EWR Manuscripts should be prepared in Microsoft Word and should follow the latest MLA Handbook, with internal citations, footnotes, and a list of works cited.
- Essays should be approximately 6,500-10,000 words.
- For the body of the essay, use Times New Roman, 12-point font.
- Embed any necessary footnotes using the ‘insert Footnote’ function in Word.
- In the Works Cited entries, remove hyperlinks and truncate urls (by removing the host).
- Contributors are responsible for obtaining all necessary permissions upon acceptance of the essay.
- Contributors are responsible for the accuracy of all quotations and citations.
- Capitalize South and North (when used as nouns) and use lowercase for southern and northern (when used as adjectives).
- Capitalize Black and White when discussing race (MLA capitalizes Black Lives Matter and defers to Merriam Webster and the Chicago Manual of Style on matters of capitalization that it does not directly address) Following these sources, we have chosen to capitalize Black and White.
- Do not use ellipses at the beginning or ending of quotations. If ellipses appear in the middle of a quote, please use three periods with spaces between: “word . . . word.” If ellipses join two sentences, please use four periods with spaces between: “word. . . . word.”
- Interviews with Welty should be cited to Welty, not the interviewer, and listed under Welty in the Works Cited.
- EWR prefers that writers cite the Library of America’s Complete Stories, Essays & Memoir; or Harcourt’s Collected Stories and individual editions of the novels. The Scribner edition of One Writer’s Beginnings is also acceptable.