Mind & Language

Edited by:
Executive Editor: Samuel Guttenplan Editors: Ruth Campbell, Robyn Carston, Tim Crane, Gregory Currie, Francesca Happé, Margaret Harris, Michael Martin, Sarah Patterson, Neil Smith, Tony Stone and Deirdre Wilson

Print ISSN: 0268-1064
Online ISSN: 1468-0017
Frequency: Five times a year
Current Volume: 25 / 2010
ISI Journal Citation Reports® Ranking: 2008: 20/68 Linguistics; 48/71 Psychology, Experimental
Impact Factor: 1.327

TopAuthor Guidelines

Mind & Language publishes original and accessible articles in linguistics, philosophy, psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive anthropology. Manuscripts should be submitted to:

Editorial Assistant
Mind & Language
Department of Philosophy
Birkbeck College
Malet Street
London
WC1E 7HX
UK
email: mind-lang@phil.bbk.ac.uk

Papers should be submitted electronically by attachment, preferably in Word. Where this is not possible, submissions should be supported by three hard copies. These should be printed on one side only of white A4 (or 8.5" × 11") paper. Text should be double spaced throughout. An abstract of 60-100 words should be included. Footnotes should be kept to a minimum, and references should be incorporated into the text in (author, date, page) form. An alphabetical list of references should follow the text. The list of references should be presented in the style used in Mind & Language from volume 15 onwards.

A submitted paper will usually be sent to two referees who will be asked to comment on both its intrinsic quality and its accessibility to the interdisciplinary readership of Mind & Language. Authors may request that their name be withheld from referees, in which case it is the responsibility of the author to prepare the manuscript in such a way that after detachment of the title page there remains no indication of authorship.

Each contributor will receive a free PDF offprint of his or her article. Additional offprints may be purchased from Blackwell Publishing, 9600 Garsington Road, Oxford, OX4 2DQ, UK.

Mind & Language
Style Sheet

Please make sure that your typescript conforms to the following:

(i) double-spaced throughout - including reference list - and the pages numbered;

(ii) single quotes throughout, except for quotes within quotes (outer quotes to be single);

(iii) citations in author-date format (i.e.'...the argument in Jones, 1990...') to be incorporated into the text so as to minimize footnotes;

(iv) footnotes (at the bottom of each page), not endnotes;

(v) a consolidated alphabetical list of References at the end of the article which follow the format given in the sample below (note that article titles have initial capitals only, but book titles have main word capitals):

References

There are several software packages available to help authors manage and format the references and footnotes in their journal article. We recommend the use of a software tool such as EndNote or Reference Manager for reference management and formatting.

EndNote reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.endnote.com/support/enstyles.asp

Reference Manager reference styles can be searched for here:
http://www.refman.com/support/rmstyles.asp

References should be in alphabetical order by author, and, if there is more than one entry for an author, in date order for that author (using 'a', 'b' etc, if there is more than a single reference for that author in a given year) . Below are some examples of difference types of reference.

Dummett, M. 1973: Example of a Book Reference. London: Duckworth.
Burge, T. 1979: Example of a journal article reference. Synthese, 40, 265-81.
Kripke, S. 1979: Example of an article in an edited collection. In A. Margalit (ed.), Meaning and Use. Dordrecht: Reidel.
Margolis, E. and Laurence, S. (eds) 1999: Example of an Edited Book Reference. Cambridge, MA.: MIT Press.

(vi) numbered sections and sub-sections with headings (capital letters for main words in these headings) with layout as in the sample below:

1. In Dublin's Fair City

Note the extra line space after heading and the fact that this first paragraph is not indented and is separated from heading by an extra line space. All headings should be in bold, but do not use bold for any other purpose. Citations are incorporated in the text in the author-date style (Guttenplan, 2000). Single quotes throughout.
Later paragraphs are indented. The paper should be double-spaced throughout.

1.1 And Furthermore
Sub-section headings also have capital letters for the main words, and - as above - with no extra line space between heading and text.

1.1.1 Finally If a sub sub-heading is absolutely necessary, the associated text should appear on the same line as the heading.

(vii) In addition to the above, your contribution should have:

(1) an Abstract of 60-100 words on the first page;

(2) a short form of affiliation, right justified, at the end of article, i.e.:
Department
Institution

(3) an un-numbered note at the foot of the first page which should include acknowledgements and on separate lines:
Address for correspondence:
Email:

(4) a word count.

Copyright Transfer Agreement
Authors will be required to sign a Copyright Transfer Agreement (CTA) for all papers accepted for publication. Signature of the CTA is a condition of publication and papers will not be passed to the publisher for production unless a signed form has been received. (US Federal Government employees need to complete the Author Warranty sections, although copyright in such cases does not need to be assigned). After submission authors will retain the right to publish their paper in various media/circumstances (please see the form for further details). To assist authors an appropriate form will be supplied by the editorial office. Alternatively, authors may like to download a copy of the form here

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