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Hi! Perhaps even more important than the particular discipline is the target journal (whether it be online or paper). If you are submitting to a journal called something like Journal of Russian Literature Studies, the assumption might be that the reader is capable of reading Russian, thus the quotes and data might be left in their original language. In the field of linguistics, readers might not be expected to know all of the languages represented in the articles of the journal, but the original language assumes a special importance, so they might prefer to have the original language (perhaps followed by a translation) for the data in the text. Another common solution is to translate the language in the body of the text and supply the original language in footnotes. I have seen what feels like hundreds of variations of ways to handle this. There really is no one universal solution, but as Mary Jane points out, the APA is a good place to look for a general guideline - as is the Chicago Manual of Style (which has a section specifically on how to deal with Russian). But perhaps having aspiring authors find 3-4 relevant journals for their fields and see how they do it would be equally helpful. One important DON'T to keep in mind: In the literature list DON'T let the translated name of the article make it appear as if the article actually exists in English. In other words: YES: Baev, Pavel. 2010. "The transliterated name of the article" [The translated name of the article]. Name of Journal (Vol) number. NO: Baev, Pavel. 2010. "The translated name of the article". Name of Journal, etc. The first example gives English-speaking readers an idea of what the article is about through the translation in hard brackets, but also tells them the article is actually in Russian. The second is misleading because it suggests the article is in English, and curious readers will be disappointed. Interesting question about the author names. In addition to the issue of what the journal requires, you might also think about what is the interests of the authors. My main experience in this area is with Norwegian authors. Norwegian has the same alphabet as English, but with the addition of three extra letters: æ, ø, and å. Authors with these letters in their names have to decide if they want to anglicize their names: e.g., Øystein to Oystein; Bård to Bard, etc. This will affect Internet searches of their names - although I suppose searches are becoming so sophisticated that searching for "Bjørn" will return not only "Bjørn", but also "Björn" and "Bjorn". A little off the track, perhaps, but food for thought. Lynn Lynn P. Nygaard Special Advisor on Project Development and Publications Peace Research Institute Oslo (PRIO) Postal address: PO Box 9229 Grønland, 0134 Oslo, Norway Location: Hausmanns gate 7, 0186 Oslo, Norway Oslo office: (+47) 22 54 77 30 Oslo mobile: (+47) 93 25 34 81 From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing - discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Curry, Mary Jane Sent: 18. oktober 2010 21:05 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: scientific research articles --- pls help!!! Hi Alina I would think the first question depends on the referencing/style guidelines of the particular discipline. APA for example does have guidelines for sources published in another language. Likewise, APA stipulates that data should be translated into English, ideally checked by another source than the author. As for the third question, I would assume that the content, theoretical orientation and methodologies of the research would be most relevant in terms of what journal would be interested. In the US there are online journals published by Teachers College, Columbia, as well as other universities. Best wishes, Mary Jane Curry Associate Professor, Language Education Margaret Warner Graduate School of Education & Human Development PO Box 270425, Dewey Hall 1-160G University of Rochester Rochester, NY 14627 585.273.5934 FAX 585.473.7598 www.rochester.edu/warner/faculty ________________________________ From: European Association for the Teaching of Academic Writing - discussions [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Alina V. Chitova Sent: Monday, October 18, 2010 2:13 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: scientific research articles --- pls help!!! Dear colleagues, I'm in the process of teaching Russian post-graduate students, doing a research in their native language, how to write a scientific research article in English. For the most part, they are trying to find examples of some English words/phrases/notions in some literary pieces or they are resolving some equivalents/translation issues in both of the languages. Anyway, a couple of questions have been preying on my mind lately, namely: 1. Do we happen to have some citation guide for the sources written/published in another language? I mean what should we do if we want to cite some Russian language source? Should we translate the title into English? Or should we transcribe? Or leave it as it is? Then what about the alphabetical order of the works cited? The same problem we have with the in-text citations (names of the researchers). For example, in the past, when we used some foreign sources, we made two bibliography lists --- one with the Russian books and another one with the foreign ones. But that was intended for the Russian-speaking audience. 2. What should my students do with some Russian language examples/data that they have collected and which they present in their English language article? I guess it's the question of the addressee/the audience again, but all the same, does anyone have any idea whether these examples should be translated/transcribed? 3. I hate purposeless tasks, so the idea is to publish these articles of our young researchers in some, say, web-based applied liguistics journal. The question is: does anyone know any particular on-line publications that might be interested in Russian-English language applied linguistics/translation theory research artricles? I would appreciate any help because no one at our department can answer these questions, and this AW course has just been introduced. Gratefully, Alina V. Chitova Senior Lecturer Department of Philology St. Petersburg State University St. Petersburg, Russia +7 921 396 0542