Author Guidelines

Traduction et Langues TRANSLANG Journal invites the submission of high-quality manuscripts that advance research and practice in Translation Studies, Interpreting, Applied Linguistics, Language Pedagogy, and related areas of inquiry. This guide outlines essential information on manuscript preparation, submission procedures, ethical considerations, and publication policies.  

Contributors are expected to review these guidelines thoroughly prior to submission to ensure that their manuscripts meet the journal's editorial standards and to support an effective double-blind peer-review and publication process. 

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 TRANSLANG. Journal But, before submitting your manuscripts, we invite you to read carefully our "Author Guide" and "Instructions for Authors" on the online platform designed for the Algerian scientific journals:

https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/PresentationRevue/155

https://revue.univ-oran2.dz/revuetranslang/index.php/translang/Template

Notice that Registration and access are 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 and French from the website of the journal, and does not require registration.

After you reach the journal’s homepage, whether you are logged in with an ASJP account or not, the “Paper Submission” button will always appear in a menu at the bottom of the journal’s cover page thumbnail. This will take you to a page with 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 click on the “Paper Submission” located in the ASJP platform link: 

If you are a registered user on the platform, you should log in to have full access to the journal’s options. If you do not own credentials to access the platform, there is an available link under the search bar after you click on “Paper Submission” on the journal’s homepage. Please know that a valid email address is required to complete registration.

If you have a username/password on the platform, and you have logged in for the journal TRANSLANG Journal, go directly to connection. If you need a username/ password, go to registration.

2. Guidelines for Authors:

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

Language (s)

The Journal’s publishing languages are English, French, Spanish, and German. Italian and Russian are the publishing languages only for Special Issues. All manuscripts must follow conventional norms within standardized varieties. 

Submission Requirements 

Typescripts must be complete, meeting all formal and academic requirements. Any defaulting typescript will not be dispatched to any reviewer.  

Non-Roman Scripts

Non-Roman scripts should be avoided unless they cause inconsistency in content and form if omitted. Languages such as Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac, and Greek are proportionally accepted in the script only if they are subject to the following criteria:

• Non-Roman content should be clear and succinct.
• Non-Roman content should show a strong relevance to the linguistic content of the article.
• Non-Roman forms should be placed on a separate line if they contain more than a phrase.
• No Vocalization glyph should appear in Arabic, Hebrew, or Syriac unless essential for the argument.
• Non-Roman scripts are enough expressive if transliterated, yet they must conform to the following system:

Arabic

The system of TRANSLANG must be used consistently throughout, except for quotations.

Transliteration of consonants and vowels

ʾ b t ṯ ǧ ḥ ḫ d ḏ r z s š ṣ ḍ ṭ ẓ ʿ ġ f q k l m n h w y

• ʾ (hamza) is not to be used in initial position).

Short and long vowels: a/ā, i/ī, u/ū

Diphthongs: examples: layl, dayn

3. Evaluation of the Article

3.1. After receiving the articles, the Editor-in-Chief will ascertain the format compliance. If articles comply with the 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 the required format will be declined, and their authors will be notified, with one last chance to make format adjustments.

3.2. The 208 members of the editorial team of the journal from nineteen countries (United Kingdom, Canada, Malaysia, Holland, Spain, Russia, France, Germany, Jordan, Qatar, Dubai, Saudi Arabia, Lebanon, Egypt, Palestine, Yemen, Morocco, Cameroun, Algeria), belonging to an international specialized community, perform a blind review of every single submitted manuscript based on 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 the platform 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 for 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 interest, 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 ensue.  

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 zip file is uploaded. This guide comprises a guide for authors explaining the modalities of article submission/evaluation,  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 Authors only.       

7. Sending the article

Authors submitting suitable manuscripts based on our template are requested to send their articles via this link:

https://www.asjp.cerist.dz/en/PresentationRevue/155

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 process is realized successfully, a confirmation is given on the Platform. The author will then receive via email 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 Traduction et Langues, the author will be notified that the article has been rejected. 

10. Follow-up on the status of the Article on the Platform

The author has to log in regularly to follow the status of his/her article by clicking on the icon "Articles" and then "Sent Articles" will show a table that details the article from Address; Date of the Article’s submission; the Title of the Journal; and other details; the latter goes through several stages:      

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 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:  ghaniaouahmiche@gmail.com,translang.journal@univoran2.dz,translang.journal@gmail.com

 

Download TRANSLANG Journal Guide for Authors: Available in four languages

English

French

German

Spanish

 

 

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