About the Journal

ABOUT NALANS

Focus and Scope

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies (NALANS) is a professional, double blind peer-reviewed international journal that aims to involve scholars from around the world. The journal provides a platform for different theoretical and thematic approaches to literature, linguistics and language teaching.

We accept only manuscripts written in English. The editors seek manuscripts that:

develop theoretical, conceptual, or methodological approaches to language, linguistics and literature
present results of empirical research that advance the understanding of language, linguistics and literature
explore innovative policies and programs and describe and evaluate strategies for future action, and
analyze issues of current interest.

Authors are always welcome to submit their manuscripts for publication consideration. They may submit your manuscripts online or send their manuscripts to the editor.

Publisher

Karadeniz Technical University (Dr. Mustafa Zeki Çıraklı, Editor-in-Chief)

Section Policies

Articles

Open Submissions
Indexed
Peer Reviewed

Peer Review Process

We use a double-blind system for peer review: The identities of both reviewers and authors remain anonymous. Each submitted manuscript is peer reviewed by at least two experts. In some rare cases, we may start a third round of peer review according to the recommendations from editors and reviewers.

Recruitment for Reviewers

Participation in the peer-review process is absolutely essential to the success and reputation of the journal. Reviewers and editors determine which works are of quality and significance. Due to our extensive readership, the research and scholarship selected by our reviewers will ultimately have an impact on literacy in national and international classrooms.
If you are interested in becoming a reviewer for NALANS, please contact us at mzcirakli@gmail.com

Publication Frequency

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies (NALANS) is published twice a year, in June and December.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Open access (OA) journals are scholarly journals that are available online "without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself.” Open Access (OA) provides unlimited access and reusability of research publications online for free. Therefore, the open access creates the network for reaching the widest possible audience, sharing the entire papers and building upon them.

Journal of Narrative and Language Studies (NALANS) hereby supports and adheres to the Budapest Open Access Initiative which defines “Open Access” as:

“Its free availability on the public internet, permitting any users to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of these articles, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from gaining access to the internet itself. The only constraint on reproduction and distribution, and the only role for copyright in this domain, should be to give authors control over the integrity of their work and the right to be properly acknowledged and cited.”

Articles published in NALANS will be Open-Access articles distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Archiving

This journal utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.