Submissions

Author Guidelines

All submissions need to be submitted through the online system on this site. You'll need to register as an author before you can do that.

For initial submissions, we do not require any particular style. Please submit a pdf of your manuscript, with ample margins for reviewer notes. All references should include the full name of the author (including first names) and include links if they are available online. 

If you have any questions about whether a particular manuscript might be appropriate for Continua, please don't hesitate to email us. 

If you want to create a submission that closely resembles the final typeset look of accepted manuscripts in Continua, please use and consult the Overleaf template for Continua, which you can download here. (Note: Please do not directly edit the template on Overleaf. Download a copy for your personal use.) For anything not covered or not clear in the stylesheet, we recommend following the Generic Style Rules for Linguistics.

If your submission is accepted after the peer review process, we will provide you with detailed guidelines for the preparation of the final version. We require all accepted submissions to be provided in LaTeX form, using the journal's template available on Overleaf (see above). If you are manuscript is accepted for publication in Continua and you face any difficulties in setting your manuscript in LaTeX, we can consult with our managing editors who may be able to assist you. In a worst case scenario, we can recommend the services of freelance typesetters who can set your manuscript in LaTeX at very reasonable rates. 

Author's Agreement

If your article is conditionally accepted for publication, you will receive the following form via email. Please fill in the blanks, write your name and the date in the signature line, and return it via email to the editors.

Publication Agreement and Copyright License

This is a publication agreement and copyright license (”Agreement”) regarding a written manuscript currently entitled, ______________________________________________________________, (manuscript title) (”Article”) to be published in “Continua” (the “Journal”). The parties to this Agreement are: _________________________________________ (corresponding author), _________________________________________ (individually, or if more than one author, collectively, “Author”), and the publishing editors of “Continua”, (”Publisher”).

1. The Author has created and owns the copyright to the Article.
2. The Author represents and warrants that s/he has the full power and authority to enter into this Agreement and to grant the rights granted in this Agreement. The Author represents and warrants that the Article furnished to the Publisher has not been published previously. For purposes of this paragraph, making a copy of the Article accessible over the Internet, including, but not limited to, posting the Article to a database accessible over the Internet, does not constitute prior publication so long as such copy indicates that the Article is not in final form, such as by designating such copy to be a “draft,” a “working paper,” or “work-in-progress”.
3. The Author and the Publisher agree that the Author may grant a Creative Commons copyright license in the Article to the general public, in particular an Attribution 4.0 License, which is incorporated herein by reference and is further specified at
   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode (human readable summary at
   https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).
4. The Author grants to the Publisher a royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual, worldwide nonexclusive license to publish, reproduce, display, distribute, and use the Article in any form, either separately or as part of a collective work, including but not limited to a nonexclusive license to publish the Article in the Journal, its electronic archive, its paper archive, or any collection of the Journal’s works in any form whatsoever, copy and distribute individual reprints of the Article, and authorize reproduction and distribution of the Article or an abstract thereof by means of computerized retrieval systems.
5. The Author retains ownership of all rights under copyright in the Article, and all rights not expressly granted in this Agreement.
6. The Author agrees that s/he shall not publish the Article in any other journal or edited collection, whether electronic or otherwise, in substantially the same form as the Article, without acknowledging prior publication in the Journal.
7. This Agreement shall become effective and binding at the date of formal acceptance of the Article for publication by the Journal.

I HAVE READ AND AGREE FULLY WITH THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT.

Author:

Signed: ___________________________________________ Date: ___________

Publisher:

Signed: ___________________________________________ Date: ___________