Guidelines
Before submitting, please consult these guidelines. It is not essential that your manuscript follow all the rules of this style sheet on first submission. However, if your paper is accepted for publication, your paper must be changed accordingly.
Files
Electronic files
Please make sure that you supply all text and graphic files of the final version of your contribution. Please delete any personal comments/notes.
Files in Word are preferred, but our typesetters can convert almost anything. If, for some reason, a different format is required than supplied, we will contact you. For submissions in LATEX, please supply all associated files (.sty, .bib).
Any graphics created in Word (or Excel) can remain in the text and do not require special action. Graphics that have been created in another program, such as special purpose graphics software, and any other illustrations, should be supplied separately. For photos or plates, a resolution of at least 300 dpi (preferably 600 dpi), at the required size, is recommended.
"Hard copy"
Additionally, please provide PDF files with embedded fonts. During the production process the PDFs are referenced by the typesetter as "hard copy" to help solve problems in the files, such as conversion errors, distorted tables, lost graphs, etc.
File naming convention
When naming the files please use a clear and consistent file naming convention, that allows us and the typesetters to identify the article/review easily. We suggest using the (first) author’s surname. E.g., for an article or review written by Joe Johnson, the files should be named johnson.docx, johnson.pdf. Figures can be named as follows johnson-fig1.eps, johnson-fig2.jpg, etc.
Additional materials
If your article has associated (audio-visual) materials or datasets, the text of the article should refer to those and clearly show with which figure/table etc. that material is associated. Please provide the files and a list containing the name of each associated file, its type, size, and caption/description.
If the additional files are hosted elsewhere, a link – preferably a persistent URL, such as DOI – should be supplied. This hosting location should ideally be permanent, such as an institutional or subject repository, rather than a personal website. Include the reference and link to those external materials in the text of your article and/or listed under 'Appendix', and as a reference in the reference section.
Language
This journal publishes in English and German.
If not written by a highly proficient user of the language, it is advisable to have the paper checked by a native speaker or highly proficient language user prior to submission. Papers in English should use either American English or British English spelling consistently throughout the paper.
Any notational conventions for a particular subfield should be used consistently.
Elements of the article
Order
Title: Subtitle
Author’s Name (on separate cover sheet at initial, blind submission)
Author’s Affiliation (on separate cover sheet at initial, blind submission)
Abstract
Keywords
Article text
(Funding information)
(Acknowledgments)
(End
notes, if applicable)
References
(Appendix)
Address for correspondence (on separate cover sheet at initial, blind submission)
Dates Received/(Revised/)Accepted
Title and subtitle
If the article has a subtitle, this should be separated from the title by a colon (unless the main title ends with a question or exclamation mark).
The title and subtitle should use sentence case; that is, only the first character (of the main and of the subtitle) is capitalized, except for proper nouns and other words which are generally capitalized by a more specific rule.
If your contribution is a book review , use the following format for the ‘title’ of the review:
Review of Klaus-Uwe Panther & Günter Radden (eds.) Motivation in grammar and the lexicon (Human Cognitive Processing, 27). Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 2011. vii, 306 pp. DOI: 10.1075/hcp.27
Review of Philip Seargeant. Exploring World Englishes: Language in a global context. London & New York: Routledge, 2012. xiv, 218 pp.
Review of English Accent Coach <www.englishaccentcoach.com>. Developed by Ron Thomson.
We advise against including ISBNs, price information and URLs (unless for online resources), and strongly favor including the DOI as a permanent link to the book and its authoritative metadata.
Author’s/reviewer’s name and affiliation
Provide all authors’ names in the order in which they are to appear in the publication. In case of an article with multiple authors, one author must be identified as the corresponding author.
The affiliation(s) provided for each author should be the affiliation(s) current at the time of doing the research and writing the article. The affiliation should be only the name of the university or institution in the form that the relevant institution itself has decided upon for international use, and the country of that institution.
In case of a book review, the reviewer’s name is preceded by ‘Reviewed by’.
Please also provide the ORCID (digital identifier for researchers, https://orcid.org) for all authors who have one.
Abstract
Each article should start off with an abstract of up to 120 words. An abstract should be maximally informative, use the active voice, and include the 4 or 5 most important key words, findings, or implications. It should objectively reflect the purpose and content of the paper. Abstracts should be self-contained: define abbreviations and unique terms, spell out names, and give reference to the context in which the paper should be viewed (e.g., it builds on the author’s previous work, or responds to another publication).
Key words
The abstract should be followed by a list of up to 10 key words, separated by commas, that indicate the most important topics, languages or language families, methods and/or frameworks used in the article.
Section headings
Articles should be reasonably divided into sections and, if necessary, into subsections. Please mark the hierarchy of subheadings as follows:
Heading 1 = bold, two lines space above
and one line space below.
Heading 1.1 = normal, one line space above and one line space below.
Heading 1.1.1 = italics, one line space above, text on new line.
Heading 1.1.1.1 = italics, one line space above, text on new line.
NB. This fourth level is only to be used if absolutely indispensable.
Funding information
If you received funding through a grant for the research that is discussed in the article, provide details on this, including funder name and grant number in a separate section called “Funding information” before (an Acknowledgment section and) the References.
Acknowledgments
We prefer the use of an acknowledgment section at the end of an article, instead of an acknowledgment (foot)note. Acknowledgments of assistance, permissions, etc., other than funding (see above), can be included in this section.
Notes
Notes should be kept to a minimum and not be used for references. Note indicators in the text should appear at the end of sentences, preferably, and follow punctuation marks. If possible, please use the (foot)note option of your word processing program. Notes can be supplied as either footnotes or end notes and will be formatted by the typesetters as either depending on the style of the journal.
Appendixes
Appendixes should follow the references section. Please refer to the appendix in the main text.
If the appendix consists of additional materials that are not included in the (print edition of) the article itself, and the files are to be hosted and made available by us, please provide with your article and those files also a separate list containing the file name of each associated file, its type, and caption/description.
Address for correspondence
Please include in the article/book review the full address and email address of the corresponding author. For reasons of privacy, we suggest that this should never be a home address, as this address will be included in the published article.
Formatting
Please use a minimum of page settings. The preferred setting is 12pt with at least 14pt line spacing. The only relevant codes are those pertaining to font enhancements (italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc.), punctuation, and the format of the references.
Symbols and special characters
Please use Unicode fonts! If you have to use characters that are not available in Unicode, please make sure that you supply the font with your article.
Emphasis and foreign words
Use italics for foreign words, highlighting, and emphasis. Bold should be used only for highlighting within italics and for headings. Please refrain from the use of FULL CAPS (except for focal stress and abbreviations) and underlining (except for highlighting within examples, as an alternative for boldface).
Quotations
Text quotations in the main text should be given in double quotation marks. Quotations longer than 3 lines should have a blank line above and below and a left indent, without quotation marks, and with the appropriate reference to the source.
For terms or expressions (e.g., “context of situation”) please use double quotes. For translations of cited forms use single quotes.
Listings
Should not be indented. If numbered, please number as follows:
1. ..................... or a. .......................
2. ..................... or b. .......................
Listings that run on with the main text should be numbered in parentheses: (1).............., (2)............., etc.
Examples
Should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc.) in parentheses and indented. Each subsequent level in the example (a), (b) gets one indent. If the glosses should be aligned in the final product, please also align them, with spaces or tabs, in the file and hard copy/PDF submitted for production.
(3) a.
Ed en Floor
gaan
samen-wonen
Ed and Floor
go together-live.INF
‘Ed
and Floor are going to live together’
b.
Maarten en Stefanie
zijn uit
elkaar
Maarten and
Stefanie
be out RECP
‘Maarten
and Stefanie have split up’
Glosses
For translations of cited forms in the text use single quotes. E.g., voorbeeld ‘example’. For detailed conventions for interlinear morpheme-by-morpheme glosses, please refer to https://www.eva.mpg.de/lingua/resources/glossing-rules.php.
Full caps for abbreviations in glosses will be changed to small caps during typesetting.
Tables, figures and plates
Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively per article, and be provided with concise captions (max. 240 characters).
All figures and tables should be referenced in the text, e.g. (see Figure 5). References should not be limited to relative indicators such as “as in the table below”, or “in this table: ...”.
If the table or figure is not enclosed in the text file, indicate the preferred position of the table or figure in the text by inserting a line “
Insert (file name) here” at the appropriate position.
The typesetters will place the table/figure at the optimal location given the lay-out of the relevant page, taking into account heading and notes etc. Tables/figures may thus be placed at either the top or bottom of the page on which it is mentioned, or on the following (facing) page.
Tables, figures and plates can be submitted in color, where needed. In tables, keep shading to a functional minimum and for individual cells only.
All tables, plates, and figures eventually have to fit the following maximum area, either portrait or landscape: 12 cm x 20 cm at a minimum resolution of 300 dpi (600 dpi preferred).
Notes in tables and figures should not be regular notes. Please use a table note or a figure note as in the example below. Standard note indicators in tables are *, **, or a, b, etc. The note itself is then inserted directly below the table/figure.
References
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).
References section
This journal uses the Unified Stylesheet for Linguistics.
The section should include all (and only!) references that are actually mentioned in the text. References should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically. Repeated names should not be replaced by dashes. Journal titles should be written out in full, not abbreviated.
Authors are encouraged to supply – with a reference, not instead of – the DOI if they happen to have that information readily available.
Use capitalization of all lexical words for journal titles and capitalize only the first word (plus proper names and the first word after a colon) for book/dissertation titles and article/chapter titles. The journal style for capitalization should also be applied to titles of book series.
Examples
Books:
Görlach, Manfred. 2003. English words abroad (Terminology and Lexicography Research and Practice 7). Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Hayashi, Makoto, Geoffrey Raymond & Jack Sidnell (eds.). 2013. Conversational repair and human understanding. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511757464
Stewart, Thomas W., Jr. 2000. Mutation as morphology : Bases, stems, and shapes in Scottish Gaelic. Columbus, OH: The Ohio State University dissertation.
Article in book:
Adams, Clare A. & Anthony Dickinson. 1981. Actions and habits: Variation in associative representation during instrumental learning. In Norman E. Spear & Ralph R. Miller (eds.), Information processing in animals: Memory mechanisms, 143–186. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Article in journal:
Claes, Jeroen & 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.
Pedersen, Johan. 2005. The Spanish impersonal se-construction: Constructional variation and change. Constructions 1, http://www.constructions-online.de. (3 April, 2007.)