PARRHESIA STYLE GUIDE
Unless directed otherwise, follow the Chicago Manual of Style, 14th ed. (Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 1993).Use of Capitals
Other than for proper names, use capitals only when lower case would cause ambiguity.
Abbreviations
1 Full titles of countries, states, institutions, organisations, etc. should be used at the first reference; subsequent references may be abbreviated.2 Use a full stop after an abbreviation (e.g. ed.), but not after a contraction (Mr, Vic, eds).
3 Do not use any full stop with abbreviations that consist of capitals: (NY, ALP; also BA, PhD, MA), nor with their capitals.
Quotations
1 Use double quotation marks for quotations; within a quotation use single quotation marks.
2 Indent quotations of more than fifty words.
3 Always preserve the spelling, grammar and punctuation of the original. Use [sic] to indicate unconventional usage.
4 If omitting material from a quotation, use three ellipsis ( … )
5 Close quotations after a final punctuation mark (e.g. “because it is dependant on the conditions pre-established by history, the praxis of transcendence must … reveal these conditions and appropriate them.”
Italics
1 Emphasis is to be marked by italics.
2 Use italics for uncommon foreign words; the inclusion of a word or phrase in the Oxford English Dictionary indicates that it is no longer considered uncommon.
References
Use the form of citation recommended by the Chicago Manual of Style, (humanities). All references are to appear as endnotes, not footnotes. Parenthetical references are only allowable for frequently repeated texts. The following is a guide to general citation principles. Please consult the Chicago Manual of Style if in doubt.
| Books
The first citation should contain: author’s initial(s) or given name(s) as used on the title page, surname, title of book, name of translator/s, place of publication, publisher, year of publication, and page reference
if appropriate. The subtitle is capitalised and follows a colon. The place of publication is a city, not a suburb. For example:Walter Benjamin, The Origins of German Tragic Drama. Trans. John Osborne. London: Verso, 1992, 183
| Articles in journals, chapters in books and interviews
Slavoj Zizek, “The Obscene Excess of Power” antiTHESIS 15 (2005), 247.
Russell Grigg, “Absolute Freedom and Major Structural Change” Traversing the Fantasy:
Critical Responses to Slavoj Zizek. Eds Geoff Boucher, Jason Glynos, Matthew Sharpe. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2005, 184.Giorgio Agamben “‘I am sure that you are more pessimistic than I am…’ An Interview with Giorgio Agamben.” Rethinking Marxism 16:2 (April 2004, 117).
| Subsequent References
Use suitable short titles, including author’s surname and key words from title of book, chapter/article or interview. For example:
Benjamin, The Origins, 34
Zizek, “The Obscene Excess”, 9
Grigg, “Absolute Freedom”, 188
| Repeated Citations
In certain cases repeated references to a single text can be placed within the article as a parenthetical citation. This is usually restricted to a text which is to be the extended focus of the article (as a rule one text to which you cite more than 10 times. In such a case you will put all the references in parentheses. For example:
“Paul is a poet-thinker of the event, as well as one who practices and states the invariant traits ofwhat can be called the militant figure” he is “a Lenin for whom Christ would have been the equivocal Marx.”
(Badiou, 2)The first reference to this footnote will be cited as a normal endnote, with the following addendum:
'This and all parenthetical references are taken from Alain Badiou, Saint Paul: the Foundation of Universalism. Trans. Roy Brassier. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003.'