If you are writing in English you need to use stylistic and referencing conventions as found in English-language scholarly publications.
Every essay must include at the end a bibliography of works cited, arranged in alphabetical order by the writer's surname, stating the full publication details of books, articles, and other materials consulted. Titles of books and journals should be italicised or underlined and titles of articles or book chapters should be indicated with inverted commas.
Every essay must also include references to works cited, quotations in the body of your essay etc. Each time you refer to something (ideas, facts, arguments) 鈥榖elonging鈥 to someone else, you must attribute to him/her in one of two ways:
- short citations in the text - e.g. ... 鈥榯here are a substantial number of communities where English is used 鈥渋ntranationally鈥 (Stevens 1980:112) even though it is not the mother tongue鈥. The full publication details of Stevens鈥檚 work will be given in the 鈥楻eferences鈥 list at the end of the essay - OR -
- numbered footnotes or endnotes (standard Humanities system), with bibliography at end of essay. The foot- or endnotes should include full bibliographical details the first time a work is mentioned; subsequent references to the same source can be abbreviated. E.g.
1st reference: Lindsey Hughes, Russia in the Age of Peter the Great, New Haven, CT, and London: Yale University Press 1998 (hereafter, Hughes, Russia), p. 27.
Repeated reference: Hughes, Russia, p. 25.
- You should give specific page numbers in your citations/foot-/endnotes, unless you are referring to the whole book or article.
- The difference between a 鈥榬eferences鈥 list (Harvard system) and a 鈥榖ibliography鈥 (Humanities system) is that in the Harvard system the publication date must come immediately after the author鈥檚 name.
- If your source is a book chapter in an edited collection, make sure to list the author and title of the chapter (not just the editor and book title) in your references list/bibliography. The Harvard citation should put the author鈥檚 name inside the brackets, not the editor鈥檚.
- Please check with your Module teacher which system is preferred. Different 白小姐论坛 departments and SSEES programmes may have a preference for one system of referencing over another. In general, economics, politics and sociology tend to use the Harvard system, while history, languages and cultures use the Humanities system.
- Please do not use the 鈥楴umeric鈥 or 鈥榁ancouver鈥 system (one of the systems recommended by 白小姐论坛 Library, but not suitable for humanities and social sciences).
- Academic publishers have different house styles with regard to details of punctuation and word order. It is worth looking at some different books and journal articles to acquire an impression of the range of different but equally acceptable styles.
- Whichever system and style you use, you must stick to it and ensure consistency throughout the essay.
- Web sources should be acknowledged with as much detail as possible (not just the web address) and you should also state the date on which you accessed the source.
General Points
Non-English titles
Titles of non-English periodicals should be underlined and transliterated. There is no need to give a translation of the title, for example, Pravda, Nash sovremennik, Russkaia mysl鈥.
Titles of literary and other works discussed should be given in the original, underlined and transliterated, and a translation of the title and the date of original publication should appear in parentheses, for example, 鈥業n Dostoevskii鈥檚 Prestuplenie i nakazanie (Crime and Punishment, 1866), we find that...鈥. Thereafter you may use either the original or translated title but be consistent (and adopt the same style for all works thus cited: don鈥檛 discuss Crime and Punishment in one paragraph and then go on to talk of Brat鈥檌a Karamazovy).
Spelling
Use British, not American, spelling.
Quotation
Verse quotations should be given in the original language. Prose quotations (unless illustrating a literary, linguistic or stylistic point) should be given in English translation. All quotations in a language other than English or the language of your essay or dissertation topic should be accompanied by a translation: it is usually preferable to provide a translation in the body of the text rather than in a footnote. For example, if you are writing a dissertation on a Russian writer, quote from the writer鈥檚 works in the original; there is no need to provide translations.
Non-English Words
Underline or italicise non-English words unless they are in common English usage (for example, elite, genre). The abbreviations ibid. and et al. (note full stop) are not underlined.
Words in Cyrillic, Greek, and so on should be underlined and transliterated (unless you are quoting a passage, in which case it is best not to transliterate).
In linguistics articles, specimen words are underlined and followed by their translations in single quotation marks, for example, izba 鈥榟ut鈥. See also 鈥楾ransliteration鈥 below.
Place-names and personal names
Use standard English forms for place names if they exist in current usage (Warsaw, Belgrade, Moscow and so on). Usage can change rapidly. The time-hallowed Cracow (for Krak贸w) is now yielding to Krakow. Where standard English forms do not exist, above all be consistent as regards place names that have changed along with the regime or frontiers. Either use the form current in whatever country the place is now located (for example Vilnius rather than Wilno or Vilna, even for the period between the sixteenth century and 1939) or else use the form which, in your judgement, most fairly reflects the period of which you write (for example Pozsony or Pressburg rather than Bratislava before periods before the foundation of the Czechoslovak Republic).
For personal names, give full name on first mention, together with rank or title if appropriate. Use standard English forms, if such exist, of foreign names of historical monarchs as well as saints, for example, Ivan the Terrible, Catherine the Great, Ferdinand and Isabella, St Francis of Assisi. Otherwise transliterate, but do not mix systems within the same name (for example, not Alexis Mikhailovich or Frederick Wilhelm).
Names transliterated from Cyrillic must be in the house style transliteration (based on the Library of Congress system, see transliteration table below), for example, EI鈥檛sin not Yeltsin, Lev Tolstoi not Leo Tolstoy, Trotskii not Trotsky, Chaikovskii not Tchaikovsky, Iosif (or I. V.) Stalin not Joseph Stalin.
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Transliteration tables from Cyrillic
When transliterating from Cyrillic, SEER uses the modified Library of Congress system of transliteration without diacritics for general use (see table below).
If you are writing in English you need to use stylistic and referencing conventions as found in English-language scholarly publications.
Russian Character | Transliteration | 听 | Russian Character | Transliteration |
袗邪 | a | 听 | 袪褉 | r |
袘斜 | b | 听 | 小褋 | s |
袙胁 | v | 听 | 孝褌 | t |
袚谐 | g | 听 | 校褍 | u |
袛写 | d | 听 | 肖褎 | f |
袝械 | e | 听 | 啸褏 | kh |
衼褢 | e | 听 | 笑褑 | ts |
袞卸 | zh | 听 | 效褔 | ch |
袟蟹 | z | 听 | 楔褕 | sh |
袠懈 | i | 听 | 些褖 | shch |
袡泄 | i | 听 | 歇褗 (hard sign) | " |
袣泻 | k | 听 | 蝎褘 | y |
袥谢 | l | 听 | 鞋褜 (soft sign) | 麓 |
袦屑 | m | 听 | 协褝 | e |
袧薪 | n | 听 | 挟褞 | iu |
袨芯 | o | 听 | 携褟 | ia |
袩锌 | p | 听 | 听 | 听 |
Vowel combinations and other transliterations that can cause difficulties
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邪械 | ae | 袦邪褉懈薪邪 笑胁械褌邪械胁邪 | Marina Tsvetaeva |
邪褍 | au | 袣芯薪褋褌邪薪褌懈薪 袩邪褍褋褌芯胁褋泻懈泄 | Konstantin Paustovskii |
邪褟 | aia | 袦邪褟泻芯胁褋泻懈泄 | Maiakovskii |
械 | e | 袝谢褜褑懈薪, 芦袙懈褕薪褢胁褘泄 褋邪写禄 | El麓tsin, 鈥榁ishnevyi sad鈥 |
懈泄 | ii | 袛芯褋褌芯械胁褋泻懈泄, 袧懈卸薪懈泄 袧芯胁谐芯褉芯写 | Dostoevskii, Nizhnii Novgorod |
懈褟 | iia | 懈薪褌械谢谢懈谐械薪褑懈褟 | intelligentsiia |
褘泄 | yi | 袧芯胁褘泄 屑懈褉 | Novyi mir |
褞 | iu | 芦袩械褉胁邪褟 谢褞斜芯胁褜禄 | 鈥楶ervaia liubov麓鈥 |
褞褞 | iuiu | 屑邪谢褞褞 | maliuiu |
褟 | ia | 袟邪屑褟褌懈薪 | Zamiatin |
褟褟 | iaia | 锌芯褋谢械写薪褟褟 | posledniaia |
褍 | u | 芦校械蟹写薪芯械禄 | 鈥楿别锄诲苍辞别鈥 |
褑 | ts | 芦小褌邪薪褑懈芯薪薪褘泄 褋屑芯褌褉懈褌械谢褜禄 | 鈥楽tantsionnyi smotritel麓鈥 |
褏 | kh | 袗薪褌芯薪 效械褏芯胁 | Anton Chekhov |
褔 | ch | 袩械褌褉 效邪泄泻芯胁褋泻懈泄 | Petr Chaikovskii |
泻褋 | ks | 袗谢械泻褋邪薪写褉 | Aleksandr |
褕 | sh | 袩褍褕泻懈薪 | Pushkin |
褖 | shch | 袦懈褏邪懈谢 袟芯褖械薪泻芯 | Mikhail Zoshchenko |
褗 | 麓麓 | 芯斜褗械写懈薪械薪懈械, 芯斜褗褟褋薪懈褌褜 | ob麓麓edinenie, ob麓麓iasnit麓 |
褜 | 麓 | 小械褉谐械泄 袩褉芯泻芯褎褜械胁 | Sergei Prokof麓ev |