Articles should be in English. English spelling and style should be consistently either British or American throughout. If you are not a highly proficient user of English, you should have the paper checked by an English language professional.
Contributions, maximally 10,000 words in length (including references, an abstract of 100-150 words, 5-8 keywords and a 70-word bio), should be submitted as email attachments in Word to: internetpragmatics@foxmail.com.
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References
It is essential that the references are formatted to the specifications given in these guidelines, as these cannot be formatted automatically. This journal uses the ‘Author-Date’ style as described in the latest edition of The Chicago Manual of Style.
References in the text: These should be as precise as possible, giving page references where necessary; for example (Görlach 2003: 152-154) or: as in Brown et al. (1991: 252). All references in the text should be matched by items in the references section.
References section: References should be listed first alphabetically and then chronologically. The section should include all (and only!) references that are actually mentioned in the text.
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Examples
Yus, Francisco. 2011. Cyberpragmatics: Internet-Mediated Communication in Context. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Book (edited volume):
Dynel, Marta, and Jan Chovanec (eds). 2015. Participation in Public and Social Media Interactions. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
Article (in book):
Arundale, Robert B. and David Good. 2002. “Boundaries and sequences in studying conversation.” In Rethinking Sequentiality: Linguistics Meets Conversational Interaction, ed. by Anita Fetzer, and Christiane Meierkord, 121-150. Amsterdam: John Benjamins.
