Submission Guidelines

Please ensure that the following criteria are met before submission. Non-compliance to them would result in rejection of the submission.

Manuscript Requirements:

The word count should be within 3,500-10,000 words for research papers and 750-2500 words for book reviews. (The word count does not include abstract, bio-note, works cited, and keywords.)
Please make sure that all in-text quotes are within double inverted commas (” “) to ensure that the Plagiarism software does not mark quotations as plagiarism. All quotes longer than 4 lines should be made into a separate paragraph and left indented by 0.5 inch.
The submission file should contain the following: Paper Title, Abstract, Keywords, Main Text, Works Cited list. (There should be no mention of the author(s) name in either the main body or header/footer.)
Submissions are required to be free of language errors so that they may be fairly evaluated by editors and reviewers. If you require help with proofreading your work, or formatting it as per MLA guidelines, you can avail our Editorial Services.
All native language words should be followed by a footnote elucidating upon their translation/definition and usage, as the journal has a global readership.
Bio-note: Please do not include your previous publications in the bio-note. You can view sample bio-notes here.
MLA 8th edition style guide to be followed in the papers. References (footnotes and citations) should also be in MLA style. Please refer to the MLA Checklist for elaboration.
For the format of Book Reviews, please refer to the Book Review Guidelines.

*Please note: Procuring editing services in no way guarantees selection for publication or influence our selection process.

Author Responsibility:

The author(s) agree to submit only unpublished works for consideration.
We do not accept simultaneous submissions. Any negligence on the part of the author to abide by this may result in a desk rejection.
LLIDS has a zero plagiarism policy. If a submission is found to be plagiarized before or even after publication, the publication of the work will be cancelled/retracted.
Please submit a single paper/book review submission for an Issue. Authors may make submissions for different issues at the same time.
In case a submission has multiple authors, please submit the contact email IDs as well as bio-notes of all the authors.
All submissions are only to be submitted via the form link(s) given in the particular Call for Papers for which you want your work to be considered. We do not accept submissions via email.

The editorial process consists of multiple rounds of editing and reviews which take a considerable amount of time. So, though we are happy to receive submissions till the deadline, we appreciate authors sending us early submissions.

Please address all submission related queries to editors[at]ellids[dot]com.