Journal of the International Phonetic Association

NOTES FOR CONTRIBUTORS

Editorial policy

The Journal of the International Phonetic Association is concerned with all aspects of the theory, description, and use of phonetics and phonology. Contributions are subject to review and to the Editor's final decision as to publication. The primary language of the Journal is English, though contributions in other languages of wide scholarly currency, such as French, German, or Russian, may be accepted. Contributions in English may use either British or American standard spelling and punctuation, consistently.

Submission of manuscripts

Manuscripts should be submitted to Adrian Simpson, Editor of JIPA (adrian.simpson@uni-jena.de), or at the address given in this issue. Initially, submissions should be in a form that can be conveniently read by Editors and reviewers, and tables and figures may be included in the same document as the text. Papers may be submitted in hard copy in triplicate; but electronically submitted files, e-mailed as identical AuthorName.doc and AuthorName.pdf attachments or sent on disc, are preferable. An e-mail address is required for publication.

After a paper or a book review has been accepted for publication, authors must be prepared to submit it as specified below. If extensive re-formatting is necessary, the Editors reserve the right to refer the manuscript to the author for improvements. Authors are advised to consult recent JIPA articles for illustration of the required style. Phonetic transcriptions should make use of the symbols and conventions of the Association’s alphabet in its latest revision. Throughout the entire manuscript/all the files, text should use 12 pt Times/Times Roman font and, for IPA transcriptions, a Unicode-compliant IPA serif font that includes all symbols required (e.g. Doulos SIL, Charis, LaserIPA Unicode). Fonts that are not Unicode-compliant (e.g. IPAKiel) should not be used. Use the special IPA font even for ordinary letter-like IPA symbols in strings where at least one symbol is drawn from the special IPA font set. This applies to all the symbols, including slants and square brackets if they enclose a transcription string. Non-IPA text in tables and table and figure captions should be set in sans serif font — please follow the format in recent JIPA issues.

The final version of all material accepted for publication must be submitted in hard copy, accompanied by the electronic copy in .doc and .pdf form and final graphics files. The electronic versions should match the hard copy exactly.

Manuscript style

Page layout and text organization. The text should be double-spaced with 1" (2.5 cm) margins on all sides, and page numbers in the top right corner. Material in longer articles may be organized into sections (numbered 1, 2, etc.) and subsections (numbered (1.1, 1.1.2, etc.) that have their own titles. Acknowledgements should follow the text and precede the references. Tables may be included in the text at the appropriate location only if they do not contain horizontal or vertical lines. If they have lines, see section ‘Tables and figures’ below. All section headings should be on a separate line, in bold and flush left.

Abstracts. Papers must include an abstract of between 50 and 200 words. Contributions in languages other than English should be accompanied by an abstract in English. Book reviews and contributions to the series Illustrations of the IPA do not need an abstract.

Footnotes and references. Footnotes should be avoided as far as possible. Citations in the text should give, in parentheses, the name of the author and the year of publication, and, where relevant, the page(s) referred to: e.g. ‘(Jones 1963)’, or ‘Abercrombie (1967: 161)’. Where essential, footnotes should be numbered consecutively in superscript throughout the text, and collected as a separate list attached at the end of the manuscript, after the references. All and only works referred to in the text and footnotes should be listed at the end of the article. Use the following format, noting the use of small capitals, lower/upper case letters, parentheses, italics, bold, full stops, commas, the long hyphen (–), and the ampersand (&):

References

ESLING, J. H. (1996). Pharyngeal consonants and the aryepiglottic sphincter. Journal of the International Phonetic Association 26, 65–88.

O’CONNOR, J. D. & ARNOLD, G. F. (1973). Intonation of Colloquial English (2nd edn.). London: Longman.

SAMPSON, G. (1987). Probabilistic models of analysis. In Garside, R., Leech, G. & Sampson, G. (eds.), The Computational Analysis of English, 30–41. London: Longman.

Authors’/editors’ first names in full may be used in the references, but this must be done consistently throughout the list.

Tables and figures. In the final version, tables with any horizontal or vertical lines and all figures should be submitted as clear originals on paper and as computer files, in black and white or grey (not colour). Figures must be produced electronically or drawn to a standard that will allow all lines and text in the figures to be reproduced clearly in print. The hard copy of each table and figure should be on a separate page (even if the object is small), with the table or figure number identified. All the captions should be listed at the end of the manuscript in the hard copy, and the list should also be included as a separate electronic file. The position of each table and figure should be clearly indicated in the main body of the manuscript. Each table and figure in the electronic version should be in a separate file, without any captions – just the object by itself. Allowable formats are detailed in the CUP artwork instructions, available from the Editors. All file names should begin with some form of the author’s name, e.g. Brown-Fig1. Discs must be clearly labelled, giving details of the contents, and the hardware and the program(s) used for creating the files.

Recordings of data. Contributions to Illustrations of the IPA should be accompanied at the time of submission to the Editor by high-quality recordings, preferably as .wav files with at least a 22kHz sampling rate, of all words and narrative text in the target language occurring anywhere in the Illustration. Further instructions on the form of Illustrations are available from the Editor.

Proofs and offprints

Proofs, normally in .pdf format, will be sent to the author (or their nominee), who will be expected to correct them and return them to the designated Editor within five days of receipt. Upon publication, authors will be supplied with two hard copies of the journal issue in which their article is printed and a .pdf offprint of their contribution by e-mail.

Instructions for contributors are available at:

http://assets.cambridge.org/IPA/IPA_ifc.pdf