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Babel is a scholarly journal designed primarily for translators, interpreters and terminologists (T&I), yet of interest also for non-specialists concerned with current issues and events in the field.

The scope of Babel is intentional and embraces a multitude of disciplines built on the following pillars: T&I theory, practice, pedagogy, technology, history, sociology, and terminology management. Another important segment of this journal includes articles on the development and evolution of the T&I professions: new disciplines, growth, recognition, Codes of Ethics, protection, and prospects. The creation of Babel was proposed on the initiative of Pierre-François Caillé, founding president of the Fédération Internationale des Traducteurs (FIT) and approved by the first FIT Congress of 1954 in Paris. Babel continues to be published for FIT and each issue contains a section dedicated to THE LIFE OF FIT.Articles for Babel are normally published in English or French but we also accept articles in Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Russian and Spanish.

Babel is published for the International Federation of Translators (FIT).

Babel publishes its articles Online First.

General information about our electronic journals.

All prices for print + online include postage/handling.

Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR 75.00 per volume. Private subscriptions are for personal use only, and must be pre-paid and ordered directly from the publisher.

Guidelines

Submissions should be made through Babel’s Editorial Manager. If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the Managing Editor by e-mail: babel.ijtgmail.com

Final manuscripts should be between 5,000 and 9,000 words (including notes and references) and should be submitted in both MS WORD and PDF formats with embedded fonts, showing all special characters as they will be printed. All pages should be numbered consecutively. Manuscripts must be completely anonymized. Do not include author’ or funding information in manuscripts. You can provide this information in the “Manuscript Data” step during the submission process of in Editorial Manager. The abstract (150–200 words) and keywords, preferably in both English and French, must also be submitted in the “Manuscript Data” step of the submission process in Editorial Manager. Editors can assist with abstracts in French upon request. Manuscripts should preferably be written in English or French. If you are not a native speaker, it is strongly advisable to have your text proofread by a native speaker before submission. Articles in Arabic, Chinese, German, Italian, Russian, or Spanish will also be considered. Spelling in English should be in either British or American English consistently. Authors are responsible for complying with copyright laws when quoting or reproducing material. Copyright of articles published in Babel is held by FIT. In the interest of production efficiency and producing text of the highest quality and consistency, we urge you to write your manuscript in strict adherence to the following guidelines. It is essential that references be formatted as specified in these guidelines, as they cannot be formatted automatically. This book series uses author-date style as described in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Electronic files

Electronic files: Please be sure to supply all text and graphic files of the final version of the manuscript. Please delete all personal comments so that they cannot mistakenly be typeset, and check that all files are readable.

Software: Files in Word are preferred, but our typesetters can convert almost anything. If for some reason a format other than the one specified is required, we will contact you.

Graphic files: Please provide figures and plates as Encapsulated Postscript (EPS) or Tagged Image File Format (TIFF) conversions in addition to the source files. Please ensure resolution is suitable for print media, preferably 300 dpi.

Our typesetters will do the final formatting of your document. However, some of the text enhancements cannot be done automatically, so we kindly ask that you carefully follow the following style.

Use a minimum of page settings, namely 12 pt. Times New Roman, double line spacing, 1-inch margins. The only relevant codes are those pertaining to font enhancement (italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc.), punctuation, and reference format. Whatever formatting or style conventions you use, please be consistent.

Do not use right-hand justification or automatic hyphenation.

Use Unicode fonts for special characters or supply the required TrueType or PostScript Type 1 fonts. For text that includes examples or fragments in Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, or Korean, this is required. Otherwise, you should clearly mark in red on the manuscript any symbols or visual aspects that you cannot produce in electronic form. If a symbol occurs frequently, you may use an alternative symbol (e.g., # $ %) and include a list of these symbols with their correct transcription.

Please do not use headings in your article.

Use italics for foreign words, highlighting, and emphasis. Bold should be used only for emphasis within italics and for headings. Please refrain from using FULL CAPS (except for focal stress and abbreviations) and underlining (except for emphasis within examples, as an alternative to boldface).

Please transliterate all examples from languages that use a non-Latin script into English, using the appropriate transliteration system (ISO or LOC).

Chapters or articles should be headed in capital letters and sensibly divided into numbered sections and, if necessary, subsections. Please indicate the hierarchy of subheadings as follows:

Heading A = bold, one line space above, text on new line without indentation.Heading B = italics, one line space above, text on new line without indentation.Heading C = italics, one line space above, text in new line without indent.Heading D = italics, one line space above, scrolling text.

Text citations in the main text should be enclosed in double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 3 lines should have a blank line above and below and a left indent, without quotation marks and with the appropriate reference to the source.

Listings: Should not be indented. If numbered, please number as follows:

1. ..................... or a. .......................

2. ..................... or b. .......................

Listings that continue with the main text should be numbered in parentheses: (1).............., (2)............., etc.

Examples should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc.) in parentheses.

Examples in languages other than the language in which your article is written should be given in italics with an approximate translation. Glosses may be inserted between the original and the translation. This interlinear gloss does not receive punctuation or highlighting. For abbreviations in the interlinear gloss, you may use CAPS or SMALL CAPS, which will be converted to small caps by our typesetters during final formatting.

Please note that lines 1 and 2 are strung together by using spaces: It is important that the number of elements in lines 1 and 2 matches. If two words in the example match a word in the gloss, put a full stop to join the two words (2a). Hyphens are used to separate morphemes (1, 2b).

Each next level in the example gets an indent/tab.

(1)          Kare wa    besutoseraa  o          takusan kaite-iru.        

              he     TOP best-seller     ACC    many     write-PERF    

              “He has written many best-sellers.’”                              

(2)          a.            Jan houdt van Marie.

                             Jan loves         Marie

                             “Jan loves Marie.”

              b.            Ed en  Floor  gaan samen-wonen.

                             Ed and Floor   go      together-live.INF

                             “Ed and Floor are going to live together.”

Notes should be kept to a minimum. Note indicators in the text should appear at the end of sentences and follow punctuation marks.

Funding information should be provided if funding was received through a grant for the research that is discussed in the article, including funder name and grant number, in a separate section called "Funding information" before (an Acknowledgment section and) the References.

Acknowledgments (other than funding information, see above) should be added in a separate, unnumbered section entitled "Acknowledgments", placed before the References.

It is essential that the references are formatted to the specifications given in these guidelines, as these cannot be formatted automatically. This book series uses the ‘Author-Date’ style as described in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style. References in the text: These should be as precise as possible, giving page references where necessary; for example (Clahsen 1991, 252) or: as in Brown et al. (1991, 252). All references in the text should appear in the references section. References section: References should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically. The section should include all (and only!) references that are actually mentioned in the text.A note on capitalization in titles. For titles in English, CMS uses headline-style capitalization. In titles and subtitles, capitalize the first and last words, and all other major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, some conjunctions). Do not capitalize articles; prepositions (unless used adverbially or adjectivally, or as part of a Latin expression used adverbially or adjectivally); the conjunctions and, but, for, or, nor; to as part of an infinitive; as in any grammatical function; parts of proper names that would be lower case in normal text; the second part of a species name. For more details and examples, consult the Chicago Manual of Style. For any other languages, and English translations of titles given in square brackets, CMS uses sentence-style capitalization: capitalization as in normal prose, i.e., the first word in the title, the subtitle, and any proper names or other words normally given initial capitals in the language in question.

Book:

Görlach, Manfred. 2003. English Words Abroad. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.  

Spear, Norman E., and Ralph R. Miller, eds. 1981. Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum. 

Holz-Mänttäri, Justa. 1984.Translatorisches Handeln. Theorie und Methode [Translation action: Theory and method]. Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia.

Sun, Yifeng . 2016. Wenhua fanyi   文化翻譯 [Cultural translation] . Beijing: Beijing daxue chubanshe.

(Görlach 2003 ) (Spear and Miller 1981)

(Holz-Mänttäri 1984, 33) (Sun 2016, 10–33)

Journal article:

Rayson, Paul, Geoffrey N. Leech, and Mary Hodges. 1997. “Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary: Some Analyses of the Conversational Component of the British National Corpus.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2 (1): 120–132.

Van Dijk, Teun A. 1995. “Discourse, Opinions and Ideologies.” Current Issues in Language and Society 2 (2): 115 – 145. doi.org/10.1080/13520529509615438 .

Claes, Jeroen, and Luis A. Ortiz López. 2011. “Restricciones pragmáticas y sociales en la expresión de futuridad en el español de Puerto Rico” [Pragmatic and social restrictions in the expression of the future in Puerto Rican Spanish]. Spanish in Context 8: 50–72.

Sun, Yifeng 孫藝風 . 2019. “Fanyi yanjiu yu shijie wenxue” 翻譯研究與世界文學 [Translation studies and world literature]. Zhongguo fanyi 中國翻譯 [Chinese translators journal] 40 (1): 5 – 18.

(Rayson, Leech and Hoges 1997, 124–130) (Claes and López 2011) (Sun 2019, 12)

Book chapter:

Adams, Clare A., and Anthony Dickinson. 1981. “Actions and Habits: Variation in Associative Representation during Instrumental Learning.” In Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms, edited by Norman E. Spear and Ralph R. Miller, 143–186. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

van Doorslaer, Luc. 2010. “Journalism and Translation.” In Handbook of Translation Studies, edited by Yves Gambier and Luc van Doorslaer, vol. 1, 180–184. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(Adams and Dickinson 1981, 143–186) (van Doorslaer 2010, 180–184)

Translation:

Pu, Songlin. 2006. Strange Tales from a Chinese Studio, translated by John Minford. London: Penguin Classics.

(Pu 2006, 67) (Minford 2006, 120–123)

Multivolume works:

Gambier, Yves, and Luc van Doorslaer. 2014. Handbook of Translation Studies. 4 vols. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Gambier, Yves, and Luc van Doorslaer. 2014. Handbook of Translation Studies, vol. 4. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

(Gambier and van Doorslaer 2014)

Newspaper and magazine articles:

Owen, Stephen.1990. “What Is World Poetry? The Anxiety of Global Influence.” New Republic, 19 November 1990, 28–32.

Goldblatt, Howard. “My Hero: Mo Yan.” Guardian, 12 October 2012.

(Owen 1990, 28–32)

(Goldblatt 2012)

(Lovell 2012)

Thesis or dissertation:

Rutz, Cynthia Lillian. 2013. “King Lear and Its Folktale Analogue.” Ph.D. diss., University of Chicago.

(Rutz 2013, 56–57)

Website:

Lovell, Julia. 2012. “Mo Yan’s Creative Space.” New York Times, 15 October 2012. Accessed 10 November 2020. www.nytimes.com/2012/10/16/opinion/mo-yans-creative-space.html .

Adam, Joshua V. 2018. “Translation Without Theory.” Los Angeles Review of Books, 7 October 2018. Accessed 10 November 2020. lareviewofbooks.org/article/translation-without-theory .

(Lovell 2012)

(Adam 2018)

Appendices

Appendices should follow the References section.

Additional Style Guidelines

Please use in-text citations, numbered endnotes, and works cited.

1. Do not justify the right margin of your manuscript or the electronic version on disk.  Leave a ragged right margin.

2. Double-space everything, including quotations and footnotes.

3. Observe the following rules of punctuation:

4.  Miscellaneous

Proofing procedure

The first author of an article will receive a PDF of the first proofs of the article and will be asked to return the corrections to the journal editors within 7 days of receipt. Acrobat Reader can be downloaded for free from  www.adobe.com  and will allow you to read and print the file. Please limit corrections to the essentials. The editor has the discretion not to make major text changes or to charge the author. If it is absolutely necessary to change larger sections of text (i.e., more than a few words), it is best to submit the changes electronically (with identical hard copy).

Babel invites submissions.

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Book reviews are solicited in principle. To propose a book for review, contact our Managing Editor by e-mail at babel.ijtgmail.com. Book reviews should be within 1,000 words and focus on critical commentary rather than chapter summaries.

Submissions should be made through Babel’s Editorial Manager. If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the Managing Editor by e-mail: babel.ijtgmail.com

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