BOOK REVIEW INFORMATION

Authors of book reviews should follow the guidelines in the Notes to Contributors and pay special attention to these additional specifications:

1. Length

Reviews in FoL are generally between 1,500 and 3,000 words in length, as commissioned by the Editor.

2. Style and formatting

Reviews are headed by the details of the book under review and the reviewer's name and affiliation. The latter must be right-aligned. Note the typographic conventions, punctuation and order of information in the following example:

Frits Beukema & Marcel den Dikken, eds. 2000. Clitic phenomena in European languages (Linguistics Today 30.) Amsterdam & Philadelphia: John Benjamins. Pp. ix + 320. ISBN 90-272-2751-9.

Reviewed by Juan Perez, University of Santiago de Compostela

Review texts are usually not divided into sections and subsections.

All the pages must be numbered continuously throughout, starting from the main text, then the bibliographical references, then the reviewer's address, and finally footnotes, if any.

References should be kept to a minimum. As a rule of thumb there should be no more than twelve references in a 3,000 word review and no more than nine in a shorter review.

When referring to chapter titles or the titles of individual papers in a collective volume, the following format should be used:

In Chapter 8, "The changing status of infinitival to", Los explores the implications of the analysis of the to-infinitive as a subjunctive equivalent...

The seventh paper in the volume is by Volkmar Lehmann, entitled "Grammaticalization via extending derivation"...

The author's or editor's name, and the names of the authors of individual papers in an edited volume should be given in full at first mention, that is, by first name and surname, and referred to by surname alone subsequently, as in the above examples.

Page references to passages in the book under review are given in parentheses and preceded by the abbreviations p. or pp., as appropriate. E.g. (p. 24), not just (24).

Review author's full postal and e-mail addresses immediately follow the bibliographical references. The following exact format should be used:

Reviewer's address

Department of English
Facultad de Filología
Universidad de Santiago de Compostela
15782 Santiago de Compostela, Spain
E-mail: jperez@usc.es