About the Journal

Focus and Scope

JournalLing publishes articles written in all subfields of linguistics studied by undergraduates at McGill University, including Syntax, Semantics, Phonology, Pragmatics, Sociolinguistics, and more. Priority is given to original research, including work done for higher level research-based classes and independent studies, though essays written for non-research oriented classes are eligible for submission as well.

 

Submission Requirements

Any McGill undergraduate student who has written a paper in the field of Linguistics or a related field is eligible to submit that paper, provided that all sources are properly cited and the paper is free of plagiarism. Plagiarism checks are conducted by our team for each paper submitted. Papers must have obtained a grade of A- or higher. Authors must provide an abstract as well upon submission. If the article involves human subjects, authors must obtain an ethics approval (see below). Papers may be of any length, and will be published with LSA style citations, as is standard in the field of Linguistics. It is the responsibility of the author to secure any copyright to 3rd party images included in submissions.

 

Review process

Our review and editing process is as follows:

  1. Articles are submitted to the journal.
  2. The Editors-in-Chief conducts a plagiarism check.
  3. The article is anonymously given to each editor to read over.
  4. At a meeting, the team discusses submissions and votes on which submissions to accept.
  5. If accepted, an editor will be assigned to the article. The author is notified of acceptance and put in communication with the editor to accept or reject edits.
  6. After editing, the article goes back for a second round of review. Another editor independently reviews the article and performs a second round of edits.
  7. The final version of the article is included in that year’s edition of JournalLing.

 

The Advisory Board

JournalLing is overseen by an advisory board to ensure proper communication and collaboration between JournalLing, LingUA, and the McGill Department of Linguistics.

Membership/Composition

This advisory board consists of one professor, the Undergraduate Program Director (whose term is permanent) and the LINGUA VP Journals, an undergraduate elected each year by Linguistics undergraduate students. 

Purpose

The purpose of the advisory board is to provide guidance and suggestions when consulted by the JournalLing Editorial Team, as well as serve as a neutral third party for disagreements if necessary. Should the JournalLing Editorial Team make any decisions that a member of the board feels reflect poorly on LingUA, the linguistics department, or McGill University as a whole, a vote will be held between members of the advisory board and the Editors-in-Chief before proceeding with or reversing the decision.

 

Open Access Statement 

JournalLing is a diamond open access journal that provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports the greater global exchange of knowledge. 

Authors will never be charged to submit or publish a manuscript and all articles will be made available under a CC BY-ND license, as indicated in the Copyright Notice section.

 

Digital archiving policy 

This journal is archived with the Public Knowledge Project (PKP) Preservation Network. This program offers a decentralized and distributed preservation, perpetual access, andpreservation of the authentic original version of the content. 

 

Self-archiving policy 

Under the terms of the Creative Commons license, authors are permitted to post their work online in institutional/disciplinary repositories or on their own websites. Pre-print (submitted) versions posted online should include a citation and link to the final published version in JournalLing as soon as the issue is available; accepted manuscript versions (including the final publisher's PDF) should include a citation and link to the journal's website. 

 

Privacy Policy

The data collected from registered and non-registered users of this journal falls within the scope of the standard functioning of peer-reviewed journals. It includes information that makes communication possible for the editorial process; it is used to inform readers about the authorship and editing of content; it enables collecting aggregated data on readership behaviors, as well as tracking geopolitical and social elements of scholarly communication. 

Data collected by non-registered users may include IP address, date/time visited, page views, and browser information. 

This journal’s editorial team and its hosting service, McGill Libraries Scholarly Publishing, uses this data to guide its work in publishing and improving this journal. Data that will assist in developing this publishing platform may be shared with its developer Public Knowledge Project in an anonymized and aggregated form, with appropriate exceptions such as article metrics. The data will not be sold by this journal or PKP nor will it be used for purposes other than those stated here. The authors published in this journal are responsible for the human subject data that figures in the research reported here. 

 

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Copyright Notice

Authors contributing to JournalLing agree to have their articles published under a CC BY-ND 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivatives) license. This license allows others to copy, reuse, and distribute the article in any form for any purpose, including commercial use; no modifications are permitted (i.e. others may not distribute any work created as a result of remixing, transforming, or building upon the article without additional express consent of the author). The license requires anyone reusing the article to give the creator appropriate credit and provides a link or reference to the license. Authors retain copyright in their article but grant first publication rights to JournalLing. 

It is the responsibility of the author(s) to secure all necessary copyright permissions for the use of third-party materials in their article.

Authors acknowledge that the metadata of the submission(s), where applicable, are licensed under a public domain CC0.

 

Ethics

All articles involving human subjects must undergo ethics approval. Obtaining an ethics approval is the responsibility of the author prior to submission to JournalLing. Each article requiring an ethics approval should include a statement confirming that the study was approved for ethics, and the institution or committee by which the approval was granted. Articles written for a class may have an ethics approval associated with the class. Authors are encouraged to contact their professors for more information on if further ethics approval is necessary. All identifying information for subjects included in the articles should be anonymized to protect participant privacy. 

Any questions or concerns can be directed to our editorial team at journallingmcgill@gmail.com.