting the application).
Brief outline requirements:1. Your paper must be devoted to a clearly formulated topic of current interest.
2. The brief outline must fully reveal the contents of the paper.
3. The brief outline must be provided in form of a coherent text.
Brief outline requirements: formatting
1. Names
— when mentioned for the first time, a name (patronymic) is given
in initial letters with the surname; when mentioned further, only the surname
is given (in case no people sharing the same name are mentioned in the
outline);
— initials are separated from each other and from the surname by
non-breaking spaces;
— if information about a person's life years must be included into
the text, it is given at first reference in round brackets to the right of
the name, years are separated by an en dash without spaces; e. g.:
F. F. Fortunatov (1848–1914);
— when referring to non-Russian authors for the first time, the
original form of the surname is given in round brackets: (1911–1978, Smith) or
(1787–1864, Караџић).
2. Titles
— names of works are given in double quotes (" ").
3. Quotations
and bibliography
— references to other research within the framework of a brief
outline is a discretionary requirement;
— the bibliography text is included into the overall volume of the
outline (from 900 to 1800 characters with spaces);
— the bibliography must be placed in the end of the outline and include only the works referred to;
— the bibliography items must be listed alphabetically: works
written in Russian must be listed first, followed by works in other languages;
— references to works included into the bibliography
must be given in paper in square brackets with the surname of the author specified:
[Author]; if several works of the same author are referred to, the publication
year of this particular work is added: [Author, 1963]; if the author published
several works in the same year, a letter corresponding to the alphabetic
priority of such works in the bibliography is specified right after the year
[Author, 1963a]; if a particular fragment of the work is referred to, the
number of the page is specified:
[Author, 1963, p. 25].
4. Examples
of bibliography arrangement
— Author A. B. Work title. Place of publication: Publishing house,
year. Number of pages. (monograph).
— Author A. B. Selected works / Editor S. D. (ed.).
Place of publication: Publishing house, year. Number of pages.
— Author A. B. Chapter title // Publication title. Place of
publication: Publishing house, year. Chapter pages.
— Author A. B. Article title // Title of the periodical. No (or
volume, issue). Year. Pages of the article.
— Author A. B. Work title // E-source title. URL (Accessed date:
DD.MM.YYYY).
5. Intratextual
emphasis
— all language examples must be given in italics;
— the meaning of the emphasised language examples
must be given in single quotes (‘ ’);
— all semantic emphases must be bold-faced;
— text underlining is not permitted.
6. Punctuation
marks
— em dash is used when required, except for an interval between
figures;
— double quotes are used when required.
7. Illustrations
and tables
— illustrations, schemes, tables and charts are not permitted in
the paper.
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