Journal of Child Language

[Dale, Philip S.]

Dear colleagues,

Most of you are probably aware by now that we (Edith Bavin & Philip Dale) have taken over as editors of the Journal of Child Language. We are pleased and honored to follow a line of such distinguished and capable editors, including Elena Lieven who has completed nine years of yeoman service to the journal and the profession. We wanted you to know that we will be moving to electronic submission shortly; trials are now in progress. We will be using the ‘manuscript central’ service, which many of you will be familiar with from other journals. It is straightforward to use, reliable, and well-tested. We will be posting information about electronic submissions on our website in the next few months (http://journals.cambridge.org/jid_JCL). In the meantime we are using email as much as possible to speed up the turn around time between submission and editorial decision, something that is becoming increasingly important in this modern academic world.  You will find on the website now some updated style guidelines; we ask that you look at them carefully in preparing manuscripts for submission.

We thank you for supporting JCL in the past and look forward to your continued support. Please continue sending us your articles, and if you are interested in reviewing for our journal, please send your name and details of expertise to our administrative person, Miles Lambert (child_language at yahoo.co.uk).

Kindest Regards,

Edith & Philip