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Contributions & Guidelines

FLAG Journal Submission Guidelines and Requirements

Manuscripts must:

  1. Appeal to the instructional, administrative, or research interests of foreign/second language educators at P-16 levels of instruction.
  2. Be substantive and present new ideas or new applications of information related to current trends and teaching in the language field.
  3. Be well written, clearly organized, and carefully proofread.
  4. Include a complete reference list at the end.
  5. Use the most recent APA [American Psychological Association] Guidelines, and not those of the Modern Language Association (MLA) or the Chicago Manual of Style. Please use the latest edition (5th ed., 2001) of the Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association as your guide.
  6. Be no longer than 12-15 double-spaced pages in 12 pt. Times New Roman typeface, with 1 inch margins, black text on white paper. This does not mean that a slightly longer article is out of the question.
  7. Do not submit a diskette with article you are submitting. Instead, submit your article electronically to pswanson@gsu.edu or scrooks@kennesaw.edu. Please follow these guidelines carefully to expedite the review and publishing process:
    1. Use a PC-compatible word-processing program, preferably Microsoft Word 2000 or a later version.
    2. Do not use the rich text format.
    3. Use a font size of 12 points and use only one font throughout — we require Times New Roman.
    4. Use italics and boldface type when necessary, but do not use underlining.
  8. Be submitted with no authors' names indicated on the manuscript (for review purposes).
  9. Include a cover letter with the name, postal and e-mail addresses, and phone number of the first author (or other contact person) clearly noted.
  10. Include an abstract of no more than 150 words.
  11. Include a short biographical paragraph (this will appear at the bottom of the first page of the article). Please include this paragraph on a separate page at the end of your article. This paragraph should include the following information (no longer than 4-5 lines).
  12. Include any figures and tables in APA format. Photographs, graphics, figures and tables must contribute to article content. Please be absolutely certain that all materials are complete with caption/credit information. Figures and Tables must be appropriately labeled in the article.
  13. Not have been published previously nor be currently under review for publication elsewhere.

Manuscripts submitted to FLAG Journal cannot be returned, so authors should keep a copy for themselves. Submissions will be acknowledged within one month of receipt. The editor of FLAG Journal reserves the right to make editorial changes in any manuscript accepted for publication to enhance clarity or style. The author will be consulted only if the editing has been substantial, though the author will be able to review the article prior to publication.

Checklist for Manuscript Submissions

  1. Please remember to use the "spell check" and "grammar check" on your computer before you submit your manuscript.
  2. Remember that with the APA guidelines, notes (footnotes or endnotes) are discouraged — such information is considered to be either important enough to be included in the article itself or not significant enough to be placed anywhere. If notes are necessary, however, they should be endnotes.
  3. Please double-space everything in your manuscript.
  4. The required font throughout is Times New Roman 12.
  5. There should be only one space after each period, according to APA format.
  6. All numbers above "nine" must appear as Arabic numerals ["nine students" vs. "10 teachers"].
  7. Please do not set up tabs at the beginning of the article (i.e., automatically); rather you should use the tab key on your computer each time you begin a new paragraph, which is to be indented only 1/4 inch.
  8. Remember that according to APA guidelines, the References section does not consist of a list of works consulted, but rather of the list of works you actually use in your article. Before you submit your manuscript, please check to make certain that each reference in the article has a matching citation in the Reference section. Then be sure that all items in the References section have been cited within the article itself. Please double check all Internet addresses before you submit the manuscript.
  9. Please makes certain that the components you submit are in the following order:
    1. First page — with the article title, names and titles of authors, their preferred mailing addresses, home and office phone numbers, FAX numbers, E-mail addresses, and an indication as to which of the joint authors will serve as the primary contact per son [also, times in the summer when regular and E-mail addresses may be inactive];
    2. First page of the manuscript — should have the title of the article and the abstract.
    3. The text of the article, Notes, References, Appendices — in this order.
    4. The short, biographical para graph (no more than 4-5 lines).

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