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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.

Author Guidelines

General Guidelines:

1. Papers and abstracts should be written in English, German, Spanish, French or Italian and include five keywords.

2. Recommended length is 20.000-30.000 characters, including spaces.

3. Papers should be typed in Times New Roman (size 12) double-spaced, except for examples, quotations, references, footnotes and summary, which should be single spaced.

4. Short quotations (less than three lines) should be integrated into paragraph (in quotes), long quotations (more than three lines) must be indented, without quotation marks and single spaced, font size 10. Any modifications to a quote must be placed within square brackets.

5. Punctuation and spacing must adhere to the standard of the language in which the article is written.

6. Bibliography should be arranged into two sections: primary sources and references.

7. References should be incorporated into the main text in short form consisting of the surname of the author followed by the date of publication, and page number: (Kleiber 1992: 276).

8. In the bibliography, entries should be arranged alphabetically by surnames of authors. Multiple publications by the same author should be listed in chronological order.

 

Reference styles:

Book (authored or edited):

WERLEN, Iwar (2002) Sprachliche Relativität: Eine problemorientierte Einführung. Tübingen/Basel: A. Francke.

RAVELLI, Louise J./Robert A. ELLIS (eds) (2004) Analysing Academic Writing: contextualized frameworks. London: Continuum.

Translated work:

SAPIR, Edward (21969 [1960]) Il linguaggio. Transl. Paolo Valesio. Torino: Einaudi.

 

Article in journal:

KLEIBER, Georges (1992) “Article défini, unicité et pertinence.” Revue romane 27/1, 261–289.

Chapter or article in book:

PALTRIDGE, Brian (2004) “The exegesis as a genre: an ethnographic examination.” In: L. Ravelli/R. A. Ellis (eds), 84–103.

Electronic sources:

Le dictionnaire de la zone. 20 May 2010. http://www.dictionnairedelazone.fr/.

 

Formatting guidelines:

  1. The text should employ italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses);
  2. All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end;
  3. Where available, URLs for the references should been provided.

 

Registration:

- on the website http://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica register and log-in as Author,
- open the User Home tab, choose New submission and follow the submitting process.

Submission of a manuscript:

Step 1: Select the appropriate section; Check off the submission checklist;

Step 2: Upload submission file;

Step 3: Enter Metadata (Author, Title and Abstract, Keywords, References, Supporting Agencies);

Step 4: Upload supplementary file in pdf;

Step 5: Finish submission.

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Copyright Notice

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

  1. Authors are confirming that they are the authors of the submitting article, which will be published (print and online) in journal Linguistica by Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakultete Univerze v Ljubljani (University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Arts, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia). Author’s name will be evident in the article in journal. All decisions regarding layout and distribution of the work are in hands of the publisher.
  2. Authors guarantee that the work is their own original creation and does not infringe any statutory or common-law copyright or any proprietary right of any third party. In case of claims by third parties, authors commit their self to defend the interests of the publisher, and shall cover any potential costs.
  3. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
  4. Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  5. Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work.

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