Deadline for article submission: May 31st

The official languages of JAL are English (consistency should be kept with either British or American spelling), French and Greek. Authors of manuscripts, short notes and book reviews are requested to observe the following recommendations; failure to do so may result in the Editor’s inability to consider a contribution for publication.

Manuscripts submitted in accordance with the specifications below are passed by the Editor to members of the Editorial Advisory Board. The manuscripts are blind reviewed by at least two reviewers, so authors must avoid any textual references that would identify them (any omitted material can be included later if the manuscript is accepted). After a manuscript has been reviewed, authors will be informed as to whether and when their contribution will be published.

The following information must be given on separate sheets/files:

  1. First and last name and academic status of author; also the name of the institution he/she is/was associated with.
  2. In case of more than one author, the name, address and telephone number of the author responsible for any correspondence relating to the manuscript.
  3. A very short biographical note (approx. 7 lines).
  4. A 150 word abstract in English or in French.
  5. 5-6 keywords in the language of the main text.
  6. All illustrations, diagrams and other graphics should be submitted as a separate file, numbered consecutively, provided with appropriate captions and referred to in the main text. All letters and numbers should be typewritten and should be large enough to be legible even after reduction. The preferred position of the Figure or Table in the text should be indicated.
  7. All Appendices should be submitted as a separate file.
Manuscript
  • Fonts: 12 Calibri
  • Line spacing: 1,5
  • Length: between 4000 to 7000 words including tables, references and appendices

Manuscript titles should be kept as brief and as compact as possible (up to 12 words) and should not contain abbreviations. A shorter version of 5-6 words of the titles should be provided for the Journal’s headers.

On their first occurrence, abbreviations should be given in brackets after they have been fully explained.

Notes should be kept to a minimum and be submitted as footnotes. When there are punctuation marks (e.g. a comma, colon or period), the indicator is placed after the punctuation as in the example:

We are going to focus on Greek-German bilingual children in Greece and in Germany.1

Punctuation marks

Authors are requested to be consistent with punctuation marks and not to use them arbitrarily. For example, quotation marks are used for quotations and partial quotations only and points of omission are never more than three dots (…).

Apart from standard punctuation marks, such as quotation and exclamation marks, points of omission etc., authors are free to adopt a punctuation system of their own as long as they are consistent with it. However, under no circumstances should underlining or emphasis in bold letters be used. Bold letters are used only in section titles, NOT in the text. Quotation marks are signified by double inverted commas (“ ”), not by single inverted commas (‘ ’).

Quotations longer than 3 lines should be indented left and right, with double quotation marks and with the appropriate reference to the source. Single inverted commas, on the other hand, can indicate non-standard use, or reference to a word, an expression, a suffix etc., as in the quotations: “The writer is fond of using the word ‘climax’ to imply an additional sense of …” and “The morpheme ‘bound’ can be used also to indicate …”.

Italics can indicate terminology, highlighting or emphasis.

References

The full bibliography of the references within the text must by typed under the heading References. Entries are arranged alphabetically based on the Greek alphabet: A, B, Γ/C, Δ/D, E, Z(ζ), F, G, H, Θ, Ι, J, K, Λ/L, M, N, Ξ, O, Π/P, Q, Ρ/R, Σ/S, T, Y, Φ, U, V, W, X, Y, Zz, Ψ, Ω.

Submitted manuscripts should comply with APA 7th ed.

Please note: Always include a DOI (digital object identifier) if available for an article. If an article has no DOI, and you accessed it through a website other than a database (for example, the journal’s own website), include a URL linking to the article.

Manuscripts that do not follow the suggested style will not be considered.

Book Reviews

Books of interest to the JAL public may be reviewed in review articles or shorter book review notices, and they may be published in any one of the three official languages of JAL. Ideally a book review may not exceed 3000 words.

Contributions should be submitted to gala-auth@enl.auth.gr