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FOR AUTHORS

Please read this section before submitting any materials to Orbis Linguarum (Ezikov Svyat). It outlines our editorial criteria and explains how manuscripts are reviewed and processed by the editors from submission to acceptance for publication.

It is the authors’ responsibility to submit original, thoroughly proofread, and spell-checked manuscripts. Please ensure that the language used is appropriate for an academic publication.

To preserve the originality of our authors' work, all submitted materials will be reviewed for spelling, grammar, punctuation, and the proper use of references. Authors are also responsible for the accurate and consistent use of terminology throughout their manuscripts.

All submissions MUST meet the following requirements. Please note that manuscripts which do not comply with the journal’s guidelines will NOT be considered for publication:

Manuscript Format: MS Word

Maximum length: articles – 15 standard pages; reviews – 3 standard pages

Margins (top, bottom, right and left): 2.54 centimetres

Alignment: Justified

Paragraph indentation: 1.25 centimetres

Font type and size: Times New Roman, 11 pt

Line spacing: Single

Manuscript structure and content

  1. Title of the paper: Font size: 12 pt; All Caps; Bold.
  2. Author’s (authors’) name(s) and surname(s): Font size: 11 pt; All Caps (for surname/s) Ital.
  3. Institutional affiliation, ORCID ID and e-mail address: Font size: 11 pt; Italics.
  4. Title of the paper in English: Alignment: Left; All Caps; Font size: 10 pt; Bold.
  5. Author’s (authors’) name(s) and surname(s) in English: Alignment: Left; All Caps; Font size: 10 pt. 
  6. Abstract in English (no abstract is required for reviews): Alignment: Justified; Font size: 9 pt; Length: 200 - 250 words.
  7. Keywords in English: 5 - 10 keywords (not more than 10); Font size: 10 pt.

The academic text must contain the following basic parts: introduction, body and conclusion. Technical requirements: Font type and size: Times New Roman 11 pt; Line spacing: Single; Alignment:  Justified.

  1. Footnotes: Font type and size: Times New Roman 10 pt; Line spacing: Single; Alignment: Justified.
  2. In-text citations:
  • Direct citations must contain the author’s (authors’) surname, the year of publication and page number in the language of the quoted source.

(Stachurska, 2023, p. 62)

(Димитров/Dimitrov, 2024, с. 92)

  • Indirect citations must be referenced as follows:

Example:  According to Ivanova (2003, p. 106)...

Citation of multiple publications by the same author in the same year: after the year of publication, with small letters (Cyrillic or Latin), no interval.

Example: Petrova (2009b, p. 4) states...

3. References: Font type and size: Times New Roman 10 pt; Alignment: Justified.

The journal follows the APA format. Bibliographic entries must be listed in alphabetical order based on the authors' surnames (first listing authors in Cyrillic, followed by those in Latin script). In cases where multiple publications by the same author are cited, they should be arranged in chronological order, from the earliest to the most recent.

Bibliographic entries in Cyrillic or in a script other than Latin must also be translated into English, using the official translation of the cited publication if one is available. The translated bibliographic entry should be placed in brackets after the original-language version.

A model for the arrangement and formatting of different types of bibliographic entries (book, book chapter, article from a collection or journal, internet source) can be found below. This model will be applied to issues published from 2026 onward.

REFERENCES:

Илиева, Б. (2024). Между престижа и покварата: наблюдения върху ранната рецепция на Данте и Бокачо в България (1878 – 1918) Езиков свят / Orbis Linguarum, 22(1), 94 – 103. https://doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v22i1.9. (Ilieva, B. Between prestige and depravity: observations on the early reception of Dante and Boccacchio in Bulgaria (1878 – 1918).  Ezikov Svyat / Orbis Linguarum, 22(1), 94 –103. https://doi.org/10.37708/ezs.swu.bg.v22i1.9).

Илчев, Ст. (2012). Речник на личните и фамилните имена у българите,  София: Изток-Запад. (Ilchev, St. Dictionary of personal and family names among Bulgarians, Sofia: Iztok-Zapad).

Нишева, Б. (2015). Антонимията при новите съществителни имена (В българско-чешки съпоставителен план). –В: Л. Перчеклийски (Ред.). Славистиката и българистиката днес: въпроси, идеи, посоки, с. 80 – 86, Благоевград: УИ Неофит Рилски. (Nisheva, B. Antonymy in new nouns (In a Bulgarian-Czech comparative perspective). In L. Perchekliyski (Ed.). Slavistics and Bulgarian studies today: Questions, ideas, directions, (pp. 80–86), Blagoevgrad: Neofit Rilski Publ. House). 

Янковска, Н. (2023). Основни тенденции в африканската политика на Съветския блок в Брежневата епоха (1964 – 1982). Дзяло. Електронно списание за хуманитаристика, 27, https://s.shopeee.com/yDVh. (Yankovska, N. Major Trends in the African Policy of the Soviet Bloc during the Brezhnev Era (1964–1982), Dzyalo, (27). https://s.shopeee.com/yDVh).

Dunn, J. (2024a). Computational construction grammar: A usage-based approach. Cambridge University Press.

Dunn, J. (2024b). Validating and exploring large geographic corpora. In Proceedings of the Joint International Conference on Computational Linguistics, Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC/COLING 2024) (pp. 17348–17358).

Kempchinsky, P., & Slabakova, R. (Eds.). (2005). Aspectual inquiries (Studies in Natural Language and Linguistic Theory, Vol. 62). Springer.

Mobley, M. S. (2009). African American women essayists. In A. Mitchell & D. K. Taylor (Eds.), The Cambridge Companion to African American Women’s Literature (pp. 224–244). Cambridge University Press.

Stachowski, M. (2024). Slavic languages in contact, 11: Serbian between Turkish and Italian (ARAKÇINCI, ÇİZMECİ). Linguistique Balkanique, 63(1), 30–33.

Taylor, C., & Kidgell, J. (2021). Flu-like pandemics and metaphor pre-COVID: A corpus investigation. Discourse, Context & Media, 41. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcm.2021.100503

Images: Photos should be in black and white, resolution: 300 DPI, and the source of the photos must be mentioned. Copyright is the responsibility of the author.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools do not meet the authorship criteria since they bear no accountability for the content of the submitted text. The use of any AI tool in the research process should be appropriately described in the manuscript. The authors can read more about the guidelines for the ethical use of AI here.

Orbis Linguarum uses Turnitin`s product iThenticate to screen and check plagiarism. Read more at https://www.turnitin.com/products/ithenticate. Each manuscript undergoes screening with this product before being sent for peer review.

All submitted materials are reviewed independently by two anonymous reviewers.

Тhe acceptance of the manuscripts submitted for publication depends on the reviewers’ recommendations.

The final decision concerning the publication of the submitted manuscripts is taken by the editorial board and the еditor-in-chief.

The publication of submitted materials does not entail that the editors support or advocate the views and opinions expressed by the authors. The editors reserve the right to edit manuscripts when necessary.

SUBMISSION

All manuscripts must be submitted electronically to the editors at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Authors are only allowed to submit one article to the journal at a time. Once an article has been published, the author may submit another article. 

REVIEW AND PUBLICATION PROCESS

The processing timeline of the publication is generally as follows: 1-2 weeks to receive a reply from the Editorial Office; 2-4 weeks for an internal review by the Editors to see if it meets the basic requirements specified in this section; 2-3 months for the external double-blind reviews.

The process of full double-blind peer-reviewing involves the following steps:

  • The paper is sent to two reviewers.
  • The reviewers decide whether to recommend the paper for publication, or to accept it after resubmission with the necessary changes (minor or major), or to reject it.
  • If the opinions of the two reviewers differ significantly, a third reviewer might be invited.
  • For papers which require major revisions, the same reviewers are consulted about the quality of the revised paper.
  • Any minor revisions are evaluated by the editors.
  • When the text meets the necessary criteria of the journal, a letter of confirmation is sent to the author(s).
  • The author receives a page proof.
  • The final version is ready to be published in the next issue(s).

COPYRIGHT

Copyrights for articles published in Orbis Linguarum (Ezikov Svyat) are retained by the authors, with first publication rights granted to the journal. The publisher is not responsible for subsequent uses of the texts.

The manuscripts published in Ezikov Svyat / Orbis Linguarum  by South-West University Publishing House are licensed under  CC BY 4.0