CALL FOR PAPERS
Publication Project
Series in Linguistics, Culture and FLT, upcoming issues 1, 2, & 3
e-ISSN 2534-9538; p-ISSN 2534-952X
Dear Researcher,
It is our pleasure to invite you to submit your original research related to the various aspects of English Studies, including FLT.
The submitted papers undergo double blind peer-review and upon positive feedback from the reviewers are published in the upcoming issues of Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT (silc.fhn-shu.com).
The papers accepted for publication should be original scholarly contributions and may fall under one of the following three categories:
• Research papers involving empirical investigations and methodological or theoretical analyses and discussions within the field of English Studies (min. 7 and max. 15 pages up to 27 000 characters without spaces). Outstanding research of more pages is also considered for publication based on the approval of the Editorial Board.
• State of the art reviews (max. 15 pages) and reports of recent books (max. 2 pages) covering issues related to the topic of the journal.
• Notes and squibs (max. 6 pages).
Details about the Journal, the Editorial Board and the formatting requirements (APA style) can be found on our website.
We are also looking for scholars willing to participate in the project as Reviewers. All Scholars interested in being part of our team of international Reviewers should submit a short bio data and a list of publications to silc@shu.bg.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE of the articles: English (use either British English or American English spelling, not a mixture of both).
SILC is indexed in SCOPUS, ErihPlus, Index Copernicus, EBSCO, Directory of Open Access Journals, Scribd, GoogleScholar, Directory of Research Journals Indexing (DRJI), ROAD – Directory of Open Access Scholarly Resources, RINZ, MLA Directory of Periodicals and MLA International Bibliography and Dimensions, National Centre for Information and Documentataion (ID 2775), ResearchBib, Mendeley, MIAR.
There are no publication or processing fees!
Papers are submitted directly to silc@shu.bg or electronically here.
Pre-submission guidelines to Authors
- Read carefully Ethical Statement & Malpractice statement.
- The submission has not been previously published, including self-published or published in a language different from English, is original and has been written by the stated authors.
- The article is not currently being considered for publication by any other journal and will not be submitted for such review while under review by SILC.
- Any possible Conflict of Interest has been reported to the Editorial Board.
- The Title Page Template has been correctly filled in and submitted.
- The paper complies with the Blinded Manuscript Guidelines.
- APA formatting has been applied throughout the paper (https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/apa_style/...).
- Either British or American English spelling, but not a mixture of both, is followed throughout the paper.
- The paper has been checked by a native speaker or a person proficient in English.
Check list for authors
- Correctly filled in Title Page Template.
- Blinded manuscript prepared according to the formatting and ethical requirements of SILC.
Reviewers
- Reviewers abide by SILC’s Publication Ethics & Malpractice Statement as well as by COPE Ethical guidelines for peer reviewers (https://publicationethics.org/resources/guidelines-new/cope-ethical-guidelines-peer-reviewers)
- Reviewers fill in the Review Form
