Submissions

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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, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, DOI or URLs for the references have been provided.
  • All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Languages of the journal
Papers may be written in any Romance language or in English.

Types of contributions
Authors can send three types of contributions:

  • Unpublished papers on the question approached in the thematic issue or research into the Linguistics of Language and the Linguistics of Speech, Languages in contact, the language’s literary and cultural dimensions, Philology, Translation theory and Lexicography and Languages and Cultures Didactics;
  • Reviews of recent publications;
  • Proposals for thematic issues.

Submissions will always be done through the journal's website. To do so, you must be registered as an author, login with your username and password and make a new submission. If you are not registered, you can do it at https://revistes.uab.cat/languesparole/user/register. If a corrected version of the paper has to be sent, it will be done in the same space opened in the web for the initial version. It will never be sent as if it were a new article. For any doubt or clarification, you can contact the journal at r.langues.parole@uab.cat

In order to guarantee the anonymity of the review, authors must send on a separate document their personal data (name, institutional affiliation and ORCID identification) as well as the title of the paper. The first page must contain only the title of the paper.

Documents format

  • Papers will be sent in Word format (.doc or .docx).
  • Tables, diagrams or images will be inserted appropriately in the text and will be sent separately in.jpg or .gif format and preferably in black and white. Captions should be written in Garamond 12 italics.

General information on papers

  • After the title of the text, papers will show the author’s name (name, institutional affiliation and ORCID identification).
  • Papers will be preceded by
    • 4 abstracts (in Catalan, in Spanish, in French and in English);
    • 4 lists of keywords (in Catalan, in Spanish, in French and in English).

Length of papers
Langue(s) & Parole imposes no specific length to papers, but it is recommended that the length of the text should not exceed 36,000 characters (including spaces between characters).

 

Text format

  • Format A4, single space between lines and paragraph spacing 0 pt before and 6 pt after; spacing between title and text: 0 pt before and 12 pts after.
  • In sequencing paragraphs, deselect the checkbox “keep paragraphs and lines together” and “no spaces between paragraphs”.
  • Upper and lower margins 3 cm, side margins 2.5 cm.
  • Garamond font only; if any other font is used, you should specify it and send it by mail in .ttf format.
  • The title of the paper and the possible subtitle should be on the top of the page.
  • Sizes of the fonts that should be respected:
    • Paper title: Garamond 20, bold characters and centred.
    • In the final version, if the proposal is accepted, author’s name, institutional affiliation and ORCID identification: Garamond 16 bold characters (first name in lower-case letters and surname in capital letters), justified to the right.
    • Text in Garamond 16.
    • Paragraphs headings: Garamond 16 for titles with one number; Garamond 15 for titles with two numbers; Garamond 14 for titles with three numbers; Garamond 13 for titles with four numbers.

Abstracts and key words format

  • Title in italics, bold letters and Garamond 14.
  • Abstract text and key words: Garamond 14.

Quotations format

  • They will always be in italics.
  • Quotations will be inserted in the text if they do not form a full sentence or if they do not occupy more than one line.
  • In any other case, they will be in a separate paragraph: in italics (indented on the left 2.5 cm).
  • References to quotations will follow the model (Author, year, page).

Foot-note format

  • Size 12; justified and at the bottom of the page.

Reference format
References will be presented in APA format. For each reference DOI will be included if possible.

Articles

As well as in monographic and miscellaneous issues, this section contains original papers that have been accepted by the reviewers.

Book reviews

This section includes reviews of different recently published works.

Round table

The journal may also contain the section Round table in those issues that account for scientific conferences organised by CIPA and UAB. It includes the contributions of those “round tables” previously accepted by the reviewers.

Varia

This section includes the articles which do not follow within the thematic issue. 

Issue coordination

Presentation of the issue by the coordinators.

Copyright Notice

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

  1. Authors retain copyright and keep the acknowledgement of authorship.
  2. The texts published in this journal are – unless indicated otherwise – covered by the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 international licence. You may copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially. You must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original. The full text of the licence can be consulted here: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0.
  3. 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.
  4. 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 (See The Effect of Open Access).

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