Asociación Española de Lingüística de Corpus
Prepare your manuscript for Research in Corpus Linguistics.
Review the checklist, choose your article type, and turn your draft into a cleaner submission package.
Checked 2026-07-15
Article types
Review
Letter
Readiness requirements
Review the key details below, or download the complete checklist with every stored source-backed requirement.
Abstract length
- Provide an author-written abstract of no more than 200 words.
- Each article must be supplied with an abstract (between 100-200 words in length).
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- Book reviews do not require an abstract and should have between 1,500 and 3,000 words.
- Abstract, keywords and captions should be in Times New Roman 10pt.
- The first page of each article must include a 100-200 word summary or abstract.
- Papers reporting on research based on or derived from corpora should between 6,000 and 10,000 words, including title, abstract, references, notes, appendices, tables and figures.
- Research papers reporting on corpus construction, annotation, the development and application of corpus tools, software, etc. should have between 3,000 and 5,000 words, including title, abstract, references, notes, appendices, tables and figures.
- Below the abstract there should be a list of up to six keywords.
Keywords
- Provide up to 10 keywords chosen by the author.
Reference style
- Articlo formats your supplied references to the journal's stored style and checks that citations match the reference list; source validity is not verified.
- In-text references must be inserted as follows (please note the use of long en-dash to mark page ranges and the use of "and" rather than ampersand "&" for multiple authors): see Smith and Wilson (1993: 481–483).
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- If several references are cited within brackets, they must be arranged chronologically and separated by semi-colons, as follows: (Goldberg 1980; Erman 1987, 2001; Fox Tree and Schrock 2002; Brinton 2007; Beeching 2016).
Figure and table rules
- Keep every figure and table numbered, captioned, and cited in the manuscript.
- The title of the table/figure must appear below, centred in Times New Roman 10pt.
Ethics statement
- When necessary, authors should accept all liability for ethical issues arising from their work.
Cover letter
- Letter: Provide the claims and editor-specific context for the cover letter; Articlo creates an editable companion without inventing content.
- Letter: If a longer manuscript is submitted for some particular reason, authors should include a note making a case for an exception to this limit as a cover letter which must be uploaded as 'Other' to the system along with the manuscript.
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- Contributors are responsible for obtaining permission to reproduce any material in which they do not own copyright, to be used in both print and electronic media, and for ensuring that the appropriate acknowledgements are included in their manuscript.
Other submission requirements
- Review: Review articles should have between 3,000 and 6,000 words.
- Please use Times New Roman size 12pt font throughout the manuscript.
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- An 11pt font should be used.
- All details of personal identification must be absent from the manuscript, as well as from the file properties.
- Authors must read and acknowledge the Submission Preparation Checklist before submitting their proposals.
- The articles, whether empirical, theoretical or practical-critical, should address an important problem or issue in the field of Corpus Linguistics.
- Review: The articles should be grounded in appropriate theory/existing knowledge and provide evidence of a competent and critical review of the relevant literature.
- Notes should be avoided and limited to authorial commentary that cannot be easily accommodated in the body of the text.
- Article proposals must be submitted in a Microsoft Word file (click on "Microsoft Word file" for the template) through the Open Journal System (OJS) at https://ricl.aelinco.es/index.php/ricl/about/submissions.
- 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.
Language and text style
- Quotations of under 25 words should be included in double quotation marks in the running text.
- Longer quotations should be set off, indented (0.5 cm) and never enclosed in quotation marks.
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- All punctuation marks should precede closing quotation marks as follows: Smith (2018: 20) considers that collocation and valency are “near neighbours in the lexis-grammar continuum.”.
- Article proposals must be written in proper academic English.
- Manuscripts should be written in proper academic English.
- Every effort should be made by non-native speakers of English to have their final draft checked by a colleague who is a native speaker of English.
- Either British English or US English conventions for spelling and expression should be followed consistently.
- Idiomatic use of language should be avoided.
Manuscript structure
- Notes should be in the form of footnotes (rather than endnotes).
- Section and subsection headings should be typed on separate lines, numbered and punctuated as in the following examples: Introduction [small caps, centred].
What your package checks
Abstract: 200 words
Paper: 10,000 words
Keywords: Up to 10 keywords
Declarations: Acknowledgements
Format: Times New Roman
Source transparency
This preparation guide uses published journal-specific author requirements. Journal instructions can change, so authors should complete a final review before submission.
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