Submissions

This page is designed to help you ensure your submission is ready for and fits the scope of the journal.

Before submitting you should read over the guidelines here, then register an account (or login if you have an existing account)

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. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.
3. All authors have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper and satisfy the Authorship Guidelines.
4. The manuscript is initially submitted in PDF format. An OpenOffice, Microsoft Word or Latex file must be submitted when the paper is accepted for publication.
5. The main body of the manuscript is fewer than 15,000 words. Please include the manuscript word count on the first page. 
6. All DOIs for the references have been provided, when available.
7. Please incorporate all tables directly in the manuscript, following the flow of the text.
8. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 150dpi (300dpi or above preferred). Each file is no more than 20MB per file. The files are in one of the following formats: JPG, TIFF, GIF, PNG, EPS (to maximize quality, the original source file is preferred). Every image or figure should be numbered according its the position in the manuscript.
9. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found under Submissions. Please ensure that your article includes a competing interests statement in accordance with our Competing Interests Guidelines.
10. If the work is subject to an ethics assessment committee, the committee has approved this research.

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).

Laboratory Phonology utilizes a single-anonymous review process, as author identity is difficult to ensure in a close-knit discipline such as Laboratory Phonology. For further information on the journal’s peer review policy, see the Journal Policies page.

The journal is happy to accept submissions of papers that have been loaded onto preprint servers or personal websites, have been presented at conferences, or other informal communication channels. These formats will not be deemed prior publication. Authors must retain copyright to such postings. Authors are encouraged to link any prior posting of their paper to the final published version within the journal, if it is editorially accepted.

Members of the editorial team/board are permitted to submit their own papers to the journal. In cases where an author is associated with the journal, they will be removed from all editorial tasks for that paper and another member of the team will be assigned responsibility for overseeing peer review. A competing interest must also be declared within the submission and any resulting publication.

The following licences are allowed:

• CC BY 4.0 - More Information  
  Attribution — You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. No additional restrictions — You may not apply legal terms or technological measures that legally restrict others from doing anything the license permits.

The journal is published online as a continuous volume and issue throughout the year.

Laboratory Phonology publishes Special Collections in rare instances, primarily when these are connected to the Association for Laboratory Phonology. Please contact the General Editors if you would like more information.

Authors publishing in Laboratory Phonology face no financial charges for the publication of their article. Authors from institutions that already have an OLH membership will have the cost for the article's publication covered by the consortium of libraries participating in the Open Library of Humanities (OLH), ensuring long-term sustainability. We recommend authors from institutions that are not yet members of OLH to use the 'Recommend Us' tool. Should a submitting/corresponding author be from an institution that already has an OLH membership, please indicate it accordingly when submitting your paper.

Authors who have access to institutional funds or grant funding earmarked for Open Access publication (via a research grant or through their institution's department or library)—and only those authors—are kindly asked to use those funds to cover the publication costs for their article in Laboratory Phonology through a Voluntary Author Contribution (VAC). The VAC is genuinely voluntary. Whether or not the author is able to contribute makes absolutely no difference to editorial decision-making on the submission. For further information please see the publisher's policy on VACs.