Submissions

Submission Preparation Checklist

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 OpenOffice or Microsoft Word.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
Your document adheres to the template and style guidelines of the journal.
APA 7th edition has been used for all in-text and reference list citations.
All co-authors are informed and have agreed on the final version of the manuscript submitted.
The text has been written with an inclusive and respectful use of language.
Potential conflict of interest is disclosed to the Editors in the "Comments to the Editors" during the submission process.
Authors have read the journal's policy on discriminatory conduct and on sex, gender and equity in research/a.
It is essential that the sections concerning the details of the authors are filled in during the submission process, including the ORCID number. In addition, it is necessary to include the abstract in English and in another language, in addition to the title in the language of the article and in English. The key words will be in English and in the language of the paper. The keywords should not be pasted directly in the intended place, as they would be processed as a single word. They have to be added one by one.
Authors have read the journal's Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement.

Author Guidelines

Authors must download and use this template. The same applies for book reviews.

Articles for LFE can be written in English, Spanish, French or German, and must always include an abstract with keywords in English and another in the language of the article. Manuscripts must be sent as a WORD document.

Articles written in other languages than English must give the title of the article and the keywords in English.

Authorship. The author/s guarantee(s) the authorship of the documents presented, as well as any text or image. If the article or book review has significant contributions from more than one author, all of them should appear as co-authors and should accurately reflect who did the work. All authors meet the journal's criteria for authorship and that nobody who meets these criteria has been omitted from the list.

Policy on discriminatory conduct and on sex, gender and equity in research. Authors should read and follow the general guidelines to avoid adiscriminatory conduct. Authors are encouraged to include and report sex and gender considerations in their research. Read the guidelines here.

Conflict of interest. Potential conflict of interest is disclosed to the Editors in the "Comments to the Editors" during the submission process.

Appeals. Authors have the right to appeal editorial decision in written form and with adequate justification.

Length. Recommended length for articles: 6,000-8,000 words; for book reviews: 2,500- 3,000 words.

Format. Follow styles in the template.

Funding. If the research presented has been funded in part or in full, the authors will indicate this in the section of their paper entitled "Acknowledgements".

References. Use APA style. Make also sure that your references meet the Journal’s style. We include some examples, below:

{BOOK} Davis, Ll. (1998). Sexuality and gender in the English Renaissance: An annotated edition of contemporary documents. London: Taylor & Francis.

{ARTICLE} Downing, A. (2001). ‘Surely you knew!’ Surely as a marker of evidentiality and stance. Functions of Language, 8(2), 251-282.

{ONLINE} Spencer, H. (1927). Wolveridge’s ‘Speculum Matricis’. Proceedings of the Royal Society of Medicine (pp. 56-62). <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/ pmc/articles/PMC2100830/pdf/procrsmed01198-0062.pdf> [10/12/2010].

{BOOK CHAPTER} Taavitsainen, I. & Pahta, P. (1995). Scientific ‘thought-styles’ in discourse structure: Changing patterns in a historical perspective. In B. Wårvik, S. K. Tanskanen & R. Hiltunen (Eds.), Organization in discourse: Proceedings from the Turku Conference (pp. 519–29). Turku: University of Turku.

Artículos/Articles

En esta sección se recogen los originales de un extensión superior a 5000 palabras en la temática de la revista: aspectos relativos a la lingüística aplicada, el análisis del discurso de especialidad, la pragmática, la sociología, el análisis contrastivo, idiomas mundiales, el desarrollo y la aplicación de corpus y software especializado, el aprendizaje y las técnicas de enseñanza y metodología, desarrollo curricular, entre otros. La revista también acepta artículos que describen los proyectos que se ejecutan en el ámbito de las lenguas para fines específicos. Se aceptan trabajos con una perspectiva diacrónica.

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Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in this journal.
Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the journal's published version of the work (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
Authors are permitted and encouraged to post their work online (e.g., in institutional repositories or on their website) prior to and during the submission process, as it can lead to productive exchanges, as well as earlier and greater citation of published work (See The Effect of Open Access).

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