Author Guidelines

Authors should read the aims and scope before submission. Manuscripts must be original, clearly written and not under review elsewhere.

Article types

• Research articles
• Review and theory articles
• Methods, corpus and resource papers
• Communication and media analyses
• Research notes and short communications

Language and communication reporting

State the research question, linguistic or communication context, theoretical framework and contribution. Identify languages and varieties precisely, including community-preferred names where applicable. Describe speakers or participants, corpora, recordings, texts, platforms, sampling, elicitation, transcription, annotation, coding and analysis in sufficient detail. Define glossing, transcription and translation conventions.

Ethics and community responsibility

Research involving people, voices, images, private communication or identifiable online material requires appropriate ethics review and informed consent. Language documentation and work with Indigenous, minoritized or endangered-language communities should address community authority, cultural restrictions, data sovereignty, attribution, access conditions and benefit.

Data and resources

Include a Data Availability Statement. Deposit recordings, transcripts, corpora, annotations, instruments, code and documentation where permissions allow. Explain restrictions involving speaker privacy, sacred or culturally sensitive knowledge, copyright, platform terms or risk of re-identification.

Review files

Provide a separate title page and anonymized manuscript for double-blind review. Disclose funding, competing interests, author contributions and material use of generative AI.

Submission status

Online submissions are temporarily closed while GLCS completes its editorial setup.