Submissions

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Author Guidelines

Contributions of different sizes are welcome; there are no restrictions with regard to number of words or images, or any other content. Contributions and enquiries should be sent to the-mouth@uni-koeln.de. We welcome both individual papers for open issues as well as guest-edited theme issues. For contributions on urgent topics, we also offer space in our blog. Manuscripts should be submitted in Palatino Linotype 12 pt, double-spaced, in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format including a PDF copy. Linguistic examples could be presented by using Leipzig glossing rules but do not necessarily have to be interlinearized. We also welcome work that presents language in entirely different, creative, open ways. Multilingual contributions and multimedia components are encouraged. In terms of formatting, italics are preferred to underlining. Tables, figures, images and examples should be placed within the text at the appropriate place, and all figures should be submitted as separate files. As for the review process, we strive for a less violent and more hospitable, constructive way of working on contributions. All submissions are carefully read and discussed by us, as well as occasionally, in case we're not qualified enough for your topic, by specialized colleagues, and then sent back to their author(s) with suggestions and recommendations. We make this process as transparent as possible, providing the names and contact of all involved so that an interaction among all is made possible. Please follow the Harvard citation style with some slight modifications as illustrated in the style sheet.

Submission Preparation Checklist

All submissions must meet the following requirements and should be submitted via email to the-mouth@uni-koeln.de

  • The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • Manuscripts should be submitted in Palatino Linotype 12 pt, double-spaced, in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect format including a PDF copy.
  • In terms of formatting, italics are preferred to underlining. Tables, figures, images and examples should be placed within the text at the appropriate place, and all figures should be submitted as separate files.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined here and in the Author Guidelines.

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Copyright Notice

All published contributions are available as open access publications under the CC BY licence. Authors retain copyright and grant the journal right of first publication.

Privacy Statement

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Name changes 

As part of The Mouth’s commitment to addressing the needs of diverse research communities and to advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion, we have introduced a policy that enables authors to change their names, pronouns, or other relevant biographical information after publication. Authors may request retrospective changes to the online versions of their contributions.
Due to technical reasons, this is only possible for contributions from 2025 and later. The author may choose for this correction to happen silently, in which case there will be no note flagging the change on either the PDF or the website, or alternatively, they may do so by a public indication of the author's correction on the journal’s website and in the PDFs.