Acta Linguistica Lithuanica

2025, vol. 93, pp. 1–4

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ISSN 2669–218X (online / electronic)

Instructions for Authors

The international scholarly journal „Acta Linguistica Lithuanica“ publishes articles in Lithuanian, Latvian, English, German, and French. By separate agreement with the editorial board, articles may also be published in other languages. The journal publishes scholarly and discussion articles, as well as reviews of language publications.

1. Manuscript Length

An article may be up to 40,000 characters in length, discussion articles up to 10,000 characters, and reviews up to 20,000. Longer articles are published only by agreement with the editorial board and by decision of the editorial college.

2. Manuscript Format

Articles must be submitted electronically in „Microsoft Word“ and „Adobe PDF“ formats (*.doc, *.docx, *.pdf). It is preferable that articles be written using a version no earlier than „MS WinWord 2010“. The text must be typed in the Palemonas computer font intended specifically for the needs of Lithuanian studies, Baltic studies, and Indo-European studies, which can be downloaded free of charge by clicking the following link: https://www.vlkk.lt/media/public/file/Palemonas/Palemonas3.2.05.zip.

Colour and black-and-white illustrations must be submitted as a separate file (*.jpg, *.tiff), at a resolution of at least 300 dpi. The location of the illustration must be marked in the article.

3. Manuscript Structure

Please submit the article manuscript as two separate documents in „MS Word“ format:

1) a title-page document and 2) an anonymized document.

The title-page document must indicate the article title, the author’s (authors’) surname(s), the name(s) of the institution(s), address(es), e-mail address(es), ORCID ID, an abstract (up to 200 words), and no more than 5 keywords. If the article is written in Lithuanian, its structural elements (abstract, keywords) must be provided in Lithuanian and English. If the article is written in English, its abstract and keywords must be provided in English and Lithuanian. If the article is written in another language, its abstract and keywords must be provided in the language of the main text and in English. In addition, the author’s (authors’) main research area(s) and the date of submission (receipt) must be indicated. To preserve the authors’ anonymity, other information, such as acknowledgements, funding, etc., must be provided only on the title page and not included in the anonymized document.

The anonymized document must contain: the title of the article or review, abstracts, keywords, the main text with personal data and references omitted, and a summary. Personal information will be included in the manuscript after peer review.

If an article has been prepared in a language that is not the author’s native language, the author must ensure that, before submission for publication, the text of the article is edited by a native-speaker editor.

4. Cited Literature (Bibliography)

References to cited literature are given in the text in parentheses in chronological order: the author’s surname, the year of publication, and, after a colon, the page, for example: (Ambrazas 2006: 182; Geržotaitė 2019: 175–198; Greule 2021: 11–29).

For dictionaries, encyclopedias, and similar publications, the abbreviated title is given in letters, for example: LKŽė.

LKŽė: Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language [Dictionary of the Lithuanian Language] (1–20, 1941–2002), electronic version, editorial board: G. Naktinienė (editor-in-chief), J. Paulauskas, R. Petrokienė, V. Vitkauskas, J. Zabarskaitė; programmers: E. Ožeraitis, V. Zinkevičius, Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas, updated version, 2018. Available online: http://www.lkz.lt.

A bibliography is provided at the end of the article, for example:

ALEW 2015: Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Old Lithuanian Etymological Dictionary] 1–3, under the direction of W. Hock, with the assistance of E. J. Bukevičiūtė, Ch. Schiller, edited by R. Fecht, A. H. Feulner, E. Hill, D. S. Wodko, Hamburg: Baar Verlag.

Breidaks Antons 1973: Baltic–Finnic Names of Rivers in Latgale. – Latvijas PSR Zinātņu Akadēmijas Vēstis 2(307), Rīga: Latvijas PSR Zinātņu akadēmijas izdevniecība, 97–102.

Codea Krista 2008: Intervenienten und Petenten vornehmlich für lothringische Empfänger in den Diplomen der liudolfingischen Herrscher (919–1024) [Interveners and Petitioners Primarily for Lorraine Recipients in the Diplomas of the Liudolfing Rulers (919–1024)]: a prosopographical account, Bonn: Dissertationsdruck. Access: https://bonndoc.ulb.uni-bonn.de/xmlui/handle/20.500.11811/3289.

Dimitrova–Todorova Liljana 2001: Oronimijata v Blgarija [Oronymy in Bulgaria]. – Toponimia i oronimia, ed. A. Cieślikowa, B. Czopek–Kopciuch, Kraków: Wydawnictwo Naukowe DWN, 299–306.

Ernits Enn 1979: K vyjavleniju substrata v pribal­tijsko–finskich jazykach [Towards the Identification of the Substrate in the Baltic–Finnic Languages]. – Soveckoe finnougroedenie 15, Tallinn: Akademija Nauk Estonskoj SSR, 129–135.

Hengst Karlheinz 2003: Sprache und Vorzeit [Language and Prehistory]. Stuttgart: B. Comrie 2002 [Review of]. – Namenkundliche Informationen 83/84, 164–166.

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LÄGLOS III: Lexikon der älteren germanischen Lehnwörter in den ostseefinnischen Sprachen Lexicon of Older Germanic Loanwords in the Baltic Finnic Languages] 3: P-Ä, A. D. Kylstra, S. L. Hahmo, T. Hofstra, O. Nikkilä, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, 2012.

Meyer zu Erm­gassen Heinrich, ed., 1995: Der Codex Eberhardi des Klosters Fulda [The Codex Eberhardi of the Fulda Monastery] 1, Marburg: Elwert.

Nübling Damaris, Fahlbusch Fabian, Heuser Rita 2012: Namen. Eine Einführung in die Onomastik (Narr Studienbücher) [Names. An Introduction to Onomastics (Narr Study Books)], Tübingen: Narr Francke Attempto Verlag GmbH + Co. KG.

Petit Daniel 2021: The Origin of Old Prussian dūrai. – Acta Linguistica Lithuanica 85, 11–24, DOI: https://doi.org/10.35321/all85-01.

Skorupa Pavel 2021: Vilnius County Toponyms as Signs of National and Cultural Identity, Vilnius: Lietuvių kalbos institutas.

Smetonienė Anželika 2019: Patterns of morphological integration of Slavic loan nouns in Petkevičius’ Catechism (1598) as an indication of their origin and chronology. – Studia z Filologii Polskiej i Słowiańskiej 54, [1–30]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.11649/sfps.1766.

Sperber Rüdiger 1970: Das Flussgebiet des Mains. Hydronymia Germaniae [The River Basin of the Main. Hydronymia Germaniae], founded by H. Krahe, edited by W. P. Schmid, Wiesbaden: Steiner.

Zuban Oksana 2019: The Morphemic System Stylometric Analysis of the Ukrainian Poets’ Idiostyles: Corpus Based Approach. – Linhvistyčni studiji 38, 96–104. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31558/1815-3070.2019.38.15.

Where possible, it is preferable to provide a DOI (digital object identifier) instead of an Internet link. A DOI is a permanent identifier that replaces an Internet link.

In the main text, titles of publications are written in italics, and titles of articles in quotation marks.

When an author is mentioned for the first time in the article, the author’s first name and surname are given; thereafter, the first initial and surname are used.

The bibliography must indicate not only the place where a publication was printed but also the name of the publisher. The pages of articles are given from–to.

A list of sources may also be provided before the bibliography.

Detailed instructions on formatting the bibliography and source list are provided on the website of the Lithuanian Language Institute’s open-access scholarly journals (see the LKI publishing procedure: Description of the Bibliographic Formatting Procedure for Scholarly Journals – https://lki.lt/wp-content/uploads/2025/01/LKI-Literatūros-ir-šaltinių-tvarkos-aprašas-1.pdf).

In the bibliography and bibliographic references, all cited literature must be given in Latin script. Bibliographic descriptions of works published in Cyrillic are recommended to be transliterated using the international scholarly system for Cyrillic transliteration. For transliteration purposes, a Latin alphabet for transliterating Cyrillic characters into Latin characters has been prepared

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rules approved by a protocol decision of the VLKK on 30 June 2022, No. PN–8 (see https://vlkk.lt/vlkk-nutarimai/protokoliniai-nutarimai/kirilisku-rasmenu-transliteravimo-lotyniskos-abeceles-rasmenimis-taisyklės). This purpose is also served by the international standard ISO 9:1995 „Information and documentation. Transliteration of Cyrillic characters into Latin characters. Slavic and non-Slavic languages“.

In the bibliography, English translations of the titles of publications (articles, books, documents, etc.) in languages other than English are also provided after the titles (in square brackets).

5. Presentation of Examples

The language data under discussion are presented in italics, for example: stream Didysis Pirčiupis, village Makūčiai, etc.

6. Manuscript Submission and Review Procedure

Articles submitted to the journal are anonymously reviewed by two reviewers appointed by the editorial board. Therefore, the text must not mention the article author’s surname or contain any other indications of authorship. The article author’s surname, contact information, and other data are provided separately (see Section 3).

Articles must be submitted to the editorial board through the electronic publishing system (see http://journals.lki.lt/).

Please note that some messages sent by the LKI scholarly journal „Acta Linguistica Lithuanica“ system may not be recognized and may be directed to the spam (English SPAM) folder. Please check this folder regularly.

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