Submission Policies

The editors reserve the right to determine the suitability of submissions. For additional information, please see the Submission Guidelines, and contact the editors if you have questions. 

Issues in Applied Linguistics does not charge for article submission, processing, or publication. 

The decision to accept a manuscript involves the initial acceptance of such article by the Editorial Board followed by two or more subsequent rounds of double anonymous peer reviews. 

Upon submission of a manuscript, it is taken that the manuscript has not been published elsewhere, and that it has no instances of plagiarism.

Removal

Once published, a journal article cannot generally be revised or removed. We feel it is important to provide perpetual access to materials published whenever possible and appropriate. However, we will remove publications under special circumstances, including in the case of submission errors, rights violations, or inappropriate content. Please be aware, however, that even after the removal of a work, a citation to the work will remain in our system, along with a URL.

If you would like your work removed from eScholarship, please contact the editors.

Revising Work

Once manuscripts are published, we are generally unable to revise them. If a significant error or omission is discovered, contact the editors.

Rights and Permissions

Issues in Applied Linguistics does not require copyright transfer, only permission to publish and archive the article. Copyright holders retain copyright ownership, granting a nonexclusive license to the journal and eScholarship to publish the article, meaning that the author may also publish it elsewhere. Before submitting an article to the journal, please be sure that all necessary permissions have been cleared in any third-party material. All articles published in the journal are subject to the journal’s author agreement, which is available in the first step of the submission process or by contacting us to request a copy.

Open Access statement 

Issues in Applied Linguistics is an open access journal which means that all content is freely available without charge to the user or their institution. Users are allowed to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. 

Beginning with Volume 25, Issues in Applied Linguistics is published under a CC BY license. For earlier issues, authors may or may not have elected to choose a choose a Creative Commons license; check the individual author to see whether reuse is allowed, and under what conditions.

Long-term preservation policy

All materials submitted to eScholarship are automatically deposited in CDL's Merritt Preservation Repository for long-term preservation.