Publication Ethics

Language, Text and Literary Inquiry is committed to high standards of publication ethics and research integrity and follows principles inspired by the recommendations of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are expected to:

  • submit original work that has not been previously published;
  • avoid simultaneous submission of the same manuscript to multiple journals;
  • properly acknowledge and cite all sources;
  • clearly distinguish original argument from quoted or reproduced material;
  • accurately represent linguistic data, textual evidence, corpora, literary passages, translations, interviews, and other research materials;
  • avoid fabrication, falsification, or manipulation of data, quotations, references, or research evidence;
  • respect copyright and intellectual-property rights;
  • obtain necessary permissions for protected literary texts, images, manuscripts, datasets, or other third-party material;
  • disclose financial, institutional, professional, or personal conflicts of interest;
  • disclose relevant research funding where applicable;
  • ensure that authorship is limited to individuals who made genuine scholarly contributions;
  • obtain ethical approval and informed consent where required, particularly for interviews, classroom research, language experiments, or research involving human participants.

Responsibilities of Reviewers

Reviewers are expected to:

  • provide objective, impartial, and constructive assessments;
  • maintain strict confidentiality regarding submitted manuscripts;
  • refrain from using unpublished data, arguments, translations, interpretations, or textual discoveries for personal benefit;
  • disclose any potential conflict of interest;
  • report suspected plagiarism, fabricated references, manipulated data, duplicate publication, or other ethical concerns;
  • evaluate manuscripts according to academic standards rather than personal, ideological, linguistic, cultural, or institutional considerations.

Responsibilities of Editors

Editors are expected to:

  • ensure fairness and transparency throughout the editorial process;
  • make decisions based solely on scholarly merit and relevance;
  • protect the confidentiality of authors and reviewers;
  • avoid conflicts of interest;
  • investigate allegations of research or publication misconduct;
  • issue corrections, retractions, expressions of concern, or other appropriate notices where necessary.

Scientific misconduct, including plagiarism, fabricated or falsified linguistic data, invented references, manipulated textual evidence, duplicate publication, inappropriate self-plagiarism, authorship manipulation, citation manipulation, or interference with the peer-review process, may result in manuscript rejection, restrictions on future submissions, or retraction of published articles.