ILLC MANUSCRIPT PREPARATION TEMPLATE AND GUDELINES
Please note: both the long and short abstracts as well as the list of keywords are entered separately from the main body of the manuscript.
Abstract [title in 11 pt font]
Each manuscript must include an abstract of 150 to 250 words in Times Roman 10 pt font. The heading ‘Abstract’ should be centered and be 11 pt font bold. Between the heading and the body of the abstract there should be a single space. Skip one line before the section titled ‘Short Abstract’.
Short Abstract [title in 11 pt font]
Each manuscript must include an abstract of two to three sentences in 10 pt font, that will be translated in different languages. The heading ‘Short Abstract’ should be centered and be 11 pt font bold. Between the heading and the body of the abstract there should be a single space. The abstract Skip two lines before you the section titled ‘Keywords’
Keywords [in 10pt font]: keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4, keyword5, keyword6, keyword7.
Page Layout Formatting: Letter size (8.5 inches by 11 inches) in portrait orientation. Top and Bottom margins at 1.5 inches. Left and Right margins at 2 inches.
Sample ILLC Journal Anonymous Manuscript page
The Effect of Dog Barking on Children’s Language [title in 12 pt font, bold, skip one line before next section]
1.Introduction [11 point font, bold; level 1 heading, sections numbered starting at 1; skip a single line before next section]
Each full paper submission must include numbered sections. Every paragraph must be indented. While the level 1 heading should be in 12 pt font, all other levels of heading and the main body of the article should be in 10 pt font except for content of tables that may be in 10 pt, 9 pt, 8 pt font. Skip a single line before next section. Please do not insert page numbers.
1.1 Level 2 Headings [10 pt font, bold]
The format of level 2 heading differs from Level 1 heading: the Level 1 heading title is also bold but it is 10 pt font, like the body of the text.
1.1.1 Level 3 Headings [10 pt font, bold; skip one line before next section]
The format of Levels 3, 4, 5 headings is the same as Level 2 heading: 10 pt font and bold, with no line skipped between the title and the text. Skip two lines before next Level 1 headings.
2. Tables, Examples, Figures, Pictures, Diagrams and Syntactic Trees
2.1 Tables and examples
The format of the tables should follow APA guidelines, as in example below. Skip one line before title of Table (not indented)
Table 1 [bold, 10 pt font]: Summary of studies on the effect of animal sounds on infants and toddlers’ phonological development [in 10 pt font skip one line before table]
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Infants [minimum 8 pt font] 8-10 months |
Toddlers 24-32 months
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Parrot whistling |
Age of emergence of reduplicated babbling (Vxxxx, 2006)
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Use of pitch (bbbbxxxx, 017) |
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Cat meowing |
Use of variegated babbling (Vxxxx, 2032) |
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Cow mooing |
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Age of mastery of voiced bilabial plosives (ppppxxx, 2025) |
When mentioning age of participants you may mention the number of months for very young children, as in Table 1 above. For young or older participants you may use the convention Year;Month (; Day), e.g. 2;6 that indicates two years and six months instead of 32 months.
Examples (in 10 pt font) must be indented and numbered between parentheses as examples (1) below. A gloss- that is a’ morpheme by morpheme translation’ is required for all examples in either varieties of English that differ from General American English or languages other than English and should follow Leipzig glossing rules, unless you need categories that do not appear in the Leipzig list. Whether you use the categories listed in the Leipzig glossing rules of additional ones, the key to your gloss should appear in a footnote on the first page on which the gloss appears. Phonetic and phonological transcriptions should follow IPA conventions with phonemic (or broad) transcriptions appearing between slant bars (or slashes) and phonetic (narrow or allophonic) transcriptions between square brackets. If your version of Microsoft Word does not include IPA symbols, please feel free to make use of the resources available online in order to insert IPA symbols. For examples in languages that are associated with a script that differs from the Roman/Latin script, you may make use of Word or import the example from another program.
- il embrasse
/i.lã.bras/ [phonemic transcription, aligned with example]
SUBJ-CL-MASC-SG[1]-kiss [gloss, aligned with example]
it/he kisses [translation, aligned with example]]
Skip one line after the example before the next section.
2.2 Format and size of pictures and graphs
Make sure that tables, pictures, graphs, syntactic trees and diagrams do not extend beyond the margins of the page. Also make sure that you have the right to publish all of them. For tables, pictures, figures and diagrams, please apply APA format.
Please bear in mind that reproductions (of pictures etc) are not typically as clear as the original: so make sure you keep the print quality high. Since the journal will be published online there is no cost involved in publishing colored pictures. Pictures, graphs, syntactic trees and diagrams are all included in the broader category of figures. The number and title of the figure must appear under the picture, as in the example below. Skip a single line before you insert the picture between the picture and its number (in bold) and title.
Figure 1 (10pt ft, bold): stimuli of the letter sorting task for sessions 1 (left, yellow letters) and 2 (right, red letters) including the Roman/Latin letters (top row) and Hebrew letters (bottom row) [skip one line before next section]
The format of graphs must also follow APA guidelines and the number and titles have the same format as for pictures. Skip one line before you insert the graph. The title of the figure and the legend should make reference to the relevant
Figure 2: Mean percentage accurate responses in comprehension task [the verticle lines on top of each bar represent the standard deviation] by conditions- singular and plural subject agreement marker and construction types; significance codes ‘***’ p < 0.001, ‘**’ p < 0.01, ‘*’ p < 0.05 [this refers to the results of the statistical analyses].
independent and dependent variables and enable the interpretations of the figure, that must also be described in prose. In the case ofFigure 2, the description in prose should include an explanation of what the conditions on the x axis refer to, i.e. ‘final’, ‘medial’, ‘nonce’, ‘transitive’ mean. Graphs can either be designed in the Word document or imported from another program (e.g. excel, power point etc).
2.3 Syntactic trees
Syntactic trees can be designed in Word or other programs. When they are made using other programs they should be inserted as a picture. They are considered figures and should be numbered and labelled the same way as pictures and graphs, as in Figure 3 below. The abbreviations (e.g. VP= Verb Phrase) used should reflect conventions in the field. And a description of the analyses in prose should make clear which constituent each abbreviation refers to and enables the readers to interpret the analyses.
Figure 3: Syntactic representations of the VPs that contain PPs.
2.4 Diagrams
Figure 4: The cycle between Observation, Reasoning, Theory, Argument and Evidence
Diagrams are also considered figures and can be designed in Word or produced using other programs and inserted as a picture. The description of the diagram in prose should clarify what the concepts named represent (e.g. ‘reasoning’, ‘argument’ in Figure 4) as well as the meaning of other relevant aspects of the diagrams (e.g. the directions of the arrows for Figure 4, the difference in fonts between ‘theory’ written in upper caps versus other concepts in lower caps).
3. Citing references
3.1 Citing references in the text
The citation of references must comply with APA guidelines. All bibliographical references within the text must be put in between parentheses with the author’s surname followed by a comma before the year of publication, (e.g. Barrière and Lorch, 2004). If the author’s name(s) already appear(s) in the sentence, then only the year of publication in parentheses must be included: Barrière and Lorch (2004). When several authors are cited, those references should be separated with a semicolon: (Lorch and Barrière, 2003; Barrière and Lorch, 2004). When the reference has more than three authors, the name of the first author followed by “et. al.”, e.g. Legendre et al. (2010) is required. As per APA guidelines exact extracts of a text requires the mention of page numbers. For quotes up to 39 words, you must add quotation marks that indicate the beginning and the end of the quote and incorporate it into your own text—there is no additional formatting needed. Quotes that include 40 words or more must appear in a separate block that is indented, as in the example below.
In the literature on morphosyntactic development, key debates pertain to the nature of early knowledge and its role in the acquisition process. The issue of whether and to what extent early linguistic representations are productive lies at the core of these debates. (Barrière et al., 2016, p, 1132)
3.2 Inclusive language
The APA guidleines have now accepted the use of ‘they, them, their’ to refer to a single individual. *When referring back to a single author it is best to use ‘they/them/their’ than make a mistake with respect to their gender and their individual preference regarding their choice of pronouns and of possessive determiner.
3.2 Bibliographical references
Please make sure that all references to publications, corpora and databases are inlcuded in your list of references that must follow the APA format. Bibliographical references must be listed in alphabetical order at the end of the manuscript. The title of the section, “Bibliographical References”, should be a Level 1 Heading. The first line of each bibliographical reference should be justified to the left, and the rest of the entry should be indented. The examples provided in the section below titled ‘references’ illustrate the basic APA format for papers in conference proceedings, books, journal articles, PhD theses, and books chapters. Skip two lines before you the section titles ‘References’.
References [in 11 pt font; skip one line before first item in line below, in 10pt font]
Barrière, I., Goyet, L., Kresh, S. Nazzi, T., & Legendre, G. (2016) Uncovering Productive Morphosyntax in
French-learning Toddlers: A Multidimensional Methodology Perspective. Journal of Child Language, 43 (5), 1131-1157. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305000915000495
Blume, M., Barrière, I., Dye, C., Kang, C. (2019) Challenges for the
Development of Linked Open Data for Research in Multilingualism. A. Pareja, M. Blume, B.C. Lust & M.R. Melanson (Eds.) Development of Linguistic Linked Open Data Resources for Collaborative Data-Intensive Research in the Language Sciences. (185-200) Boston: MIT press. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/development-linguistic-linked-open-data-resources-collaborative-data-intensive-research-language
Gonzalez-Gomez, N., Hsin, L., Culbertson, J ., Barrière, I., Nazzi, T., &
Legendre, G. (2014). Revealing Early Comprehension of Subject-Verb Agreement in Spanish. W. Orman & M.J. Valleau (Eds.) Boston University Language Development Conference 38 Proceedings. (158-170) Somerville: Cascadilla Press.
Lorch, M., & Barrière, I. (2003). The history of written language disorders: re-
examining Pitres’case (1884) of pure agraphia. Brain & Language, 85, 271-279. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/12735944/
Hamano Chard, J. (2018) Developing A Comprehension Assessment Tool for
Receptive Morphosyntactic skills in Chinese (Mandarin and Cantonese)-speaking preschoolers. Doctoral Thesis, CUNY Graduate Center.
Appendices [in 11 pt font; skip one line before the body of the text in 10 pt font]
Appendices are optional and may include a complete list of stimuli and/or additional relevant examples of a specific phenomenon and/or analysis. Appendices may include text in prose, tables, graphs, diagrams and/or pictures that are numbered separately from those appearing in the main body of the article.
