In many aspects of the guidelines, access and policies, GLOSSA Contact, sister journal of GLOSSA: General Linguistics (https://www.glossa-journal.org) and GLOSSA: Psycholinguistics (https://escholarship.org/uc/glossapsycholinguistics), follows the directions of our sister journals. 

 

Special Collections (SCs) are collections of papers devoted to a particular topic, and edited by a team of guest editors. This usually means that authors are invited by the guest editors to submit to an SC. Nevertheless, contributions to Special Collections are subject to the usual editorial processes of peer review.

An important concern for SCs is to achieve a strong thematic unity, avoiding the impression of conference proceedings. The GLOSSA Contact policy is to prefer small SCs with papers that constitute a tight fit, over very general ones with contributions that are only loosely connected thematically. The papers in an SC should be strongly complementary, and ‘talk’ to each other. In short, an SC should avoid the impression that it is a collection of standalone papers on the same topic from different, insular perspectives.

The target size is up to 10 articles per SC; please describe your plan in more detail in case you would like to contribute a larger SC. 

Each contribution to an SC will be reviewed according to the same standards as regular research articles. 

All proposals are evaluated by the GLOSSA Contact Editors. Once a proposal has been reviewed, the submitter(s) of the proposal will be informed of the Editors’ decision. The proposal should be sent to nlavidas@uoa.gr, is269@cam.ac.uk, igor.yanovich@univie.ac.at in a single file that does not exceed 15 pages, and contain the following information:

1. Introduction
2. Title of the proposed SC and names of the guest editors
3. Goal of the proposal
4. Background of the proposal
5. Relevance to current research
6. For already known submissions: a list of authors, titles, and extended abstracts of up to 400 words for each known contribution 
7. Five recent key publications on the topic, with a brief explanation of their significance in your view
8. Projected size of the SC (as a rule, up to 10 articles)
9. Proposed timeline

Provide (tentative) dates for the following:

1. Deadline for first-version submissions
2. Completion of the first review round
3. Deadline for revised manuscripts
4. Completion of the review and revision process