SUBMISSION BASICS
It is our pleasure to welcome you as a collaborator in the latest issue of the journal of the Department of English Studies at Shumen University, Bulgaria, Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT, e-ISSN 2534-9538, p-ISSN 2534-952X.
The papers accepted for publication should be original scholarly contributions within the general fields of English Linguistics, Culture, and FLT 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; NB! Research papers of fewer than 7 pages are automatically disregarded!). 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).
NB! Papers not formatted according to the requirements (Blinded Manuscript; APA formatting) and of poor quality of English would not be considered.
NB! Papers not accompanied with an Anti-Plagiarism (including percentage of AI-generated content) report would not be considered.
Accepted papers will undergo double blind peer-review and upon approval would be published in one of the issues of Studies in Linguistics, Culture and FLT, e-ISSN 2534-9538, p-ISSN 2534-952X.
OFFICIAL LANGUAGE: English (use either British English or American English spelling, not a mixture of both).
MANUSCRIPT PROCEDURE TIME: Notification of acceptance – 10-14 days; Submission of reviews – 30-60 days; The average time in which the article is published – 3 to 6 months (based on number of approved submissions). The accepted submissions are published in the April, August or December issue.
• Blinded Manuscript Guidelines
SILC is released as an open access journal distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which means that everyone is free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, even commercially), provided they give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made.
