Author Guidelines

1. Quotations:

• Remember to indicate the exact page number(s) from which the quotation was taken.
• If the quotation is longer than two lines, indent it and type it in a smaller font size. Note that the font type we use in the published version is Trebuchet MS (font size 10 and size 9 for quotations and footnotes), but you can submit your draft in any font type.

2. Footnotes:

If there are any in your paper, leave them at the foot of the page; do not transform them into endnotes.

3. Example bibliographical references:

They should take the format of the following sample (which is not exhaustive):

Abney, Steven P. 1987. The English Noun Phrase and its Sentential Aspect. PhD Dissertation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Baker, Paul. 2017. American and British English: Divided by A Common Language? Cambridge University Press.

Collins, Peter. 2023. “Modals and quasi-modals in English World-Wide”. Journal of English Linguistics, 51(3): 1-29.

Ellis, Rod and Gary Barkhuizen. 2005. Analysing Learner Language. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Gorman, P. Thomas. 1974. “The development of language policy in Kenya with particular reference to the education system”. In Wilfred W. Whiteley (ed.), Language in Kenya, 397-453. Nairobi: Oxford University Press.

Hardie, Andrew. 2017. “Exploratory analysis of word frequencies across corpus texts: Towards a critical contrast of approaches”. Paper presented at the Corpus Linguistics 17 Conference, University of Birmingham, July 2017.

Inkelas, Sharon. 2008. “The dual theory of reduplication”. Linguistics, 46(2). Available online: http://www.reference-global.com/doi/pdf/10.1515/LING.2008.013. [Accessed 10 June 2008]

Ladefoged, Peter. 1996. Elements of Acoustic Phonetics, 2^nd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Mufwene, Salikoko S., John R. Rickford, Guy Bailey and John Baugh (eds). 1998. African-American English: Structure, History, and Use. London: Routledge.

Schneider, W. Edgar. 2020. English around the World: An Introduction, 2nd ed. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Note: Remember to include, in the final list of References all the works mentioned in your paper, but not any that were not. If evidence of plagiarism were to be detected in your paper, this would be rejected straightaway. You are also advised NOT to quote from the so-called “predatory journals”. They publish articles that have not been reviewed by experts in the field and are thus likely to contain instances of plagiarism and factual inaccuracies.

4. The layout of the article:

• Title of article and, under it, author’s name and affiliation institution (e.g. University of Nairobi)
• Abstract (in one paragraph; not more than 300 words)
• Keywords (not more than 10)
• Introduction
• Body sections
• Conclusion
• References
• Appendices (if any)

Note:  Number the Introduction as section No.1 and the Conclusion as the last section. Do not number the References and the Appendices—number the sub-sections in the following way: 2.1, 2.2, 3.1, 3.2, etc.