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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 it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).

    You, the contributor, have read and agree to our conditions for publication especially regarding our statement of ethical practice, the originality of your contribution (i.e. has not been previously published and does not include copyrighted material) and is not libellous or containing any potentially libellous content.
  • The submission file is in Microsoft Word document file format. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are uploaded as supplementary files (see the author guidelines for further instruction). The word count should not exceed 8,000 words, including an abstract (max. 150 words) and references.
  • References including URLs and DOIs (where available) are ready to be uploaded when prompted during the submission process.
  • IMPORTANT: PLEASE ENSURE ALL METADATA TEXT INCLUDING THE ABSTRACT IS INSERTED AS PLAIN TEXT. PLEASE ALSO INCLUDE YOUR SALUTATION.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines and Stylesheet, which you can download below.
  • You confirm that you hold copyright in the material being submitted and/or that permissions have been cleared to reproduce any included copyrighted material you quote or use, including artwork.
  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring an Anonymous Review have been followed.

Author Guidelines

Online Submissions

All submissions to Gender and Language must be made online. Please make sure you have read the full author guidelines before beginning the submission process.

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First, click here to download the Author Guidelines and Stylesheet, which you will find in PDF format. The guidelines pertain to article and book review submissions. All articles are peer-reviewed. We will acknowledge your submission upon receipt and let you know the anticipated timeframe for a decision. If your article is accepted, we will send you further instructions for submitting the final manuscript of your article.

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Please click here to view the Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement in full.  

Equinox Publishing is a leading publisher specialising in books and journals in the humanities, social sciences and performing arts. We recognise and believe in the integrity of good ethical practice in publishing in order to promote and maintain the quality our contributors produce. As a publisher, we uphold the standards set forth in the COPE code of practice (www.publicationethics.org), specifically for all contributing parties: author, editor, reviewer and as publisher.

We have communicated these standards to our journal editors who share in our aims for ethical publishing practice and agree to work towards these standards throughout the editorial process. Together, we ensure the ongoing excellence and quality for which Equinox is recognised.

Equinox journal editors have access to (and are encouraged to use) CrossCheck, a plagarism-detection software system which identifies professional plagiarism and other forms of scholarly misconduct. More information

Copyright Notice

The editors will not consider manuscripts which are under consideration by other publishers. It is assumed that once you have submitted an article to this journal, it will not be sent to other publishers until a decision about inclusion has been made. Only by special arrangement will the editors consider previously published material. Full details of our conditions related to copyright can be found by clicking here. 

As a condition of publication, please click here to download, sign (electronic signature is acceptable) and return a copy of the contributor agreement by email or regular mail, once your manuscript is accepted. For multi-authored submissions, it is acceptable for one author to sign on behalf of all authors.

If your paper has been peer reviewed and accepted for publication on an Open Access basis under an appropriate Creative Comons license, we will send you a different contributor contract after publication of the fee prior to publication.

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