英語論文格式
the divorce of arnold's personal desire from his inheritance results in “the familiar picture of victorian man alone in an alien universe”(roper9).
這里,圓括弧中的roper為引文作者的姓(不必注出全名);阿拉伯數字為引文出處的頁碼(不要寫成p.9);作者姓與頁碼之間需空一格,但不需任何標點符號;句號應置于第二個圓括弧后。
2.被引述的文字如果超過三行,則應將引文與論文文字分開,如下例所示:
whitman has proved himself an eminent democratic representative and precursor, and his “democratic vistas”
is an admirable and characteristic
diatribe. and if one is sorry that in it
whitman is unable to conceive the
extreme crises of society, one is certain
that no society would be tolerable whoses
citizens could not find refreshment in its
buoyant democratic idealism.(chase 165)
這里的格式有兩點要加以注意。一是引文各行距英語論文的左邊第一個字母十個空格,即應從第十一格打起;二是引文不需加引號,末尾的句號應標在最后一個詞后。
3.如需在引文中插注,對某些詞語加以解釋,則要使用方括號(不可用圓括弧)。如:
dr.beaman points out that“he [charles darw in] has been an important factor in the debate between evolutionary theory and biblical creationism”(9).
值得注意的是,本例中引文作者的姓已出現在引導句中,故圓括弧中只需注明引文出處的頁碼即可。
4.如果擬引用的文字中有與論文無關的詞語需要刪除,則需用省略號。如果省略號出現在引文中則用三個點,如出現在引文末,則用四個點,最后一點表示句號,置于第二個圓括弧后(一般說來,應避免在引文開頭使用省略號);點與字母之間,或點與點之間都需空一格。如:
mary shelley hated tyranny and“looked upon the poor as pathetic victims of the social system and upon the rich and highborn...with undisguised scorn and contempt...(nitchie 43).
5.若引文出自一部多卷書,除注明作者姓和頁碼外,還需注明卷號。如:
professor chen jia's a history of english literature aimed to give chinese readers“a historical survey of english literature from its earliest beginnings down to the 20thcentury”(chen,1:i).
圓括弧里的1為卷號,小寫羅馬數字i為頁碼,說明引文出自第1卷序言(引言、序言、導言等多使用小寫的羅馬數字標明頁碼)。此外,書名 a history of english literature 下劃了線;規范的格式是:書名,包括以成書形式出版的作品名(如《失樂園》)均需劃線,或用斜體字;其他作品,如詩歌、散文、短篇小說等的標題則以雙引號標出,如“to autumn”及前面出現的“democratic vistas”等。
6.如果英語論文中引用了同一作者的兩篇或兩篇以上的作品,除注明引文作者及頁碼外,還要注明作品名。如:
bacon condemned platoas“an obstacle to science”(farrington, philosophy 35).
farrington points out that aristotle's father nicomachus, a physician, probably trained his son in medicine(aristotle 15).