Welcome to the webpage of the Committee of Editors of Linguistics Journals
This organization started informally in 2003 with a meeting at the Linguistic Society of America (LSA), where we have held yearly committee meetings since then. We also host an email discussion group. We are working to increase communication among journal editors, reviewers, authors and readers in our field. We have held symposia to that end, and materials presented at our 2009 event on journal rankings and citation indexes are available below. We have also developed a unified style sheet for linguistics journals (see link below) that is being adopted by numerous journals and publishers. The group is open to all editors (including associate and book review editors) of journals involved in the scientific study of language.
2015 LSA Summer Institute, COSWL/COSIAC Professionalization Workshop, the Publishing Process
2015 LSA Annual Meeting Special Session on the Publishing Process
- Combined materials from the 2015 LSA Symposium, jointly sponsored by the Committee on Student Issues and the Committee of Editors of Linguistics Journals. PDF
- Results of a survey of editors about the review process (by Joe Salmons) PDF
- Minutes of the editors' meeting PDF
Materials from the 2013 LSA Open Access Symposium
- Description of the Symposium
- Ellen Duranceau, slides PDF
- Kai von Fintel, slides PDF
- Kai von Fintel, handout PDF
- Lindsay Whaley, slides PDF
- Alyson Reed, slides PDF
- Kathleen Fitzpatrick, text PDF
- Stuart Shieber, slides PDF
- Vika Zafrin, slides PDF
- Vika Zafrin, text PDF
- Eric Bakovic, slides PDF
- Audio of the presentations is available here.
Materials from the 2013 LSA
Materials from the 2012 LSA
Materials from the 2011 LSA
Materials from the 2010 LSA
- Minutes of the editors' meeting doc
- Handout from the Graduate Student Panel, "From Qualifying Paper to Published Paper" PDF
Materials from the 2009 LSA Symposium "The Impact of Linguistics Journals Rankings and Citations"
- Proposal for this Symposium PDF
- LSA Symposium Intro - Salmons PPT file
- LSA Symposium - Joseph PDF
- LSA Symposium - Hollingworth PDF
- LSA Symposium - Cullars PDF
Unified Style Sheet for Linguistics PDF
- Unified Style Sheet, without tracked changes PDF
- BibTex (Updated Sept. 18, 2012) BST
- CSL style definition for the Unified Stylesheet (for Zotero, Mendeley and other citation software)
- A web search will also yield several .ens files for use with EndNote.
Contact
Joseph Salmons: jsalmons@wisc.edu Brian Joseph: bjoseph@ling.ohio-state.edu |
Keren Rice: rice@chass.utoronto.ca Greg Carlson: carlson@ling.rochester.edu |