This webpage provides information on what the authors are asked to check or do for a successful submission. Its goal is to let the authors know in advance what they need to have ready thus making the submission process smoother. 

1. Anonymise your manuscript

Create an anonymised version of your manuscript. (It is wise to keep the eponymous file in a seperate file for use later than overwrite it.)

• Latex: uncomment the anonymisation command at the top of your Latex file (it is a part of the Glossa Contact template). This will screen your name(s) at the top of the manuscript and the potentially deanonymising sections of the endmatter, without the need for you to do anything by hand. (Returning this information will also be easy, you will just need to comment the relevant command again.) Copy the source of your endmatter sections into a separate .txt file. You will need to provide us with this information during the submission, so keep that .txt file ready.
• Office: (i) At the file's beginning, delete your name and affiliation; (ii) go to the endmatter sections. Copy the following sections: Data accessibility statement; Ethics and consent; Funding information; Acknowledgements; Author contributions; from your manuscript into a separate .txt file. You will need to provide us with this information during the submission, so keep that .txt file handy. Then, replace the text of these endmatter sections with a notice HIDDEN FOR REVIEW PURPOSES; (iii) export your manuscript as a .pdf ensuring that the .pdf does not include your name in its "properties fields"; (iv) during the electronic submission, please copy the sections hidden for review at the end of your comments to the editor. 

Whether using Latex or an Office file, check that the actual text of the article does not deanonymise you. (A common anonymisation mistake is to forget about passages like: "In YourName (2021), I argue that...")

2. Statements the authors have to agree with when submitting

The author(s), by ticking the corresponding box in the submission online system, will have to agree to: (i) the copyright statement, where you need to grant us the permission to disseminate the work under Creative Commons license CCBY 4.0 in case the article is accepted; and (ii) the following checklist which has to be agreed beforehand by all authors: 

1. The submission has not been previously published, nor is it currently being considered for publication by another journal.

2. All authors have given permission to be listed on the submitted paper and satisfy the Authorship policy.

3. If the submission has been previously submitted to other journals, the authors should have prepared a letter explaining how the previous rounds of review have been addressed in the present version, and will submit this letter alongside the manuscript. 

4. Any third-party-owned materials used have been identified with appropriate credit lines, and permission obtained from the copyright holder for all formats of the journal.

5. The main submission is provided as a single PDF file, containing all tables and figures. Figures/images have a resolution of at least 300dpi (unless they are in vector graphics). The pages are numbered. 

6. The maximum word count has been adhered to, and is added at the end of the main text. See Types of articles for word count limits and for what is excluded from the word count. 

7. The manuscript has been fully anonymised for review. 

8. The research has been conducted in accordance with the Ethics guidelines and the obligatory endmatter section "Ethics and consent" has been drafted. The obligatory endmatter statements on data accessibility (see the Data policy and the Stylesheet for guidance on how to write it), funding and competing interests (again, see the Stylesheet for guidance) have been drafted. The content of these statements will be provided by the authors during submission in the comments to the editors (see the anonymisation guidelines). This information will not be shared with reviewers. 

9. Should the paper be accepted, the author(s) agree to edit their text to adhere to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Stylesheet and to provide the final form of the manuscript using Glossa Contact's LibreOffice or Latex template. 

3. Prepare the metadata and other information

During the submission, the system will ask you to provide the following metadata: [LIST HERE].

You can provide us with the names of reviewers you wish to exclude or to recommend. Please include these requests in your comments tothe editors during the electronic submission. Your requests for excluded reviewers will always be granted. For your recommended reviewers, we appreciate your suggestions, although we are not bound to invite them. For the recommended reviewers, it is very helpful to add a quick line or two explaining why you think they are a good reviewer for your paper. For the excluded reviewers, you may, but do not have to, describe the nature of the relevant conflict of interest. 

You will also be given the opportunity to draft a short paragraph to the editors about your submission to provide essential contextual information beyond what is covered in the manuscript. 

You will also be prompted to upload the original endmatter sections (this is what we asked you to save in a .txt file under Anonymise your manuscript above). During submission, simply paste these sections when prompted. This way, editors will have easy access to this information (e.g., ethics oversight permissions) without, however, any access for the reviewers to avoid any risk of revealing the identity of the author.