Australian Review of Applied Linguistics

Volume 49 (2026)

Volume 48 (2025)

Volume 47 (2024)

Volume 46 (2023)

Volume 45 (2022)

Volume 44 (2021)

Volume 43 (2020)

Volume 42 (2019)

Volume 41 (2018)

Volume 40 (2017)

Volume 39 (2016)

Volume 38 (2015)

Volume 37 (2014)

Volume 36 (2013)

Volume 35 (2012)

Volume 34 (2011)

Volume 33 (2010)

Volume 32 (2009)

Volume 31 (2008)

Volume 30 (2007)

Volume 29 (2006)

Volume 28 (2005)

Volume 27 (2004)

Volume 26 (2003)

Volume 25 (2002)

Volume 24 (2001)

Volume 23 (2000)

Volume 22 (1999)

Volume 21 (1998)

Volume 20 (1997)

Volume 19 (1996)

Volume 18 (1995)

Volume 17 (1994)

Volume 16 (1993)

Volume 15 (1992)

Volume 13 (1991)

Volume 13 (1990)

Volume 12 (1989)

Volume 11 (1988)

Volume 10 (1987)

Volume 9 (1986)

Volume 8 (1985)

Volume 7 (1984)

Volume 6 (1983)

Volume 5 (1982)

Volume 4 (1981)

Volume 3 (1980)

Volume 2 (1979)

Volume 1 (1977/78)

The journal invites contributions relevant to the aim and scope of the journal.

Articles under consideration are double-blind peer-reviewed and decisions on all published content are made by the editors.

ARAL now follows "Your Paper Your Way": we differentiate between the requirements for new and revised submissions.

If this is the first time submitting your paper, you do not need to follow the official ARAL stylesheet. You may choose to submit your manuscript as a single Word or PDF file to be used in the initial refereeing process, with only minimal expectations for formatting; your paper must still follow the general style of an academic paper, including appropriate consistency in terms, citation, paragraphing and headings.

When preparing a submission, please consult these:

• ARAL Author Guidance for Good Quality Submissions
• ARAL Author Instructions

as well as the publishers' information on Ethics and Rights below.

Only if/when your paper is invited to be revised following initial review will you be requested to put your paper in to a 'correct format' for acceptance, in line with the

• ARAL Stylesheet

Submissions should be done through the journal's online EM submission portal .

• Short Guide to the EM portal for Authors

If you are not able to submit online, or for any other editorial correspondence, please contact the editors by e-mail: araleditorgmail.com

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Authors and reviewers are kindly requested to read this Ethics Statement.

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In addition, authors should consider the journal's instructions on declaring the use of AI.

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Word (PC/Mac) is preferred. If you use LaTex, a matching PDF must be provided as well.

Lay-out

Do not add full justification or hyphenation, or the exact margin settings as used by Benjamins in printing; it is sufficient to characterize elements such as examples, quotations, tables, headings etc. in the formatting in a clear and consistent way, so that they can be identified and formatted in the style of the journal. Please do not include running heads with your article; However, in case of a long title (> 55 characters), please suggest a shorter running head.

Formatting that should be supplied by you is the formatting of references (see below) and font enhancements (such as italics, bold, caps, small caps, etc.) in the text. Whatever formatting or notational conventions are employed, please be consistent.

Tables and figures

Tables and figures should be numbered consecutively. They should be referred to in the main text in this manner, e.g., “in Table 2”, but never like this “in the following table: ”. Please indicate the preferred position of the table or figure in the text if these are provided in separate files.

Tables and figures should be provided with appropriate captions.

All figures should be provided with alt(ernative) text to ensure accessibility, following this guidance.

All tables, trees and figures must fit within the following page size (either in portrait or landscape orientation, and if necessary after –limited– reduction) and should still be legible at this size: 11.5 cm (4.52”) x 19 cm (7.48”).

Emphasis and foreign words

Use italics for foreign language, highlighting and emphasis. Bold should be used only for highlighting within italics and for headings. Please refrain from the use of FULL CAPS (except for focal stress and abbreviations) and underlining (except for highlighting within examples, as an alternative for boldface), unless this is a strict convention in your field of research. For terms or expressions (for example, ‘context of situation’) please use single quotes. For glosses of citation forms, use double quotes.

Quotations

In the main text quotations should be given in double quotation marks. Quotations longer than three lines should be indented left and right, without quotations marks and with the appropriate reference to the source. They should be set off from the main text by a line of space above and below.

Listings

Listing should not be indented. If numbered, please number as follows:
1. ..................... or a. .......................
2. ..................... or b. .......................
Listings that run on with the main text can be numbered in parentheses: (1).............., (2)............., etc.

Examples and glosses

Examples should be numbered with Arabic numerals (1,2,3, etc.) in parentheses.

Examples in languages other than English should be in italics with an approximate translation into English. Between the original and the translation, an interlinear gloss should be added. This interlinear gloss gets no punctuation and no highlighting. For the abbreviations in the interlinear gloss, CAPS or small caps can be used, which will be converted to small caps by our typesetters in final formatting. A comprehensive glossary of abbreviations used in the interlinear glosses in your paper should be included as an Appendix.

Transliteration. Please transliterate into English any examples from languages that use a non-Latin script, using the appropriate transliteration system.

Please note that lines 1 and 2 are lined up through the use of tabs set at 0.2cm: it is essential that the number of elements in lines 1 and 2 match. If two words in the example correspond to one word in the gloss use a full stop to glue the two together (2a). Morphemes are separated by hyphens (1, 2b).

Every next level in the example gets one indent/tab.

             (1)        Kare wa   besutoseraa o         takusan kaite-iru.        
                           he    TOP best-seller    ACC    many    write-PERF    
                           “He has written many best-sellers.”    

             (2)        a.          Jan houdt.van Marie.
                                         Jan loves        Marie
                                         “Jan loves Marie.”
                           b.           Ed en  Floor  gaan samen-wonen.
                                         Ed and Floor  go     together-live.INF
                                         “Ed and Floor are going to live together.”

Please refer to the Leipzig Glossing Rules for more detailed instructions on how to provide language examples in languages other than English.

Notes

Notes should be kept to a minimum and should be submitted as numbered endnotes.

Note indicators in the text should appear at the end of sentences and follow punctuation marks.

References

It is essential that the references are formatted to the specifications given in these guidelines, as these cannot be formatted automatically. Please use the reference style as described in The APA Publication Manual (7th ed.).

Additional Style Guidance

• indicate a new paragraph with a single tab (except for the first paragraph of the section and after the indented quote)
• set off any introductory phrase of five words or more with a comma, e.g. “Toward the end of World War II,...”
• dates should be of the form “15 December 1998”
• decades should be of the form “the 1980s”
• spell out centuries, e.g., “eighteenth century”
• use “and” in place of “&”, “see” in place of “cf.”, and “for example” in place of “e.g.” in text outside brackets
• use minimal capitalization, e.g., “translation studies”, “the Roman Catholic church”;
• use minimal hyphenization, e.g., “postcolonial”
• possessives of names ending in “s” should take the form of “Yeats's”
• please avoid inappropriately gendered language, finding locutions as well that avoid awkward forms like “his/her” whenever possible