Guide for Authors

Authors' Guide

Article acceptance conditions

 It publishes two quarterly linguistic researches, research articles in the field of theoretical and applied linguistics, related fields, culture and ancient languages, studies related to dialects of Iranian languages ​​and book reviews.

General features of accepted articles

- The article must be the result of the research of the author (or authors) and must not be published in another journal, and should not be sent to another journal as long as its review in this journal has not been completed.

 Submitted articles should not have more than two authors, except for those articles that are related to dissertations of doctoral students, and in such articles, the authors should only include the name of the supervisor and a consultant professor in the article extracted from the doctoral dissertation.

The article should include the title, abstract, key words (5 to 7 words), introduction, main body of the article, discussion and conclusion, and list of references. The submitted articles should be written in B Metra, 13 and 24 lines in size. The text file should be adjusted 5 from the top and bottom and 4.5 from the right and the left and uploaded to the publication system along with a word file (2007 or 2010) and a PDF file version. The font size of the Persian abstract should be 11 keywords and above 300 words. In addition, each article should have an English abstract with Times News Roman font size 12 above 300 words. The author's name, academic rank, university, place of teaching or study of the author or authors, and their e-mail address and phone number should be attached on separate pages and covers in both Persian and Latin.

- The volume of the article should not exceed 24 pages, including all its components, except for the English and Finnish abstract of the sources.

- The Persian and English abstracts of the article should provide the reader with a general picture of the article in more than 300 words and include the statement of the problem, purpose, research method, and findings of the article.

- The introduction of the article should preferably include the topic of the article, the background of the research, theoretical foundations and a general picture of the structure of the article.

- Different sections of the article must have separate numbers. The sections of the article begin with section 1, which is dedicated to the introduction. The title of each main section and sub-sections should be written in black (bold), separated from each other by a white line. The first line under each subsection, unlike the first line of other paragraphs, should not be indented.

- The sub-sections of each article should not exceed three layers, supposedly in the form of 3-1-4, which represents a sub-section of the third section of the article.

- The Latin equivalent of important specialized words and the names of lesser-known people should be inserted as a footnote in Times New Roman font size 10. Except for proper nouns and the names of grammar principles, other Latin footnotes should start with a small letter.

- The number of footnotes on each page should start with a single number and avoid excessive footnotes.

- If unfamiliar abbreviations are used, their list should be mentioned in the footnote before the first use.

- Sources and references should be written in parentheses (13) in the size of the text.

- Poems and any material that should come in parentheses should be written in size 10 and necessary footnotes should be written in size 10.

- At the beginning of each paragraph, start with half a centimeter indentation; The first line under each title does not need to be indented.

- In the final sources, the beginning of each normal source should be started, and if a source was more than one line, the second line needs to be indented.

- If the author or authors have used the financial resources of the organization or specific institutions in the preparation of the article, or if they intend to thank those who helped them in writing the article, this should be mentioned in the first footnote without a number. do

- Draw, Table, and Equation tools should be used in the Word environment to prepare tree diagrams and the like, so that their adjustment in the final version does not cause any problems.

All examples, diagrams, and illustrations should be numbered consecutively.

- Doulus Sil IPA font should be used in the phonetic transcription of data related to an unfamiliar language or dialect.

 - In the references, if the author's name is mentioned in the text of the article, the year of publication of the work is in parentheses, and if the author's intention is to refer to a specific page of the mentioned work, the desired page after the colon (:) inside It should be placed. If the name of the author is not specified in the text, the name of the referred author should also be mentioned in parentheses. If a work has more than one volume, the volume number of the work should be mentioned after the author's name and a colon (:) will come after it. example;

- Samiyan (1983)

- (Hidait, 1342: 184-183)

- (Tabari, 2/1375: 584)

- Direct quotations of more than three lines should be written separately from the original text, with one centimeter indentation on each side and with the same font as the text, but with the size of 10, and at the end of it, the name of the author and the year of publication of the work, and after the colon, Enter the page number from which it is quoted.

- Persian and Latin sources should be given in two separate sections at the end of the article in alphabetical order like the examples below. In Persian sources, the name of the author should be mentioned completely and avoid putting a period after it.

 book

Bijan Khan, Mahmoud (2004). Phonology: Theory of Optimism, Tehran, Humanities Research and Development Center, Humanities Research and Development Organization, Tehran.

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

 Article

Debir Moghaddam, Mohammad (1367). Causative constructions in Persian language. Journal of linguistics, fifth year, first issue, spring and summer, 75-13.

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

A chapter from a book or an article from a collection of conference papers

Keenan, E. 1988. On semantics and binding theory, In J. Hawkins (ed), Explaining language universals (99.104)