Submission Template for the Journal of Phonetics

Initial Notes to Reader

This document is provided to you as a template for your submission to the Journal of Phonetics.
It has been preformatted in a manner consistent with the requirements laid out in this journal’s
Guide for Authors. The reference style, instructions for figures, tables, footnotes and
supplementary data likewise conform to the Guide. Where instructions appear in the template,
they have been highlighted in blue and can be deleted as necessary. All other text can be
overlaid with your own material. You are strongly recommended to read the complete Guide
which is available from the journal’s homepage at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/phonetics.
This page also contains a wealth of useful information about the journal, as well as a link from
which you can download a free sample copy. Note that for initial submissions (only), it is
permissible to embed figures and graphics in the wordprocessor document. For final accepted
versions, all figures, graphics and tables must be provided separately in suitable resolutions, as
explained below.

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 Article Cover Page

Title: Concise and informative – Titles are often used in information-retrieval

systems. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.

Eliza Greena, J. P. Grantocka*, Archibald Spottsworthb,

*Corresponding author: J.P.Grantock@oz.edu, Tel: +1 34 6960 5063, Fax: +1 34 6960 5065

a
Oz University, The Emerald City, Oz, 3345-8749 Kansas, USA
b
University of Dingle, Tumbledown, Nowhereshire, N54 3YM, United Kingdom

Where the family name may be ambiguous (e.g., a double name), please indicate this clearly.
Present the authors’ affiliation addresses (where the actual work was done) below the names.
Indicate all affiliations with a lower-case superscript letter immediately after the author’s name
and in front of the appropriate address. Provide the full postal address of each affiliation,
including the country name, and, if available, the e-mail address of each author.

Abstract
Your text here.

A concise and factual abstract is required (of between 50-200 words). The abstract should state
briefly the purpose of the research, the principal results and major conclusions. An abstract is
often presented separate from the article, so it must be able to stand alone. References should
therefore be avoided, but if essential, they must be cited in full, without reference to the
reference list. Non-standard or uncommon abbreviations should be avoided, but if essential they
must be defined at their first mention in the abstract itself.

Keywords
Keyword, second keyword, another keyword

Immediately after the abstract, provide a maximum of 7 keywords, avoiding general and plural
terms and multiple concepts (avoid, for example, “and”, “of”). Be sparing with abbreviations:
only abbreviations firmly established in the field may be eligible. These keywords will be used
for indexing purposes.

N.B. Acknowledgements.
Collate acknowledgements in a separate section at the end of the article and do not, therefore,
include them on the title page, as a footnote to the title or otherwise.

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 Article Title Here

1.0 Introduction
Your text here.

Write in British or American English (not a mixture of dialects). Italics are not to be used for
expressions of Latin origin, for example, in vivo, et al., per se. Use decimal points (not
commas); use a space for thousands (10 000 and above).

State the objectives of the work and provide an adequate background, avoiding a detailed
literature survey or a summary of the results.

2.0 Experimental/Materials and methods

Provide sufficient detail to allow the work to be reproduced.

For initial submission, figures can be embedded in the text to facilitate reviewing. Before final
acceptance of submissions, figures must be removed and provided as separate files. Provide
approximate locations for figures with a separate paragraph in the text.

Note to Publisher: Insert Figure 1 about here

2.1 Subsection Title

Methods already published should be indicated by a reference: only relevant modifications
should be described.

Please employ the following conventions for symbols and units: s = seconds; ms = milliseconds;
Hz (not cps) for frequency: f0 for fundamental frequency; F1, F2, F3, etc. for formants;
examples: 10 s, 20 ms, 1200 Hz, 3 cm, etc.

In your choice of phonetic symbols, please adhere to IPA conventions. The SIL Charis IPA
font is preferred for the presentation of IPA symbols (for more information, please visit:
http://scripts.sil.org/CharisSILfont). Please contact the editorial office
(phonetics@elsevier.com) if it is necessary for you to make use of a different phonetic font.
Important: Authors are requested to carefully check the PDF that is produced after uploading
their paper to the EES site. In particular, attention should be paid to the conversion of phonetic
symbols to ensure that these have not been corrupted during the process. It would be helpful if
authors could also include a copy of their paper in PDF format when uploading for the purposes
of comparison. If you experience any problems with the conversion of phonetic characters in
your MS Word document, please contact the editorial office (at the above address).

3.0 Results
Results should be clear and concise.1

Make a reference to Table 1 like this.

Table 1 A really great table

Note no vertical lines Format table notes likea Here is some text And some more
data data data data
data data data data
b
this

1
Footnotes should be avoided unless absolutely necessary. Essential footnotes should be numbered
consecutively throughout the article, using superscript Arabic numbers. Do not include footnotes in the
Reference list.

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Statistical examples include the following F(1,9) = 12; p < 0.001. t < 7.32; p < 0.001; df = 6. t =
1.01; ns; df =5.

“Verbum sapienti sat est.” (Pobble, 2002a, p. 21). Responsibility for the accuracy of citations
lies entirely with the authors. Please ensure that every reference cited in the text is also present
in the reference list (and vice versa). Citations in the text should follow the referencing style
used by the American Psychological Association.

If excerpts from other copyrighted works are included, the author(s) must obtain written
permission from the copyright owners and credit the source(s) in the article. Elsevier has
preprinted forms for use by authors in these cases; please consult:
http://www.elsevier.com/permissions.

4.0 Discussion
This should explore the significance of the results of the work, not repeat them.

Table 2 And you thought the last table was good

Note tables are
numbered
Table subheader
consecutively using
Arabic numerals
All tables Ensure that material in tables Therefore be
should also does not duplicate material sparing in your use
have a legend elsewhere in the article of tables
data data data
data data data

4.1 Subsection Title

A combined Results and Discussion section is often appropriate.

Note to Publisher: Insert Figure 2 about here

4.1.1 Subsection Title

Avoid extensive citations and discussion of published literature.

5.0 Conclusions
The main conclusions of the study may be presented in a short Conclusions section, which may
stand alone or form a subsection of a Discussion or Results and Discussion section.

Acknowledgements
Place acknowledgements before the references, in a separate section, and not as a footnote on
the title page.

Appendix A
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc.

Appendix B
If needed.

Reference List
Gordon, M. (2007). Pitch accent timing and scaling in Chickasaw. Journal of Phonetics,
doi:10.1016/j.wocn.2006.10.003. [Reference example for an article in press, using the DOI
number]

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Mettam, G. R., & Adams, L. B. (1994). How to prepare an electronic version of your article. In
B. S. Jones, & R. Z. Smith (Eds.), Introduction to the electronic age (pp. 281–304). New York:
E-Publishing Inc. [Reference example for a chapter from an edited work]
Pobble, T. (2006). An Analysis of the VOT Peculiarities of the Tin Man. Journal of Phonetics,
34, 670-708.
Pobble, T. (2002a). Vowels on the Yellow Brick Road. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Pobble, T. (2002b). A Return to Oz Syllabic Structure. Journal of Phonetics, 30, 590-613.
[Reference examples for an author with several works, two or more from the same year]
Strunk, W., Jr., & White, E. B. (1979). The elements of style. (3rd ed.). New York: Macmillan,
(Chapter 4). [Reference example for a book]
Van der Geer, J., Hanraads, J. A. J., & Lupton R. A. (2000). The art of writing a scientific
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 Additional Notes

Figure captions, figures, schemes

For initial submissions, figures may be embedded in the text along with figure captions to
facilitate reviewing. For final (to be accepted) submissions, please present figure captions, in
order, at the end of the article. High-resolution graphics files must always be provided separate
from the main text file for final submissions (see the section in the Guide for Authors on the
preparation of illustrations).

Figure 1
Concise and informative description of figure 1.

Figure 2
Likewise for figure 2.

Text graphics
Present incidental graphics not suitable for mention as figures, plates or schemes at the end of
the article and number them “Graphic 1”, etc. Ensure that high-resolution graphics files are
provided, even if the graphic appears as part of your normal wordprocessed text file.

Graphic 1
A
/ \
text graphic

Preparation of supplementary data

Elsevier accepts supplementary material to support and enhance your scientific research.
Supplementary files offer the author additional possibilities to publish supporting applications,
movies, animation sequences, high-resolution images, background datasets, sound clips and
more. Supplementary files supplied will be published online alongside the electronic version of
your article in Elsevier Web products, including ScienceDirect (http://www.sciencedirect.com).
In order to ensure that your submitted material is directly usable, please ensure that data is
provided in one of our recommended file formats. Authors should submit the material in
electronic format together with the article and supply a concise and descriptive caption for each
file. For more detailed instructions please visit our artwork instruction pages at:
http://www.elsevier.com/artworkinstructions.

Finished?

Well, now:

- Perform a spelling/grammar check (F7 in MS Word).

- Need English language assistance? Authors who require information about language
editing and copyediting services pre- and post-submission please visit:
http://www.elsevier.com/locate/languagepolishing or contact: authorsupport@elsevier.com
for more information.
- Save your article in the native format of the word processor (i.e. as a .doc file).
- Prepare any graphics according to the instructions above.
- Likewise any supplementary material.
- Submit your article: Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by using
the Journal of Phonetics online submission and review web site
(http://ees.elsevier.com/phonetics).
- Questions? For enquiries relating to the submission of articles, please visit the journal's
homepage at: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/phonetics. From here you can also track your
accepted articles (http://authors.elsevier.com/TrackPaper.html) and set up e-mail alerts to

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 inform you of when an article's status has changed, as well as viewing detailed artwork
guidelines, copyright information, frequently asked questions and more. Contact details for
questions arising after acceptance of an article, especially those relating to proofs, are
provided after registration of an article for publication.
- Congratulate yourself: you have now successfully submitted an article to the Journal of
Phonetics.

The full Guide for Authors for the Journal of Phonetics is available from the journal
homepage: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/phonetics.

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