How to correctly credit a translator on a philosophy paper Thread poster: Ayín Jara Didier
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Hello!
I'm doing my first stabs on what, I hope, will be a regular kind of work for me: translation of academic texts. Right now, I'm working on a philosophy paper, intended to be published, and the author wants to make sure that my name appears somewhere, in order to give appropiate credit to my work and asked me to check what's the appropiate way to do it. The thing is, I'm very new at translating academic papers.
Considering that the author is providing her name rig... See more Hello!
I'm doing my first stabs on what, I hope, will be a regular kind of work for me: translation of academic texts. Right now, I'm working on a philosophy paper, intended to be published, and the author wants to make sure that my name appears somewhere, in order to give appropiate credit to my work and asked me to check what's the appropiate way to do it. The thing is, I'm very new at translating academic papers.
Considering that the author is providing her name right below the name of the paper, what should I write? (I guess that "Translated by XYZ" should be enough) and where should I write it? (surely below the author's name)
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| | | | Piyush Ojha 
United Kingdom
Local time: 22:39
English to Hindi
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| Credit for translation in the Acknowledgements section | Nov 13, 2014 |
Academic papers normally contain an 'Acknowledgements' section near the end. That's where credit for translation should be given: 'I am grateful to XYZ for translating this paper from the original {language name}'.
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| | | | | Don't hide your light under a bushel! | Nov 13, 2014 |
If it's for a journal, they may have their own guidelines. Otherwise, I would put it immediately below the author's name, perhaps in a smaller font or in italics.
| | | | Sheri P
United States
Local time: 17:39
French to English
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| In a footnote or endnote | Nov 13, 2014 |
I agree with Phil that each journal may have its own guidelines.
In my case, whenever I've been acknowledged as the translator of an academic paper (in the social sciences), it has always been in the first footnote or endnote of the paper. The note has been marked with an asterisk or other symbol to set it off from the other (numbered or lettered) notes. The note marker has generally appeared at the beginning of the paper, usually right after the title.
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| Lots of different ways! | Nov 13, 2014 |
This is extremely clarifying. I'll talk with her and see what and how can we do this, considering the journal's requirements.
| | | | | This very much depends on a journal's policy | Nov 15, 2014 |
Never count on them publishing your name right after the author's name. I ran into this problem once, when I translated a paper, and the author wanted very much to include my name - they even agreed with the journal that my name would be published, but in the end it was still discarded and never appeared in print.
So I agree with the others - using footnotes/endnotes or an acknowledgement section is definitely a good idea. Also, if your author wants to use an acknowledgement section... See more Never count on them publishing your name right after the author's name. I ran into this problem once, when I translated a paper, and the author wanted very much to include my name - they even agreed with the journal that my name would be published, but in the end it was still discarded and never appeared in print.
So I agree with the others - using footnotes/endnotes or an acknowledgement section is definitely a good idea. Also, if your author wants to use an acknowledgement section, I would always check with the editors first, because I can easily think of a scenario, where they would not want to include such section ("It does not suit our format", "It does not fit into the word limit", "We could not fit it on the page", etc.). However, I doubt that any decent journal would simply discard an author's note without any warning. ▲ Collapse
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