MACLAS ESSAYS

We, the editors, invite the submission of papers presented at the 2010 Conference of the Middle Atlantic Council on Latin American Studies in Baltimore, MD March 26-27, 2010, for consideration for Volume XXII of Latin American Essays, MACLAS.  The editors will also consider for publication select papers and book reviews that may not have been presented at the annual meeting, but that do reflect this year’s conference theme, “Continuing Struggles for Independence and Justice.”  All contributors to the journal must be members in good standing.  Deadline for submission is September 1, 2010.
Please follow these guidelines:
•    Double - space throughout your article and endnotes.
•    Put your name, centered, and with only first letters capitalized, below the title of the article, which should appear all in caps and centered on the page. Put the name of your institution, centered below your name and with only the first letters capitalized.
•    Place titles of books and journals in italics.
•    To the degree possible, submit to us a camera - ready copy of your article.
•    Do not put words in bold or use different font sizes. The managing editor will boldface appropriate type.
•    If possible, type your article in 12 point Arial. If you have questions about format, consult previous issues of MACLAS: Latin American Essays.

Languages of submission include English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French.
If you provide translations of phrases or sentences, set them off within parentheses.
Indent quotations of more than ten lines of prose and three lines of verse.
Shorter quotations should be run into the text and placed within quotation marks.
Contributors should follow the MLA format outlined in The MLA Hand­book for Writers of Research Papers. Social science contributors should use in-text citation format customary to the discipline.  If your discipline customarily employs a different note style, kindly make the MACLAS editors aware of the style format you are following.

Proofread before submission. THE EDITORS CUSTOMARILY REJECT ARTICLES THAT ARE NOT SUBMITTED IN A PROFESSIONAL FORMAT WITH CORRECT GRAMMAR AND SPELLING. WE EXPECT TO RECEIVE YOUR FINAL COPY, NOT A "WORKING" PAPER.
Send one hard copy and one diskette (or email attachment- marx@muhlenberg.edu) in a Word File (.doc) or a Rich Text File (.rtf) by September 1 to Joan Marx, Dept. of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, 2400 Chew St., Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA 18104.

Joan Marx, Muhlenberg College, Managing Editor
María Mercedes Andrade, CUNY, Baruch College, Associate Editor
John Stolle-McAllister, University of Maryland, Associate Editor
Brian Turner, Randolph-Macon College, Associate Editor

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