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.- The submission has not been previously published, nor is currently being considered for publication by another journal.
- If the submission has been previously published as a preprint, this is disclosed and a link to the preprint publication is provided.
- Any use of Artificial Intelligence is clearly indicated in the manuscript.
- The manuscript follows the guidelines outlined in the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, 7th edition.
- All illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
- The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the "Preparing Articles and Book Reviews" section of the Author Guidelines.
- Electronic texts must be prepared in Microsoft Word (or RTF).
- The text uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses).
- All elements of the text must be double-spaced, including long quotations, notes, examples, footnotes and references.
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Authors who publish with The Canadian Journal of Applied Linguistics (CJAL) agree to the following terms:
- Authors retain copyright and grant the CJAL right of first publication with the work simultaneously licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/> that allows others to share the work with an acknowledgement of the work's authorship and initial publication in the CJAL.
- Authors are able to enter into separate, additional contractual arrangements for the non-exclusive distribution of the CJAL'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 the CJAL.
- Authors will not simultaneously submit the same piece of work for possible publication to more than one academic journal at a time.
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