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Author Guidelines

Small Mouth Noises publishes scholarly work that meets the criteria described in the About section.

Any paper submitted to Small Mouth Noises must not be submitted elsewhere while it is under review. Given previous publication history, a full disclosure of it is required (also see the Copyright section below).

Manuscripts should be submitted electronically by attachment, in Word format. Send your work to:

smallmouthnoises@gmail.com

Your email should include the paper title along with the author's name in the subject line (or just the representative of the research team in case of multiple authors), and, optionally, a brief bio in the body.

We will try to give our decision on submitted articles within a month. We require no publication fees for manuscripts that have successfully gone through our review process.

Abstract, Author information, Word Count

Manuscripts must include:

1. An Abstract of 100-200 words on the first page, below the article title and authors' names.

2. A short form of affiliation, right justified, at the end of article, i.e.:

Department

Institution

If an author is not affiliated with a particular research institution or university, then he or she must include a short paragraph of biographical information which puts the article in some context.

Under special circumstances, the publication of original material under a pen name may be allowed.

3. A word count at the end of the article, including references. We generally accept papers up to 10,000 words long. Longer entries may be published on occasion, provided that they are deemed to be of sufficient scholarly and reader value.

Style

1. Single-spaced throughout (including reference list), with the pages numbered.

2. Single quotes throughout, except for quotes within quotes (outer quotes to be single).

3. Both American and British spelling systems accepted, provided there is consistency.

4. Citations in author-date format (i.e., "...according to Crombad, 2007...", etc.) to be incorporated into the text.

5. Footnotes (at the bottom of each page), not endnotes.

6. A consolidated alphabetical list of References at the end of the article.

References

References should be listed in alphabetical order by author. If there is more than one reference for a given author and year, list in date order for that author (using a, b, c, etc.). Other than this, the authors can choose between the usual major reference styles, e.g. such as:

Divinor, M. 1975: Example of a Book Reference. City: Publisher.

Lowe, Wisenberg & Freeman, Carl (1969). Example of a Journal Article. Journal Title, Vol. 53, 727-735.

Kripke, Frantz. 2002b. Example of an Article in an Edited Collection. In Jonathon Lewis & Brian Epstein (eds.), Volume Title, pp. 106-120. City: Publisher.

The above examples adopt different bibliographical formats. It is the authors' responsibility to select a particular style and, most importantly, be consistent with it throughout.

For web-based refrences, please include the URL address and the last time it was accessed: "<http://example-of-a-webadress.org> Accessed Month, Year".

Review process

The Journal follows an "open peer review" process. Submitted manuscripts are reviewed by the editors and both parties are aware of each other’s identity. If the subject matter discussed is considered to be outside our expertise, we will try to consult relevant experts for professional assistance; whenever this is not possible, publication of parts or all of the submitted material (even if otherwise intriguing and possibly significant) may be withheld.

Copyright Notice

Submission of an article implies that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, that its publication is approved by all authors and by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out. The editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but author(s) will receive proofs for approval before publication.

Article authors retain copyrights of their work and are free to publish modified versions of it elsewhere. Small Mouth Noises and its editors are not responsible for subsequent uses of the work.

If an article has been published previously, we will require an account of its publication history and written assurance by the author(s) that publishing with us does not violate any prior copyright agreements. For such papers, the author(s) must include this information in the body of the email containing the attached manuscript.

The editors reserve the right to edit or otherwise alter all contributions, but authors will receive proofs for approval before publication.