Article Types
BIOLINGUISTICS currently publishes articles of the following types:
| Type | Description | Abstract required? | Peer review model1 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Identity transpareny | Reviewer interacts with | Review information published | |||
| Article | Regular articles reporting original empirical research (including replications) or detailing theoretical advances. | Yes | Double anonymized | Editor | None |
| Brief | Brief reports of original research or theoretical developments, focusing on a single aspect of a subject matter. All submissions undergo double anonymized peer-review. | No | Double anonymized | Editor | None |
| Review | Reviews of books and other relevant media. Submissions are peer-reviewed. | No | Single anonymzed, double anonymized | Editor | None |
| Forum | Opinion pieces of varying length, discussing original research, theoretical developments, or other relevant issues, published in BIOLINGUISTICS or elsewhere. Submissions are reviewed by the Editorial Team (Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors). In addition, they may be sent for external review at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief | No | All identities visible, single anonymized, double anonymized | Editor, authors | None |
Guidelines for Registered Reports
BIOLINGUISTICS is pleased to be a member of the Peer Community in Registered Reports (PCI RR), which performs Stage 1 and Stage 2 review of RR preprints.
As a “PCI RR-friendly” journal, BIOLINGUISTICS will automatically offer Stage 1 in-principle acceptance (IPA) to any quantitative Stage 1 RR within the journal’s disciplinary scope that receives IPA at PCI RR, and will accept without further peer review any Stage 2 RR that has been recommended by PCI RR, subject to the manuscript meeting applicable journal requirements which can be found here.
Please note that there is no internal track for Registered Reports at BIOLINGUISTICS. Authors intending to publish in this journal via PCI RR should submit their manuscript to the journal only after a final positive Stage 2 recommendation from PCI RR.
On submission, the manuscript will be checked by the editor to confirm that the submission is identical to the Stage 2 manuscript that is approved by PCI RR. Acceptance will be subject to the editor’s satisfaction that the manuscript is the same as the preprint approved by PCI RR.
Authors should submit their Stage 2 Registered Report using our usual submission system. The manuscript must include the URL to the reviews and recommendation at PCI RR. The submission must also be accompanied by a cover letter stating that the authors are submitting via the PCI RR track, including a URL to the recommended preprint, and confirming that the manuscript is identical to the recommended preprint.
Biolinguistics can publish no more than 50 pages of RR articles per year, which corresponds to ~2-3 completed Stage 2 RRs. Once this quota is exceeded, authors must either delay publication until the quota resets or choose an alternative journal. Please check the current quota status following a positive Stage 2 recommendation by contacting the BIOLINGUISTICS editor (kleanthes@biolinguistics.eu).
Additional details regarding PCI RR may be found here.
1See STM (2021). A Standard Taxonomy for Peer Review [vers. 2.1]. OSF. https://osf.io/7j6ck/