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Abstract
This file is a formatted template for articles published in JSEALS. Guidelines for the content are included herein. The abstract should only contain key points/arguments of your paper and generally should not exceed 150 words.
Keywords: Select up to five keywords representing main categories of your paper. Samples of terms can be seen at under the Keywords & Tags tab.
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1 Level 1 heading: main sections and quotes
Linguistics articles typically contain introductory sections to introduce main points and describe previous research and research questions. After that, they should include a number of sections to present data, hypotheses, and various types of support for a researcher’s claims, and conclude with a summary to tie together the ideas, highlight main conclusions from the data, and give suggestions for further lines of inquiry or acknowledge remains problems or unanswered questions.
Authors should review the following key articles and video available on Both the ‘Author/Reviewer Guide’ and ‘Statement of Ethics’ describe expected qualities of a suitable linguistics research article and the process by which data is gathered, analysed, and used to make claims.
- Author/Reviewer Guide
- Statement of Ethics
- Format guide (video)
Regarding quotes, long quotes can be shown as in the following sample. Short quotes may be left in text with single quotes and periods outside quotes, ‘Such as in this sample’.
This paragraph shows the format for long quotes. This is the ‘JSEALS long quote’ style, in contrast with the ‘JSEALS Para 1’ style used in all regular paragraphs in the article.
Author (2010:45)
1.1Level 2 heading: styles and sentence samples
Regarding formatting, first lines in sections are not indented, while thereafter, paragraphs are indented. Note that all sections in this paper have formatting stylesthat can be shown in a pop-up table. In MS Word, click on ‘Home’ in the toolbar at the top of the screen and then click the rightward pointing arrow box inside ‘Styles’. Authors can highlight any text and select a style, such as ‘JSEALS Level 2 Heading’.
Sentence data should be presented as in the samples below with the style ‘JSEALS glossed example’. When non-Roman scripts are used, please provide IPA transcriptions under each word. For technical grammatical features, authors must follow the widely recognized Leipzig glossing rules, which can be downloaded as a PDF file at this link:
(1) Anakituakan mem-bantu Ali
childthat FUTMEN-helpAli.
‘That child will help Ali’
(2a) Anakituakan mem-bantu Ali
childthat FUTMEN-helpAli.
‘That child will help Ali’
(2b) Anakituakan mem-bantu Ali
childthat FUTMEN-helpAli.
‘That child will help Ali’
It is important to strictly use the ‘Tab’ key and the spacing ruler above to arrange words and glosses. Never use single spaces to align words as this will create uneven spacing in the formatting process.
1.1.1 Level 3 heading: levels of headings and footnotes
Authors are discouraged from expanding beyond three levels of subheadings unless their presentation absolutely requires such a high level of detail that is more common in book-length works than journal articles.
Regarding footnotes, they should be used sparingly. Authors are encouraged to place as much information in text as possible and save footnotes for truly secondary important details. As for footnote format, see the information in the footnote at the end of this sentence.[1]
1.1.1.1 Level 3 heading: figures and tables[2]
Regarding graphics, authors are encouraged to use TIFF files since those preserve digital detail in images more than in the JPG format, which loses detail permanently when images are shrunk and saved.
Note that titles of both figures and tables are shown above their respective images and tables. Categories are bolded,while titles are italicized.It is important that you specifically state in the text what figures or tables you are referring to, for example, ‘Figure 1 is a map of the major sub-branches of Austroasiatic’. Do not simply write ‘the figure/table below’ as the editors will most likely move images wherever they can be conveniently fit onto pages for purposes of smooth pagination.
Figure 1: Greyscale GIF file 300 DPI 10 cm wide. Provide a concise, descriptive title for figures/images.
Tables should have clear column headings and consistent formatting within the table for different categories, such as italicized glosses versus language samples.
Table 1:Provide a concise, descriptive title for tables.
Category / Gloss / Language 1 / Language 2 / Language 3References
Note:Formatting of references should be consistent within an article. Here are general guidelines to consider. References offer complete first names unless published with initials only. Titles of journals are italicized and have capitalized names, nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs, while titles of articles and books are not italicized except for first letters of first words and names. Guidelines in other languages may differ. Provide glosses in brackets. Use the following samples as a model.
Haudricourt, Andre G. 1965. Mutation consonantique en Mon-Khmer. Bulletin de la Société Linguistique de Paris 60:160-72.
Li, Fang-Kuei. 1977. A handbook of comparative Tai. Oceanic Linguistics Special Publications No. 15, Honolulu, The University of Hawaii Press.
Nguyễn, Văn Tài. 2005. Ngữ âm tiếng Mường qua các phương ngữ [The phonetics of the Mường language across its various dialects]. Hanoi: Nhà Xuất Bản Từ Điển Bách Khoa.
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Editors: Editor-In-Chief Dr Mark Alves | Managing Eds. Dr Paul Sidwell, Dr Nathan Hill, Dr Sigrid Lew
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[1]For footnotes (not endnotes), use the style ‘JSEALS footnote’.
[2]This fourth level of sub-headings is discouraged unless this amount of sub-detail is truly necessary.