About the Journal

Aims and Scope

The European Journal of Language and Literature Studies (EJLS) is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal that publishes original research and scholarly reviews in language and literature. It provides an international forum for linguists, literary scholars, translators and language educators, and welcomes theoretical, empirical, historical and comparative work on any language and any literature, provided the manuscript is written in English.

EJLS publishes work that advances understanding of how languages are structured, acquired, used and taught, and of how literary texts are made, read, translated and situated in their cultures. It welcomes critical analyses, theoretical advances, empirical investigations and methodological innovations from a variety of perspectives.

Topics of interest include (but are not limited to)

Linguistics and Language Structure

Syntax, semantics, lexicology, etymology, text linguistics, comparative linguistics, philology, the fundamentals of languages, and quantitative, statistical and mathematical linguistics.

Language, Mind and Society

Psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, ethnolinguistics, anthropological linguistics, bilingualism, language development and developmental linguistics, and language and technology.

Language Acquisition and Language Education

Applied linguistics, first and second language acquisition, language education and educational linguistics, and language assessment.

Literary Studies

Literary theory and practice, world literature, comparative literature, women in literature, literature of American diversity, and biographic arts.

Translation and Writing

Translation studies, critical writing and professional writing.

Manuscripts must have a language or literary question at their centre. Studies whose main subject is general education, public health, social policy or another field, without a central linguistic or literary question, are outside the scope of EJLS and are declined at the initial assessment.

All manuscripts submitted to EJLS that pass the initial assessment are reviewed double-blind by at least two independent reviewers. We invite contributions from researchers, academics, translators and practitioners worldwide.

Article Types

  • Research Article: Empirical or theoretical studies that present original findings, with a stated research question, method or approach, results and discussion (for example corpus, experimental, field or textual studies).
  • Critical / Theoretical Essay: Sustained, original arguments in literary criticism, literary theory, philology or the philosophy of language, built on close reading of primary texts and engagement with the secondary scholarship.
  • Review Article: Critical surveys of the research on a defined topic, with a stated scope and method of selecting the literature, that synthesise what is known and identify open questions.
  • Other: Shorter or specialised contributions, published under their own label: Commentary, Response, Teaching Practice Report, Book Review, Reflective Essay, Interview and Translation.

Submission Guidelines

  • Format: Manuscripts should be submitted in Microsoft Word format.
  • Submission portal: Submissions are made via the online form. If you encounter difficulties with the form, you may email your manuscript as an attachment to [email protected].
  • Language and style: Submissions must be in English. Authors are responsible for ensuring the language quality of their manuscripts.
  • Originality: Only original, unpublished work not under review elsewhere will be considered.

See the Author Guidelines and the Submission page for details.

Article Processing and Publishing Fee (APC)

A fee of £950 is charged for processing and publishing each accepted article. No fee is charged for submission or review, and the fee has no influence on editorial decisions. Authors may pay the fee using one of the methods specified on the invoice issued upon acceptance.

Open Access Policy

EJLS is published under the CC BY 4.0 (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International) license. Authors keep the copyright of their work and grant the journal the right of first publication. Under this license:

  • The full text of published articles is freely available to everyone, immediately on publication.
  • Anyone may share and adapt the work for any purpose, including commercial use, provided appropriate credit is given to the author(s) and to the original publication in the journal.

For more information, visit: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Publication Schedule

EJLS is published three times per year, on 28 April, 28 August and 28 December:

  • 1st Issue (April): submission deadline 28 February
  • 2nd Issue (August): submission deadline 28 June
  • 3rd Issue (December): submission deadline 28 October

ISSN and Journal Title

  • ISSN (Print): 2411-9598
  • ISSN (Online): 2411-4103
  • Key title: European Journal of Language and Literature Studies
  • Abbreviated key title: Eur. j. lang. lit. stud.

European Journal of Language and Literature Studies (EJLS) · ISSN 2411-9598 (Print), ISSN 2411-4103 (Online) · Journal e-mail: [email protected]
Publisher: Revistia Research and Publishing (UK Company No. 13067873), Office 1, Forest House Business Centre, 8 Gainsborough Road, London, E11 1HT, United Kingdom · [email protected] · +44 330 027 1458
Last updated 6 October 2026