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The general structure of the articles

           The articles, fully edited in English/German/French musthave the following format:
- The title page, which includes the work’s title, the names and academic titles of the author(s), the institution the author comes from, contact information ( e-mail address, phone number or fax);

- The text (Microsoft Word, A4 page format):
For the main text block we recommend the Times New Roman font, font size 12, line spacing 1.5 (between 1800 and 2000 signs on a page).
For Footnotes the Times New Roman font, font size 10.
The paragraphs will be edited without empty rows, with left-right alignment (Justify); the paragraphs will begin with 1 cm free space.
The page indent should be as follows: 3 cm free space at the top and bottom of the page, 2,5 cm at the left and right of the text block.
The notes for the tables, pictures and musical examples will be placed below (below the table/ picture/musical example); these should have line spacing 1, font size10, italic font (cursive).

- Acknowledgements:
The expanded quotation will be marked by paragraphs edited in a different manner (font size 11, with left and right narrowed text block, without quotation marks);
Model for the footnotes that mark the quotations in the text:

• BOOK: Steven Feld, Sound and Sentiment: Birds, Weeping, Poetics, and Song in Kaluli Expression, 2nd ed. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1990).
• TRANSLATION: Jean de Léry, History of a Voyage to the Land of Brazil, Otherwise Called America [1578], transl. by Janet Whatley (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1999).
• CHAPTER FROM A COLLECTIVE WORK: Margaret J. Kartomi, “Indonesian-Chinese Oppression and the Musical Outcomes in the Netherlands East Indies,” in Music and the Racial Imagination, ed. Ronald Radano and Philip V. Bohlman (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000), 271-317.
• ARTICLE IN MAGAZINE (NEWSPAPER ,ETC.): Margaret J. Kartomi, “Music and Trance in Central Java,” Ethnomusicology 17/2 (1973), 163-208.
• REFERENCES FROM A NEWSPAPER (WITHOUT AUTOR OR TITLE FOR THE ARTICLE): New Straits Times, 27 February, 1998, Life and Times Section, 1. If necessary the name of the author and title should be included.
• INTERNET QUOTATION: Lane, Max 2005, ‘The distraction is over: elections do nothing to eliminate sources of social tension’, Inside Indonesia 81, January - March. La: http://www.insideindonesia.org/ (accessed on  January 16th,2005).
• REPEATED REFERENCES: If several works signed by the same autor are quoted, use an abbreviated form ,for example: Feld, Sound and Sentiment, 17. or,for an article from a magazine: Kartomi, “Music and Trance,” 141-162. If the author is quoted with one piece of  workuse only the author’s name and the page the reference is made to: Kartomi, 78. Do not use idem, ibid. etc.

- Musical examples, photographs,tables according to the case ( all must have numbers and title). These will be included into a separate file. It is preferable to have a high resolution in order to allow a good quality reproduction.

Types of articles:

• Expanded studies, sizes between  20-30  pages (40000-60000 signs)
• Smaller size essays, between 5-20 pages (10000-40000 signs)
• Reviews of editorial issues and/or discographic issues (shouldn’t count more than 4000 signs).