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Author Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

The topic of the papers should have a focus on intercultural communication issues as the central and privileged perspective.

Each manuscript should be accompanied by an abstract of about 100-120 words.

The manuscripts should preferably be in English. It is recommended not to exceed a length of 8000 words, references included.

Contributors should submit their manuscript in electronic form, as an attached document by e-mail or on a computer disk. Word format will be used (no Word Perfect, please).

A short biographical note of the author/s is required as well as a complete address.

All papers received will be submitted to peer review by the board of editors. To keep reviews anonymous, we would like all authors to replace references to their own work in the bibliography and running text by the text ”to be inserted after review”.

Appendices should be kept at a minimum and preferably be short.

Please feel free to send contributions to
Beatriz Dorriots
Department of Linguistics, Göteborg University
Box 200, 405 30 Göteborg, Sweden

or by e-mail to beadorriots@yahoo.fr.

In order to facilitate editing, there should be a minimum of enhancements and formatting in the text. This is to avoid mistakes when converting between different programs. We urge you to use the following guidelines.

  • An abstract, with the heading “Abstract” should precede the text. Under the Abstract the Key words must be written.
  • The first line of each new paragraph should be indented, but NOT with a tab. This should be done automatically in Word in “Paragraph” under “Format”.
  • Typeface should be Times New Roman or Times, 14 points. Bold and italics may be used.
  • No manual hyphenation
  • Indented quotations should be clearly marked (over emphasize if in doubt)
  • No headers or footers whatsoever
  • Preferably no pagination
  • When using different type sizes for headers (i.e., main and subheadings, and possibly subheaders in different levels) this should be VERY clearly marked (over emphasize if in doubt)
  • Tables and figures should be placed in the correct position, numbered consecutively and with a header above and possibly a short explanatory text underneath. The “table tools” in the Word program should preferably be used.
  • Do not use grey shadings in diagrams and tables. Use only black text. Make sure that the lines of tables and diagrams are not too close to text or margins.
  • Save the document in Word or rtf files for Mac and PC

Footnotes

  • Use the program’s automatic footnote inserter (in other words do not write them in manually at the end of the document)

Citations

  • Use the Harvard model for citations in text, i.e,. author, year, and page in brackets or citation or reference, as below:

     

    … (Johansson 1997:214-124)

    No comma after the name, no space or colon.

References

  • All references will appear at the end of the article. Please follow the examples below.

     

    Broeder, P. (1991). Learning to understand in interethnic communication. Issues in Applied Linguistics, 4, 57-84.

    Clyne, M. (1994). Intercultural communication at work: Cultural values in discourse. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

    No comma after the name, no space or colon.

Questions may be sent to Beatriz Dorriots

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

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. The submission file is in Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
  6. If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review have been followed.
 

Copyright Notice

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).

 

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Journal of Intercultural communication
ISSN 1404-1634
Url: http://www.immi.se/jicc/
E-mail: jicc@immi.se