Submission
Authors are requested to submit their papers electronically by e-mail attachments to Editorial office: editorjalls@refaad.com . All correspondence, including notification of the Editor's decision and requests for revision, takes place by e-mail.
Submission Declaration
Submission of an article implies that the work described has not been published previously, that it is not under consideration for publication elsewhere, and if accepted, it will not be published elsewhere including electronically, in English or in any other language.
Page Count
Authors are encouraged to write concisely. As a guide, regular articles should be at most 30 page.
Preparing Your Paper:
•• Structure:
• Title
Should related to aim of the article. Avoid abbreviations and formulae where possible.
• Authors
Provide full names, complete affiliations, and e-mail addresses for all authors with in the paper. Only one author should be the corresponding author.
• Abstract
The abstract should not exceed more than 200 words. An abstract is a summarizing statement which should be very informative and self- explanatory. The abstract should give the readers the reason, methods, results and conclusion of the article. The abstract should be written in such a way that, the readers feel to read the entire article.
• Keywords
Provide 3–5 keywords representing the main content of the article.
• Introduction
This section should explain the background to the study, its aims, a summary of the existing literature, motivations and why this study was necessary.
• Main results
This should include the findings of the study.
• Acknowledgments
Place acknowledgments, if there are any, near the end of the paper, preceding the references.
• Appendices
If there is more than one appendix, they should be identified as A, B, etc.
• 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.
• Reference to an article in journals:
Ryding, K. C. (2005). A Reference Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press
• Reference to a book (ISBN):
Schulz, E. (2012). A Student Grammar of Modern Standard Arabic. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press.
File formats
We strongly recommend the authors to submit papers to JALLS after preparing them in the style of the journal.
MS-Word
Upon Acceptance
Editable files are required for processing in production. If your manuscript contains any non-editable files (such as PDFs) you will be required to re-submit an editable file (MS-Word) if your manuscript is accepted.
Review Process
The quality of a journal can be determine through the scholarly content it publishes. It is therefore important to define effective and strong peer review process to evaluate the scientific quality of the paper prior to journal publication. JALLS peer-review process ensure that the scholarly manuscripts are evaluated and commented upon by independent experts belonging to the same research interest and area. JALLS editorial and reviewer board members are experts who are dedicated to ensure the validity and originality of journal publications. JALLS peer-review process is based upon single blind review where reviewer's name is concealed from the author(s). In order to ensure that only non-plagiarized, original and high quality scholarly research is published, each submitted manuscript first preliminary reviewed by the managing editor to check whether author has provided correct submission information and all supported files with the article.
Steps of JALLS Peer-Review Process
- Preliminary Review - submitted manuscript go through preliminary review where the appropriateness of the article including research scope within the journal to which it is submitted, quality, format, language, authorship and other information is checked, and may be rejected without review if it is outside the scope of the JALLS is obviously of insufficient quality, or is missing important sections.
- Rejected submissions are then removed from our database and authors are informed about the reason for rejection of their manuscript.
- Editor-in-Chief assign manuscript to referees to evaluate the technical quality of the scientific research presented in the paper.
- Based on the review comments and final decisions made by Editor-in-Chief of acceptance/rejection of the manuscript.
- All rejected manuscripts are then permanently closed and authors are informed about the decision.
- For accepted papers, authors are then asked to revise manuscript according to reviewers comments and submit the final version within the given time period.
- All final submitted papers are then published as soon as they become ready after typesetting and proof reading.
