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What we publish

ILR&R publishes original papers on topics related to Indigenous and non-dominant community-centered, -led, -driven language work as it relates to their rights and lived realities. This includes, but is not limited to language revitalization, reclamation, education, policy planning, and linguistic rights. We privilege submissions authored or co-authored by Indigenous and/or non-dominant community members and/or in partnership with Indigenous and/or non-dominant communities or community members.

All authors are encouraged to include and weave into their submission their positionality to demonstrate relationality, respect, responsibility, and relevance to the language community(ies) featured. ILR&R encourages authors to be critical of their roles and positionality in relation to the community, language, work and research that they are a part of. We will not publish submissions that do not demonstrate respect and responsibility to language communities and work that reflects knowledge extractive practices that exploit communities, community members, and/or community resources. Our expectations regarding relational accountability as well as Ethics & Malpractice Statement can be found here.

ILR&R was established in 2024 as a section in Language Documentation & Conservation (LD&C) (ISSN 1934-5275), which is a free, double-blind peer-reviewed, diamond open-access journal sponsored by the National Foreign Language Resource Center and published exclusively in electronic form by the University of Hawai‘i Press. LD&C is indexed by the Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ), ERIC, Open Science Press, and Scopus. Additional information is available at Scimago or Resurchify. LD&C is also listed as a green OA journal by Sherpa Romeo and is a member of the Free Journal Network. There is no charge to authors to publish in LD&C and ILR&R.

ILR&R employs a “publish upon acceptance” system, taking advantage of our online status to publish articles as they become ready for publication after review and editing processes. ILR&R is exclusively dedicated to serving the needs of Indigenous and non-dominant language users and communities who engage in community-centered, -driven, and/or -led language work related to rights and realities.Articles are archived electronically by the ScholarSpace system of the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa Library.

More information on the history of ILR&R may be found here. Our Ethics & Malpractice Statement can be found here.

How to submit

Step 1

Conform your manuscript to our Microsoft Word template, which can be downloaded below. This document serves as both our template for manuscripts as well as our style guide. Please read the content of the template itself, as it explains in detail how to conform your submission to our standards. Ensure that your initial submission is entirely anonymous by removing author name(s) from all aspects of the document, including the document metadata. Do not include acknowledgements in initial submissions.
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Step 2

Once your fully anonymous manuscript matches our template and style guide provided in Step 1, submit it via Open Submissions, linked below. Once there, click on the ‘Make a Submission’ button to begin the submission process. If you do not already have an Open Submissions account, you will be prompted to create one. Initial manuscripts submitted for review should be in .DOC or .DOCX format with examples, figures, and images properly placed. We are not able to accept submissions in LaTeX.
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Step 3

ILR&R editors will review your submission for suitability for the journal. If it passes internal review, your manuscript will be sent for external review. Although we ask that reviewers adhere to a particular timeline, external review is typically the longest step in the publication process. Once reviews are received, ILR&R editors will evaluate them and notify you as to whether your submission has been accepted, needs revisions, or is declined, as well as next steps. The timeline from submission to notification will vary depending on the number of submissions we are processing at that time. In support of our commitment to relationality in academic publishing, ILR&R editors may ask to meet with authors as a part of the review process.
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Special Publications

In addition to academic articles, ILR&R regularly publishes edited volumes on a particular theme as a part of our Special Publications series. These are archived in ScholarSpace like academic articles and have their own page on our website. If you are interested in developing a Special Publication, please send a proposal to the Editor at ilrr@hawaii.edu for consideration. At minimum, your proposal should include the following:

 

  • Editor name(s)
  • Proposed title, theme and brief abstract for the volume
  • Initial table of contents, including contributor names
  • Potential contribution to the field
  • How this volume differs from any similar ILR&R Special Publications, if any exist
Proposals will be reviewed by ILR&R editors as well as members of the Advisory Board. Once a proposal is accepted, a Special Publication is produced entirely by its editor(s), with advice from ILR&R editors as needed.