About the Journal

The International Journal of Multilingualism and Languages for Specific purposes IJMLSP Journal, is a double-blind peer-reviewed, biannual, free of charge and open-access journal edited by the University of Oran 2 Mohamed Ben Ahmed. 

The journal publishes original articles, reports, case studies, and book reviews; its main objective is to provide an intellectual platform for international scholarly communication among researchers, academics, and practitioners.

IJMLSP Journal is distinguished by its interdisciplinary characters to approach the different issues relevant to multilingualism, language policy, languages and cultures teaching. In addition, the journal aims to foster the dialectics between multilingualism and languages for specific purposes (Arabic for specific purposes, English for Specific purposes, Chinese for Specific Purposes, etc.).  

The journal is published in both print and online versions; the online version is free access and downloadable.  The journal welcomes original papers, reports, and reviews in English in all areas of multilingualism and LSP, as specified in the focus and scope.          

1. Submission of Articles

Potential authors who are interested in the various themes covered by our journal are highly encouraged to submit their articles, reports and reviews to IJMLSP Journal. But, before submitting your manuscripts, we invite you to read carefully our "Author Guide" and "Instructions available on the journal website:

https://revue.univ-oran2.dz/Revue/IJMLSP/

Notice that Registration and access are not required to submit articles, and to check the status of manuscripts. To get informed about the journal’s publishing format, the Template is available for download in English from the website of the journal, and does not require registration.

After you reach the journal’s homepage, you can see  a  downloadable guide for authors and instructions for authors (Template).

It is important to consider the fact that acceptance to review an article can be obtained only if manuscripts are submitted as a single attachment, formatted according to the template available for download.

The submission process is fairly easy, and all that you will need to do is to send your paper to the journal’s e_mail: IJMLSP.Journal@gmail.com

2. Guidelines for Authors:

As mentioned previously, only manuscripts which comply with the guidelines of our journal are accepted. The Editor-in-Chief has the right to reject the research papers that do not respect the publication rules and ethics statements of the journal.        

3. Evaluation of the Article

3.1. After receiving the articles, the editor in chief will ascertain of the format compliance. If articles comply with publishing format, they will be sent to reviewers from different institutions than the author with blinded authorship through associate editors. Articles that are incoherent with required format will be declined, and their authors will be notified, with one last chance to make format adjustments.

3.2. The members of the editorial team of the journal from nineteen countries, belonging to an international specialized community, perform a double blind review of every single submitted manuscript on the basis of a set of criteria, among which originality, timeliness, interest and importance of the topic, proper language, and relevance to the journal’s readership (see evaluation grid).

If the manuscript is rejected, the editor in chief will inform the author about the decision of the editorial team via mail by sending a message. The author can resubmit his paper by taking into account the received observations.  

3.3. If the article is eligible for evaluation, it will be sent to one of the associate editors who will send it in his turn to two expert reviewers. The reviewers are sent the submission anonymously and requested to observe a deadline of one month as a maximum to transmitting their reports to the editor-in-chief. In case of contingencies that may extend the deadline, the reviewer is expected to send an early notification to the editor in chief.

4. Status of Articles Evaluation

The reviewers are required to disclose potential conflicts of interests, if any, that may affect the outcome of the blind reviewing process. The reviewers are provided with an evaluation form available on the platform that determines the criteria of judgment on the paper’s originality, method and data analysis, clarity of findings and discussion, referencing and documentation. The review report should also include general comments to the editor-in-chief and both general and specific anonymous comments to the author(s) that will be transmitted by the editor-in-chief. If the two reviewers are in disagreement in terms of judgment on the suitability of the paper for publication, further peer reviewing may be ensued.   

5. Preparation of the Article

In order to avoid format rejection, we invite authors to use the Journal’s template. A template for authors is available in the “instructions for authors” file, you are requested to use it as a model. It can be downloaded from “Instructions for authors” on the journal’s web page.  

6. Publication details

By clicking on the "Author Guide", a file is uploaded. This guide comprises a guide for authors explaining the modalities of articles submission/evaluation, a publication ethics and malpractice statement, as well as the copyright terms and conditions of the Journal to which the author explains that the publication and intellectual property belong to the IJMLSP Journal only.    

7. Sending the article

Authors submitting suitable manuscripts on the basis of our template are requested to send their article via IJMLSP journal e_mail:

Also, authors are requested to fill in the information needed before sending their manuscripts (the article’s language, title, abstract, keywords, the author’s full name, affiliation, email, and other authors).

8. Notification of Receipt of an Article

If the article submission is realized successfully, a confirmation is given via mail. The author will then receive a notice of an article’s submission, and a notice to the second author via email as a confirmation of co-authorship.     

9. Notice of Rejection of the Article

If the article is not found suitable for publication in IJMLSP journal, the author will be notified that the article has been rejected.

10. Follow-Up of the status of the Article

The author receives a decision from the editor-in-chief after all the stages finished:

 Stage 1 : Accepting or rejecting arbitration ;

 Stage 2 : A pending article ;

 Stage 3 : Send the article to the reviewers ;

 Stage 4 : The decision of the reviewers to accept the article or reject it or request for modification. 

11. The editor-in-chief reserves the right to modify accepted manuscripts that do not conform to scientific, technical, stylistic or grammatical standards, without affecting their content.
12. The editor-in-chief is not obliged to return non-accepted articles.
13. In case, a manuscript has been judged as violating the rules of ethics and research practice, no article will be accepted for the author under question.
14. The opinions expressed in the Journal are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Journal.
15. Contact Mail: IJMLSP.Journal@gmail.com, IJMLSP.Journal@univ-oran2.dz