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Ampersand Template

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About the Ampersand format

Ampersand is a peer-reviewed journal published by Elsevier, covering EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning, Multilingual Education and Policy, Second Language Acquisition and Learning.

PublisherElsevier
Reference styleNumbered (Elsevier)
Numbered — [1], [2] in the text
[1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Ampersand 12 (2023) 45–58.

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Publishes research inEFL/ESL Teaching and Learning Multilingual Education and Policy Second Language Acquisition and Learning Second Language Learning and Teaching Linguistic Variation and Morphology
ISSN2215-0390
Citation impact (2-yr)2.69
h-index25
i10-index72
Total citations2,678
Article processing charge$1,000
Open accessYes
Top institutions publishing hereUniversity of Jordan
Journal websitewww.journals.elsevier.com
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Papers published in Ampersand per year

2
2014
15
2015
17
2016
9
2017
3
2018
11
2019
15
2020
9
2021
26
2022
54
2023
50
2024
38
2025

Citation impact of Ampersand by publication year

271
2014
413
2015
310
2016
232
2017
37
2018
253
2019
141
2020
144
2021
230
2022
313
2023
188
2024
86
2025

Citations each year’s papers have accumulated so far — the most recent years are still building up.

Most-cited papers in Ampersand

Wanderwörter in languages of the Americas and Australia

Hannah J. Haynie, Claire Bowern, Patience Epps et al. · 1 Jan 2014

Wanderwörter are a problematic set of words in historical linguistics. They usually make up a small proportion of the total vocabulary of individual languages, and only a minority of loanwords. They are, however, found frequently in languages from across the world. There is, to our knowledge, no general synthesis of Wanderwörter patterns, causes of exceptionally…

The English Dialects App: The creation of a crowdsourced dialect corpus

Adrian Leemann, Marie-José Kolly, David Britain · 24 Nov 2017

In this paper, we present the English Dialects App (EDA) and the English Dialects App Corpus (EDAC). EDA is a free iOS and Android app, launched in January 2016 that features a dialect quiz and dialect recordings. For the quiz, users indicate which variants of 26 words they use and the application guesses their local…

Negative Concord in Jamaican

Johan van der Auwera, Tamirand Nnena De Lisser · 1 Jan 2019

This study aims to account for some dimensions of the strictness and of what will be called the ‘range’ of Negative Concord in Jamaican (also ‘Jamaican Creole’ or ‘Patwa’) and in so doing to increase our typological understanding of Negative Concord. As to the strictness, parameters will be the position of the negative indefinite relative…

Move analysis of research articles across five engineering fields: What they share and what they do not

Sayako Maswana, Toshiyuki Kanamaru, Akira Tajino · 1 Jan 2015

While many genre researchers have examined the rhetorical structure of research articles in various disciplines, few have investigated the complete structure of articles for students in engineering, a discipline that includes a wide range of fields. Using Swales’ move framework (1990), this paper analyzes the rhetorical structure of 67 engineering research articles from five subdisciplines:…

Language and ecology: A content analysis of ecolinguistics as an emerging research field

Sibo Chen · 1 Jan 2016

• This study is the first quantitative meta-analysis of ecolinguistics from the perspective of journal publications. • A total of 76 journal publications on ecolinguistics between 1991 and 2015 were analyzed. • The results indicate a promising growth of ecolinguistics as an emerging subfield of language and communication studies. • The results also suggest current…

Ampersand template — frequently asked questions

How do I write a paper in the Ampersand format?
In DocuGuru you write your manuscript in a normal editor — no LaTeX setup required — and select the Ampersand template. When you export, DocuGuru compiles the paper into the official Elsevier format and hands you a submission-ready PDF along with the editable LaTeX source.
What reference style does Ampersand use?
Ampersand uses Numbered (Elsevier) references, shown as numbered [1], [2] markers in the text. DocuGuru formats every in-text citation and the reference list in this exact style automatically. A reference appears like this: [1] A. Smith, B. Jones, C. Lee, A representative article title, Ampersand 12 (2023) 45–58.
Do I need to know LaTeX to submit to Ampersand?
No. DocuGuru generates the elsarticle LaTeX class and compiles the PDF for you in the background, so you get a Elsevier-ready Ampersand document without writing any LaTeX. If you do want it, the LaTeX source is included in the export.
Can I import an existing draft into the Ampersand template?
Yes. Paste or upload your current manuscript — Word, LaTeX, Markdown, or plain text — and DocuGuru reflows it into the Ampersand format with correct headings, figures, tables, and numbered citations.
Who publishes Ampersand?
Ampersand is a multidisciplinary journal published by Elsevier. DocuGuru's Ampersand template matches Elsevier's official submission format.
Can I export a submission-ready Ampersand PDF?
Yes — DocuGuru produces a PDF built with the official Ampersand template (the elsarticle class) that is ready to submit to Elsevier, together with the matching LaTeX source files.
How much does the Ampersand template cost?
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