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In-text citations should follow the below pattern:
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References. Example entries are given below.
Book (a monograph)
Biber, Douglas, Ulla Connor & Thomas A. Upton. 2007. Discourse on the move: Using corpus analysis to describe discourse structure. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Book (a collected volume)
Schützler, Ole & Julia Schlüter (eds.). 2022. Data and methods in corpus linguistics – Comparative approaches. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Article in a journal
Grieve, Jack, Andrea Nini & Diansheng Guo. 2017. Analyzing lexical emergence in Modern American English online. English Language and Linguistics 21 (1). 99–127.
Article in a collected volume (series information optional)
Kehoe, Andrew, Matt Gee & Antoinette Renouf. 2022. A data-driven approach to finding significant changes in language use through time series analysis. In Susanne Flach & Martin Hilpert (eds.), Broadening the spectrum of corpus linguistics: New approaches to variability and change (Studies in Corpus Linguistics 105), 284–317. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Corpora
CLMET = Corpus of Late Modern English Texts. Compiled by Hendrik De Smet, Hans Jürgen Diller & JukkaTyrkkö. https://perswww.kuleuven.be/~u0044428/.
Online sources
Brock, Jon. 2020. Rapid Registered Reports initiative aims to stop coronavirus researchers following false leads. Nature Index. (https://www.natureindex.com/ news-blog/rapid-registered-report-coronavirus-aims-to-stop-researchers-following-false-research-leads) (Accessed 2020-05-14.)
Dictionaries
Merriam-Webster Dictionary. Encyclopaedia Britannica Company. Online version. (https://www.merriam-webster.com).
Book reviews. The heading of a review should contain the information shown in the following example:
Tony McEnery & Vaclav Brezina. 2022. Fundamental principles of corpus linguistics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 313 pp. ISBN 978-1-1071-1062-5.
Manuscripts for articles or other features than reviews should be sent to one or both of the editors:
Merja Kytö / merja.kyto@engelska.uu.se
Patricia Ronan / patricia.ronan@tu-dortmund.de
Books for review and correspondence on reviews should be sent to:
Ilka Mindt
Englische Sprachwissenschaft
Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
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33098 Paderborn
Germany
ilka.mindt@upb.de
The deadline for each annual issue: 1 December. Later submissions will be considered for the issue underway space permitting or, if no room left, for the ensuing year’s issue.
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