Acceptance of Articles (A Guide for the Authors)

 

The Journal of Language Researches is a Peer- Reviewed open access Journal in which articles on different branches of theoritical linguistics are published. 

General features of accepted article

  • The article must be obtained out of the author’s (or authors’) research and should not be published in any other journals, and as long as the process of review in this journal has not ended, it should not be submitted too elsewhere. 

  • Every article includes a title, an abstract, keywords(5 to 7 words), an introduction,a main body, a discussion, a conclusion, and references. Through a word format, it should be printed 24 lines per page on a 30 Í 21 centimeters sheet with B Nazanin font (and Times New Roman for English-written articles) in size of 13, and the margins of 5 cm (on top and bottom of the page) and 4.5 cm (on left and right of the it), and then should be sent to the e-mail address of jolr@ut.ac.ir with a Pdf file of it. The font size of Abstract and Keywords should be 10. In addition any Persian article should have an English abstract written with the font of Times New Roman in size 0f 12 with voer 300 words in maximum. The author’s (authors’) name, his (their) academic rank(s), the name of the university (universities) he is (they are) teaching in or has (have) been instructed in, and his (their) e-mail (s) and call-numbers should be inserted on a separate paper or file.

  • The article size, including all its components must not be more than 24 pages.

  • The abstract, including the expression of the problem, the purpose of the article, the research methodology and findings, should provide the reader an overall image of article over 300 words.

  • The introduction to the article should include a subject, a record of the research and a theoretical basis on which the research had been conducted and should represent the overall image of the article.

  • Different parts of the article should be numbered separately. The article starts with introduction as the first part. The title of each part (or each of subdivisions) should be written in bold font with a single-line space. The first line of each part, unlike other first lines of that paragraph should not begin indented. 

  • Each of subdivisions should not exceed more than three layers; such as 3-1-4.

  • The Latin equivalent of specialized words or any lesser known character should be written in footnotes with the font of Times New Roman in size of 10. Except for the proper names and the names of grammatical rules, all other parts of footnotes begin with small letters. 

  • Footnotes on each page start with number 1, and the author (authors) should avoid making much more footnotes in his (their) articles.

  • If unfamiliar abbreviations would be used in the article, they should be listed in footnotes before their first use.

  • If the author (authors) of the article has (have) benefited the financial resources of a specific organization or institution, or if he (they) want to thank those who assisted him (them) to prepare the article, he (they) should point the matter in the first footnote with no number.

  • In preparation of tree-diagrams and the likes, the tools of Draw, Table and Equation should be used in word-viewer to avoid the problems may exist in adjusting the final version. All examples, tables and images should be numbered sequentially.

  • DoulusSil IPA font version should be used in data phonology writings related to unfamiliar languages or dialects.

  • For references, the following conditions should be considered:

  • If the name of an author has been pointed out in the text, the year of the work publication would be brought in parenthesis;

  • If the author intends to refer to a specific page of the work, the page number would be inserted in parenthesis after (:) mark;

  • If the author’s name is not affirmed in the text, it should be mentioned in parenthesis;

  • If a work has more than one volume, the number of the volumes should be mentioned after the name of the author before (:) mark. 

  • Direct quotations that are more thanthree lines should be separated from the main text,indented one centimeter on each side with the same font in size of 10. The name of the work’s author and the year it has been published should be inserted after the quotations, then the page number on which the quotation is obtained should be inserted after a (:) mark.

  • Separately, in an alphabetical order, the Persian and Latin sources should be indexed at the end of the article. The name of the author should be given completely in Persian sources with no dot after. Look at the following examples:

Books

  1. Bijankhan, Mahmoud, (1384). Phonology: the theory of Optimality, Tehran, The Organization for Researching and Composing University Textbooks in the Humanities (SAMT), Humanities Research and Development Center.

  2. Chomsky, N. 1981. Lectures on government and binding. Dordrecht: Foris.

 

Articles

 

Dabir Moqadam, Muhammad, (1367). Causatives in Persian Language.Journal of Linguistics, vol. 5, 1:13-75.

                                                                                                                                     

Say, I. and C. Pollard. 1991. An integrated theory of complement control. Language 67:63-113.

 

Chapter in a book or an article in the Proceedings of  Conferences

 

Keenan, E. 1988.On semantics and binding theory. In J. Hawkins (ed.). Explaining language universals (104-55). Oxford: Blackwell. 

 

Thesis

 

Tomilka, s. 1996. Focusing effects in VP ellipsis and interpretation.Doctoral dissertation, university of Massachusetts, Amherst.

 

Translated works

Surname of the author, Name of the author. (the year of publication). Name of the work in Iranic, name of the translator, the place in which the translated form has been published: name of the publisher.

 

Websites

Surname of the author, Name of the author. The title of the article or the book has been used (in italicized form), the website address.

  • Avoid numbering bibliographic entries or inserting any dashes before them.

Example: http://www.biainili-urartu.de/Iran/Urmia-2004/22.jpg

If the name of a work covers more than one line in the sources index, the next lines should be longer than the text 1 centimeter using Tab button.

The editor would be free to edit the articles literally and technically, with no changes in its contents. 

All articles are subject to the approval of the journal jury.

 

Abbreviations

AH :anno hegirae (Islamic Calendar, either helical or lunar)

BC : Before Christ (Christian Calendar)

b.: born, birthday

d.: died, died in

n.: number

 

COPYRIGHT

 

Submission of a manuscript implies that the work described has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, or thesis), it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere and its publication has been approved by all coauthors (if any). The corresponding author signs for and accepts responsibility for releasing this material on behalf of all co-authors. After submission of the Copyright Agreement signed by the corresponding author, changes of authorship or in the order of the authors listed will be accepted by IJHST provided that a letter signed by all authors confirming the order of the authors will be submitted to the journal. It is the responsibility of the author to obtain all necessary copyright release permissions for the use of any copyrighted materials in the manuscript prior to the submission.

    1. Authors retain copyright (without restriction) and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
    2. 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.
    3. 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.