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Submission Preparation Checklist

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 submission file is a PDF document.
  • I have observed the styleguide including the journal's template and citation style in the drafting of my paper.
  • All rights for the submitted paper are held by me (the author) and if applicable by the other stated authors. I have marked all verbatim or analogue uses of other works. I am aware that texts in which infringements to this rule are detected will be taken down after publication, and the article will be marked visible to the public as withdrawn with the naming of the exact infringement.
  • I am aware that the content of my paper will be reviewed. (It is possible that the paper will not be accepted for publication, or that I will be asked to rework it or to take it in another direction.)
  • The manuscript has been anonymized to ensure a double-blind review process. I did not include any identifying information in the document or file metadata.
  • The text adheres to the stylistic, formatting and bibliographic requirements detailed in the styleguide:
    • Language examples are clearly presented and glossed if not in English.
    • Tables and figures are clearly labeled, cited and consistently formatted.
    • Formulae and special symbols have been proofread and rendered correctly.
    • The manuscript follows typographic standards regarding capitalization, italics, and boldface conventions.
  • A complete and consistently formatted list of references is provided at the end of the manuscript. The use of AI tools must be described transparently. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.

Author Guidelines

Contributions can be submitted at any time. Before submitting, please consult the styleguide of our journal with notes on format, spelling, citation style and formatting of literature references.

REALIS publishes English (and German) contributions on register research and related fields in one of the following categories:

  • Articles
    • Research Articles: Unpublished, original research on language register. Word limit: 10,000 words.
    • Overview Articles: Describe the state-of-the-art in a subdiscipline related to register studies. Word limit: 10,000 words.
    • Discussion papers and reviews. Word limit: 3,000 words.
    • Article versions of excellent BA and MA Student Theses: Length determined by program. Students should consult their supervisors and adhere to the REALIS guidelines.
  • Guidelines
    • Corpus Descriptions: Variable length, but justification is required.
    • Annotation Guidelines: Variable length, but justification is required.

REALIS appears in annual volumes (e. g., 2025/1–X): submissions are published as soon as they are reviewed, formatted and processed.

Articles

The manuscript is preferably prepared in LaTeX using the provided REALIS template (https://scm.cms.hu-berlin.de/sfb1412_public/realis_paper_template/-/releases). LaTeX files can be submitted at a later time.

The manuscript includes:

  • A title
  • An abstract (max. 250 words) and up to six keywords
  • Numbered sections (and possibly subsections, automatically numbered 1.1 etc., and subsubsections, automatically numbered 1.1.1, etc.), with a bold-faced heading in each case. The conclusion is the last numbered section.
  • (Optional) Unnumbered sections for Abbreviations, Supplementary files, Ethics and consent, Funding information, Acknowledgements, Competing interests, and Authors’ contributions.

(If applicable) Acknowledgement of contributors and funding bodies, including grant numbers and institutions, is provided in a separate section.

Each manuscript is reviewed in a double-blind peer-review by an internal reviewer (associated member of CRC 1412) and an external reviewer.

Guidelines

The manuscript is preferably prepared in LaTeX using the provided REALIS template (https://scm.cms.hu-berlin.de/sfb1412_public/realis_paper_template/-/releases). LaTeX files can be submitted at a later time.

The manuscript includes:

  • A title
  • An abstract (max. 250 words) and up to six keywords
  • Numbered sections (and possibly subsections, automatically numbered 1.1 etc., and subsubsections, automatically numbered 1.1.1, etc.), with a bold-faced heading in each case. The conclusion is the last numbered section.
  • (Optional) Unnumbered sections for Abbreviations, Supplementary files, Ethics and consent, Funding information, Acknowledgements, Competing interests, and Authors’ contributions.

(If applicable) Acknowledgement of contributors and funding bodies, including grant numbers and institutions, is provided in a separate section.

Each manuscript is reviewed in a double-blind peer-review by an internal reviewer (associated member of CRC 1412) and an external reviewer.

Copyright Notice

All contributions in the REALIS Journal are published under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International license. You may freely make use of the corresponding texts in accordance to the conditions of the license (License contract, generally understandable version). There is no exclusive transfer of usage rights ("copyright transfer"). The REALIS Journal does not charge authors any costs for publication (so-called Article Processing Charges, APC) or submission (so-called Submission Charges). Authors are encouraged to share their contributions in other places, such as repositories.

 

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