Guidelines
Guidelines for Journal Manuscripts
All manuscripts must conform strictly to the formatting guidelines below and be free of spelling and grammatical errors.
Authors should have their work thoroughly proof-read prior to submission.
Once manuscripts are received, the Editorial Board will check them to see if they conform to all of the requirements specified here. If so, they will be distributed and blind-reviewed by two reviewers. If not, they will be returned to the authors without being reviewed.
Manuscripts should not have been published previously. However, authors will retain copyright ownership of any published material and are encouraged to further develop their manuscript into a fuller form and to submit it to other journals.
In this case, a note should be added that a preliminary, short version of the article was previously published in this journal. It is the author's responsibility to obtain copyright clearance for reproduction of any figures, diagrams or charts from published works.
Only one sole authored (or 2 co-authored) manuscripts per person may be submitted per annual volume. Submissions may be jointly authored by research students and academics in the School. If your work includes more than 2 authors (including academics in the school) it is advised that you contact the ARECLS team prior to submission.
By submitting the contribution, the author(s) confirm that they are the sole author(s) of the contribution, which is original work and warrant to the best of their knowledge that the contribution does not contain anything which is libellous, illegal or which infringes on any copyright or other rights.
Referencing Format
ARECLS requires authors to submit manuscripts with a complete reference list and/or bibliography in a consistent referencing format.
Further information regarding referencing styles can be accessed through Newcastle University library: https://libguides.ncl.ac.uk/managing/referencing_styles
Ethics
Submissions must conform to the ethical standards set forth by the British Association of Applied Linguistics (BAAL), available at: baal.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/goodpractice_full.pdf
Manuscript Formatting
| Spacing | Double spacing |
| Margins |
Inner margin 1.5 inch Outer margin 1 inch |
| Notes | Endnotes only |
| Font |
Times New Roman: 12 point for text; 10 point for endnotes. |
| Pagination |
Number all pages consecutively with the page number in the bottom centre. Arrange the pages of the manuscript in the following order: (1) Title, author(s) name (2) Abstract (3) Text (4) References (5) Appendices (6) Author biographical data (max 150 words) including email address |
| Abstract |
Insert the heading Abstract (12 point bold left-aligned). Leave one blank line beneath this heading. Maximum 150 words |
| Text |
Text, endnotes and references should be fully justified. Do not skip a line between paragraphs. The first line of each paragraph should be indented. |
| Headings | All headings should be left-aligned 12 point bold |
Graphical Representations
All tables and figures should be processed as images.
We suggest that you convert figures and tables from their original format to TIFF, GIF or JPG format.
You can create your table in MS-Word. Use horizontal lines but no vertical lines. Then go to Table and select Hide Gridlines.
When you finish the representation with your table or figure, move your cursor away from the table then press "PrtSc" on your keyboard.
It allows you to make a copy of the screen image to the Windows clipboard. Now open Microsoft Photo Editor or any image processors (such as PhotoShop, Photo Impact or HySnapDX) and go to Edit, then click Paste as New Image.
To capture and resize your table image, you click the Select button and select the part you want, choose Image and Crop.
Save the file by click File and Save As in TIFF or GIF format without any compression. There are many graphing programs which allow you to export your graphics in TIFF or other formats such as *.gif or *.jpg.
No matter how you convert your images, make sure you do not compress your images and nothing was lost during your conversion.
It is good if you can keep the size of image files as small as possible. Once you have done the above, please put the tables or figures back into your document as images by clicking Insert/Picture/From Files in MS-Word.
If you put the text or caption referred to any graphical representations (tables or figures), please do not make the link to them.
We may not able to extract the tables in your document. It is also not necessary to put borders around the outside of your tables and figures. Include a brief explanatory heading and number figures using Arabic numerals.