Terminology | International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Issues in Specialized Communication
Terminology is an independent journal with a cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary scope. It focuses on the discussion of (systematic) solutions not only of language problems encountered in translation, but also, for example, of (monolingual) problems of ambiguity, reference and developments in multidisciplinary communication. Particular attention will be given to new and developing subject areas such as knowledge representation and transfer, information technology tools, expert systems and terminological databases. Terminology encompasses terminology both in general (theory and practice) and in specialized fields (LSP), such as physics; biomedical sciences; technology; engineering; humanities; management; law; arts; business administration; trade; corporate identity; economics; methodology; and any other area in which terminology is essential to improve communication.
Terminology publishes its articles Online First.
For more information on terminology, see also the TermNet newsletter.
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Issues
Online-first articlesVolume 30 (2024)
Volume 29 (2023)
Volume 28 (2022)
Volume 27 (2021)
Volume 26 (2020)
Volume 25 (2019)
Volume 24 (2018)
Volume 23 (2017)
Volume 22 (2016)
Volume 21 (2015)
Volume 20 (2014)
Volume 19 (2013)
Volume 18 (2012)
Volume 17 (2011)
Volume 16 (2010)
Volume 15 (2009)
Volume 14 (2008)
Volume 13 (2007)
Volume 12 (2006)
Volume 11 (2005)
Volume 10 (2004)
Volume 9 (2003)
Volume 8 (2002)
Volume 7 (2001)
Volume 6 (2000)
Volume 5 (1998/99)
Volume 4 (1997)
Volume 3 (1996)
Volume 2 (1995)
Volume 1 (1994)
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General information about our electronic journals.
Subscription rates
All prices for print + online include postage/handling.
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Volume 31 (2025): 2 issues; ca. 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volume 30 (2024): 2 issues; ca. 300 pp. | EUR |
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Individuals may apply for a special online-only subscription rate of EUR
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Available back-volumes
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Complete backset (Vols. 1‒29; 1994‒2023) |
58 issues; 8,700 pp. |
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Volume 29 (2023) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volumes 26‒28 (2020‒2022) | 2 issues; avg. 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volume 25 (2019) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volume 24 (2018) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volume 23 (2017) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volume 22 (2016) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volume 21 (2015) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volume 20 (2014) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volume 19 (2013) | 2 issues; 300 pp. | EUR |
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Volumes 1‒18 (1994‒2012) | 2 issues; avg. 300 pp. | EUR |
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Guidelines
- Contributions should preferably be in English. If not written by a native speaker of English it is advisable to have the paper checked by a native speaker. Articles in French, Spanish or German will also be considered.
- Authors wishing to submit articles for publication in TERMINOLOGY are requested to do so through the journal’s online submission and manuscript tracking site. Please consult the Short Guide to EM for Authors before you submit your paper. Articles should not exceed 9,000 words (excluding references). The length of the paper excluding references should be explicitly stated in the manuscript submitting menu in EM under Author Comments.
- COPYRIGHT: Authors are responsible for observing the laws of copyright when quoting or reproducing material. The copyright of articles published in TERMINOLOGY is held by the Publisher. Permission for the author to use the article elsewhere will be granted by the Publisher providing full acknowledgement is given to the source.
- Papers should be reasonably divided into sections and, if necessary, sub-sections.
- SPELLING should be British English or American English and should be consistent throughout the paper, unless the paper is in French, Spanish or German.
- 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. Please make sure that these have a minimum resolution of 300 dpi when resized to the book page. Reference to any graphics should be made in the main text and an indication should be given where they should appear approximately.
- TABLES should be numbered consecutively and should be referred to in the main text.
- NOTES should be kept to an absolute minimum. Note indicators in the text should appear at the end of sentences or phrases, and follow the respective punctuation marks.
- FUNDING INFORMATION should be provided if funding was received through a grant for the research that is discussed in the article, including funder name and grant number, in a separate section called "Funding information" before (an Acknowledgment section and) the References.
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS (other than funding information, see above) should be added in a separate, unnumbered section entitled "Acknowledgments", placed before the References.
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REFERENCES: It is essential that the references are formatted to the specifications given in these guidelines, as these cannot be formatted automatically. This journal uses the ‘Author-Date’ style as described in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
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). All references in the text should appear in the references section.
References section: References should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically. The section should include all (and only!) references that are actually mentioned in the text.
A note on capitalization in titles. For titles in English, CMS uses headline-style capitalization. In titles and subtitles, capitalize the first and last words, and all other major words (nouns, pronouns, verbs, adjectives, adverbs, some conjunctions). Do not capitalize articles; prepositions (unless used adverbially or adjectivally, or as part of a Latin expression used adverbially or adjectivally); the conjunctions and, but, for, or, nor; to as part of an infinitive; as in any grammatical function; parts of proper names that would be lower case in normal text; the second part of a species name. For more details and examples, consult the Chicago Manual of Style. For any other languages, and English translations of titles given in square brackets, CMS uses sentence-style capitalization: capitalization as in normal prose, i.e., the first word in the title, the subtitle, and any proper names or other words normally given initial capitals in the language in question.Examples
Book:
Görlach, Manfred. 2003. English Words Abroad. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Spear, Norman E., and Ralph R. Miller (eds). 1981. Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Article (in book):
Adams, Clare A., and Anthony Dickinson. 1981. “Actions and Habits: Variation in Associative Representation during Instrumental Learning.” In Information Processing in Animals: Memory Mechanisms, ed. by Norman E. Spear, and Ralph R. Miller, 143–186. Hillsdale, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum.
Article (in journal):
Claes, Jeroen, and 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.
Rayson, Paul, Geoffrey N. Leech, and Mary Hodges. 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.
- AFFILIATIONS: Please include in the article itself, below the title, a list of all authors in the order in which they should appear in the publication and for each author:
- Name(s) as they should appear in the publication.
- Affiliation(s): Please use the name that your institution (at the highest level, usually the name of the university) has established for international usage, either in English, or in one of the official languages of the institution. If your article is written in a language other than English and not one of the languages for which your institution has established an official name, do not translate the name yourself; if your institution has a name that is not unique in the world (in English), please add as much information as is needed -- city, country -- to allow for identification. If you have more than one affiliation, please provide each affiliation separated by '&'.
- ORCID, if available. - 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 allocated to a forthcoming issue and the first author will receive page proofs by email in PDF format for final correction by email in PDF format. These must be returned with corrections 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.
- Authors will receive a complimentary copy of the issue in which their paper appears.
Submission
Terminology offers online submission .
Before submitting, please consult the guidelines and the Short Guide to EM for Authors .
If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors via e-mail: kyop.u-tokyo.ac.jp and/or Rita.Temmermanvub.be
Ethics
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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.
Call for Papers
Call for Papers
Call for Papers on Computational Terminology | Special Issue – Terminology 31 (1)
Call for Papers on Terminology beyond Terms | Special Issue – Terminology 32 (1)