American Imago
Author Guidelines

Peter L. Rudnytsky
Department of English
P.O. Box 117310
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL 32611

Manuscripts must be double spaced thoughout, including quotations and references. Explanatory notes should be kept to a minimum, and the author-date system of citation used in the test. Footnotes and refrences should conform to the style indicated below. The list of references should include only works cited in the essay giving the full names of all authors, editors, and translators in each entry.

1. The alphabetized reference list should be titled "References" with entries in tbe following format:

   Solomon, Maynard. 1981. Franz Schubert's "My Dream." American Imago, 32:137-54

   Sprengnether, Madelon. 1990. The Spectral Mother: Freud, Feminism, and Psychoanalysis. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.

2. The author-date system used in the text should be in the format given below, except that the author's name may be omitted if it is specified in the preceeding sentence, e.g., "As Sprengnether (1990) suggests, the oedipal paradigm ought to be regarded as a 'complex compromise formation' rather than as a 'fundamental breakthough' in Freud's consciousness" (4).

   (Solomon 1981, 142)

   (Sprengnether 1990, 4)

   All works should be cited in the text by their original dates of publication,with the edition or translation used specified in the references.