Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik

ISSN 0044-1449 (print)

ISSN 2366-2395 (online)

Founded: 1900

Publication frequency: 3 issues a year

Size: 17 x 24 cm

Annual number of pages: ca. 384

Languages: English, German

Review section: Yes

Validation: double blind peer review

• Linguistic Bibliography (Online)
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• Current Contents Arts & Humanities
• Dietrich’s Index Philosophicus
• H-Germanistik
• Internationale Bibliographie der geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlichen Zeitschriftenliteratur (IBZ)
• Internationale Bibliographie der Rezensionen geistes- und sozialwissenschaftlicher Literatur (IBR)
• MLA International Bibliography (Modern Language Association)
• Scopus
• SCImago
• Article first
• JournalGuide
• Journal Citation Reports (JCR)
• ERIH PLUS
• Ulrichs web
• Google Scholar

Please send manuscript submissions to the editors (zdl@staff.uni-marburg.de). Submissions must be original articles (no translations) which must not be previously published. During the review process, manuscripts may not be submitted elsewhere. A manuscript submitted to the journal must be ready for publication, the editors do not accept partial or draft versions. In initial submissions, the citation rules of the journal do not have to be strictly followed. Please pay attention to the anonymization of your text so that your identity as author cannot be ascertained directly or indirectly (e.g. by acknowledgments and self-references in footnotes).

All submissions are subjected to peer review. The review process can result in acceptance, the recommendation of revisions or rejection of the manuscript. The author is informed of the decision by email. The editors attempt to reach a decision within 3 months of the submission of the manuscript.

If a manuscript is accepted, the editors request a file with the final version. The final version includes names and acknowledgments. Also, please follow the guidelines of publisher and editors provided below.

There are no fees for submitting and publishing an article in the journal.

In our area for authors you will find all the general information you need about structuring your article, formatting your text, working with images and tables and so on. Here we have linked the most important pages for you:

• Technical requirements
• Contribution guidelines
• Text body
• Figures and images
• Tables
• Lists and bibliography
• Use of AI

Additional editorial information and citation guidelines

General notes

• Definitions and translations in the running text are placed in single quotation marks above (ʻ…ʼ, 6 and 9).
• Emphasis in the text (e.g. terms or language examples) are indicated by italics.

Contribution header

• General guidelines on the contribution header can be found under ‘Contribution guidelines’.
• The title in the original language is followed by the English translation of the title, unless the title is already in English.
• Articles in the Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik include an abstract and keywords in the original language, as well as an abstract and keywords in English.

Abbreviated references in the text

• Every quote needs a reference.
• References are placed directly in the text in brackets. The source is indicated in brackets after the quotation or statement to be substantiated. The short reference follows the author-year principle.
  This is a statement that needs to be verified (Louis 1996: 27)
  (vgl. Müller 1995: 7) or … like Grundmann (2007: 18–22) showed
  in the case of two: (Müller and Meier 1995: 28)
  in the case of more than two: (Müller et al. 2017: 36)
• If several publications by the same person were published in the same year, they are distinguished from each other by lowercase letters at the end of the year:
  Meier (1999a: 5–8).
  Meier (1999b: 17–23).
• If there are several references within a bracket, please separate the bibliographic details with commas:
  (Müller 2011, 2012, Meier 2015)
• Please avoid indicating page ranges with ‘f.’ or ‘ff.’ Instead, always specify the exact page range:
  (Keitel 2018: 202–203)
  (Vasold 2008: 276–288)
• Please avoid abbreviations like „ebd.“, „ibid.“ etc.
• Every short reference that is used in the text body needs its according detailed reference within the bibliography.

Bibliography

• The bibliography with detailed source and literature references is located at the end of an article; only the short title is mentioned in the references in the text body.
• The bibliography contains all cited titles and only these. The first level is sorted alphabetically by author, the second by year of publication:
  Fischer, Fritz. 2004. Random title. Stuttgart: Steiner.
  Fischer, Fritz. 2012. Example title. Stuttgart: Steiner.
  Schneider, Lisa. 1982. Random title. Stuttgart: Steiner.
  Schneider, Lisa. 1986. Example title. Stuttgart: Steiner.
• Between main- and subtitle there is always a full stop, never a colon.
• Only the first place of publication is mentioned; for all others, ‘et al.’ is written.
• All authors and editors should be listed in the bibliography (please do not use “et al.”).
• Please ensure that your references are correct and complete. Please also include subtitles and series titles.
• Websites and DOIs are indicated in angle brackets both in the body text and in the bibliography. For websites, the date of access must be stated:
  URL: [Accessed on: 17.09.2017].

Monographs

• Surname, first name. Year. Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher (if applicable series. Volume). 
  Ferré, Barbara Meister. 1994. Stability and Change in the Pennsylvania German Dialect of an Old Order Amish Community in Lancaster County. Stuttgart: Steiner (Zeitschrift für Dialektologie und Linguistik. Beihefte.
  82).

Journal contribution

• Surname, first name. Year. Title. Subtitle, in: Full journal title, volume, issue, page numers. DOI: [or] URL: [access date: DD.MM.YYYY].
  Polinsky, Maria and Gregory Scontras. 2020. Understanding heritage languages, in: Bilingualism: Language andCognition, Vol. 23, Issue 1, pp. 4–20. DOI:

Contribution in an edited volume

• Surname, first name. Year. Title. Subtitle, in: Surname, first name (ed.). Title. Subtitle. Place: Publisher (if applicable series. volume), page numbers. 
  Nübling, Damaris. 2020. Inflectional Morphology. Nouns, in: Putnam, Michael T. and B. Richard Page (eds.). The Cambridge Handbook of Germanic Linguistics. Cambridge et al.: Cambridge University Press, pp. 214–237.
  Wolff, H. Ekkehard. 2011. Semitic-Chadic Relations, in: Weninger, Stefan (ed.). The Semitic Languages. An international Handbook. Berlin et al.: De Gruyter Mouton (Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science. 36), pp. 27–38.

Online sources

• Surname, first name (if applicable ed./eds.). Year. Title. Subtitle. DOI: [or] URL: [access date: DD.MM.YYYY].
  Elspaß, Stephan und Robert Moeller (eds.). 2003. Atlas zur deutschen Alltagssprache. URL: [Accessed on: 22.08.2017].

Language Atlases

• scribal abbreviation = Surname, first name (ed.). Year. Title. Subtitle. Volume: Volume title. Place: Publisher (if applicable series. volume).
  SBS = Koenig, Werner (ed.). 1998. Sprachatlas von Bayerisch-Schwaben. Vol. 6: Formengeographie I. Verbum. Edited by Edith Funk. Heidelberg: Winter (Bayerischer Sprachatlas. Regionalteil 1).

Correspondence address

• The correspondence address of the contributor is placed after the bibliography, following this pattern:
  Prof. Dr. name last name, example university, example institute, examplestreet 8, 12345 example city, example country, ˂example@mail.de˃
• Further personal information is not to be mentioned.

Please see our information on copyright, self-archiving rules and guidelines for the use of PDF reprints here:

• Copyright and self-archiving

For our publication ethics statement have a look here:

• Publication ethics

ISSN 0341-0838 (print)

ISSN 2699-3090 (online)

Founded: 1969

Size: 17 x 24 cm

Languages: English, German

Validation: double blind peer review

First published in 1928 as supplements of Teuthonista. Zeitschrift fuer deutsche Dialektforschung und Sprachgeschichte. Continued 1936 as supplements of Zeitschrift fuer Mundartforschung. Since 1964 New Series. 1969 renamed in supplements of Zeitschrift fuer Dialektologie und Linguistik.

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• Manuscript preparation

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Please see our information on copyright, self-archiving rules and guidelines for the use of PDF reprints here:

• Copyright and self-archiving

For our publication ethics statement have a look here:

• Publication ethics