All authors are required to submit their articles through the Language ScholarOne site:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/lsa-language
You will need to create a ScholarOne account if you do not have one. (If you are unsure if you have an account, or have forgotten your password, use the password help function). Please contact the journal’s Editors (language@lsadc.org) if you have any questions about the process.
Main document file types
For the initial submission, articles submitted for review do not have to follow the Language style sheet. Authors should upload their (anonymized) manuscripts in PDF, selecting the file designation 'Main Document' and embedding all figures and tables within the Main Document file. If composing your manuscript in LaTeX, a PDF of the LaTeX file should then be generated and submitted via the submission site. If not using LaTeX, authors should use double-spacing throughout.
Upon acceptance of the manuscript, submissions will have to be revised to conform strictly to the Language formatting and style guidelines outlined below. When preparing your final manuscript, take particular notice of the requirements with regard to references. Unlike the APA format that requires only initial for first and middle names, the Language stylesheet requires full (customary) first names. Authors should submit their (de-anonymized) final files in PDF, as well as either MS Word or LaTeX.
- If using LaTeX, the LaTeX source files, along with individual figure files and a PDF of the final version, will need to be submitted for typesetting purposes. You can use the style files available on Overleaf or linked below to prepare your manuscript:
Language LaTeX Files
- If using MS Word, the MS Word manuscript file, along with individual figure files, will need to be submitted for typesetting purposes. You can use the MS Word template below to prepare your manuscript:
Language MS Word Template
Please also ensure you have read the Preparing your materials section before submitting your article.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.