Style Sheet for Word and Music Studies

Word and Music Studies basically follows the MLA guidelines.

Format

Use Times or Times New Roman, 12-point font, one-and-a-half-spaced.
Justify your pages (flush left and right).
Page format: DIN A4 (= 8,27 x 11,7 in.) with a margin of 3 cm (=1,18 in.) on all four sides. The writing space should contain 31 lines and measure 15 x 23 cm (= 5,9 x 9,1 in.).
Paragraphs should be indented (0,5 cm = 0,2 in.), except after chapter headings.
Titles of articles should take the following form:

Main Title

[two blank lines from the top]
[16-point font]
[14-point font]
[one blank line]
[12-point font]
[two blank lines] Subtitle Author’s Name, Place Beginning of text ...

Chapter headings

Chapter headings should take the following form:

[two blank lines from the previous text] Chapter Heading [14-point font]
[one blank line] Beginning of text ...

Captions should be numbered and in italics, e.g.:
Example 3: Robert Schumann, "Der Dichter spricht" (from Kinderscenen, op. 15), bar 12.
Pagination: in pencil only

Text

Double quotation marks are restricted to (a) direct (verbatim) citations from sources and (b) titles of articles, poems etc. (i.e. parts of books or journals).
Single quotation marks should be used for your own meta-linguistic references, i.e. for anything you want to put in quotation marks that is not a direct citation from a source.
Use “curly” or “smart” quotation marks – “ ” – not straight quotation marks.
Italics are reserved for (a) titles of books and journals and (b) words and phrases in a language other than English.
For your own emphases - if you cannot do without them - choose bold type. No underlining.
References to sources which are directly cited appear within the text and take the following form: (Brown, Music and Literature 124-125). Any of the reference details (author’s name, title, page numbers) should be omitted if they are mentioned clearly in the text, and the title should be omitted if only one work by the author in question is cited.
References to sources which are not directly cited take the same form, with the addition of ‘cf.’, e.g.: (cf. Brown, Music and Literature 124-128).
References within your own text (or the whole book) take this form: (see above 35).
Footnotes are restricted to annotations; they are numbered through and placed at the bottom of pages. They take the following form: first line indented (0,5 cm = 0,2 in.), single-spaced, 10-point font; footnotes are separated by one blank line:
1 In his introduction to the second edition of Music and Literature, Calvin Brown acknowledges that "[m]uddle-headed amateurishness is [...] by no means as common in the study of musico-literary relationships as it was forty years ago" (xiv).
2 ....

Citations in the text (a) if exceeding 3 lines, should be set off (one blank line each from previous and following text), all lines indented (0,5 cm = 0,2 in.), single-spaced and 10-point font; (b) if in a language other than English, should be given in the original language in the text and in English translation in a footnote. (When languages rarely cited in English scholarship are used the positions may be reversed.)

Square brackets should be used for all of your own changes (additions, omissions) within direct citations (e.g.: “[my emphasis]”; “[...]”).

Quotation marks marking ends of quotes and footnote numbers precede punctuation marks (e.g.: L. Kramer calls this a “tandem reading”1.), unless the citation consists of one or more full sentences. (E.g.: He quotes Pope: “Whatever IS, is RIGHT.”4)

Dashes take the following form: “The text - or at least part of it - is highly ambiguous.”

Consistent American and consistent British spelling are equally acceptable.

Notice the following spellings: “In the 1990s critics began to question Brahms’s status as a composer of ‘absolute music’.”

Bibliography

Full references to sources used should be listed alphabetically at the end of the text. If more than one publication by an author is documented, the publications are listed chronologically. The bibliography should take the following form:

[two blank lines from the end of paper]

References

[14-point font]
[one blank line] Brown, Calvin S. Music and Literature: A Comparison of the Arts (1948). 2nd ed. Hanover: Univ. Press of New England, 1987.
—. "Musico-Literary Research in the Last Two Decades". Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 19 (1970): 5-27.
—. "Theoretische Grundlagen zum Studium der Wechselverhältnisse zwischen Literatur und Musik". Steven Paul Scher, ed. Literatur und Musik: Ein Handbuch zur Theorie und Praxis eines komparatistischen Grenzgebietes. Berlin: Erich Schmidt, 1984. 28-39.
Lagerroth, Ulla-Britta, Hans Lund, Erik Hedling, eds. Interart Poetics: Essays on the Interrelations of the Arts and Media. Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft 24. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1997.