DESCRIPTION

• -The aim of the open access journal DIALECTOLOGIA is to join the experiences of researchers working in different fields of Dialectology (linguistic variation, geolinguistics, methodology, synchronic and diachronic dialectal data, new technologies, social dialectology, etc.).
• -It is a double-blind external peer-reviewed journal, published twice yearly, that complies with the norms of the Spanish Foundation for Science and Technology (FECYT).
• -Each issue features 8/10 previously unpublished articles on original topics relating to linguistic variation.
• -Based on scholars’ proposals, and after a review, special numbers are published related to the subject of the journal, which are of interest to the scientific community.
• -All research articles on this journal undergo rigorous peer review, based on initial editor screening and evaluation by two or three anonymous referees’ experts in the field. After checking the quality of the paper (language, content, original data, references), the editor-in-chief communicates the decision to the author(s), which can be: -the paper can be published; - the paper can be published with some changes; - the paper cannot be published.
• -It includes also book reviews and news about congresses, meetings and recent publications.
• -Original papers will be evaluated within a period of three months.
• -The journal does not charge fees to authors either for processing (APC) or for the publication of articles.
• -The author will remain owner of the intellectual property of the works, however access to them is totally open and free, so they can be reproduced in whole or in part with the only limitation of recognizing the authorship and the source of publication (“Dialectologia. Revista electrònica”), provided that such exploitation is not of a commercial nature.
• - We will only make changes to published articles if the publication record is seriously affected by the academic accuracy of the published information.