Journal of Literary Semantics

Journal of Literary Semantics: Special Issue Guidelines
A special issue is a thematic collection of articles, guest-edited by an academic who is not a part of the Journal of Literary Semantics core editorial team. There are two issues of Journal of Literary Semantics per year (April and October) and October can be reserved for a special issue. The special issue typically contains 5-6 articles, plus book reviews.
If you have an idea for a special issue please refer to our guidelines.

Submission
Submissions should be sent directly to the Editor, Marina Lambrou: M.Lambrou@kingston.ac.uk

• International and renowned Editorial Board
• High-quality peer review
• Every article easily discoverable because of Search Engine Optimization (SEO) and comprehensive abstracting and indexing services
• Optional open access publication
• Secure archiving by De Gruyter and the independent archiving service Portico

• Submissions to the journal should be written in clear and concise English
• Submitted manuscripts should be no longer than 7,000 words
• Submitted manuscripts should be sent as a Word document
• Authors whose native language is not English should have their manuscripts read by a native speaker before submission. Submissions should be sent to the Editor: Marina Lambrou
• Peer review process (you will be guided through every step)
• The journal operates a double-blind peer review that takes on average 3-4 months
• If accepted: you have the option to publish it open access

• An abstract of between 100 and 150 words must be submitted together with the article
• Examples not in English must have aligned interlinear glosses and an idiomatic translation
• Formatting and style: Once accepted for publication, the author(s) will be required to submit the final version electronically conforming to journal style. Please see the De Gruyter Mouton journal style sheet for details regarding journal style
• Permissions: copies of any letters granting permission to reproduce illustrations or tables from other sources, or lengthy quoted passages, must be included with the manuscript
• Corrections: authors are asked to check their manuscripts very carefully before submitting them in order to prevent delays and extra costs at the proof stage. Authors will receive PDF page proofs for correction which must be returned by dates given in the publication schedule
• Offprints: upon publication, authors will receive electronic offprints (in PDF format) of their contribution
• Before submitting a paper please get familiar with our Publication Ethics statement as well as Copyright Transfer agreement
• Once your article is accepted you have the option to publish it Open Access
• Our Repository Policy allows you to distribute 30 PDF copies of your published article to colleagues (the PDF has to include the information that it is an author's copy). Please also feel free to distribute the link to the online abstract
• If you have any general questions please visit our FAQ page for journal authors

We look forward to receiving your manuscript!

Hybrid Open Access

Authors have the option to publish their article under an open access license. The standard article processing charge for a hybrid open access article is 2,400 Euro (plus VAT if applicable). Please note that corresponding authors from institutions with which we have a transformative agreement, can publish open access without paying the fee. More information on the eligible institutions and articles can be found here.

Editor
Marina Lambrou; Department of Humanities, Kingston University; Kingston upon Thames KT1 2EE, UK; e-mail: M.Lambrou@kingston.ac.uk

All correspondence concerning editorial matters and submissions should be sent to the Editor.

Founding Editor (1972–2002)
Trevor Eaton, Kent, UK

Editorial Board
Jean Boase-Beier, University of East Anglia, UK
Michael Burke, University College Roosevelt, The Netherlands
Billy Clark, Northumbria University, UK
Anne Furlong, University of Prince Edward Island, Canada
Marcello Giovanelli, Aston University, UK
Andrew Goatly, Lingnan University, Hong Kong, P. R. China
Brian McHale, The Ohio State University, US
Rocio Montoro, University of Granada, Spain
Louise Nuttall, University of Huddersfield, UK
Violeta Sotirova, University of Nottingham, UK
Masayuki Teranishi, University of Hyogo, Japan
Michael Toolan, University of Birmingham, UK

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