Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses (RAEI) publishes full articles and reviews. Before submitting an article or review, please make sure that your text complies with the Author Guidelines (see below). For any information or related queries please write to the journal’s contact email address.

Submission deadlines for the monographic section will be set out in the call for papers, available in the Announcements section and on the journal’s home page. Submission of manuscripts for the miscellaneous section and of book reviews is open all year round.

Any instance of plagiarism, be it in the form of lack of attribution of ideas or literal usage of text without correct mention of sources, will be grounds for instant rejection at any stage of the publication process, when such plagiarism is detected.

Besides ensuring compliance with these guidelines, authors are advised to read, before submitting their manuscripts, all sections of the journal’s website containing information applicable to submissions, such as our the peer review process, publication ethics policy, our anti-plagiarism policy, etc.

1 Requirements

Before submitting a manuscript, authors should make sure that the work meets the following general requirements:

1. Originality. Only original and unpublished works will be accepted. Translations of previously published works, in full or in part, in any other medium or in languages other than that of the submitted manuscript will not be considered. Submissions must not be under consideration for publication elsewhere.
2. Compliance with the submission procedure. Manuscripts must be submitted via the journal’s platform, which requires users to Login via the platform or Register to create a user profile if they do not have one.
3. Languages.Manuscripts are to be submitted in English. Either British or American conventions must be consistently followed at all times.
4. Authorship. Authors must provide the following details: name and surnames, main institutional affiliation (full name, without acronyms), country, email address (preferably an institutional email address) and ORCID identifier. When giving their name and surnames, authors are advised to follow the signature format used for indexing in international databases (please see the FECYT [Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology] recommendations for standardising formats of author names and email addresses).
5. Anonymisation. Manuscripts must be fully anonymized (with no elements that may allow identification of the authors): author names and affiliations must not be included (they must be replaced by the label “Author”), and any other element that could directly or indirectly allow identification of the authors (in acknowledgments, references to projects, funding, specific geographical locations or institutions, etc.) must be deleted and marked as *anonymised*.
6. File format. Microsoft Word (.docx) or Open Document (.odt) file formats required. In case of proposals using symbols (e.g. phonetic transcriptions), please include a PDF version.
7. Competing interests. In the “Comments for the Editor” section of the submission form, the author(s) must disclose any personal or financial connection that may be susceptible to influence the conclusions of the manuscript. Otherwise, they must declare that there is no conflict of interest involved.
8. Cover letter. If the research paper has more than one author, a cover letter must be provided, detailing how each author contributed to the paper.
9. Funding. If the submitted manuscript is part of a research study having received funding, the following details must be provided in the “Supporting Agencies” section: funding entity, project code, etc. This information must not appear in the submitted file for the sake of anonymity.

2 Manuscripts

2.1 Structure

The following elements must be provided at the beginning of the manuscript:

• Title: informative (no rhetorical questions) and unambiguous, without acronyms or extremely specific terms. It should include keywords that define the subject of the article.
• Abstract: the abstract (200-300 words) should consist of one paragraph and be included right before the body of the text and provide information on the objectives, methodology and main results or conclusions, with no subsections or citations.
• Keywords: a minimum of 6 keywords should be provided, separated by semicolons. Use keywords found in the title of the article and common terms within the area and subject matter. Where appropriate, the inclusion of terms that help to place in the work in a specific geographical context (place names) or time should also be considered.

Compliance with these guidelines will make it easier to find the article online and on databases.

The recommended structure for the body of a research paper is as follows:

• Introduction: This section must state the basis and purpose of the study (objectives). Citations should be provided only when strictly necessary. No data or conclusions from the study must be included. The introduction should not contain a detailed literature review.
• Development: The development should include, in the appropriate place in the text, the theoretical framework and methodology used in the study. It can have as many sections (with numbering and headings) as deemed necessary.
• Conclusions: This section must summarise the main points that can be drawn from the results and discussion.
• Bibliography: This section contains the list of bibliographic references following the guidelines of the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.

Text length required: Full-length articles should be between 6,000 and 8,000 words, including title, abstract, keywords and references.

2.2 General formatting guidelines

The general format of manuscripts must follow the author guidelines of the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.

2.2.1 Text format

All manuscripts should comply with the following template. Manuscripts that do not conform with the RAEI style sheet, will be returned for resubmission before being considered for peer-reviewing.

The text should be justified at both ends, and written in 1.5 line spacing, except for footnotes and indented quotations (of more than 3 lines). Use a 12-point Times New Roman font for the main text. Except for the first line of each section, the first line of all paragraphs should be indented 0.5 cm, as well as first line of footnotes.

2.2.2 Headings and subheadings

Headings and subheadings are not indented, and they use no period at the end. Use small caps (only for headings) and only capitalise first letters of content words. Arabic numbers are used for headings and their corresponding subheadings, e.g.

3 Results

3.1 Quantitative results

3.1.1 Analysis of denominal bases

2.2.3 Tables & Figures

All tables and figures used in the manuscript should be properly numbered, with headings and an indication of the source, and referred to by their numbers, e.g., “see in table 2” or “as shown in figure 5”. Make sure the numbers of tables/figures correspond to the ones used within the text.

2.2.4 Images and copyrights

Only images, drawings, photographs, figures, tables, charts, etc. created by the authors of the article are accepted. Authors can also use rights-free images, etc. or those under Creative Commons licences allowing for them to be reused and listing the allowed uses. Rights-protected images, charts, etc. can be used as long as the authors of the article have requested and secured the relevant authorisation from the creators of such images, charts, etc.

2.2.5 Punctuation

Commas and periods should precede closing quotation marks, e.g., “its pairing of function and form.”

Avoid using commas before and and or in series of over two items.

Square brackets are recommended for incomplete data or adapted quotations within the text, e.g. “[a] slightly productive process”. Slash marks (/ /) are used for phonemic transcription.

2.2.6 Numbers & dates

Numbers from zero to one hundred, as well as number followed by hundred, thousand, etc., should be spelled out. Also, numbers that are used at the beginning of sentences are to be spelled out.

Dates are written without comma when only month and year are used (June 25) but standard dates use a comma between day and year (July 12, 1998). Decades are preferably expressed in numerals (the 1930s).

2.2.7 Italics

Italics are only used for emphasis, foreign etymons, technical words and lemmas that are used or cited as subjects of discussion. Likewise, titles of books, periodicals, films, etc. will be written in italics.

2.2.8 Quotations

References in the text to publications should include the author's surname, the year of publication, and, if necessary, page numbers, as in the following example:

As Wilson (1997a, 16) suggests...

This has been pointed out by several authors (Wilson 1996, 123-126; Thompson 1998)

All quotations should be used following the original spelling and format of the source hol texts. If the author wishes to emphasise words within the texts, these can be italicised with discretion, and these changes should be indicated: “these functions belong to the global metacognition” (Cruise 2014, 34; italics added). If the emphasis is already marked in the original text, this should also be indicated: “the teaching and acquisition not of a foreign but an international language” (Prieto-Aranz & Jacob 2019, 13; italics in the original)

If a part of the quotation is deleted, [...] (three periods enclosed in brackets should be used). They should be avoided at the beginning or end of quotations which are syntactically complete.

2.2.9 Indented quotations

Quotations of up to about 75 words should be run into the surrounding text. Longer quotations should be detached from the main text and be indented (0.5 cm). Quotation marks are not used. The text should be 1.5 spacing, as the main text, but written in an 11-point font.

2.2.10 Hyphen

The use of hyphen is recommended, rather than parentheses. It should be used without any space before and after it.

2.2.11 Footnotes

Footnotes should be numbered, and the text is single-spaced and indented (0.5 cm). Authors should resort to footnotes with discretion, and avoid using them to give bibliographical references.

2.2.12 Examples

If the authors decide to provide a list of examples, these should be numbered, indented (0.5 cm) and written in 11-point font.

(1) That stinko seems aggressive.

(2) Yes, that’s the one. That’s the sicko I told you about.

3 Book Reviews

RAEIaccepts book reviews that have been published within the last two years prior to date of submission.

Book reviews should be around 1,500-2,000 words long. These should follow, as far as possible, the same guidelines indicated for manuscripts.

In the “Abstract” section, the full reference must be provided as follows: Author’s surnames, author’s name. Title of the book. Name of the editor, translator or coordinator. City: Publisher, year, number of pages, ISBN.

Book reviewers are advised to enter a minimum of 3 terms in the “Keywords” field.

4 Bibliographical References

All the references mentioned throughout the text must be added to the section ‘Works Cited’.

If the publication has a DOI (Digital Object Identifier), the URL and the retrieval date must be replaced by the DOI, which must appear at the end of the entry as a secure URL link, preceded (but not followed) by a full stop.

CrossRef’s Simple Text Query can be used for checking DOIs included in a reference list.

Specific pages should be used for all the quotation.

Leave page number in full for both in text-citations and for pages in the works cited (e.g., Nilsson 2000, 115-126). Do not use abbreviated forms, as in 115-26.

Do not use Latin reference tags (op. cit., ibidem, etc.).

Use initialisms to indicate that some information is not available:

• (n.p.) for ‘no publisher’, ‘no place of publication’ or ‘no page’.
• (n.d.) for ‘no date’.

The names of publishers or publishing company names will be as much abbreviated as possible: avoid using ‘Co.’ or ‘Inc.’ and descriptive words (Publishing, etc.). The words ‘university’ and ‘press’ will be abbreviated in any of the corresponding forms: U of Chicago P or Oxford UP.

The full names of authors will be provided.

If any of the author-date cases of citation are not listed here, please check the latest Chicago Manual of Style for further referencing.

4.1 Books and book chapters

Chomsky, Noam. 1986. Knowledge of Language: Its nature, Origin, and Use. New York: Praeger.

(Chomsky 1986, 36)

Huggins, Mike and James Anthony Mangan. 2004a. “Prologue: All Mere Complexities.” In Huggins and Mangan 2004b, ix-xx.

(Huggins and Mangan 2004a)

Bauer, Laurie, Rochelle Lieber and Ingo Plag. 2015. The Oxford Reference Guide to English Morphology. Oxford: Oxford UP.

(Bauer et al. 2015)

4.2 Edited books

Gippert, Jost, Nikolaus P. Himmelmann and Ulrike Mosel, eds. 2006. Essentials of language documentation (Trends in Linguistics, Studies and Monographs 178). Berlin and New York: Mouton de Gruyter.

Both chapter books and the edited volume should be cited:

Simpson, Clare S. 2007. “Capitalising on Curiosity: Women’s Professional Cycle Racing in the Late-Nineteenth Century.” In Horton, Rosen and Cox 2007, 47-66.

Horton, Dave, Paul Rosen and Peter Cox, eds. 2007. Cycling and Society. Aldershot: Ashgate.

4.3 Conference proceedings

Przedlacka, Joanna, John Maidment and Michael Ashby, eds. 2013. Proceedings of PTLC 2013. Papers from the Phonetics Teaching and Learning Conference. London: PTLC.

4.4 Translations

Holquist, Michael. 1984. Prologue to Rabelais and his World, by Mikhail Bakhtin, xiii-xxiii. Translated by Hélène Iswolsky. Bloomington: Indiana UP.

4.5 Reprints

Booij, Geert. (2005) 2007. The Grammar of Words. Oxford: Oxford UP.

4.6 Articles

Kastovsky, Dieter. 1986. “The Problem of Productivity in Word-formation.” Linguistics 24: 585-600.

Bergh, G., & Ohlander, S. 2019. “A Hundred Years of Football English: A Dictionary Study on the Relationship of a Special Language to General Language”. Revista Alicantina de Estudios Ingleses / Alicante Journal of English Studies 32: 15-43. https://doi.org/10.14198/raei.2019.32.02

4.7 Newspaper and website articles

When quoting online texts, the URL and date of access should be included.

Plath, Sylvia. 1965. “The Colossus.” Poetry Foundation. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89119/the-colossus [Accessed online on Juny 4, 2020]

4.8 Unpublished dissertations

Baker, Will. 2009. “Intercultural Awareness and Intercultural Communication through English: An Investigation of Thai English Language Users in Higher Education.” PhD diss., University of Southampton.

4.9 Lectures/paper presented at conferences

Edwards, Paul. “Girl Reading: Wyndham Lewis and Iris Barry.” Lecture given at the Leeds Art Fund, Leeds, March 2016.