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TITLE OF COMMUNICATION

(Title in english if the paper is written in another languages)

First Name SURNAME

Abstract: in English, 100-150 words; Tahoma, 9 points, normal, justified, single-spaced. It summarizes the most important aspects of your article.

Keywords: 5 representative words, in English; Tahoma, 10 points, normal, justified, in italics, single-spaced, separated by semicolons. DO NOT add a point after the keywords

Epigraph (not mandatory): Tahoma, 9 points, italics, align right, single-spaced; provide the author and the title of the source

Introduction (Tahoma 12 points, bold, justified; giving titles to article divisions and numbering them are mandatory, except the introduction and the conclusions)

Software: Microsoft Word (preferably 2007 of following editions); paper format: B5 (JIS) (width: 18.2 cm, height: 25.7 cm). Paper length: 4000-6000 words; font: Tahoma, 11 points, justified, 1.15 line spacing. Please do not change the formatting and style layouts set up in this template: margins, font, font size paragraph alignment, spacing, etc. Do not insert page numbers.

1. Paper content

1.1 Chapter and subchapter titles

Chapters and subchapters are written in lowercase letters (except the first word and the proper nouns), Tahoma, 12 points for chapters and 11 points for subchapters, bold, no indent.

Numbered according to the model “1. [Division]”, “1.1 [Subdivision]”, except the introduction and the conclusions.

2. Further details about the text

2.1 Explanatory notes

They are positioned at the bottom of the page as footnotes, Tahoma, 9 points, normal, justified, single-spaced.

2.2 Punctuation marks, citations, etc.

For highlighting ideas / concepts, use italics.

For bulleted lists use the format given below:

bulleted list;

bulleted list;

bulleted list.

For numbered lists use: a., b., c., etc.:

numbered list;

numbered list;

numbered list.

Titles of stand alone works: book, e-book, report [technical, government, etc.], dissertation, thesis, film, video, television series, podcast, YouTube video, artwork, map, music album, unpublished manuscript are to be written in italics (e. g. Three men in a boat). Titles of parts of a greater whole: journal article, book chapter, e-book chapter, newspaper article, magazine article, blog post, television episode, webisode, webpage, tweet, Facebook update, encyclopaedia entry, Wikipedia entry, dictionary entry, song, etc. are to be put between quotation marks in the text and not inside any quotation marks in the reference list (e.g. “Educational value: how students chose university: Evidence from an Italian university”).

Quotations in other languages will be used with quotation marks in accordance with the punctuation rules of the language in which the paper is written. Example:

Patrick Charaudeau (2011) mentions “l’impossible transparence du discours”.

Nested quotations will also be used according with the rules of the language of the paper. Some examples are given below:

English: “quotation ʽnested quotationʻ quotation”;

French: « quotation “nested quotation” quotation »;

German: „quotation ,nested quotationʻ quotation“;

Romanian: „quotation «nested quotation» quotation”;

Spanish: «quotation “nested quotation” quotation»;

Portuguese: «quotation “nested quotation” quotation»;

Italian: “quotation ʽnested quotationʻ quotation”.

Short quotations (which do not exceed 40 words) are inserted in the body of the text in quotation marks.

Quotations longer than 40 words are written with font size 10, without quotation marks and the final punctuation marks are placed before the brackets containing the bibliographic reference. Each such quotation appears as a paragraph, indented 1.25 cm to the right and to the left of the main body of the text and separated from the main body of the text by single spacing. The long quotation should not exceed 10 lines. When more pages are quoted, the express authorization of the copyright holder is required.

Punctuation marks are used in accordance with the punctuation rules of the language of the paper.

Bibliographic references for quotations will use the author-date system, the reference containing only three elements: author (surname only), the year of publication for the source and the page number for the information cited. The letters „p.” or „pp.” before the page numbers are not to be used. Example: “The selection of the system to be used for notes or footnotes is to some extent a matter of individual taste, and may also depend upon the accepted conventions for the particular university.” (Oliver, 2004: 74) This is to be used for every citation, thus avoiding the use of ibidem, idem, opus citatum.

If you include in you work a secondary source (although we strongly recommend avoiding it as much as you can), it should contain the name of the author(s), followed by the text “cited by” and the citation of the primary source. Example: Edvinsson and Malone cited by Prejmerean and Vasilache, 2007.

For publications in electronic format (e-books, Kindle books) it is necessary to mention the chapter number/name, the subchapter number/name (if need be), and the paragraph number: “Elisabeth took up some needlework, and was sufficiently amused in attending to what passed between Darcy and his companion.” (Austen, 2012: ch. 10, par. 2).

Bibliographic references are not to be mentioned both in the text and in a correspondent footnote, the latter is to be used exclusively for explanations.

For dictionary entries please use the APA style specifications for quoting dictionary entries, both in text and in the references list; for instance, the entry “pencil” will be referred to in the text as follows: (pencil, 2014). For the reference list citation, please check the “References” section of the present document.

For Internet pages and any type of content you retrieve from the Internet, please do not mention only the address of the homepage of the site, either in text, in a footnote or in the reference list; refer to Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2009 or any other source (for instance, blog.apastyle.org) documenting how to cite this type of content.

This document does not cover all the types of sources you will use in an article (we have not discussed, for instance, blog posts, videos, interviews, CDs, DVDs, films, etc.). For further information, please refer to Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2009 or any other source documenting the use of this style.

2.3 Tables

Text in Tahoma, 9 points. Tables are numbered and centred horizontally on the page, following the model below.

Table 1. Table caption

2.4 Images/figures

They are numbered using the model “Fig. [x]” and are centred horizontally on page, according to the example below:

Fig. 1 The linguistic sign (Saussure, 1964: 99)

2.5 Examples

They are numbered according to the formula (1), (2), (3), etc.

(1)	Example.

(2)	Example.

(3)	Example.

Conclusions

Summarize the results exposed in the paper and indicate ways of continuing the research. The conclusions are followed by the reference list and the presentation in English of the author(s), with their e-mail address(es).

References

They are written in the alphabetical order of the authors’ names/titles (for the items with an unknown author) and placed at the end of the article; Tahoma, normal, 10 points, single spaced. The items must not be numbered and always end with a full stop. The lines that follow the first line of the bibliographical item are indented 1.25 cm to the right, as in the examples below (hanging indent).

References are not divided into categories (ex.: dictionaries, webography), the writing criterion being strictly the alphabetical one.

The title “References” and its content (ex: “retrieved ...”, “available at ...”, “volume”, “ed.”, etc.) are written in the language of the paper

Titles of stand alone works (e.g. book, e-book, report [technical, government, etc.], dissertation, thesis, film, video, television series, podcast, YouTube video, artwork, map, music album, unpublished manuscript) are written in italics. Titles of parts of a greater whole (e.g. journal article, book chapter, e-book chapter, newspaper article, magazine article, blog post, television episode, webisode, webpage, tweet, Facebook update, encyclopedia entry, Wikipedia entry, dictionary entry, song) are written in nonitalics and not inside any quotation marks.

References are written according to the specification of the APA style; for further details, please refer to Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2009 or any other source documenting the use of this style.

The information referring to books or any other stand alone work contains:

Author’s name, author’s first name initial. (Year of publication). Title written in italics (edition number., volume(s) number, if necessary). Location: Publishing House.

For a study or chapter published in a collective volume, the reference contains:

Author’s name, author’s first name initial. (Year of publication). Title of the study/chapter. The Latin preposition In. Coordinator or editor (coord., edited by, ed. by, sous la dir., ed.) complying with the information provided by the cover of the collective volume. Title of the collective volume written in italics (edition number., volume(s) number, if necessary, pp. the first and the last page of the study or chapter). Location: Publishing House.

For an article in a periodical, the structure of the bibliographic item is:

Author’s name, author’s first name initial. (Year of publication). Title of the article in nonitalics and not inside any quotation marks. Title of the periodical written in italics, issue(number of the volume in brackets if necessary), the first and the last page of the article.

For a resource published on the Web, the bibliographic item begins with the author’s name/the name of the institution, as in the case of the other works. Besides the information presented supra (author, title, etc.) this bibliographic reference includes the mention “Retrieved from [URL address]”.

For an article form an online periodical or other document with DOI assigned, only this information is to be mentioned.

For publications with two authors, their names are given and linked by conjunction – “şi”, “et”, “and”, “und”, “y”, etc. according to the language of the paper. In the case of three authors, only the first author’s name is separated from the second author’s name by comma, and the last author’s name is preceded by conjunction (“şi”, “et”, “and”, “und”, “y”, etc.). All authors’ names are followed by the initial of the first name. When the work has more than three authors or editors, only the first author’s name is written, followed by “et al.”

When the author is unknown, begin with the title of the source and continue with the rest of the information referring to the respective item (date, location, publisher, etc.)

When the date is missing, replace it by n. d. (for no date) and provide the rest of the information.

When using more than one reference by the same author (or the same group of authors listed in the same order) published in the same year, add lowercase letters in the year of publication brackets: Fairclough, N. (2013a), Fairclough, N. (2013b).

Electronic books (e-books or Kindle books) will have explanatory mentions in brackets [e-book] / [Kindle version].

For entries in paper edition dictionaries, the structure of the bibliographic item is:

entry. (Year of publication). In Author(s). Title of dictionary (edition number if necessary). Location: Publishing house.

For entries in paper edition dictionaries, the structure of the bibliographic item is:

entry. (Year of publication). In Author(s). Title of dictionary (edition number if necessary). Location: Publishing house.

For entries in dictionaries on the Internet, the structure of the bibliographic item is:

entry. (date of publication on the Internet). In Author(s). Title of dictionary (edition number if necessary). (Year of publication). Retrieved from [URL address].

If your paper cites secondary sources, the reference list must include only the primary source and no information about the secondary one.

For further information and for situations not covered by the present document, please refer to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2009 or any other source documenting the use of this style.

References

American Psychological Association. (n. d.). APA Style. Retrieved from http://www.apastyle.org/.

Austen, J. (2012). Pride and Prejudice. [Kindle version]. Amazon Digital Services.

Beetham, H., McGill, L. and Littleton, A. (2009). Thriving in the 21st century: Learning. Literacies for the Digital Age (LLiDA project, a JISC funded study). Glasgow: The Caledonian Academy. Glasgow University.

Cambridge advanced learner's dictionary. (2013). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Charaudeau, P. (2011). Les médias et l’information. L’impossible transparence du discours. Bruxelles: De Boeck Université.

Cronin, M. (2003). Translation and Globalization. London & New York: Routledge.

Fairclough, N. (2013a). Critical Discourse Analysis. The critical study of Language (2nd edition). New York: Routledge.

Fairclough, N. (2013b). Language and Power (2nd edition). New York: Routledge.

Chesterman, A. (2000). A Causal Model for Translation Studies. In M. Olohan (ed.) Intercultural Faultlines: Research Models in Translation Studies I: Textual and Cognitive Aspects (pp. 15-27). Manchester: St. Jerome..

Oliver, P. (2004). Writing Your Thesis. London, Thousand Oaks, CA, New Delhi: Sage Publications.

pencil. (n.d.). In Collins English Dictionary – Complete and Unabridged (12th edition). (2014). Retrieved from https://www.thefreedictionary.com/pencil.

Petruzzelis, L and Romanazzi, S. (2010). Educational value: how students chose university: Evidence from an Italian university. International Journal of Educational Management, 2(24), 139-158. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/09513541011020954.

Prejmerean, M. C. and Vasilache, S. (2007). Standards and Markets for University-Originated Organizational Intelligence. München: Munich Personal RePEc Archive. Retrieved from http://mpra.ub.uni-muenchen.de/5574/.

About the author

First name SURNAME is a Professor, Ph.D., Technical University of Civil Engineering Bucharest, Romania

E-mail: name.surname@utcb.ro

NOTE: The text refering to the manner of quoting and the bibliographic references for quotations, the content and the structure of bibliography as well as the explanatory notes have been taken totally or partially from or are inspired by the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 6th edition, 2009 and the APA Style blog, 6th edition archive of the American Psychological Association .

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Explanatory notes are positioned at the bottom of the page as footnotes; Tahoma, 9 points, normal, justified, single-spaced.