Submission Guidelines
Works should be between 6000 and 8000 words, though longer articles will be read and considered. We are now also accepting abridged Masteral Theses and Ph.D. Dissertations—length is not applicable in this case.
You should submit a precis introducing your paper. Every author must submit a brief biography as well as the following information. All submissions should be submitted here.
Process: All submissions undergo a blind peer-review process. You will be informed of the results of the review process within 6-12 weeks (this may vary depending on various factors) after confirmation of the receipt of your submission.
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Citations Criteria
- Name
- Address
- Phone number
- Brief history of professional expertise
- Qualifications
- An undertaking that the work has not been published elsewhere
- Abstract
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Format for all submissions (Please read this before submitting your work).
In order to assist us with web preparation, the following procedures are essential:
- The document must be in MS Word format.
- ‘Smart tags’ should be removed.
- Footnotes must not “pop up” in the document. They must appear at the end of the article.
- Citations and referencing—APA 7th edition.
- The abstract should contain an informative summary of the main points of the article, including, where relevant, the article’s purpose, theoretical framework, methodology, types of data analyzed, subject information, main findings, and conclusions. It should be between 150 and 250 words. Your abstract should be a single paragraph and must not be indented.
- Keywords: List 4-6 keywords to facilitate locating the article through keyword searches in the future. Italicize the keywords and place them below the abstract.
- Graphs and charts should be placed either in the body of the document or at the end.
- Paragraphs. Indent the beginning of each paragraph except those immediately following a heading, quotation, example, figure, chart or table. Keep text formatting (e.g., italics, bold, etc.) to the absolute minimum necessary.
- Download the template here and use this template when submitting your paper for the blind review process. Be sure that you do not leave traces of your identity, affiliation, and contact information in this file.
- Theory-based papers are 4,000-5,000 words; data-based articles have a minimum of 6,000 and a maximum of 15,000 words. Abridged theses and dissertations may have longer than 15,000 words. The Chief Editor will advise you during the review process.
- Your contact information, name, and affiliation are to be submitted on a separate title page. In addition, the similarity index of your paper must be stated here. Finally, a line certifying that your paper is not under review and has not been published elsewhere should be indicated on the title page.
- When submitting your file for blind review, use this format for the filename: first three letters of your name_keywords in your title. For example, for a paper titled “The language of the pandemic: formations and frequencies of neologisms,” you can have a file name: Gus_language of the pandemic.
- Papers with 11% or above similarity index are rejected right away. MJSELT uses Turnitin software in checking plagiarism. If you want to be sure that your paper does not have a high similarity, you may use any plagiarism checker. However, you should adjust its settings and choose not to index your article or save it in the database of the plagiarism software. If you do so, your paper might yield 100% similarity in our checker by the time we upload it to our system and will be rejected or declined.
- Please note that papers that do not follow the above instructions will be declined.
- We blacklist authors who resort to unethical practices such as duplicate submission, plagiarism, and withdrawing papers during the copy-editing/proofing stage, and the like.
- Copyright notice: The authors warrant that their publications in MJSELT have not been submitted elsewhere for publication. They retain copyright and grant MJSELT right of first publication with their works simultaneously licensed under Creative Commons Attribution License-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC-BY-SA 4.0), allowing the authors to share their works in institutional repositories or on their own websites and to republish their works provided that the acknowledgment regarding the first publication of the article in MJSELT is made and that the republication is subsequent to the first publication in this journal.
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