Submission Information


There are two prerequisites for submission of a paper to the LACUS Forum.
  1. A version of the paper must have been presented at an annual conference of LACUS.
  2. All individuals listed as authors of the paper must be paid-up members of the Linguistic Association of Canada and the United States for the year beginning with the LACUS conference at which the paper was originally presented.
In addition to these prerequisites, the paper must undergo a review process and be revised, as needed, as per the judgment of referees and the editors.  It must also meet standards of style and formatting as judged by the editors of the volume in which it is to appear.  It may, of course, also be the judgment of the reviewers that the paper should not be accepted for publication.


Current Volume(s) Deadlines and Editors


Volume 49 Editors:
Deadline Dates for Volume 49:
Authors Submit Manuscripts to Editors                       OCT 4, 2024 
Editors Send Reviewer Feedback to Authors             NOV 4, 2024 
Authors Send Revisions to Editors                               DEC 13, 2024 
Editors Make PDF proofs Available to Authors          JAN 20, 2025 
Authors Make Corrections to PDF proofs                    FEB 21, 2025 


LACUS Author Guides

Download the appropriate PDF author guide
for the volume you are working with.

Author Guide for LACUS 49 and sample paper:

lacus_style_guide_v.49-2.pdf
File Size: 32 kb
File Type: pdf
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sample_paper_lacus_forum.pdf
File Size: 319 kb
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Author Guide for LACUS Forum 47 and 48:
lacus_style_guide_2021.4.pdf
File Size: 443 kb
File Type: pdf
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The header you are to put at the top of your manuscript is included in the following Word document; just copy-paste it in at the top of the first page of your file:
lacus_forum_-_authors_use_this.docx

LACUS Forum 47 Contacts
Managing Editors:  Douglas W. Coleman ([email protected]),
                                   Gaby Semaan ([email protected])
Author Guide for older volumes still in progress, up to and including LACUS Forum 46:
LACUS FORUM AUTHOR GUIDELINES (Updated 24-Oct-2014)
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File Type: pdf
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