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Author Guidelines
Sindh Journal of Linguistics (ISSN Online 2957-9309) is an online scholarly annual journal, double-blind peer-reviewed, and open-access journal, published annually by the department of English, SMI University, Karachi. The journal focuses on the studies of theoretical linguistics, descriptive linguistics, and applied linguistics. In addition to the broad area of language research, creative approaches to language learning and teaching are also involved, leading linguistics to a higher level of cognitive development. Linguistic research contributes to the cooperation of people groups throughout the world. Abundant and professional resources of linguistics are needed to meet a wide and infinitely varied range of communicative goals. From this perspective, the journal aims to encourage, investigate, and improve the communicative power of the language and consolidate the national language communicative tool available to speakers.
Open Access Statement
This is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without
charge to the user or his/her institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy,
distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other
lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This
is in accordance with the BOAI definition of open access.
Publication Fee
The journal does not charge authors any kind of fee. The publication in SJL is totally free of cost. There is no hidden fee at all.
Repository Policy
All the published work is deposited in the repositry of Higher Education Commission of Pakistan by default. The access to anti-plagiarism tool Turnitin.com is provided to all Universities and Degree Awarding Institutions of Paksitan by the HEC.
License Type
CC BY-SA includes the following elements:
BY – Credit must be given to the creator
SA – Adaptations must be shared under the same terms
Preparation of Manuscripts
Authors are strongly encouraged to submit their original manuscripts as per APA style. Manuscripts should be typewritten or prepared on a word processor, with all material double-spaced, on one side of letter-sized paper, with suitably wide margins. All pages should be numbered consecutively, beginning with page 1, the title page. Tables and figures should be numbered serially, and legends to illustrations should be prepared on separate sheets. Tables and figures will be placed near their first mention in the text; all tables and figures must be referred to in the manuscript.
Title Page: The following elements must be included:
Abstract: Each article is to be preceded by a brief abstract, of up to 250 words, that highlights the objectives, methods, results, and conclusions of the paper.
Key Words: To identify the subjects under which the article may be indexed, 6-10 keywords should be provided.
References: As per APA Style should be adopted for the manuscript.
Parts of the manuscript
The manuscript should be submitted in three separate and titled word (.txt) files: (1) title page (2) main text, (3) tables, figures, appendices
Title Page
The title page should contain:
(i) A short informative title that contains the major keywords. The title should not contain abbreviations
(ii) A short running title of fewer than 16 words.
(iii) the full names of the authors;
(iv) The author's institutional affiliations at which the work was carried out;
(v) Acknowledgements.
Authorship
Please refer to the journal’s Authorship policy in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section for details on eligibility for author listing.
Copyrights
Submission of a paper is meant for the work designated has not been published before (except in the form of an abstract/ a part of public lecture/thesis). The paper must not be under consideration elsewhere and its final publication process has been approved by the co-authors. In case the manuscript is accepted, all authors need to agree on the automatic transfer of the copyright to the publisher. The same will not be published elsewhere without the agreement of the copyrighted sources.
Conflict of Interest Statement
Authors will be asked to provide a conflict of interest statement during the submission process. For details on what to include in this section, see the Conflict of Interest section in the Editorial Policies and Ethical Considerations section below. Authors should ensure they liaise with all co-authors to confirm agreement with the final statement.
Main Text File
As papers are double-blind peer-reviewed, the main text file should not include any information that might identify the authors.
The main text file should be presented in the following order:
(i) Title, abstract and key words;
(ii) Main text;
(iii) References;
(iv) Tables (each table complete with title and footnotes);
(v) Figure legends;
(vi) Appendices (if relevant).
Figures and supporting information should be supplied as separate files.
Abstract
The abstract must not exceed 150 words. It should contain an informative summary of the main points, including, where relevant, the purpose, methodology (including specific names of scales/tests and types of a questionnaire), type of data, special characteristics of subjects used, and conclusions.
Keywords
Please provide five keywords.
Main Text
References
References should be prepared according to the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (6th edition). This means in-text citations should follow the author-date method whereby the author's last name and the year of publication for the source should appear in the text, for example, (Jones, 1998). The complete reference list should appear alphabetically by name at the end of the paper.
Journal Article
Ahsan, H.R., Karim, A., & Farhan, M. (2002). Effects of English language medium of instruction on the learning of students. The Pakistan Journal of Education, 159, 483–486. DOI: 10.1076/appi.ajp.149.3.493
Book
Bradley-Johnson, S. (1994). An assessment of students who are visually impaired or blind: Infancy through high school (2nd ed.). Austin, TX: Pro-ed.
Internet Document
Norton, R. (2006, November 4). How to train a cat to operate a light switch [Video file]. Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vja83KLQXZs
Tables
Tables should be self-contained and complement, not duplicate, the information contained in the text. They should be supplied as editable files, not pasted as images. Legends should be concise but comprehensive – the table, legend, and footnotes must be understandable without reference to the text. All abbreviations must be defined in footnotes. Footnote symbols: †, ‡, §, ¶, should be used (in that order) and *, **, *** should be reserved for P-values. Statistical measures such as SD or SEM should be identified in the headings.
Figures
Although authors are encouraged to send the highest-quality figures possible, for peer-review purposes, a wide variety of formats, sizes, and resolutions are accepted.
Appendices
Appendices will be published after the references. For submission, they should be supplied as separate files but referred to in the text.
Editorial Policies & Ethical Considerations
Editorial Review and Acceptance
All submissions will be refereed by at least two appropriate members of the applied linguistics community. The acceptance criteria for all papers are the quality and originality of the research and its significance to our readership. Except where otherwise stated, manuscripts are double-blind peer-reviewed. Papers will only be sent to review if the Editor-in-Chief determines that the paper meets the appropriate quality and relevance requirements.
Data storage and Documentation
SJL encourages data sharing wherever possible unless this is prevented by ethical, privacy, or confidentiality matters. Authors publishing in the journal are therefore encouraged to make their data, scripts and other artifacts used to generate the analyses presented in the paper available via a publicly available data repository, however, this is not mandatory. If the study includes original data, at least one author must confirm that he or she had full access to all the data in the study, and takes responsibility for the integrity of the data and the accuracy of the data analysis.
Conflict of Interest
The journal requires that all authors disclose any potential sources of conflict of interest. Any interest or relationship, financial or otherwise that might be perceived as influencing an author's objectivity is considered a potential source of conflict of interest. These must be disclosed when directly relevant or directly related to the work that the authors describe in their manuscript. Potential sources of conflict of interest include but are not limited to: patent or stock ownership, membership of a company board of directors, membership of an advisory board or committee for a company, and consultancy for or receipt of speaker's fees from a company. The existence of a conflict of interest does not preclude publication. If the authors have no conflict of interest to declare, they must also state this at submission. It is the responsibility of the corresponding author to review this policy with all authors and collectively to disclose with the submission ALL pertinent commercial and other relationships.
Authorship
The list of authors should accurately illustrate who contributed to the work and how. All those listed as authors should qualify for authorship according to the following criteria:
Reproduction of Copyright Material
If excerpts from copyrighted works owned by third parties are included, credit must be shown in the contribution. It is the author’s responsibility to also obtain written permission for reproduction from the copyright owners.