Guidelines

Contributions should be in English. If not written by a native speaker of English it is advisable to have the paper checked by a native speaker.

All manuscripts should be accompanied by an abstract (150–200 words).

MANUSCRIPTS should be submitted in triplo, double spaced, with margins of 3 cm all round. Upon acceptance the author will be requested to send the final version on disk (Macintosh compatible — preferably in Word), accompanied by two print-outs of the text.

Papers should be reasonably divided into sections and, if necessary, sub-sections.

SPELLING should be either British or American English consistently throughout.

Line drawings (FIGURES) and photographs (PLATES) should be submitted in camera-ready form. They should be numbered consecutively, with appropriate captions. Reference to any Figures or Plates should be made in the main text and their desired position should be indicated on the printout.

TABLES should be numbered consecutively and provided with appropriate captions. They should be referred to in the main text and their desired position should be indicated on the printout.

QUOTATIONS should be given in double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 4 lines should be indented with one line space above and below the quoted text.

EXAMPLES should be numbered with Arabic numerals in parentheses and set apart from the main body of the text with one line space above and below. Examples from languages other than English should be underlined (or italicized) and there should be a translation in single quotes immediately below each such example. If necessary, a word-by-word gloss (without quotes) may be provided between the example phrase and the translation.

FOOTNOTES should be kept to a minimum. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the text in square brackets or superscript. They should be listed in a section ‘Notes’ following the main text. They should start on a new page. The Notes should not contain reference material if this can be absorbed in the text and References list.

FUNDING INFORMATION should be provided if funding was received through a grant for the research that is discussed in the article, including funder name and grant number, in a separate section called "Funding information" before (an Acknowledgment section and) the References.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (other than funding information, see above) should be added in a separate, unnumbered section entitled "Acknowledgments", placed before the References.

REFERENCES: It is essential that the references are formatted to the specifications given in these guidelines, as these cannot be formatted automatically. This book series uses the ‘Author-Date’ style as described in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
References in the text: These should be as precise as possible, giving page references where necessary; for example (Clahsen 1991, 252) or: as in Brown et al. (1991, 252). All references in the text should appear in the references section.
References section: References should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically. The section should include all (and only!) references that are actually mentioned in the text.
A note on capitalization in titles. For titles in English, CMS uses headline-style capitalization. In titles and subtitles, capitalize the first and last words, and all other major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, some conjunctions). Do not capitalize articles; prepositions (unless used adverbially or adjectivally, or as part of a Latin expression used adverbially or adjectivally); the conjunctions and, but, for, or, nor; to as part of an infinitive; as in any grammatical function; parts of proper names that would be lower case in normal text; the second part of a species name. For more details and examples, consult the Chicago Manual of Style. For any other languages, and English translations of titles given in square brackets, CMS uses sentence-style capitalization: capitalization as in normal prose, i.e., the first word in the title, the subtitle, and any proper names or other words normally given initial capitals in the language in question.

Examples

Book:

Görlach, Manfred. 2003. English Words Abroad. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Spear, Norman E., and Ralph R. Miller (eds). 1981. Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Article (in book):

Adams, Clare A., and Anthony Dickinson. 1981. “Actions and Habits: Variation in Associative Representation during Instrumental Learning.” In Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms, ed. by Norman E. Spear, and Ralph R. Miller, 143–186. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Article (in journal):

Claes, Jeroen, and Luis A. Ortiz López. 2011. “Restricciones pragmáticas y sociales en la expresión de futuridad en el español de Puerto Rico [Pragmatic and social restrictions in the expression of the future in Puerto Rican Spanish].” Spanish in Context 8: 50–72.

Rayson, Paul, Geoffrey N. Leech, and Mary Hodges. 1997. “Social Differentiation in the Use of English Vocabulary: Some Analyses of the Conversational Component of the British National Corpus.” International Journal of Corpus Linguistics 2 (1): 120–132.

Authors are kindly requested to check their manuscripts very carefully before submission in order to avoid delays and extra costs at the proof stage. Once a paper is accepted for publication, it will be allocated to a forthcoming issue and the author will receive two copies of page proofs of his/her contribution for final correction. These must be returned with corrections by the dates determined by the publication schedule. Any author’s alterations other than typographical corrections in the page proofs may be charged to the author at the Publisher’s discretion.

First named contributors will receive one complimentary copy of the volume in which their contribution appears, plus a clean copy of their contribution, which they may copy freely for their own use.

Manuscripts and all editorial correspondence should be sent to:

Timothy Colleman
Universiteit Gent, Vakgroep taalkunde
Blandijnberg 2
B-9000 Gent, Belgium
E-mail: timothy.collemanUGent.be