ELL uses the ScholarOne manuscript management system to handle all submissions. Please use the following link to submit any manuscripts: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/elangling
If you have problems entering your email address or with other aspects of the submission process, contact ellsubmissions@cambridge.org.
Guidance on the ScholarOne manuscript submission system
Creating a ScholarOne account
If you already have a ScholarOne account for ELL, use it to log in.
You might already have an account if you have submitted an article to ELL through ScholarOne before, or if you have functioned as a reviewer for ELL. If you do not already have an ELL Scholar One account, you will need to register for one – this is very straightforward.
(You need a separate account for each journal that uses Scholar One, so you will need to register for a new account for ELL business even if you have used the system to interact with other journals.)
- Areas of expertise. When you set up an account through ScholarOne, you will be asked to enter your ‘Areas of Expertise’. These can be whatever you would like (eg, ‘Phonology’, ‘Variation’, ‘Pragmatics’, ‘Old English’, ‘World Englishes’ etc).
- Institutional email address. You will need to enter your institutional address during the registration process (you can enter ‘none’ if you do not have one) and choose a password.
Once you have registered, you can log in to the system.
Logging into ScholarOne
When you log in to the ScholarOne system, you will be presented with the options of clicking on either the ‘Author Centre’ or ‘Reviewer Centre’ – click on ‘Author Centre’ in order to submit your piece.
You will then need to click on a link ‘to submit a new manuscript’. You will need to specify the type of manuscript that you are submitting and enter several pieces of information (dependent on the type of piece it is that you are submitting – most of these are relevant to the submission of articles), which you should prepare in advance, on successive pages:
- the article’s title (this cannot be longer than 50 words)
- a ‘running head’, which should be a shortened version of the article’s title (this cannot be longer than 50 characters)
- the article’s abstract – this can be in the format of a file that you upload, in case you need to include characters that the system can’t provide (your abstract cannot be longer than 200 words)
- an indication of whether the submission has been directly funded by a research grant – if not, tick the box to say that no funder was involved – if so, fill in the details
- up to five keywords, which should explain the content of the piece very briefly (e.g., ‘Phonology’, ‘Liverpool English’, ‘Old English’, ‘Tag questions’) – you can enter anything here, but please keep the keywords short and descriptive; please note that keywords will need to be included in manuscript as well (see Section 6)
- the details of any co-authors
- a covering letter, containing any information about the submission that you would like the editors to see
- the number of figures and tables (these can be 0)
- the number of words
- details of any supplementary material.
Uploading files
You will be asked to upload the file or files containing your submission.
Most submissions will only consist of one file, but if you have multiple files (involving figures or appendices, for example), you can upload them all together. The final step is to click on ‘submit’. Your piece will not be submitted for consideration unless you go through all these steps.
ORCID
We require all corresponding authors to identify themselves using ORCID when submitting a manuscript to this journal. ORCID provides a unique identifier for researchers and, through integration with key research workflows such as manuscript submission and grant applications, provides the following benefits:
- Discoverability: ORCID increases the discoverability of your publications, by enabling smarter publisher systems and by helping readers to reliably find work that you have authored.
- Convenience: As more organisations use ORCID, providing your iD or using it to register for services will automatically link activities to your ORCID record, and will enable you to share this information with other systems and platforms you use, saving you re-keying information multiple times.
- Keeping track: Your ORCID record is a neat place to store and (if you choose) share validated information about your research activities and affiliations.
See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
If you don’t already have an iD, you will need to create one if you decide to submit a manuscript to this journal. You can register for one directly from your user account on ScholarOne, or alternatively via https://ORCID.org/register.
If you already have an iD, please use this when submitting your manuscript, either by linking it to your ScholarOne account, or by supplying it during submission using the "Associate your existing ORCID iD" button.
ORCIDs can also be used if authors wish to communicate to readers up-to-date information about how they wish to be addressed or referred to (for example, they wish to include pronouns, additional titles, honorifics, name variations, etc.) alongside their published articles. We encourage authors to make use of the ORCID profile’s “Published Name” field for this purpose. This is entirely optional for authors who wish to communicate such information in connection with their article. Please note that this method is not currently recommended for author name changes: see Cambridge’s author name change policy if you want to change your name on an already published article. See our ORCID FAQs for more information.
Licence to publish
Before Cambridge can publish your manuscript, we need a signed licence to publish agreement. Under the agreement, certain rights are granted to the journal owner which allow publication of the article. The original ownership of the copyright in the article remains unchanged. For full details see the publishing agreement page.