Contributors' Guidelines

BOOK AND MEDIA REVIEW GUIDELINES FOR
Critical Inquiry in Language Studies – An International Journal

Dear Colleague:

Thank you for your interest in reviewing a book for the Critical Inquiry in Language Studies – An International Journal. Book reviewing is an important service to the academic community and your engagement is very much appreciated. We are not able to pay reviewers a fee but are happy for you to retain the review material.

Deadlines. We would be grateful to receive your review within the period of 3 months. If you experience problems in meeting this deadline and require an extension, please let me know as soon as possible so that I could plan accordingly.

Publication. All accepted reviews will be published online. Selected reviews will also be republished in print issues as space allows.

Length and Format. Reviews should not exceed 5 double-spaced typed pages (approximately 1,500 words). Reviews of two or more related works are encouraged. These should not exceed 12 double-spaced typed pages (approximately 2,500 words). Consistent with journal article requirements, authors must follow the style guide of the American Psychological Association's (APA) Publication Manual, 5th edition.
You are welcome to include a short bibliography, of up to five related works, so as to locate the book reviewed within the existing literature in bilingualism, second language acquisition, and/or bilingual education. Your review should provide an overview of the contents of the book as well as a well-argued judgment regarding its place in the field and its likely importance to the readers of journal. Mere content summaries are undesirable.
Format. All reviews should be double-spaced. In the beginning of your review please indicate the following: title, author, location and name of publisher, date of publication, number of pages, ISBN(s), hbk/pbk edition price(s). The following format is preferred:

Title of the book
A.N. Author and T.H.E. Coauthor
Clevedon
Multilingual Matters
1999
Pp. xii + 126
ISBN 0-905028-53-8 (hbk).
ISBN 0-905028-52-X (pbk).

Reviewed by <Reviewer's First Name, Last Name, Institutional Affiliation>

If references must be used, they should be set out in alphabetical order by author’s name at the end of the article. References in the text should be made by author’s name and year of publication as in the following example: Jones (1977) in a paper on...
Examples in phonetic script should use the IPA conventions, and symbols not available on the author’s word processor should be written carefully in ink on a hard copy of the review.
At the end of the review, reviewers should indicate their name, the name of the institution and department where they are working, plus their e-mail address.
Transmission. Usually, I only need an electronic version of your review, sent as an e-mail attachment in word format. In exceptional cases, I may also need two hardcopies (double-spaced) and/or a pdf file. Upon receipt of your review, I will edit it and either forward it to the publisher or return it to you for revisions and/or corrections. Please proofread your review carefully before you submit it, to keep corrections to a minimum. Make sure that your evaluation of the book is well supported, through your description of its contents and your discussion of its place in the field. Proofs of book reviews will be corrected in-house.
Please remember that the final decision on whether or not a book review will be published remains with the Review Editor and the Editor of the journal. Reviews and correspondence should be sent to Reviews Editor. Please do not hesitate to contact me with any further questions you may have about the review process.

Authors must submit reviews electronically as an e-mail attachment in MS Word or in rich text format (.rft) with the subject heading BOOK/MEDIA REVIEW to Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor at cahnmann@uga.edu, or David Schwarzer at sdavid@uab.edu, Book and Media Review Editors.

Please view of the ISLS web site for more detailed information about the organization, its biannual conference, and its journal: http://www.isls-inc.org

The International Society for Languages Studies (ISLS), through its biannual international conference and its quarterly journal Critical Inquiry in Language Studies – An International Journal, published by Taylor & Francis (originally Lawrence Erlbaum), was created in 2002 by scholars united in their goal to have a forum encouraging and disseminating post-positivistic research in language matters, broadly conceived. Prior to the founding of the ISLS, such research was commonly presented in venues primarily designed for applied linguistics, educational studies, language-specific concerns, literary criticism, history, sociology, anthropology, or similar disciplines.

ISLS seeks to bring together scholars from disciplines whose research focus has been on issues of language studies. Common descriptors include: Action research, Anthropological studies, Comparative studies, Critical discourse analysis, Critical language awareness, Critical pedagogy, Curricular reform, Educational linguistics, Language contact and conflict, Language minority education, Language policy and planning, Holistic education and pedagogy, Historical studies, Interdisciplinary approaches to language study, Post-modern research, Qualitative Research, Social Justice, Sociology of language education, Teacher education.

Currently, society members come from Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, South America, and the West Indies.

Dr. Melisa Cahnmann-Taylor
Language and Literacy Education
College of Education
University of Georgia
Athens, GA, 30602
USA
phone: (706) 583-8127
e-mail: cahnmann@uga.edu

Dr. David Schwarzer
Reading
School of Education
University of Alabama Birmingham
USA
Phone: (205)996-6535
e-mail: sdavid@uab.edu

APA format

APA (5th edition) Basic Information

Reference Style
1. APA uses an in-text parenthetical system of author and date of publication (Wernick, 2003).

2. When a direct quote is included in the text, the page number follows the date in the reference (Hunt, 2002, p. 36).

3. For a work by two authors, both names are used in every reference (Wernick & Hunt, 2004).

4. For a work by three, four, or five authors, use all names the first time a reference appears in the text (Nuzzi, Wernick, & Hunt, 2001) and for subsequent appearances use the first author followed by et al. (Nuzzi et al., 2001).

5. When a work has six or more authors, use only the first author followed by et al. and the year in every citation.

6. If multiple works are cited for the same information, the authors and dates are separated by semi-colons and organized alphabetically (Hunt, 2000; Nuzzi, 2002; Wernick, 1999).

7. Quotations of 40 words or more should be in a freestanding block, starting on a new line and indented. Quotation marks are not used and the reference information appears outside of the end punctuation of the block quote. (Nuzzi, 1999, p. 24)

Reference List (examples)
1. Journal article, one author

Hine, G. (2003). Are American schools facing a shortage of qualified administrators? Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 7(2), 266-277.

Note: For author's first and middle names, only initials are given. Only the first word and other proper nouns are capitalized in the title of the article. The journal title is italicized and all important words are capitalized. The journal volume is italicized and the issue number is in parentheses, followed by the page range of the article. The second line of text is also indented for all references.

2. Journal article, two authors

Twale, D. J., & Ridenour, C. S. (2003). The sacred and the secular: Aligning a Marianist mission with professional standards of practice in an educational leadership doctoral program. Catholic Education: A Journal of Inquiry and Practice, 7(2), 181-196.

Note: the comma and & in the author list.

3. Newspaper article

Schwartz, J. (1993, September 30). Obesity affects economic, social status. The Washington Post, pp. A1, A4.

Note: The date of the newspaper is included, titles follow the same rules as a journal article, and discontinuous pages are noted as above.

4. Books

Beck, C. A. J., & Sales, B. D. (2001). Family mediation: Facts, myths, and future prospects. Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Note: Title follows earlier capitalization rules and is italicized. Place of publication is included (use postal abbreviations for states and include country if outside the US), followed by a colon and the publisher name.

5. Edited book

Gibbs, J. T., & Huang, L. N. (Eds.). (1991). Children of color: Psychological interventions with minority youth. San Francisco, CA: Jossey-Bass.

Note: The editors are listed as the author followed by the (Eds.).

6. Chapter in an edited book

Massaro, D. (1992). Broadening the domain of the fuzzy logical model of perception. In H. L. Pick, Jr., P. van der Broek, & D. C. Knill (Eds.), Cognition and methodological issues (pp. 51-84). Washington, DC: American Psychological Association.

Note: The title of the chapter is not italicized and the initials precede the editors’ last names. The page range of the chapter is also included.

Reference List Organization
1. All works are listed in alphabetical order by last name.

2. If there are two or more works by the same author, they are listed chronologically. If there are two works by the same author in the same year, they are listed in alphabetical order by title and a lower case letter is added to the date starting with “a” (Wernick, 2000a).

Wernick, J. (2000a).
Wernick, J. (2000b).

3. Only references cited parenthetically in the text should be included in the reference list.

American Psychological Association. (2001). Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association (5th ed.). Washington, DC: Author.