Guidelines

1. 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 All submissions must be original, unpublished, and not under the review of any other publication. 

2. All manuscripts should be accompanied by a biographical note (50–75 words) and an abstract that includes the main key words (100–150 words), as well as your address and e-mail. Maximum length of submissions: for articles: 8,000 words; for book reviews: 2,400 words. Longer contributions may be accepted exceptionally if the submission justifies it.

3. MANUSCRIPTS should be typed double spaced, with margins of 3 cm all round. Electronic submissions are strongly encouraged in a standard format, preferably in Word.

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

5. SPELLING should be either British or American English consistently throughout.

6. Line drawings (FIGURES) and photographs (PLATES) should be submitted as EPS or TIFF files (300 dpi or higher), or as reproducible originals. 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 clearly on the hard copy.

7. 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 in the file.

8. 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.

9. 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 italicized and there should be a translation in single quotes immediately below each such example. A word-by-word gloss may be provided between the example phrase and the translation.

10. FOOTNOTES should be kept to a minimum. They should be numbered consecutively throughout the text. The footnotes should not contain reference material if this can be absorbed in the text and References list.

11. REFERENCES: in the text should be as precise as possible, giving page references where necessary; for example: (Brown, 1989, p. 252). All references in the text should appear in the References section following the Notes.

12. The REFERENCES section should follow the NOTES and should start on a new page. References should be listed (1) alphabetically and (2) chronologically. Names of Journals should be given in full with page references. Please pay special attention to the use of capitals, italics and punctuation marks as given in the following examples, according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.):

Examples

Book:
Görlach, M. (2003). English words abroad. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.

Spear,  N. E., & Miller, R. R. (Eds.). (1981). Information processing in animals: Memory
      mechanisms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.

Article (in book):
Adams, C. A., & Dickinson, A. (1981). Actions and habits: Variation in associative
      representation during instrumental learning. In N. E. Spear & R. R. Miller (Eds.),
      Information processing in animals: Memory mechanisms (pp. 143-186). Hillsdale, NJ:
      Erlbaum.

Article (in journal):
Claes, J., & Ortiz López, L. A. (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, P., Leech, G. N., & Hodges, M. (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.

13. 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 published online at benjamins.com/catalog/rcl.ofa. For this purpose, the corresponding author will receive page proofs in PDF format by email for correction. Later on, the paper will be allocated to a forthcoming issue for final publication.
Corresponding authors must return the corrected proofs 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.