For pre-submissions enquiries and questions about Book Reviews, please contact the NLP Book Editor:

Dr Diana Maynard
University of Sheffield, UK
[email protected]

Please note that all Book Reviews must be submitted via the NLP ScholarOne website:
https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nlp

A guide for contributors of Book Reviews

1. Format: please submit your review in plain ASCII or Word format. Word documents should be suitably encoded for transmission over email.

2. Length: Book Reviews should be between 800 and 2,000 words in length. Reviews which substantially exceed the word limit may be cut by the Reviews Editor or will alternatively be sent back to the author to be shortened. If the author is unwilling to do this, the Reviews Editor may ask for the book to be returned so that another reviewer can be found.

3. Content: As well as a review of the quality and content of the book, it is helpful if you give some indication of for whom the book may prove useful: for example, undergraduates on first courses in computational linguistics, research students working on information extraction, engineers building speech synthesis systems etc.

4. Book details: Please begin your review with the book details as fully as possible, following this example:
John Nerbonne, Klaus Netter and Carl Pollard, editors. German in Head-Driven Phrase Structure Grammar. Stanford, California: CSLI. 1994. ISBN 1 881 52630 5 Price £16.95/US$21.95 (paperback), £40.00/US$49.95 (hardback). xiii+593 pages.

5. Language: please follow either British English or US English conventions for spelling and expression consistently. In words ending in -ize/-ise use -ize, but note that 'analyze' is acceptable only with US spelling.

6. Footnotes should be avoided. If there are any, they should not be typed at the bottom of the page, but should form a separate section clearly separated from the main text. Any footnotes should be consecutively numbered starting from 1.

7. Numbered examples: include all the example numbers and any letters in parentheses, e.g.:

        (4) (a) John likes Mary.

        (NOT: 4 a./(4)a./etc. John likes Mary.)

Tree diagrams and other simple diagrams should be numbered like other examples. Charts and tables should be labeled underneath as Figure 1 or Table 1. and, preferably, given a caption. Each such item should be set out on a separate sheet (even if it is included in the main body of the text).

8. References, if any, should be typed as a separate section preceding any footnotes. Note that the initial(s) always follow(s) the Surname. If there is more than one work by the same author, the name should be repeated (i.e. do not use a rule). In the case of joint authors or editors use the & sign, not the word and.

Please follow the examples below:

• Books
  Surname, A.B. (1991). Title with Capital Letters for All Main Words. Place: Publisher.
  Surname, A.B. (ed.) (1991). Title as above. Place: Publisher.
  Surname, A.B., Surname, C.D. & Surname, E.F. (eds.) (1985-1991). Title as above for multivolume series (4 vols.). Place: Publisher.
• Articles in books
  Surname, A.B. (1991). Article title with capital letters only for first word and Proper Nouns. In Surname, C.D., Surname, E.F. & Surname, G.H. (eds.) Book title as above. pp345-6 Place: Publisher.
• Articles in journals
  Surname, A.B. (1991). Article title with capital letters only for first word and Proper Nouns. Journal Name with Content Words in Capital Letters 24: pp128-6.

Within the text the reference should be as Surname (1991) (or if in parentheses Surname, 1991, for example). Embedded parentheses should be avoided.

9. Author details: Authors should identify themselves by their name, full institutional postal address and email address at the end of the review. For example:

Professor Ruslan Mitkov
Research Institute for Information and Language Processing
University of Wolverhampton
Stafford St.
Wolverhampton
WV1 1SB
UK
email: [email protected]

10. Diagrams: where used diagrams may be submitted in TIFF format.

11. Journal style and editing: Normally the Reviews Editor will make minor modifications to, for example, ensure a Review conforms to the journal's style criteria without reference to the reviewer. Where there is any reasonable possibility the sense of the review has been altered, reviewers will of course be consulted. Please indicate on submission if this policy is unacceptable.

12. Submission of your review: all Book Reviews must be submitted via the NLP ScholarOne website: https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/nlp.

Please note that you may be asked to reformat your manuscript, or part of it, if it departs in major ways from the style specified above.

Should you have any queries concerning the form of the manuscript, please contact Diana Maynard as above.