Submissions

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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 Author has read the Author Guidelines on this site and the supplemental author guidelines.
  • The Author has included the word count on the first or last page of the manuscript. The Article conforms to S&P length guidelines, specified in the supplemental author guidelines.
  • The author believes that the paper is within the scope of S&P. The paper includes new results of interest to those working in semantics and pragmatics, and demonstrates clear significance for theoretical development of those areas. [As a rule of thumb, if your paper does not engage with works published in the leading journals in semantics (Linguistics & Philosophy, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of Semantics, and S&P itself) and/or work in the proceedings of the major semantics conferences (SALT, Amsterdam Colloquium, Sinn und Bedeutung), it is unlikely that we will judge it to be in our scope. Papers must meet this criteria in order to be sent out for review.]
  • The Author has created and owns the copyright to the Article.
  • The Article has not been published previously, is not under submission elsewhere, and will not be submitted elsewhere while under submission at S&P.
  • The author agrees to grant a non-exclusive license to S&P and the LSA to publish and archive their article. [Background: In accordance with the open access ethics of the journal, authors retain full copyright for their work. Readers can use the article under a Creative Commons Attribution License (CC-BY), which gives them unrestricted rights to copy, distribute and transmit the work, provided the original author and source are credited. A PDF of the agreement can be downloaded. The editorial team will contact you once your paper has been accepted.]
  • As of January 2021, Semantics and Pragmatics has a double-blind review policy for all contributed submissions: Authors should refrain from identifying themselves in submissions, and reviewers should not attempt to identify the author. We follow the policy and guidelines of the journal Language, which can be found here.
  • The submitted file is a pdf file. Do not submit a Microsoft doc(x) file; convert it to pdf first!

Author Guidelines

The focus of S&P is on papers that include new results of interest to those working in semantics and pragmatics, and that demonstrate clear significance for theoretical development of those areas. As a rule of thumb, if your paper does not engage with works published in the leading journals in semantics (Linguistics & Philosophy, Natural Language Semantics, Journal of Semantics, and S&P itself) and/or work in the proceedings of the major semantics conferences (SALT, Amsterdam Colloquium, Sinn und Bedeutung), it is unlikely that we will judge it to be in our scope. All submissions need to be submitted through the online system on this site. You'll need to register as an author before you can do that. If you have any questions about whether a particular manuscript might be appropriate for S&P, please send us an email.

Before submitting any work to the journal, please read the Author Guidelines on this site and the supplemental author guidelines. Please pay particular attention to our length guidelines: Main articles have an upper length limit of 17000 words, including everything (abstract, main text, footnotes, any appendices) except the list of references. (See the supplemental author guidelines for further details.

Click here to start a submission. For initial submissions, we do not require any particular style. Please submit a pdf of your manuscript, with ample margins for reviewer notes. Please do not submit a Microsoft Word file (doc or docx format); convert it to pdf first!

 If you want to anticipate something close to the final typeset look of S&P, you are welcome to use the LaTeX stylesheet of the journal and follow the LaTeX guidelines. Both are available at http://info.semprag.org. Please direct questions about the LaTeX styles to latex@semprag.org. If your submission is accepted after the peer review process, we will provide you with detailed guidelines for the preparation of the final version. S&P hopes that authors can provide a considerable amount of the labor needed for the final copy-editing and typesetting process.

Author's Agreement

If your article is accepted for publication, you will have to sign the S&P author agreement, which allows the LSA to publish your paper in S&P. The paper will be published under a Creative Commons CC-BY License. You can download a PDF of the agreement (with instructions).

Copyright Notice

Articles appearing in Semantics and Pragmatics are published under an author agreement with the Linguistic Society of America and are made available to readers under a Creative Commons Attribution License.