Instructions for Authors
Please read the following guidelines carefully before submitting your paper. When your manuscript is ready to submit, please send it in Microsoft Word format using the online submission form.
General Manuscript Submission Guidelines
- Submissions should be prepared according to either the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition or MLA Handbook (9th ed.). Submissions will initially be checked for their conformity to APA style.
- Contributions must be in English. Spelling should be either American English or British English and should be consistent throughout the paper.
- All articles published in this journal are double-blind peer-reviewed. Thus, self-identifying citations and references in the article text and reference list should either be avoided or marked as AUTHOR (XXX) when manuscripts are first submitted. Authors are responsible for reinserting self-identifying citations and references when manuscripts are prepared for final submission after being accepted for publication in Language Issues.
- Authors are responsible for observing copyright laws when quoting or reproducing materials.
- The copyright of articles published in Language Issues is retained with the authors.
Manuscript Preparation
For initial submission, authors should submit their manuscript in electronic form in MS Word only, using Times New Roman, font size 12, double-spaced with 2.54 cm/1 inch margins on all sides. While The submissions must include the following sections:
- Title Page
The title page should present a concise and informative title of the article. It should include the author’s full name, institutional affiliation, postal address, telephone number and email address. In case of multiple authors, each name should appear on a separate line. One author should be designated as the corresponding author. Please give the affiliation where the research was conducted. Please note that the email address of the corresponding author will normally be displayed in the article. A biography of 50 words for each author should also be added.
- The Manuscript
The manuscript file should consist of the following sections in addition to the main text body presenting the argument in the article:
Abstract
Keywords
Acknowledgements (if any)
References
Appendices (if any)
(Tables and figures should appear in appropriate places in the body of the manuscript)
Abstract
The abstract should briefly summarize the aim, materials and method, data collection and analysis procedures, major findings, and conclusion of the article. The abstract should be no less than 150 and no more than 250 words. The abstract should not contain any undefined abbreviations or unspecified references. The abstract should be followed by 3 to 6 keywords, separated by commas. The keywords represent the main content of the article.
Manuscript
The manuscript should contain the body of the article. It should be double-spaced throughout and the new paragraphs should be indented. The manuscript should be divided into sections as regards the type of the article. Use a clear system of headings, preferably with not more than two levels of heading (please see APA guidelines for headings and subheadings). The reference list should start on a new page and it should be double-spaced with hanging indentation (all lines except the first one should be indented). The length of the manuscript can be between 6000 and 8000 words.
Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively and should appear in the body of the manuscript. Tables should be created with Word’s table function, not as spreadsheets.
Notes should appear as endnotes and should be concise, kept to a minimum, and numbered consecutively throughout the paper.
How to Submit, and the Review Policy
Since Language Issues uses a double-blind review system, it is essential that all author-identifying information be removed from the paper and that author information should only be provided in the title page. In case the author’s work is mentioned in the manuscript, replace the name with AUTHOR (XXX) in the text as well as in the reference list.
Before submitting your article to Language Issues make sure that you have adhered to all the guidelines given above. Submissions that do not conform to the journal’s guidelines will be returned to the authors for revision. Please be informed that this journal takes plagiarism very seriously and contributors are cautioned against this issue. Papers submitted to this journal should not have been published before in any form except as conference presentations, nor should they be submitted simultaneously to other journals.
This journal follows a rigorous reviewing policy. Each submitted paper is first evaluated for its style consistency after being checked for plagiarism. If found faulty or not appropriate, the paper will be returned to the author for further work and resubmission. Papers that meet initial submission criteria are then reviewed by at least two anonymous reviewers. A final decision is made on the status of the paper based on the reviewers’ comments. The final decision (which takes the form of Accept as it is; Accept with minor changes; Accept with major changes: Revise and Resubmit as a new paper; and Reject) will then be communicated to the corresponding author by the Editor. The journal editorial strives to keep the review process as short as possible (three to four months of the latest).
For accepted papers, by agreeing to publish their papers in Language Issues the authors grant copyright to the journal to exclusively publish their papers online at Language Issues website. Language Issues encourages the recirculation of the published articles for academic/research purposes by readers, as long as proper references are made.
Book Reviews must comply with the above-mentioned guidelines. They should minimally contain a summary of the contents of the book, a description of the domain in which the topic of the book is situated, and a critical discussion of the contribution the volume makes to the field.