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Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.
  • The submission has a demonstrable lexicographic focus.
  • 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).
  • The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or WordPerfect document file format.
  • Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  • The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal and Referencing guide.

  • The submission has been checked for plagiarism using anti-plagiarism software, and the report will be uploaded as a supplementary file. If no such report is uploaded as a supplementary file or received by email, the editors reserve the right to do their own check for plagiarism. The editors also reserve the right to conduct quality control (however they see fit) of the submissions to ensure that the articles meet the necessary academic, ethical or scientific standard for publication in Lexikos.

  • If submitting to a peer-reviewed section of the journal, the instructions in Ensuring a Blind Review, have been followed.

Author Guidelines

The deadline for article submissions for Lexikos 35 is 30 April 2025.

From Lexikos 34 onwards page fees will be a flat fee of R7 500 in accordance with a decision taken by AFRILEX and the Lexikos editorial team. This is applicable to South African academics who qualify for government subsidy. (In 2015, the average length of subsidy-generating submissions was 27.7 pages.)

Lexikos does not charge article processing charges or submission fees. 

INSTRUCTIONS TO AUTHORS

(For a more detailed version of these instructions, please contact us (lexikos@sun.ac.za) or refer to our website: http://lexikos.journals.ac.za/)

A. EDITORIAL POLICY

1. Type and content of articles

Articles dealing with all aspects of lexicography or the demonstrable implications or ramifications that research in related disciplines such as linguistics, computer and information science, etc. has for lexicography will be considered for publication. Articles dealing with terminology will be also considered, but a lexicographic perspective should be apparent. (Articles that do not have a demonstrable lexicographic focus or where the related research does not have significant lexicographic implications, i.e. lexicography is not in some way a substantial part of the article, will not be considered.)

        Contributions may be classified in any one of the follow­ing categories:

(1)  Articles: Fundamentally original scientific research done and the results obtained, or existing research results and other facts reflected in an original, synoptic, interpretative, comparative or critically evaluative manner.

(2)  Review articles: Research articles presented in the form of a critical review of one or more published scientific sources.

Contributions in categories (1) and (2) are subjected to strict anonymous evaluation by independent academic peers in order to ensure the international research quality thereof.

(3)  Reviews: An analysis and critical evaluation of pub­lished scientific sources and products, such as books and computer software.

(4)  Projects: Discussions of lexicographical projects.

(5)  Lexiconotes: Any article containing practice-oriented information, suggestions, problems, questions, commentary and solutions regarding lexicography.

(6)  Lexicovaria: Any of a large variety of articles containing announcements and press releases by lexicographic societies which are of particular value to the practising lexicographer.

(7)  Other: From time to time other categories may be in­serted by the editors, such as Lexicosoftware, Lexicosurvey, Lexicobibliography, Lexiconews, Lexicofocus, Lexico­honour, Lexicotribute, Reports on conferences and workshops.

Contributions in categories (3)-(7) must all meet the require­ments of academic writing and are evaluated by the editors with this in mind.

2. Academic standard and evaluation procedure

The Department of Higher Education of the South African Government has approved Lexikos as a subsidized, i.e. income-generating research journal. It is also included in the Institute of Science Index (ISI).

        Articles will be evaluated on the following aspects: language and style; conciseness and comprehensibility; prob­lem formulation, reasoning and conclusion; references to the most important and most recent literature; substantial con­tri­bution to the specific discipline.

        Manuscripts are considered for publication on the understanding that the editors reserve the right to effect changes to the style and presentation in conformance with editorial policy. Authors are responsible for the linguistic and stylistic editing of their contributions prior their submis­sion. The editors also reserve the right to conduct quality control (however they see fit) of the submissions to ensure that the articles meet the necessary academic, ethical or scientific standard for publication in Lexikos.

3. Language of contributions

Afrikaans, Dutch, English, French or German.

4. Copyright

Neither the Bureau of the WAT nor the African Association for Lexicography (AFRILEX) accepts any responsibility for claims which may arise from contributing authors' use of material from other sources.

        Copyright of all material published in Lexikos will be vested in the Board of Directors of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal. Authors are free, however, to use their material elsewhere provided that Lexikos (AFRILEX Series) is acknowledged as the original publication source.

5. Originality

Only original contributions will be considered for publica­tion. Authors bear full responsibility for the originality and factual content of their contributions. If applicable, details about the origin of the article (e.g. paper read at a confer­ence) should be supplied.

Plagiarism, including duplicate publication of the author's own work, in whole or in part without proper citation is not tolerated by the journal. This includes publication of a translated version of the author's own work in whole or in part. Manuscripts submitted to the journal should be accompanied by a report generated by anti-plagiarism software and uploaded as a supplementary file.  If no such file is received, the submission may be checked by the editors for originality using anti-plagiarism software.

6. Invitation and editorial address

All interested authors are invited to submit contributions, preferably in electronic format, for publication in Lexikos to: lexikos@sun.ac.za, or

The Editor: LEXIKOS

Bureau of the WAT

P.O. Box 245

7599 STELLENBOSCH

Republic of South Africa

B. PREPARATION OF MANUSCRIPTS

Manuscripts of articles must meet the following editorial requirements:

1. Format and length of articles

Manuscript should preferably be submitted in electronic format by email or on a disk, in software compatible with MS Word. The typeface used should preferably be 10-point Palatino or Times Roman. Contributions should not exceed 8 000 words.

Each article must be accompanied by abstracts of approxi­mately 200 words and approximately 10 keywords in the language in which it is written, as well as in English. Eng­lish articles of South African origin should carry an abstract and keywords in Afrikaans, whilst English articles of foreign origin should carry a second abstract and keywords in any of the other languages mentioned. In cases where this is not done, the editors will provide an Afrikaans version. Ensure that the abstract in the second language also contains a translation of the original title.

2. Graphics

Figures such as tables, graphs, diagrams and illustrations should be in an appropriate size to be well accommodated within the page size of Lexikos, namely 18 cm high by 12 cm wide. The locations of figures within the text must be clearly indicated. If orthographic marks or graphics used in the text prove problematic, a printout of the manuscript or an email in .pdf format may be requested.

3. Bibliographical details and references in the text

Please see this page for guidelines on how to reference in Lexikos.

Authors can also examine recent issues of Lexikos for further details.

Self-references to Lexikos should be limited to two or three per article, except in exceptional circumstances. Excep­tions should be cleared with the editor of Lexikos. This is done to preserve the status of Lexikos in various interna­tional indices.

4. Notes/footnotes/endnotes

Notes must be numbered consecutively by superscript numbers and grouped together at the end of the manuscript under the heading Endnotes.

Copyright Notice

Copyright of all material published in Lexikos will be vested in the Board of Directors of the Woordeboek van die Afrikaanse Taal. Authors are free, however, to use their material elsewhere provided that Lexikos (AFRILEX Series) is acknowledged as the original publication source.

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