Author Guidelines for Submission of Manuscripts

  • MS word version of the manuscripts (British spellings) should be submitted to the Editors of LLT via email at the address given below: jourllt@gmail.com. If need be, you may also send them by post to: Vidya Bhawan Society, Fatehpura, Udaipur
    313004, Rajasthan, India.
  • Language and Language Teaching (LTT) welcomes papers/articles that have not been published elsewhere and have not been submitted elsewhere for publication at the time of being sent to LLT. Copies of letters granting permission to reproduce
    illustrations, tables, or lengthy quoted passages should be included along with the manuscript.
  • Articles should be between 3500- 4000 words in length. Book Reviews should not exceed 1000-1500 words.
  • The first page should contain the article title, author(s), affiliation(s), a short form of the article. For correspondence, contributor should provide his/ her name, phone number, complete mailing address and email address.
  • The style for writing numerical expressions should be consistent throughout the manuscript.
  • Notes should appear at the end of the text and before the references. Foot notes are not permitted. Each end note used in the article should contain more than a mere reference.
  • Single quotes should be used throughout the article. Double quotes should be used only within single quotes.
  • Please refer the link for APA style sheet (7th edition).
    Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association, Seventh Edition (2020)
  • Page numbers for all direct quotations should be provided. Direct quotations of 45 words or more should be indented.
  • Tables and figures should be completely understandable, independent of the text and must be cited in the text. Tables and figures should be attached at the end of the manuscript following the list of references.
  • Book reviews must contain details like name of the author/editor and book reviewed, place of publication and publisher, year of publication, scanned copy of the cover page, number of pages and price.
  • All manuscripts are subject to the usual process of anonymous review because LLT is a refereed journal. Information that could help identify the contributor should be avoided in the body of the article.

Declaration Form


    1. Statement of Originality

    It is certified that:

    1. The research, data, analyses, and conclusions presented in the accompanying manuscript are the original work of the author(s).

    2. No part of this manuscript is plagiarised from other published or unpublished sources. All sources have been appropriately cited and referenced.

    3. The work has neither been published previously nor is it currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. The work will not be submitted elsewhere while under review with LLT.

    2. Declaration of AI Use

    Please check one of the boxes below:

    3. Attestation for AI Assistance (Applicable only if the second option above is selected)

    1. No AI Generated Content: AI was not used to create, synthesise or manipulate research data, generate ideas, interpret results or formulate conclusions.

    2. Author Accountability: The submitted manuscript has been thoroughly reviewed and approved by the authors, who accept full responsibility for the accuracy, validity and integrity of the content, including any errors or biases arising from the use of AI tools.

    3. Disclosure Log:

      1. Tools Used (e.g. ChatGPT, Grammarly, Google Gemini etc.)

      2. Scope of Application (e.g. Used to improve the abstract, discussion section, grammar etc.)

      3. Prompts Used (e.g. Transcript of prompts used in ChatGPT, Grammarly, Google Gemini etc.)

    Name & Signatures