Guidelines

Language

Contributions are to be in English and have to be carefully proofread, preferably by an expert, prior to submission. Spelling should be British English or American English and should be consistent throughout the paper.

Style requirements

We do not require manuscripts submitted to IJLCR to conform to our stylesheet before acceptance. Manuscripts accepted for publication will have to conform to the IJLCR stylesheet. In general, the journal adheres to the recommendations of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (APA), 7th edition.

Length

Research article, replication study, review article, shared task report: between 7,000 and 10,000 words including references

Corpus report, materials & methods report, software report: between 4,000 and 7,500 words including references

Position paper: Between 2,500 and 7,500 words including references

If you have good reasons to submit a manuscript that does not adhere to the length requirements specified above, please get in touch with the editors or state them in the cover letter.

Anonymization and manuscript blinding

When referring to one’s own previous work, authors should cite their own work as if citing the work of others; the wording should not indicate in any way that the author also authored the previous work. Rather than “In our previous work (Paquot & Plonsky, 2017), we found….”, the reference should say “Paquot & Plonsky (2017) found…" This includes published work as well as work that is in press or in FirstView. Please do not refer to research that is still “in review”.

Data Availability Statements

The author(s) are requested to include a Data Availability Statement at the end of their manuscript, i.e. they are required to specify whether or not their data is available and in which way.

Data Citation

IJLCR endorses the FORCE11 Data Citation Principles and is implementing a mandatory data citation policy. When citing or making claims based on available corpora (or other datasets), authors must refer to the corpus/data at the relevant place in the manuscript text and in addition provide a formal citation in the reference list. See the Tromsø recommendations for citation of research data in linguistics for more info (https://doi.org/10.15497/rda00040).

Reporting corpus research findings

Manuscripts considered for publication will, among other things, be reviewed for their rigorous presentation and analysis of corpus data, and expert use of appropriate research methods.

In addition to the latest edition of the APA publication manual, authors are encouraged to consult Gries & Paquot (2020) for specific recommendations for how to write about the data and methods used and how to report the results of a corpus linguistic study.

Gries, S. Th. & M. Paquot (2020). Writing up a corpus-linguistic paper. In M. Paquot & S. Th. Gries (eds.). Practical Handbook of Corpus Linguistics. Berlin & New York: Springer, 647-659. (copy of the article available upon request from the editors)

If the study also includes experimental, quasi-experimental, survey/questionnaire, and other primary research approaches that rely on the quantification of observations, authors are also referred to:

Norris, J. M., Plonsky, L., Ross, S. J., & Schoonen, R. (2015). Guidelines for reporting quantitative methods and results in primary research. Language Learning, 65(2), 470–476. https://doi.org/10.1111/lang.12104