Dear Colleagues,
St. Petersburg State University invites participants to the the XLVIIth
International Philology Conference, 19-28 March 2018..
The working languages of the conference are Russian and English.
The conference is open to faculty and graduate students of academic and
educational institutions. All participants must attend in person. Each
individual may submit no more than one paper (two may be submitted if the
presenter is listed elsewhere as co-author).
Applications and summaries must be submitted before 25 January 2018 by registering at the following
address: http://conference-spbu.ru/conference/38/. Please note that applications sent via
email and those sent after the registration deadline shall not be considered. A
full list of conference sections may be found via the "Structure" link on the website.
The programme committee will notify participants of their acceptance by 16 February 2018.
A selection of papers will be published as proceedings and submitted for
inclusion in the Web of Science Conference Proceedings Citation Index.
Please note that all travel and accommodation expenses shall be borne by the
participants.
Those who, for some reason, are unable to attend should notify conference
organisers as soon as possible so that the programme may be adjusted
accordingly. A certificate of participation is issued only if a paper included
in the programme has been presented.
The conference will be held at the following address: St. Petersburg State
University, University emb. 11, St. Petersburg, Russia
To obtain additional information, please call +7 (911) 254-22-58 or
send an email to: march.philol.conference@gmail.com.
Submission
Requirements
An application must include the following as entered through the website, each
element in the appropriate field:
1. title (no quotes or all caps),
2. from 5 to 7 keywords, separated by a period and a quote,
3. a summary of between 900 and 1800 characters (including spaces).
After successful
completion, a confirmation email is sent automatically to notify the presenter
that his or her application has been received for consideration.
Summary Guidelines
1. A paper must be addressed to a relevant and clearly stated research problem,
2. The summary must present a complete reflection of the contents of the
paper.
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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