Submissions

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

The submission has not been previously published, nor is it before another journal for consideration (or an explanation has been provided in Comments to the Editor).
The article contains a declaration specyfing any use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the manuscript preparation process. (The declaration should be placed below the References section. Crossroads permits, without restriction, the use of AI tools for language editing; any other use of AI must be reviewed and approved by the editorial board.)
The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, or RTF document file format.
Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines: MLA 9 format for articles in Literary Studies, APA 7 for articles in Linguistics.

For authors

To submit a paper, please register on our website, and then click the "Make a submission" button.

The review process

Crossroads uses double-blind peer review, which is why the authors must ensure that their name(s) and all other identifying features are removed from the paper, both from the main text and the references. The editors ensure that all papers submitted to Crossroads are reviewed by at least two independent reviewers who are experts in their fields and who are affiliated with different institutions than the authors. If the two reviewers reach opposing conclusions, a third reviewer is appointed. The review process usually takes up to 12 weeks. The average number of weeks between submission and publication is 18.

Manuscript format

All contributions should be in English. Submitted papers must be original (i.e., not published or submitted for publication elsewhere). The manuscript should not exceed 8,000 words. The preferred font is Times New Roman (12pt). The text should be single-spaced and divided into sections with appropriate headings. All tables should be titled and numbered consecutively. Examples should be given in italics and numbered consecutively. Examples in languages other than English should be followed by the English translation in single quotation marks.

Abstract and keywords

The text should be preceded by an abstract (100-150 words, summarizing the aims of the paper, its main points and findings), and 5-8 keywords.

In-text citations and references

Papers in literary studies and papers in linguistics are usually published in separate issues. They also follow different formatting rules:

- PAPERS IN LITERARY STUDIES should use MLA format (9th edition):

https://owl.purdue.edu/owl/research_and_citation/mla_style/mla_formatting_and_style_guide/mla_formatting_and_style_guide.html

- PAPERS IN LINGUISTICS should use APA format (7th edition):

https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-guide.pdf

https://apastyle.apa.org/instructional-aids/reference-examples.pdf

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools

All articles submitted to Crossroads must include a declaration regarding the use of artificial intelligence (AI) in the manuscript preparation process. This declaration should be placed at the bottom of the article, below the References section, and should specify any use of AI tools by the authors. Crossroads permits, without restriction, the use of AI tools for language editing; any other use of AI must be reviewed and approved by the editorial board.

The use of this article will be governed by Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0), as currently displayed on: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Under Creative Commons Attribution NonCommercial ShareAlike 4.0 International License users are free to copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, to remix, transform, and build upon the material under the following conditions: 1) they must attribute the contribution, 2) they may not use this contribution for commercial purposes.

Author’s warranties: The Author warrants that the paper is original, previously unpublished, written by stated author(s), contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others. The author declares that he or she owns all proprietary rights to the paper and that any necessary written permissions to reproduce previously published materials have been obtained by the Author.

This agreement does not entitle the Author to any fees or royalties. The Author acknowledges that the paper will be publicly accessible and such access will be free of charge for the readers. The Author acknowledges that the publisher may conform the paper to a style of punctuation and spelling that it deems appropriate.

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