MIND
Notes for Contributors
1. Headings
Articles and discussions should be clearly headed on the first page with the title of
the piece. No other headers should be included.
Reviews should be headed by the book title ( underlined), followed by the name(s)
of the author(s) , place of publication, publisher, year, and number of pages , thus:
Rem nants of Meaning , by Stephen Schiffer. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1987. Pp.
xi + 303.
2. Citation of references
All wor ks cited should be listed at the end of the article (in t he st yle detailed
below in §2), and int ernal references to them should nor mally be by author and
date.
Reference infor mation for non-displayed quotations should be enclosed in
parentheses within the relevant sentence (inside the full stop closing the sentenc e,
if it is gi ven at the end). For example: Quine clai ms that ‘the points of
condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things gli mpsed, not
gli mpses’ (Quine 1960 , p. 1).
Reference infor mation for displayed quotations should follow the quoted te xt in
parentheses, without ter minal punctuation.
Entification begins at ar m’s lengt h; the points of condensation i n
the primordial conceptual scheme are things gli mpsed, not
gli mpses. In this there is little cause for wonder. Each of us learns
his language from other people, through the observable mouthing of
words under conspicuously intersubj ective circumstances. (Quine
1960, p. 1)
For further details on short and l onger quotations, see §§ 4 and 5 below.
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3. Sample references section
This is a sample only, though it would help if you could conform as closel y
as possible to this. The watchword, however, is consistency.
References
Dummett, Michael 1992, ‘The Metaphysics of Verificationism’, in L.E. Hahn (ed.),
The Philosophy of A.J. Ayer (La Salle, Ill.: Open Court)
Heidegger, Martin 1993, ‘On the Essence of Truth’, trans. John Sallis, in his Basic
Writings From Being and Time (1972) to The Task of Thinki ng (1964),
revised edn, ed. Davi d Farrell Krell (London: Routledge)
Putnam, Hilar y 1981, Reason, Truth and History (Cambri dge: Cambridge
Uni versity Press )
Sorensen, Roy 2006 , ‘Vagueness’ , in Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
<http://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2008/ entries/vagueness/>
Williams, Bernard 1973a, ‘ Imagination and the Self’, reprinted in his Problems of
the Self: Philosophical Papers 1956 – 1972 (Cambridge: Cambridge
Uni versity Press)
——1973b, ‘ Deciding to Believe’, repri nted in his Problems of the Self:
Philosophical Papers 1956 – 1972 ( Cambridge: Cambridge Uni versity Press)
——2006, Ethics and t he Limits of Philosophy (London: Routledge)
Wright, Crispin 1982, ‘Strict Finitism’, in Synthese 51
4. Quotation marks
Please use ‘smart’ quotation mar ks instead of straig ht quotation mar ks. Single
quotation mar ks shoul d be used in all cases , including mentioning and the use of
‘scare quotes’, except for quoted passages within short quotat ions (i.e. those
quotations enclosed within single quotation mar ks).
In these cases double
quotation mar ks should be used, as in the foll owing example: Bernard Williams
refers to ‘the obser vat ion under standard conditions of what the Oxford philosopher
J.L. Austin used to call “middle -si zed dr y goods”’ (Williams 2006, p. 134).
Closing quotation marks are placed before commas, full stops, e tc. as follows:
‘London’, ‘is pretty’, and ‘not’.
5. Short quoted passages
Short quotations (up to around thirty words in length) may appear in the body of
your text. The reference infor mation should be gi ven in parentheses after the
closing quotation mark and before the full stop. For example: Deleuze clai ms that
‘diversit y is gi ven, but difference is that by which the gi ven is gi ven’ ( Deleuze
1994, p. 222).
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6. Longer quoted passages
Longer quotations of around thirty words or more should appear as displayed,
indented material, preceded and succeeded by an extra line space, and should not
be enclosed in quotation mar ks. The reference for the source of the quotation
should appear as part of the indented material and should follow the full stop (or
any other ending punctuation mar k).
This would be j ust like the first thoughts of Copernicus, who, when
he did not make good progress in the explanation of the celestial
motions if he assumed that the entire celestial host revol ves around
the observer, t ried to see if he mi ght not have greater success if he
made the obser ver revol ve and left the stars at rest. (Kant 1998,
Bxvi)
7. Footnotes
Footnotes should not be used for the routine citation of references: these should be
incorporated into the text. Footnotes should not be undul y long. Please tr y to
avoid placing footnot es, particularly long f ootnotes, close together, as this makes
it very difficult —and someti mes i mpossible —to retain footnotes on the same page
as their tags. Where footnotes a re tagged to the end of a sentence, the tag should
appear after the full stop .
Reviews should contai n no footnotes.
Acknowledgements can be included. In the case of any article other than a review,
these should be contained in a footnote after the final sentence (and not a t the
title). In the case of a review, there should be an asterisk after the final sentence
and the acknowledgements should be included on a separate line, preceded by their
own asterisk. For example:
... should read this ext raordinary book.*
* I am ver y grateful to Frederica Bloggs f or her comments on an earlier
version of this review.
8. Sections within articles
Sections are to be numbered using Arabic numerals as in this Guide. For example:
3. Note also the use of bold and the capitalization convention
Sections within sections should be titled in italics, separated from the preceding,
but not the succeeding text, thus:
3.1 Sub-section title
This is the first sub -section within § 3.
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Sections (or examples, cases, etc.) within sub -sections shoul d be in italics,
separated from the pr eceding, with the text of the sub -sub-section following after
the title, thus:
3.1.1 Sub-sub-section title The text follows immediatel y after the heading
like this.
9. Citing a section of your article
For references to sections or sub-sections within your MIND article use ‘ §’
followed by the number .
10. Displayed material
Numbered or labelled propositions for discussion should be indent ed and separated
from the surrounding te xt by an additional l ine space , with the number or label in
parentheses. Where these are adverted to in the text, the parenthese s should be
retained in all cases , f or example: ‘as entailed by (3) and principl e (P) above’.
11. Consistency
Whatever conventions you use (for references, spelling, etc.), be consistent .
12. Abstract
For articles and discussions , please supply an abstract not exceeding 200 words .
Discussion abstracts should be kept brief.
13. Preparation of typescript
Electronic submiss ion of final versions is requir ed. Please send both (i) a
Microsoft Word, RTF, or LaTeX version for upload to typesetting and (ii) a PDF to
confir m layout, speci al characters, etc. Please ensure that the PDF accurately
reproduces the tex t as you intend it (i ncluding special symbols etc.). Please ensure
that the PDF is prepared from the same final version as the submitted non -PDF
version, except that page numbers, headers, and footers should not appear in the
non-PDF electronic version. Articles should be headed by the t itle in bold with
significant words gi ven upper case initi als, followed by the author’s name,
institution, and email address, in the following for mat:
The Title in Bold
A U TH OR N A M E
Author’s Institution
author@uni.edu