JSEALS Submission Guidelines
Submissions to JSEALS may be made at any time of year.
Papers will go into the queue for review, and will be published in
the first scheduled issue after being formally accepted.
Because the exact duration of the reviewing process may be unpredictable,
we now publish JSEALS twice yearly to avoid delay.
Please submit minimally formatted .DOC and PDF versions of your papers directly to Paul Sidwell
via email: paulsidwell@yahoo.com .
Please set your paper in single spaced 12 point Times Roman or Times New Roman.
Use an A4 page, and leave a 2.5cm (1 inch) margin on all sides.
Please make every effort to use only one freely available Unicode font
(such as Charis SIL) throughout the document if Times is not sufficient.
For non-roman text, please note any additional Unicode fonts used, and if possible
choose a standard font (such as Tahoma) that includes non-roman character sets.
You do not need to specially format your papers. This will be done after they are reviewed.
In principle there is no length requirement, but papers of between 10 and 20 pages are preferred.
JSEALS book reviews
JSEALS has begun receiving unsolicited books for review.
Members may request books (see also the SEALS Facebook page).
Reviews should be
submitted within 3 months, at minimum of 1000 words for regular books, and 2000 words for
large books, with no upper limit.
Reviews are be expected to be more than long book notices,
and offer some critical insight into the work.
Unsolicited reviews are also welcome, as long as the books
relate to our area of interest.
JSEALS Forum
Beginning with issue 4-2 we are experimenting with a new section called JSEALS Forum, in which
scholars are given a chance to freely discuss and challenge each other over a particular
topic.
The idea arose after Anne Daladier of CNRS (Paris) privately challenged Paul Sidwell's
presentation concerning the history of Khasian languages given at this years SEALS meeting
in Bangkok.
Draft papers were exchanged with an invitation to respond to or incorporate
incorporate critiques of each other's work.
These are not externally peer reviewed, and are meant to
facilitate timely robust debate and discussion with minimal restrictions.
We hope that this will stimulate others to take advantage of the
opportunity to do something similar in future. Discussions on any topic within the
scope of JSEALS are invited.
The JSEALS website is maintained by the Center for Research in Computational Linguistics.
Please send requests for additions, corrections, or information to doug.cooper.thailand at gmail.com.
Editorial queries should be directed to paulsidwell at yahoo.com.