Our ethical principles

In accordance with generally accepted international publishing standards, the editorial board of the scientific journal Linguostylistic Studies has set forth the following ethical principles:

1. Editor-in-chief Responsibility:

  • Decides on the publication of the article, based on the decision of the editorial board, reviewers, and those responsible for checking the materials for anti-plagiarism, underpinned by the Committee on Ethics of the Scientific Publications Committee (Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE) and the CODE OF ETHICS FOR UKRAINIAN SCIENTISTS.
  • Secures confidentiality by using the information on the content of the submitted materials only within the editorial board, reviewers, author and publisher.
  • Resolves (if any) conflicts of ethical nature.
  • Keeps safe the originals of the reviews for 5 years.
  • Decides not to publish an article that violates copyright or generally accepted ethical principles.

2. Editorial Board Members Responsibilities:

  • Store confidential information obtained while reviewing the article. Only the persons authorized by the Editor-in-Chief can participate in discussion.
  • The editorial board members are in charge for the decision to publish an article taking into account the scientific value of the materials provided.
  • Determine the compliance of the submitted materials with the publication profile and the requirements for article design, and may return the article for revision in case it does not meet the requirements for its content and design.
  • If self-plagiarism is detected (more than 10%) the editorial board reserves the right to refuse to publish the article.

3. Reviewer’s Responsibility:

  • Provides an objective assessment of the materials of the article, argues convincingly critical remarks, and fills out the appropriate review form.
  • Provides peer review of manuscripts submitted, decides on admission to publish.
  • Reviews articles according to the deadlines defined by the editorial board, but the editorial board may adjust the review terms to certain subjective circumstances in each case.
  • Does not use ideas or pieces of the submitted for review materials in his own publications without the written consent of an author or not providing relevant references after the publication of a peer-reviewed article.
  • In case of positive review provides it to the editorial board, which makes the final decision to allow the article to be published.
  • Has the right to reject the recommendation for printing, in this case the article is not re-reviewed.

4. The Author’s Responsibility:

  • Ensures that the materials submitted for publication are free of plagiarism (including self-plagiarism); have not been reviewed by another edition and have not been published before (including in other languages).
  • Responsible for the accuracy of facts, references, quotations and translations.
  • Respects the legislation to protect copyright.
  • Retaining the authorship of the article grants the publication editorial the right of first publication under license Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommerce 4.0.
  • If the article is being published in the framework of the project, Grant, etc., the author should specify this information.