PALA CONFERENCE PROCEEDINGS
- The proceedings of PALA conferences are published online, and are freely available to all web users.
- Only papers (and where applicable posters) that were presented at a PALA conference are eligible for submission for the PALA Proceedings.
- 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 editor of the proceedings will make a quick visual check of the document to ensure that the text appears to have been transferred correctly).
- Papers can be submitted in the following formats: Adobe PDF (preferred); Microsoft Word; OpenOffice.
- Please make the filename of your paper your family name (e.g. walker.docx; walker.pdf).
- The closing date for submissions for the electronic online proceedings is 31st December following the conference.
- If you are a student member and you wish your paper to be considered for the PALGRAVE Prize, please say so in the email when you submit your paper (see Palgrave Prize Page).
- Papers will be published online in January following the conference.
- 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.
PALA Proceedings: guidelines
Papers should be submitted by email attachment to the PALA website administrator. The body of the email should include: title, author(s) name(s), affiliation, full postal address and email address.
You should also state whether you would like your paper to be considered for the Palgrave Prize (note that papers already published elsewhere are not eligible for the prize).
Papers should not exceed 6,000 words.
Style:
You should also state whether you would like your paper to be considered for the Palgrave Prize (note that papers already published elsewhere are not eligible for the prize).
Papers should not exceed 6,000 words.
Style:
- 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).
- 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:
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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 |
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.
Permissions. 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. However, under fair use rules, it should be possible to use quotations or excerpts. PLEASE CHECK IF YOU ARE IN ANY DOUBT.
PALA reserves the right to refuse to publish papers if there is any doubt relating to potential legal or ethical questions.
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.
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 can be used for citation purposes (e.g. http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/proceedings/2012/smith2012.pdf).
Permissions. 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. However, under fair use rules, it should be possible to use quotations or excerpts. PLEASE CHECK IF YOU ARE IN ANY DOUBT.
PALA reserves the right to refuse to publish papers if there is any doubt relating to potential legal or ethical questions.
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.
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 can be used for citation purposes (e.g. http://www.pala.ac.uk/resources/proceedings/2012/smith2012.pdf).
Thank you.
We look forward to receiving your paper.
We look forward to receiving your paper.