Guidelines

Submissions to LAB should consist of original work that has not been previously published and is not under consideration for publication elsewhere. LAB will consider submissions that make novel theoretical or empirical contributions to one or more of the areas and domains within the remit of LAB, as laid out on the website. Consideration will only be given to papers conforming to the following requirements:

1. Contributions must be in English and spelling should be either American English or British English and should be consistent throughout the paper. If not written by a native speaker, please have the paper proof-read prior to submission. There will be no further language proofing after acceptance.
2. All submissions need to be accompanied by a cover letter. In the cover letter, authors need to:
   - Explain how the submission fits the remit of LAB.
   - Outline the novelty of the submission and its theoretical and/or empirical contribution.
   - Provide five highlights of the submission that outline the core findings of the submission. Highlights consist of 3 to 5 bullet points (maximum 85 characters, including spaces, per bullet point).
   - Address all points required in the section “Research standards and public availability of study data, and code”.
3. All manuscripts need to conform to the APA7 guidelines and to the LAB style sheet, or they will be returned to the authors. Please consult the style sheet for more information.
4. Manuscripts should be submitted through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site.
5. If you are unable to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors: editoriallabjournal.org.

Research standards and public availability of data and code

LAB looks for high standards of research, including samples with enough statistical power to test the hypotheses, appropriate methods of statistical analysis, and public availability of data. In your cover letter provided during the submission process, please indicate how these standards have been achieved. At a minimum, you should provide information on your choice of statistical analysis and how you have made available public and free access to a repository with the data used for the analysis, and analysis code.

In cases where authors do not own data or code, please state where and how readers can access these elements (anonymized during the review process). In cases where authors cannot share data due to participant privacy concerns or other issues, provide a clear explanation of why the data cannot be sufficiently anonymized for the purpose of responsible sharing, and/or why they are otherwise not shareable. All manuscripts submitted will be subject to an initial check to make sure that the above requirements are met. Missing, incomplete, or otherwise inadequate information will lead to administrative rejection of the manuscript.

LAB accepts links to trusted online repositories, such as the Open Science Framework, Dataverse, a university repository, or other database on the Registry of Research Data Repositories.

To ensure author anonymity during the review process, authors must ensure that the material shared in repositories does not reveal author identity. This can be achieved, for instance, through OSF's review only link option.

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 openaccessbenjamins.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.