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Zeitschrift für Semiotik

The most important pages in the authors’ area

In our area for authors you will find all the general information you need about structuring your contribution, formatting your text, working with images and tables and so on. Here we have linked the most important pages for you:

Abstract and Keywords

  • Contributions include both an abstract and keywords in English, as well as a Kurzfassung and Schlagworte in German.

Short references

  • Brief references to the cited or mentioned passages appear in the running text. They follow the author-year format:
“Related arguments can be found in Meier and Miller (1992: 94–102).”
“Bühler (1934: 22) explains this as an egocentric orientation.”
“Descartes includes the body (cf. Schneider 1993: 123) into […]”

(Meier 1983: 45ff.)
when two: (Meier und Schulze 1983: 83)
when more than two: (Meier u.a. 1983: 127f.)

Bibliography

  • The bibliography, which includes detailed source citations and references, appears at the end of a contribution; only the short title is listed in the footnotes.
  • Last Name, First Name (Year). Title. Subtitle. Place of publication: Publisher.
Aicher, Otl (1988). Typographie. Berlin: Ernst.

Citation guidelines

Monographs

  • Last Name, First Name (Year). Title. Subtitle (Xth edition, year of first publication, etc.). Place of publication: Publisher.
Cassirer, Ernst (1964). Philosophie der symbolischen Formen. Bd. 1: Die Sprache. Nachdruck. Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft. English translation by Ralph Manheim: The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms. Vol. 1: Language. New Haven: Yale University Press 1955.

Contribution in an edited volume

  • Last Name, First Name, and First Name Last Name (Year): Title. Subtitle. Full journal title, volume, issue, page numbers. DOI [or] URL [Last accessed on DD.MM.YYYY].
Hennig, Mathilde (2010). Grammatik multicodal. Ein Vorschlag am Beispiel ortsgebundener Schriftlichkeit. Kodikas/Code. Ars Semeiotica 33, 1–2, 73–88.

Diaz-Bone, Rainer (2006). Practical Elaborations. About the Development of Foucauldian Discourse Analysis in Germany. Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung / Forum: Qualitative Social Research 7, 3. URL: http://www.qualitative-research.net/index.php/fqs/article/view/147/324 [Letzter Zugriff am 7.11.2016].

Translated journal contribution

  • Last Name, First Name (Year). Title. Subtitle. Journal: Volume, Issue, Page–Page. English translation by First Name Last Name: Title. Subtitle. In: First Name Last Name (ed.). Title. volume, issue, page number–page number.
Uexküll, Jakob von (1917). Darwin und die englische Moral. Deutsche Rundschau 173, 215–242. English translation by Morten Tønnessen as: Uexküll, Jakob von (2013). Darwin and the English morality. Biosemiotics 6, 3, 449–471.

Edited volume

  • Last Name, First Name (Year) (ed.) / (eds.). Title: Subtitle. Place of publication: Publisher.
Bouissac, Paul, Michael Herzfeld and Roland Posner (eds.) (1986). Iconicity: Essays on the Nature of Culture. Tübingen: Stauffenburg.

Contribution in an edited volume

  • Last Name, First name (Year). Article title: Article subtitle. In: First name Surname and First name Surname (eds.). Book title: Book subtitle. Place of publication: Publisher, page number–page number.
Kress, Gunther (2014). What is mode? In: Carey Jewitt (ed.). Handbook of Multimodal Analysis. 2nd ed. London: Routledge, 60–75.

Image source

  • First Name Last Name (Biographical Information). Title (Year). Technology and Media, Storage Location.
Anselm Feuerbach (1829–1880). Iphigenie (1871). Oil on canvas, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart.

Eva Meijer (*1980). Hond (2009). Performance, Zzondag, Den Haag. Courtesy of the artist.

Filmography

  • Titel (Year, Regie: Name Nachname).
Das Cabinett des Dr. Caligari (D 1919, Regie: Robert Wiene).

Discography

  • Titel (Author, Year, Direction).
Take the “A” Train (arrangement: Dollar Brand, DA-Music, 1965, original: Duke Ellington).