Journal of Linguistics

Journal of Linguistics
The journal of the Linguistics Association of Great Britain published by Cambridge University Press.

Notes for Contributors

REVIEW ARTICLES

A review article: editorial statement

A review article should be a more substantial piece of work than a review. It should not just summarize the content of the book and provide an assessment of it. Rather it should seek to take up some of the ideas in the book and take the debate forward either by extending them in some way or by taking issue with them. The review article should also seek to situate the book in its wider linguistic context by referring to other literature within the sub-field. Potentially, a review article is as important a contribution to the field as an ordinary article. For this reason, all review articles will be refereed before publication, so as an author you should expect to receive comments and suggestions for changes, and should be prepared to revise your initial draft before publication, and to do so within a reasonable time-frame.

THE PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Please follow the guidelines below in the preparation of your manuscript for publication. The guidelines incorporate advice from the publisher and the printer of JL, the Cambridge University Press.

GENERAL

1. Two double-spaced hard copies of the final version of the manuscript must be submitted, accompanied by an exact electronic copy of the article formatted on a PC/Windows (strongly preferred) or a Mac. The file(s) should be saved in the author's usual word-processor format, and the name and version of the programme noted on the diskette. If, for any reason, an electronic copy of an article cannot be supplied, please contact the Managing Editor, Ewa Jaworska.

2. Authors who use LaTeX or TeX for their files, please contact the Managing Editor.

3. Proofs of all articles will be sent to their authors to correct. In the case of co-authored articles, the proofs will be sent to the first-named author, unless requested otherwise. Authors will be informed of the expected date of the arrival of the proofs, which will be sent to their usual addresses. Please inform the Managing Editor of any changes of address of more than a few days during the proof production period. The proofs should be corrected within three days or receipt and returned -- together with the original manuscript -- immediately, by airmail if from overseas, to the Managing Editor.

STYLE AND FORMATTING

The specific style and formatting requirements listed below are to facilitate a smooth conversion of text from disk to the printing programme. Please note that if the hard copy is too heavily marked for correction by the copy-editor, then the text will be keyed in manually. This may be a source of new typographic and other errors in the printed version. The Editors reserve the right to return a manuscript asking for an improved format, which may result in a delay in publication.

1. Pagination and organization of the manuscript. Insert page number in the top right corner of every page. Number continuously throughout the article main text, references, author's address and -- if applicable -- footnotes and artwork samples (diagrams, tables, charts, etc.; please see section 15 below). The various components of the manuscript are to follow in the order just given. The title page should be separate and include the following items: the heading 'review article', the title of the article, author's name and author's affiliation, and the full bibliographic details of the book(s) under review. The following example illustrates the general content, font and layout pattern. Please note that the acknowledgements footnote is marked with a superscript '1' at the end of the title and that the top line is near the top of the page, not around the middle.

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REVIEW ARTICLE

Article title¹

AUTHOR'S NAME

Author's affiliation

Author's First Name Surname, Title of the book (Title of the Book Series in Roman with Capitals for Common Nouns 25). Place: Publisher, Year. Pp. xx+000.

Second Book's Author's as above, Title of the book (Title of the Book Series in Roman with Capitals for Common Nouns 26). Place: Publisher, Year. Pp. xx+000.

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The rest of the page should be left blank for copy-editing purposes.

2. Referring to the book(s).

Preferably, the name of a single author or editor of a book under review is given in full at each mention, rather than abbreviated. However, the names of two or more authors or editors are abbreviated thus: 'Chomsky & Halle 1968 (henceforth C&H)'. Please note the use of the ampersand (&) and the lack of spaces in the abbreviation. Alternatively, the book under review may be referred to by an abbreviation of the title, e.g. 'The book The origins of complex language by Andrew Carstairs-McCarthy (henceforth OCL) …'. Please note that the abbreviation is not in italic.

Page references to passages in or quotations from the book under review are given in parentheses as bare numerals, e.g. (39), not (p. 39). Please note that the full stop immediately follows (not precedes) the page reference if this appears at the end of a sentence, thus: … the author notes that 'the problem becomes tractable' (39).

3. Typographic conventions. Please refer to section 16 below for recommendations on the use of various typefaces.

4. Spacing and margins. Double-space throughout. Leave 4cms/1.5" margins on all four sides of all the pages. Except for the first paragraph of a new section or subsection, the first line of every new paragraph is indented, as is show in section 5 below. Please do not mark paragraph boundaries by extra line spacing.

5. Section and subsection headings. These should be typed on separate lines, numbered and punctuated as in the following example:

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1. Phonological structure <small capitals or lower-case+double underline>

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1.1 Metrical phonology

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1.1.1 Metrical grids

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6. Style. Contributors should be sensitive to the social implications of language choice and seek wording free of discriminatory overtones in matters such as race, gender and religion. The style of writing should be non-elliptical. This means that abbreviations of rule names, languages, etc. are to be kept to an absolute minimum. If abbreviations of less common technical terms are used extensively in an article, they should be set out clearly in a footnote or a glossary at the end of the article. Likewise, natural data sources (e.g. from Old English texts or contemporary novels) should be clearly identified.

7. Spelling. Either British English or U.S. English conventions for spelling and expression should be followed consistently. In words with alternative -ize/-ise spellings either can be used, consistently throughout the text. Note, however, that analyze is acceptable only with U.S. spelling. Please run a spellchecker on the final draft just before printing.

8. Quotations. Quotations of less than 25 words should be included in single quotation marks in the running text. Any punctuation follows (not precedes) the closing quotation mark. Longer quotations are given as a separate paragraph (or paragraphs) on a new line, indented at the left margin throughout, without any quotation marks. There is no extra indent on the first line. All quotations must be given a page reference.

9. Short references in text. The author-date-page format is used for short mentions of works listed in full in the references section at the end of the article. If a list of short references is given, they are ordered chronologically, not alphabetically, unless two or more works by different authors have the same year of publication. Some examples are given below:

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… set up by Zwicky (1977), Zwicky & Pullum (1983) and Miller (1992) …

… an abstract level of analysis (see Seuren 1985: 295-313).

… but see a brief discussion in Hazout (1991: 123-129) …

… do not have this feature (see also Bauer 1997, Trudgill et al. 1998).

… some variety of Colloquial is used (Gair 1986: 324, 327ff.) …

Clitics, after Anderson (1992), are syntactic words which lack …

'… the word order is noun-subject-object' (Ritter 1991: 38).

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Please note especially: (i) no comma between author's name and year, (ii) a space between the colon and page number, (iii) the ampersand (&) immediately preceding the surname of the last co-author, (iv) no space and a full stop, respectively, before and after 'ff' (likewise, in '259f.'), (v) sentence-final punctuation follows the quotation mark and the page reference.

10. Footnotes (and references). Lists headed REFERENCES and FOOTNOTES (both headings in capitals and centred, no bold) should each start on a fresh page. Please see section 13 below for further instructions on references. Please do not place footnotes at the bottom of relevant text pages. All footnotes are endnotes in the manuscript. They should be double-spaced and numbered consecutively starting from number 1 (not an asterisk), even if the first footnote contains acknowledgements only. As far as is possible, the number and the length of footnotes should be kept to a minimum.

11. Numbered examples. Include all the example numbers and any letters in separate parentheses, and align the levels using word-processor tabs ((4) (a) John likes Mary. (NOT: 4 a., (4)a., etc.)). Example number begins flush with the left margin.

In the article text, examples should be normally referred to as (4a), (4b, c), (4b-e), (4)-(6) (not (4)(a), (4b) and (4c), (4)b-e, or (4-6)). Examples in footnotes should be numbered with small roman numerals, also in parentheses, e.g. (i), (ii), (iii).

12. Examples other than modern English. Sentences or sentence fragments in languages other than modern English which are set out as numbered examples are followed by a separate line of word-for-word (or morpheme-for-morpheme) gloss and a separate line of translation, all double-spaced. Glosses are fully aligned with the appropriate words (or morphemes) of the original. The translation is included in single quotation marks. Sentence punctuation is within the quotation marks. All the text in numbered examples is in roman type. If a part of a numbered example is to be highlighted, it is set in bold. Linguistic category labels appearing in the gloss are in small capitals.

A translation or a gloss of a non-English example in the running text immediately follows the example at its first occurrence, and is enclosed in single quotation marks, e.g. moja matka 'my mother' (nom, 3sg, fem). The grammatical category gloss, if present, is given in lower case roman type in parentheses, as shown, not in small capitals.

13. References. These start on a fresh page, immediately following the main body of the text. The heading 'references' is in capitals and centred, not in bold. The list is double-spaced throughout. Do not use lines or blank spaces for repeated names of authors -- always type the surname and the initial(s). If the first names of authors/editors are to be given in full, the convention must be followed consistently throughout the list. Note that the initial(s) or full first name(s) always follow(s) the surname. If an entry is longer than one line, indent the second and subsequent lines. In the case of joint authors or editors use the ampersand (&), not the word 'and'. Abbreviations are to be avoided, as, for example, in the case of journal titles (e.g. Journal of Linguistics, not JL).

Please follow the examples below (maintaining regular double-spacing throughout and indenting the second and subsequent lines of a longer entry).

Books
Surname, A. B. (1991). Title with capital letters only for first word and Proper Nouns (Title of a Book Series in Roman
and with Capitals for Content Words 23). Place: Publisher.
Surname, A. B. & Surname, C. D. (1991). Title as above (3rd edn.). Place: Publisher.
Surname, A. B., Surname, C. D. & Surname, E. F. (eds.) (1985-1991). Title as above (4 vols.). Place: Publisher.
Surname, X. Y., Surname, P. Q. & Surname S. T. (eds.) (1993). Title as above. Place: Publisher.

Articles in books and proceedings
Surname, A. B. (1991). Article title with capital letters only for first word and Proper Nouns. In Surname, C. D.,
Surname, E. F. & Surname, G. H. (eds.), Book or proceedings title as above. Place: Publisher. 000-000.

If two or more articles are cited from a single edited collection, please give a short reference for the volume in the article entry and a full bibliographic information about the volume in a separate entry.

Surname, K. L. (1993). Article title with capital letters only for first word and Proper Nouns. In Surname, et al. (eds.),
000-000.

Articles in journals
Surname, A. B. (1991). Article title with capital letters only for first word and Proper Nouns. Journal Name with Content
Words in Capital Letters 24. 000-000.

Other
Surname, A. B. (1991). Doctoral dissertation title as book title. Ph.D. dissertation, University of Durham.
Surname, A. B. (1992). Unpublished manuscript title. Ms., University of Wales, Bangor. (Paper is available at http://…)
Surname, A. B. (1993). Conference paper title. Paper presented at the 25th Annual Conference on Formal Linguistics,
University of Essex, Colchester, U.K. in May. (Handout is available at http://…)

14. Author's full address. This comes immediately after the references, set on a new page, in the following format (please note the italics and the layout):

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Author's address: Department, Institution, Full postal address including post/zip
code, Country.
E-mail: if@pplicable
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Artwork. Diagrams, tables, etc. are usually single-spaced. In some cases, the author may be advised to supply a double-spaced hard copy of a table to provide the space for copy-editing annotations.

Tree diagrams, tableaux, etc. are numbered and included in the running text like other examples. However, a copy of each diagram, tableau, etc. should also be set out camera-ready on a separate sheet and included at the end of the manuscript.

Tables, figures, charts, etc. should be labelled underneath as Table 1 or Figure 1 (in italics, centred) and given a caption (in roman, centred). Each such item should be set out camera-ready on a separate sheet, at the end of the manuscript, even if it is included in the main body of the text. If the object is not part of the main text, he approximate location of each table, figure, chart, etc. should be clearly marked in the text.

16. Typographic conventions.
Please use size 12 font throughout the manuscript.

Small capitals <double-underline>
(i) technical terms when first introduced,
(ii) emphasis in main body of the text or footnotes (not italic or bold),
(iii) section headings, and
(iv) the names of grammatical categories in the glosses of numbered examples.
Please use distinctive <small capitals> type or <normal type (upper/lower case) with *double*-line underline>. Do not set in capitals what is intended to appear in small capitals in print.

Italics
(i) language material in the running text,
(ii) foreign words,
(iii) subsection headings,
(iv) titles of books, journals and dissertations, and
(v) headings in numbered examples (if applicable).
Please use distinctive italic type or single-line underline.

Bold <wave-line underline>
(i) article title,
(ii) emphasis in numbered examples, and
(ii) author's name in the bibliographical information about the book discussed in a review article.
Please use distinctive bold type or wave-line underline.

‘Single quotation marks’
(i) terms used in a semi-technical sense or terms whose validity is questioned,
(ii) meanings of words and sentences, and
(iii) quotations and 'direct speech'.

"Double quotation marks"
(i) quotations within quotations only.

17. Keeping track of numbering sequences. If (sub)sections, numbered examples or footnotes are added to or removed from the article in the process of revising it, every care should be taken to ensure that all subsequent (sub)sections, examples or footnotes are appropriately renumbered and that any in-text and in-footnote references to them by numbers (e.g. ‘... given the arguments in section 3.2 above ...’) be checked and adjusted if necessary.

Should you have any queries concerning the form of the manuscript, whether or not included in these notes, please contact the Managing Editor.

(Dr) Ewa Jaworska
Managing Editor, Journal of Linguistics
Department of Language and Linguistics
University of Essex
Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
England, U.K.
E-mail: ewa@essex.ac.uk; Tel: +44-(0)1206-872089; Fax: +44-(0)1206-872085