As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.
Author Guidelines
Information for authors.
1. Language Value publishes articles and review essays in linguistics and literature concerned with the interdisciplinary analysis of English language usage. The journal publishes contemporary articles on the linguistic description of English, semantics, corpus linguistics and the connections between these aspects and literary criticism and their pedagogical implications. Language Value seeks to become a scholarly arena for exploring the attitudes and values conveyed by users of the English language in different contexts and situations.
The journal will also accept commentary articles. These will provide critiques on articles previously published in the journal and will be refereed in the same way as all the other articles. General comments will not be accepted; commentary articles must be a substantial contribution to already published work and should encourage discussion among authors and readers.
The journal publishes book and multimedia reviews relevant to the field of Applied Linguistics. Please contact the Editors if you wish to send a copy of the volume or product to be reviewed in the journal.
2. Submission of an article implies that it has not been published and/or has not been submitted for publication elsewhere. Where applicable, the author(s) must seek written permission from copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article.
3. Language Value will publish at least one issue per year.
GENERAL GUIDELINES
4. Articles must be written in good English using this TEMPLATE.
5. An English/Catalan/Spanish abstract of no more than 150 words must be provided. Contributors may ask Language Value for a Catalan or Spanish translation of the abstract. Abstracts should also include six keywords in the three languages.
6. Authors have to register to submit their proposals by sending an email to lvalue@uji.es with their name and affiliation. Manuscripts should be submitted online using the OJS at: Submissions
Any inquiries regarding the issue should be sent by email to the journal address (lvalue@uji.es).
The first page should include the authors’ name, affiliation and email as well as a title. Please also indicate how your name should be quoted.
The second and following pages will only include the proposal’s title. Please do not cite your own work in a way that could identify you. Upon request, authors may be asked to send a printed copy of the proposal, especially in cases where many figures and drawings are included. You can email the editors by clicking on the journal’s email above.
7. The authors, in addition to submitting the anonymized proposal according to the Template, they need to sign the following Declaration of Authenticity, which confirms that the tables, figures and graphs used in the manuscript are authentic and made by them. If not, the consent or permission to reproduce the original sources must be provided.
8. The article should contain a maximum of 8,000 words, including appendices, tables and references. Commentary articles should have between 2,000-3,000 words. Review works should be at least 1,500 words long.
9. The anonymous manuscript will be used in the peer review process and will be sent to referees who will remain anonymous. Whenever necessary, the article will also be sent to external referees.
10. Authors will receive an email message acknowledging proposal reception in the following two weeks and will be notified about the acceptance or not of the article in a maximum period of six months.
11. Language Value is a peer-reviewed journal and referees will evaluate a paper with regard to its originality, significance, academic rigour, and presentation of the argument. Articles should also follow the content and format publication criteria indicated in this document.
12. Proposals that fail to follow the publication criteria will not be accepted.
13. Authors are encouraged to deposit supplementary material, at least the research data used in their publications, in institutional or thematic open access repositories federated in the European Open Science Cloud (EOSC).
Authors affiliated to Universitat Jaume I may deposit their research data in the Repositori de la Universitat Jaume I. More information at: https://www.uji.es/serveis/cd/bib/serveis/investigacio/dades/
Information about the deposit of research data in a repository should be mentioned in the article by describing the type of data deposited and the URL of the repository or the identifier code.
