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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 submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines.

Author Guidelines

Manuscripts should be 7,000 to 10,000 words in length, all parts included. A manuscript should be submitted electronically as a Microsoft Word (.doc) file to langint@iu.edu. Please attach any figures as separate .jpg or .gif files and also include them in the manuscript, in the position you would like to see them appear.

Before submission, remove any information in the manuscript that could reveal your identity, including self-citations that point to the author(s). These should be cited as Author ([year]) in the body text and listed as Author ([year]) only, alphabetized under 'A', in the References at the end of the manuscript.

In the cover email, authors should provide their name, address, title of the paper, and a short abstract (100 to 200 words). Authors are expected to follow the standard academic practice of not submitting an article to more than one publication venue at a time. Manuscripts may be submitted at any time. Accepted and finalized articles are published individually when they are ready.

Citations and references should follow APA style (American Psychological Association, currently in its 7th edition). In addition, please observe the following:

  • Include any available DOIs in your list of references.
  • Do not use Endnote or other reference software when preparing your manuscript.
  • Do not number sections. To distinguish levels of heading, use 14 pt bolded font for Level 1, 12 pt bolded and italicized font for Level 2, 12 pt italicized font for Level 3, and 12 pt italicized font followed by a period and the text of the subsection starting on the same line for Level 4. Level 1-3 section headings should use Title Case, and Level 4 section headings should use Sentence case.
  • Use endnotes, not footnotes.
  • Use plain quotation marks ("x" or 'x'), rather than smart quotes. Use double quotation marks (“x”) for quotations within the running text. Quotations inside quotations should be enclosed in single quotation marks (‘x’). Quoted text of more than 3 lines should be set off as a quote paragraph and should not be enclosed in quotation marks.
  • Emphasis should be marked by italics (not bold face, underlining, or capitals) and should be used sparingly.
  • Acronyms should be written out in full when they are first presented.
  • Table and figure labels should appear under their respective tables and figures. The labels should be in normal text and formatted as follows: Table 1. Description of table
  • Avoid very wide tables and figures.
  • Avoid very long article titles.
  • You may follow either U.S. or British English spelling conventions, as long as you are consistent in whichever you use.


Formatting Examples in Languages Other than English:

  • Special characters should be expressed in Arial Unicode MS.
  • Translations must be provided for all non-English examples.
  • Translations in glosses and in the body text should be enclosed in single quotation marks (‘x’).
  • Italics should be used for non-English examples within the body text and in indented/numbered examples: e.g., Bücherwurm (‘bookworm’).
  • If morpheme-by-morpheme glosses are provided, please format them as in the following Russian example:

(1)

My

s

Marko

poexa-l-I

avtobus-om

v

Peredelkino.

we

with

Marko

go-PST-PL

bus-by

to

Peredelkino

‘Marko and I went to Peredelkino by bus’

 

Language@Internet Policy on the Use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) (5/10/26)

  • Authors should use Artificial Intelligence in ways that are ethical, adhere to standards of academic integrity, and do not replace or substitute human thinking or creativity. Authors are accountable for the data that they generate using Artificial Intelligence.
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  • Peer reviewers should not use Artificial Intelligence tools to generate a review or upload author manuscripts to AI tools (John Benjamins, Publishing ethics statement, 2026). 
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  • When submitting a manuscript, authors must declare their use of Artificial Intelligence to Language@Internet editors in their cover letter or in an email to langint@iu.edu.
  • When preparing their manuscript, Authors must also declare their use of Artificial Intelligence in the manuscript itself. This should take the form of a Dedicated AI Declaration Statement, which will be published as part of the article. The Statement should be positioned at the end of the body text and before any Acknowledgments.
    • The Statement might address any or all of the following:
      • Which model and which version was used (e.g., GPT-4o, Gemini 2.5 Pro).
      • How the system was configured (e.g., prompts, fine-tuning parameters).
      • What role the AI played in the research/writing experience (e.g., feedback generator, annotator, copyeditor, literature synthesizer).
      • Whether human actors designed or reviewed the outputs.
      • How limitations, bias, or ethical risks were addressed. (Allison, 2025)
    • If AI is crucial to the study’s methodology, its involvement should also be described in the methods section of the manuscript, either in a footnote or in the body text.
  • Appropriate and inappropriate uses of Artificial Intelligence in a Language@Internet article:
    • It is acceptable for authors to use Artificial Intelligence to:
      • "[help] synthesize complex literature, provide an overview of a field or research question, identify research gaps, generate ideas, and provide tailored support for tasks such as content organization and improving language and readability." The Internet and Higher Education, Guide for authors, 2026
    • Use of Artificial Intelligence to generate text, images, figures/visualizations, or data is usually discouraged 
      • "unless part of formal research design or methods,
      • and is not permitted without clear description of the content that was created and the name of the model or tool, version and extension numbers, and manufacturer. Authors must take responsibility for the integrity of the content generated by these models and tools." Flanagin, A., Bibbins-Domingo, K., & Berkwits, M., 2023
  • Artificial Intelligence tools cannot be listed as authors.
    • "AI tools cannot meet the requirements for authorship as they cannot take responsibility for the submitted work. As non-legal entities, they cannot assert the presence or absence of conflicts of interest nor manage copyright and license agreements." COPE Council. COPE position - Authorship and AI - English.
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  • Authors should review the terms of service of the AI tools they plan to use. They should opt out of any provision that grants an AI tool rights to the manuscript submission or published article/data. Also, they should not upload a manuscript to an AI tool that would use the author's work to train their models (Oxford University Press, Author use of artificial intelligence (AI)). This could lead to breach of copyright or confidentiality, plagiarism (as LLMs could generate data from the manuscript in their output), or AI tools gaining rights over an author's work.

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