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Proceedings of PALA Conferences

The proceedings of PALA conferences are published online, and are freely available to all web users. Submissions are not reviewed or edited. It is the responsibility of authors to make sure that their papers are of sufficient quality for publication.

The closing date for submissions for the electronic online proceedings is 1st November following the conference. More information on electronic formats and style is listed below. Papers will be published online before the end of the year of the conference.

You can read some arguments for Open Access here. You may also wish to submit your paper to other open access repositories, for example in your own university. If you wish your paper to be considered for the Longman Prize, please say so in the email when you submit your paper (see Longman Prize Page).

If you are planning to submit your paper for the PALA Proceedings, please read ALL of the following guidelines. Thank you. We look forward to receiving your paper.

PALA Proceedings: Guidelines for Submission

  1. Only papers which were presented at the PALA conference are eligible for submission for the PALA Proceedings.
  2. Papers must be submitted in electronic form by 4pm GMT on 1st November to webmaster at pala.ac.uk. No late submissions will be accepted.
  3. In submitting a paper for publication online electronically by PALA you are not giving up any of your rights over the paper or material containing therein, and you still have the right to submit it for publication elsewhere.
  4. Papers should be submitted by email attachment to webmaster at pala.ac.uk. The body of the email should include title, author(s) name(s), affiliation, full postal address and email address.
  5. Papers may be submitted in the following formats:
    • Adobe PDF
    • Microsoft Word
    • OpenOffice
    • XML

    If you have any doubts about suitable formats, please get in touch by more than two weeks before the deadline to discuss options.

  6. Papers will be published online in PDF format and will be freely available to all internet users. The author of the paper retains copyright over the work. Each paper will be given a unique, stable and persistent URL which may be used for citation purposes (e.g. http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/proceedings/2007/smith001/).
  7. Papers should not exceed 6,000 words and should have a 3 cm margin all round. Pages should be numbered consecutively throughout. No more than three levels of subheading should be used; the first two levels should be numbered 1, 1.1,1.2, 2, 2.1, etc. Acknowledgements should appear at the end of the text. Spelling should follow that of the Oxford English Dictionary, or consistently follow the accepted norms of a regional variety of English. Endnotes, not footnotes, should be used. Quoted words or sections in running text should be in single quotes with double quotes within. Quoted passages of more than 50 words should be indented. Please avoid 'generic' he and 'authorial' we (for I).
  8. References should use the Harvard system, which in the text cites authors and year of publication, e.g. (Rose, 1995: 43) or Rose (1995: 43); use 'et al.' when citing a work by more than two authors and a, b, c, etc. to distinguish citations of different works by the same author in the same year. All references cited in the text should be listed alphabetically and presented in full after the notes, using the following style:
    • Articles in journals: Pilkington, A. (1990) 'A Relevance Theoretic View of Metaphor', Parlance 2(2): 102-17.
    • Books: Doughty, P., Pearce, J. and Thornton, G. (1972) Exploring Language. London: Edward Arnold.
    • Articles in books: Cooper, W.E. and Ross, J.R. (1975) 'World Order', in R.E. Grossman, L.J. San and T.J. Vance (eds) Papers from the Parasession on Functionalism, pp. 63-111. Chicago, IL: Chicago Linguistics Society.
    • Unpublished works: Cook, G. (1990) 'A Theory of Discourse Deviation', unpublished PhD thesis, University of Leeds.
  9. Illustrations: all line diagrams and photographs are termed 'Figures' and should be referred to as such in the manuscript. They should be numbered consecutively. They should be reproducible to a final printed width of 104mm and a max. depth of 192mm. Please ensure that all illustrations are of a size and quality appropriate for online viewing and for printing. Consult a specialist in the computing services of your institution if you are unsure how to do this.
  10. Authors should obtain permission to use material already protected by copyright and are responsible for payment of any copyright fee. Copyright of previously unpublished material will be retained by the author(s). Please take care, and take advice where necessary, if you wish to include material which is under copyright. In particular, it is not likely to be possible for you to include modern poetry. PALA reserves the right to refuse to publish papers if there is any doubt relating to potential legal or ethical questions.
  11. If authors prefer to submit their paper to an alternative open access e-prints repository, such as one in their own institutions, then they may also submit the article to PALA Proceedings. If they prefer to submit the paper only to the alternative repository, they may offer a URL to be posted on the PALA website, but such a link will not constitute publication in the PALA Proceedings.