Submission Guidelines
EDITORIAL POLICY
American Speech is concerned principally with any aspect of all languages and dialects used or found in North America (as well as associated islands in the Pacific and the Atlantic) and in the Caribbean Basin, and the languages that influence them: spoken, signed, or written, modern or historical, Indigenous or introduced, common or rare. American Speech is not committed to any particular theoretical framework, but preference is given to articles that are likely to be of interest to a wide readership.
MANUSCRIPTS FOR SUBMISSION
To submit manuscripts of articles for American Speech, visit https://mc04.manuscriptcentral.com/dup-asp and click Create an Account. Once you've logged in, navigate to your Author Center to start a submission.
Send proposals for monograph length studies for the Publication of the American Dialect Society series to [email protected].
Books for review should be emailed to managing editor Charles E. Carson at [email protected].
Send items for possible inclusion in "Among the New Words" to [email protected]
Manuscripts should be prepared in conformity with The Chicago Manual of Style (17th ed., 2017). Documentation must be given parenthetically in the text using the author-date system (chap. 15), with a list of references at the end prepared in the humanities style. Substantive notes should appear at the end of the article before the references list. Figures, tables, and graphic materials may be placed within the manuscript at their first mention or on separate pages at the end of the manuscript.
Citation forms are to be italicized and glosses enclosed in single quotation marks, without intervening punctuation (e.g., hushpuppy 'fried corn bread'). Technical terms and emphasized words should be indicated by double underlining for small capitals, rather than by italics. Phonetic and phonemic transcriptions should be restricted to the symbols of the International Phonetic Alphabet. Word lists should be prepared in accordance with the "Style Sheet for Glossaries" (American Speech 45 [1970]: 141–51).
