Template
Manuscripts must be prepared using the Dil Dergisi article template. Turkish and English templates are available from the journal’s DergiPark page. Page layout, fonts, heading levels, abstract boxes, example blocks, table and figure layout and reference formatting are all defined in the template. Authors do not need to configure formatting and the template settings must not be altered. The guidelines below govern content and editorial policy rather than formatting.
Submission
Submissions are made only through DergiPark, as a single Word file. Manuscripts must not have been published elsewhere or submitted simultaneously to another journal. An ORCID identifier is required for every author. Affiliations give only the university name and its ROR identifier; faculties and departments are not included. ROR identifiers can be found at ror.org. All submissions are checked for similarity by the editorial team using Turnitin and the resulting report is shared with the authors.
Blind review and anonymisation
The journal operates double blind peer review. In the version submitted for review, the author name, affiliation, ROR, ORCID and e-mail fields of the template are left blank. This information is requested at the revision stage after acceptance.
Self citations must be phrased so that they do not reveal authorship. Acknowledgements, project and funding details are omitted from the review version and added after acceptance. Author information must also be removed from the document properties of the file.
Work derived from a thesis
Work derived from a master’s or doctoral thesis must be declared to the editor at submission. The declaration gives the title and type of the thesis, the institution, the year of completion and the name of the supervisor. Because this information would compromise blind review, it does not appear in the manuscript sent out for review; it is added as a footnote on the first page after acceptance and appears in the published version.
The author of the thesis is listed as first author. A supervisor is listed as an author only where they have made a theoretical, methodological or analytical contribution to the article itself; supervision of the thesis is not in itself grounds for authorship.
A thesis held in an institutional repository does not count as prior publication, and work derived from it is considered for review provided the derivation is declared. More than one article may be drawn from a single thesis, but each must rest on distinct research questions and distinct findings. Dividing the same data and the same findings across several articles is not acceptable. Where another article drawn from the same thesis has been submitted to this journal or elsewhere, this must be reported at submission.
Structure and length
Manuscripts are structured in the following order: titles, authors, abstract and keywords, öz and anahtar sözcükler, introduction, theoretical framework, method, results, discussion, conclusion, declarations, references, appendices.
The text must be between 4,000 and 10,000 words, excluding the abstract and references. The English abstract and the Turkish öz must each not exceed 300 words and must correspond in content. A minimum of four and a maximum of eight keywords are given, with the Turkish and English lists in the same order. Headings are not numbered and no more than three levels are used. If the language of the article is Turkish, the Turkish template is used, the Turkish title and öz come first and the section headings are given in Turkish.
Review articles are not required to include method and results sections and may be structured according to the subject. The limits on length and the requirements for the abstract and keywords apply to review articles as well.
Language data, examples and glossing
In studies presenting linguistic data, reviewers also assess how examples are presented. The formatting of example blocks is provided by the template; the principles below concern content.
Examples are numbered consecutively as (1), (2), (3). Sub examples are labelled a., b., c. and are referred to in the text as (1a), (2d). Every example in a language other than that of the text is followed immediately by a word by word gloss line and, below it, a translation in single quotation marks.
Glossing follows the Leipzig Glossing Rules. Grammatical category labels are set in small capitals and gloss lines carry no capitalisation and no punctuation. Abbreviations not included in the Leipzig list are collected at the end of the article under the heading Appendix 1. Where data from more than one language are presented, the language of each example must be stated.
Examples taken from a corpus, a historical text, fieldwork or an experiment must be identifiable through a corpus ID, text and page, recording code or similar information. It must be clear whether an example is constructed or naturally occurring. Grammaticality and acceptability judgements are marked with * for ungrammatical, ?? for questionable and # for semantically or pragmatically infelicitous.
Terminology
For manuscripts written in Turkish, the journal attaches importance to the use of established Turkish linguistic terminology. Terms that are new to the field, or for which a Turkish equivalent is proposed for the first time, are italicised at first mention with the English equivalent in parentheses: belirtisel alan (Eng. indexical field).
Citations and references
In text citations and the reference list follow the 7th edition of the APA style. Turkish language manuscripts use Turkish conventions (ve, Yay. haz., içinde, ss.) and English language manuscripts use English conventions (and, Ed., In, pp.). Only works cited in the text appear in the reference list. Where a DOI exists it is given as a full URL in the form https://doi.org/10.xxxx/xxxxx.
A page number is mandatory for direct quotations. Quotations of 40 words or more use the block quotation layout provided in the template. Datasets used or produced are cited in full in the reference list with a DOI, following the Austin Principles and the Tromsø recommendations.
Tables, figures and supplementary material
Tables and figures are numbered consecutively and each must be signposted in the text. Captions are written in sentence case and explanatory and source information is given in the note line below. Figures must be at least 300 dpi, sized to fit a single column and legible without reliance on colour. Obtaining permission for copyrighted images, and legal responsibility for them, rests with the authors.
Corpus files, stimuli, recordings and analysis scripts are deposited in a public repository that issues a persistent identifier and are cited by DOI. Datasets should be licensed under CC BY 4.0 or CC0. See the Research Data and Open Science Policy for details.
Ethical principles and declarations
The journal endorses the principles of COPE. All of the following declarations provided in the template must be completed before the reference list: financial support, ethics statement, conflict of interest statement, statement on the use of generative AI, author contributions and data availability statement. Acknowledgements are optional.
Studies involving human participants, including grammaticality judgement surveys and fieldwork, require ethics committee approval, and the name of the committee and the date and number of the decision must be stated. Where approval is not required, this must be declared. Informed consent must be obtained from participants and personal data and speaker identities must be anonymised. Authorship is limited to those who have made a substantive theoretical, methodological or analytical contribution.
Review process
Every manuscript is first screened by the editorial board for scope and formal compliance and manuscripts that do not comply are returned without being sent to reviewers. Manuscripts passing this screening are sent to at least two expert reviewers under double blind review. Where reviewer reports conflict, a third reviewer is consulted and the final decision rests with the Editor in Chief. Current process statistics are published on the journal’s DergiPark page.
After acceptance
Once the review process is complete, substantive changes such as adding sections, tables, images or authors may not be made other than those requested by reviewers. Proofs are sent to the corresponding author and only typesetting and typographical corrections may be made at this stage.