Submission

Guidelines

The International Journal of Corpus Linguistics is a peer-reviewed journal and referees will assess submissions with regard to originality, significance, academic rigour, and presentation of argument. Manuscripts submitted to the International Journal of Corpus Linguistics should not at the same time be under consideration for publication elsewhere.

Full research papers should not exceed 9,000 words (including tables and references). Short papers which introduce new corpora or provide technical descriptions of tools and annotation schemes, should be between 2,000 and 4,000 words in length (including tables and references).

Manuscripts of articles and reviews must be prepared in accordance with the style sheet.

Submission

Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal's online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please upload both a word (.doc) and PDF version of your manuscript.

Please consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper.

Ethics

John Benjamins journals are committed to maintaining the highest standards of publication ethics and to supporting ethical research practices.

Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement .

Please also note the guidance on the use of (generative) AI in the statement.

Rights and Permissions

Authors must ensure that they have permission to use any third-party material in their contribution; the permission should include perpetual (not time-limited) world-wide distribution in print and electronic format.

For information on authors' rights, please consult the rights information page.

Open Access

Articles accepted for this journal can be made Open Access through payment of an Article Publication Charge (APC) of EUR 1800 (excl. tax). To arrange this, please contact openaccess at benjamins.nl once your paper has been accepted for publication. More information can be found on the publisher's Open Access Policy page.

Corresponding authors from institutions with which John Benjamins has a Read & Publish arrangement can publish Open Access without paying a fee. Please consult this list of institutions for up-to-date information on which articles qualify.

For information about permission to post a version of your article online or in an institutional repository ('green' open access or self-archiving), please consult the rights information page.

If the article is not (to be made) Open Access, there is no fee for the author to publish in this journal.

Archiving

John Benjamins Publishing Company has an agreement in place with Portico for the archiving of all its online journals and e-books.

Contact

If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editorial team:

Editor:
Michaela Mahlberg, michaela.mahlberg at fau.de
FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg,  DHSS (Department of Digital Humanities and Social Studies), Werner-von-Siemens-Str. 61, 91052 Erlangen, Germany

For general enquiries:
Gavin Brookes, g.brookes at lancaster.ac.uk

For the production process of accepted papers:
Natalie Finlayson, n.e.finlayson at bham.ac.uk

Reviews editor:
Beatrix Busse, ijcl-reviews at uni-koeln.de
Universität zu Köln, Albertus-Magnus-Platz, D-50923 Köln, Germany