Suitable submissions

When an article is submitted to Glossa Contact, the Editors-in-Chief first decide whether the focus and scope of the submission is suitable for the journal. If the submission is deemed unsuitable, the author will be informed within a week. If the submission is in line with Glossa Contact's focus and scope, the Editors-in-Chief will assign one of the Editors to act as Handling Editor for the submission.

The Handling Editor then forms a Handling Editorial team, taking into account the range of expertise required to evaluate the submission and advise the authors. The role of the Handling Editor within the Team is to ease coordination (rather than a Solomonic role).

Only unpublished articles can be submitted. Although the journal is happy to accept submissions of papers that have been uploaded onto preprint servers or personal websites, presented at conferences, or disseminated through other informal communication channels, the submitted papers cannot have been peer-reviewed before, carry an ISBN number, and the authors must have retained copyright; otherwise the submission is considered a prior publication. Authors are expected to create a link from any prior posting of their paper to the final published version in Glossa Contact, if possible.

Submissions that were electronically available before submitting to Glossa Contact do raise concerns about the anonymity of the reviewing process, so the authors can alert the editors so that the article can be treated with special care.

If a manuscript has previously been submitted elsewhere, the editors of Glossa Contact would like to request that authors provide information about the previous reviewing process and its outcome.

All submissions are automatically checked with plagiarism software.

The reviewing process

See the overview of the review process, the suggested structure of the review, and further guidelines for reviewers, as well as this page in case you would like to become a reviewer.

Editorial decisions and revisions

After the review, the Handling Editorial Team makes a single, joint editorial decision, striving for consensus. The Handling Editorial Team takes into account the reviewers' recommendations and remarks and provides the authors with a justified synthetic assessment and, where applicable, also with advice regarding possible improvements to the manuscript.

Glossa Contact strives to reach timely initial editorial decisions.

If the editorial decision is “resubmit for review”, “revisions required”, or “accept submission”, authors are asked to provide a detailed document explaining how their revised submission has taken the comments into account.

The revised version should ideally be resubmitted within 10 weeks of the editorial decision having been made, but this is negotiable.

Generally, Glossa Contact will allow for a maximum of two rounds of revisions for a paper.