Is there a specific format for English papers?

Standardize the writing format of English papers and make them in line with international academic practices , Writing English papers 、 It is of great significance to promote international academic exchanges .

Because English thesis writing norms vary with different disciplines , This paper is about the main components of English papers on Humanities , Overview of American education 、 The common writing norms of English papers on Humanities in academic circles , For readers' reference 、 Copy .

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One 、 Summary of English paper format requirements
1、 English abstract is a written language that conforms to English grammar , Provide a short essay for the purpose of summarizing the content of the thesis .（ The content is basically the same as the Chinese abstract , But it doesn't have to be completely sentence by sentence ）.
2、 English title 、 Abstract 、 Keywords form a page .
3、 English font and line spacing ： Unified use “ Western Fonts ” Medium “Times New Roman”,1.5 Double row spacing .
4、 English title ： Use size three bold .
5、 English abstract ：“Absract” Vertex lattice , Use size four , And bold .
The specific content of the English abstract uses four characters .
6、 English key words ：“Key Words” Vertex lattice , Use size four and bold .

Two 、 Title page
The distance between the title of the first line and the top of the printing paper is about one third of the total length of the printing paper , The distance from the second line is 5cm, Third 、 The fourth line is the author's name and date .

If the paper is written by students for a certain course , Then the teacher's academic title and his name should be marked between the author's name and date （ Such as :Dr./Prof.C.Prager） And the number or name of this course （ Such as :English734 or BritishNovel）.

When printing , If there is no special requirement , Each line needs double-space, That is, interlaced printing . The line spacing is about 0.6cm.

3、 ... and 、 Outline page
The outline page includes the topic sentences and the outline itself , Its specification format is as follows ：
first line （ The distance from the top of the printing paper is 2.5cm about ） Start with Thesis Word and colon , Fill in one space and then type the topic sentence , When returning lines, the left side must be aligned up and down with the first letter of the topic sentence .

The main compendium is marked with capital Roman numerals , The secondary compendium uses capital English letters in turn 、 Arabic numerals and lowercase English letters mark . Each number or letter is followed by a period , Leave a space and type the first letter of the item ; Compendium at the same level , The upper and lower left sides must be aligned .

It should be noted that , There must be more than two compendiums of equal importance , namely ：
Yes Ⅰ due Ⅱ, Yes A due B, And so on . If the outline is long , It takes two pages , Then the second page must be marked with lowercase Roman numerals in the upper right corner , namely ii（ The first page need not be numbered ）.

Four 、 Text
Papers with title pages and outline pages , The standard format of the first page of the body is ：
The title of the paper is in the middle , Its position is about 5cm, It is about 1.5cm. Paragraph initials must be indented five spaces , That is, from the sixth space .
The first page of the text need not be numbered （ However, the number of pages should be calculated ）, From the second page , It must be in the upper right corner of each page （ That is, leave the first line blank , At its rear ） Put the last name of the author of the paper , The page number is marked with Arabic numerals after one blank space .

When printing the text, pay attention to the printing format of punctuation marks , namely ： Two spaces should be left blank after the end of the sentence , Other punctuation marks are followed by a blank space .

5、 ... and 、 The article quotes
Quote someone else's point of view , You can quote , You can also indirectly quote . No matter how , The author of the paper must indicate the author and source of the quoted text .

At present, the common practice in American academic circles is to indicate the author and source of the quotation in parentheses after the quotation . In view of the different situations quoted in the article , Part of the specification formats are described as follows ：

1. If the quotation is less than three lines , Then the quotation can be organically integrated into the paper , As shown in the following example ：
ThedivorceofArnold'spersonaldesirefromhisinheritanceresultsin“thefamiliarpictureofVictorianmanaloneinanalienuniverse”(Roper9).
In parentheses Roper Is the last name of the citation author ; Arabic numerals are the page numbers of the citations ; There should be a space between the author's last name and the page number , But no punctuation is needed ; The period should be placed after the second parenthesis .

2. If the quoted text is more than three lines , The quotation should be separated from the text of the thesis , As shown in the following example ：
Whitmanhasprovedhimselfaneminentdemocraticrepresentativeandprecursor,andhis“DemocraticVistas”isanadmirableandcharacteristicdiatribe.AndifoneissorrythatinitWhitmanisunabletoconceivetheextremecrisesofsociety,oneiscertainthatnosocietywouldbetolerablewhosescitizenscouldnotfindrefreshmentinitsbuoyantdemocraticidealism.(Chase165)

3. If you need to insert notes in the quotation to explain some words , Use square brackets ：
Such as :Dr.Beamanpointsoutthat“he[CharlesDarwin]hasbeenanimportantfactorinthedebatebetweenevolutionarytheoryandbiblicalcreationism”(9).

If the last name of the citation author has appeared in the leading sentence , Therefore, you only need to indicate the page number of the quotation source in the parentheses .

4. If there are words irrelevant to the paper in the text to be quoted, they need to be deleted , An ellipsis is required , Such as ：
MaryShelleyhatedtyrannyand“lookeduponthepooraspatheticvictimsofthesocialsystemandupontherichandhighborn···withundisguisedscornandcontempt···(Nitchie43)


6、 ... and 、 Bibliography page
The author of the paper must provide the detailed publication of all citations in the paper after the body , That is, the bibliography page . American colleges and universities generally call this page WorksCited, The format should pay attention to the following points ：

1. The contents page should be separated from the text , Print on another page , After the text .
2. The table of contents page should be regarded as a page of the thesis , Mark the last name and page number of the author in the upper right corner in the order of the page number of the paper ; If there are many entries , More than one page , Then the author's last name and page number need not be marked on the first page ( But the number of pages must be counted ), The remaining pages are still marked with the author's last name and page number in order . title WorksCited The distance from the top of the printing paper is about 2.5cm, The distance from the first line in the first entry is still 0.6cm; The distance between entries and between lines is also 0.6cm, There is no need to leave more blank .
3. The order of contents of each entry is the author's surname 、 name 、 The name of the work 、 Publisher name 、 Place of publication 、 Year of publication and start and end page numbers ; All entries should be arranged strictly in alphabetical order of the authors' surnames , But don't code the entries , There is no need for books and magazines 、 Periodicals and other items are listed .

Said so much , The most practical method is this ：
If the journal that needs to be submitted is determined , The most convenient way is to download the published literature of the journal , Revise the format of your paper against the literature , Here you can query the literature of various journals and download ：

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