Submissions

This page is designed to help you ensure that your manuscript is ready for submission to the journal. 

Before submitting you should ensure that your submission fits the journal's Focus and Scope, read over and follow the journal's Author Guidelines and consult the Submission Checklist below. You will need to register an account (or login if you have an existing account) in order to begin the submission process online.

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.

1. 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).
2. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal. JPL requires authors to secure any permissions for the reproduction of images as figures within articles that are currently licensed to be reproduced under restrictive terms (e.g., an artist's estate, archive or gallery). Evidence of any granted permissions will need to be shown to the Editorial Team prior to an article's publication in the journal. Permission to reproduce images must be obtained from the copyright holder prior to submission, and details of the permissions obtained, including a copy of any agreed licensing terms, should be included with your submission. Image permissions should permit open access publication with no restrictions on duration of use or recurring renewal costs.
3. All authors have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper and satisfy the Authorship Guidelines. Please also ensure that your article includes a competing interests statement in accordance with our Competing Interests Guidelines.
4. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
5. All DOIs for the references have been provided, when available.
6. Tables and figures are all cited in the text. Tables are included within the text document, whilst figures are uploaded as supplementary files.
7. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). Each is no more than 20MB per file. The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximise quality, the original source file is preferred).
8. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found under the Submissions tab for the journal. Every effort has been made to ensure that author names are removed from the manuscript (following the instructions to ensure anonymous peer review).
9. Please indicate in the 'Comments to the Editor' box if the submission is related to a forthcoming Special Collection.
10. The journal encourages all corresponding authors to include an ORCID within their submitting author data, while co-authors' are recommended to include one. ORCID numbers will be published alongside the paper, should it be accepted. 

Authors who publish with this journal agree to the following terms:

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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).

All submissions are initially assessed by an Editor, who decides whether or not the article fits the scope of the journal and is suitable for peer review. Submissions considered suitable are assigned to at least two independent experts, who assess the article for clarity, validity, and sound methodology. The review period is expected to take around four weeks. Reviewers are asked to provide formative feedback, even if an article is not deemed suitable for publication in the journal.

The journal operates a double-anonymous peer review process, meaning that authors and reviewers remain anonymous for the review process. Based on the reviewer reports the editor will make a recommendation for rejection, minor or major revisions, or acceptance. Overall editorial responsibility rests with the journal’s Editor-in-Chief, who is supported by the Associate Editors and by an expert, international Editorial Board.

Book Reviews and Dissertation Abstracts are reviewed by the book review editor.

Members of the editorial team/board are permitted to submit their own papers to the journal. In cases where an author is associated with the journal, they will be removed from all editorial tasks for that paper and another member of the team will be assigned responsibility for overseeing peer review. A competing interest must also be declared within the submission and any resulting publication.

For further information, please see the journal's 'Peer Review Process' on the Journal Policies page.

The following licences are allowed:

• CC BY 4.0 - More Information  
  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

Authors publishing in the Journal of Portuguese Linguistics face no financial obligation for the publication of their article. Authors from institutions that already have an OLH membership will have the cost for the article's publication covered by the consortium of libraries participating in the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), ensuring long-term sustainability. We recommend that authors from non-member institutions ask their libraries to support OLH with an annual contribution that will cover any current/future publication in the journal. Should a submitting/corresponding author be from an institution that already has an OLH membership, please indicate it accordingly when submitting your paper.

Authors who have access to institutional funds or grant funding earmarked for Open Access publication (via a research grant or through their institution's department or library)—and only those authors—are kindly asked to use those funds to cover the publication costs for their article in Journal of Portuguese Linguistics through a Voluntary Author Contribution (VAC). The VAC is genuinely voluntary. Whether or not the author is able to contribute makes absolutely no difference to editorial decision-making on the submission. For further information please see the publisher's policy on VACs.

The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year. Articles are made available as soon as they are ready, to ensure that there are no unnecessary delays in getting content publicly available.

Special Collections of articles are welcomed and will be published as part of the normal issue, but also within a separate collection page.