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Linguistics and Literature Studies  

Linguistics and Literature Studies is an international peer-reviewed journal that publishes original and high-quality research papers in all areas of linguistics and literature. As an important academic exchange platform, scientists and researchers can know the most up-to-date academic trends and seek valuable primary sources for reference.

ISSN: 2331-642X (Print)

ISSN: 2331-6438 (Online)

Publication Frequency: Quarterly (except special issues)

Contact Us: lls.editor@hrpub.org or editor@hrpub.org

Website: /journals/jour_info.php?id=93

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

Linguistics and Literature Studies, follows the best practices on ethical matters, error correction or retraction if necessary. Any kind of unethical behavior is not acceptable. All the editors, authors, and reviewers are expected to adhere to ethical standards and guidelines.
1. Outline Areas of Responsibility
A: Duties / Responsibilities of Editor in Chief
1. Actively contribute to the development of the journal, and assist the Publisher in shaping the journal's strategic direction, developing the journal policies, workflows, and overall editorial standards.
2. Conduct final decisions in the case of disputes, ethical complaints or academic misconducts.
3. Provide oversight and direction to Editorial Board Members, and reviewers.
4. Act as ambassador for the journal and continuously promote the journal among peers and at conferences.
5. Invite and appoint competent Editorial Board members or reviewers, as needed.

B: Duties / Responsibilities of Deputy Editor-in-Chief
1. Assume the role of Editor-in-Chief in his absence.
2. Assist the Editor-in-Chief, Editorial Board Members, and reviewers in conducting editorial duties, whenever required.
3. Make final decisions on controversial issues with conflicting viewpoints from Editorial Board members, reviewers, or assistant editors.
4. Act as ambassadors for the journal and continuously promote the journal among peers and at conferences.
5. Provide academic suggestions for the development of the journal.
6. Recommend competent Editorial Board members or reviewers.
7. Suggest topics for Special Issues, as needed.

C: Duties / Responsibilities of Editorial Board Members
1. Assist Editor-in-Chief in shaping the journal's strategic direction, developing the journal policies, workflows, and overall editorial standards.
2. Assist Deputy Editor-in-Chiefs, and reviewers in conducting editorial duties.
3. Conduct proper and fair investigation into ethical complaints, and shall avoid participating in the investigation in case they have a potential conflict of interest with the authors involved; take the responsibility to identify, prevent academic misconduct and facilitate any recourse if needed.
4. Be responsible for making decisions on scope, content or scientific merit of the manuscripts submitted to the journal, whenever required.
5. Serve as reviewers, providing scientific expertise for the journal.
6. Provide academic suggestions for the development of the journal.
7. Promote the journal among peers and at conferences.

D: Duties / Responsibilities of Reviewers
1. Conduct their business of review objectively with no personal criticism of the author; express their views clearly with supporting arguments that will constructively guide the editorial decision by the Editor in Chief or his or her nominee. Points to note during the peer review process:
a. Pay careful attention to the potential conflicts of interest and remind the authors of them in a timely manner; inform the Journal Office timely in the case of suspecting/ finding any academic misconduct.
b. Do not review manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions connected to the papers.
c. Keep all information regarding papers confidential and treat them as privileged information; do not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other external referees sought from time to time and the publisher.
d. To maintain the confidentiality of the manuscripts, do not use AI technologies when generating or writing reviews.
e. Do not use materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript (published or unpublished) for their own research without the author's written authorization.
f. Refrain from direct author contact.
g. Complete their reviews within the journal stipulated timeframe.
2. Assist the Editor-in-Chief in conducting editorial duties, whenever required.
3. Provide academic suggestions for the development of the journal.
4. Invite suitable manuscripts to the journal for potential publication.

E: Duties / Responsibilities of Managing Editors and Assistant Editors
1. Oversee the editorial process to comply with the best practice guidelines on Publishing Ethics.
2. Manage an efficient peer-review process and coordinate editorial issues with the editorial team, to ensure prompt publication.
3. Conduct initial screening for submissions from the perspectives of length, scope, originality, completeness, structure and formatting, conflicts of interest, etc. Manuscripts that do not meet the criteria will be rejected at this stage, while those that pass the initial screening will be assigned to Editorial Board members or reviewers for peer review.
4. Check for plagiarism.
5. Communicate with Editor-in-Chief, Deputy Editor-in-Chiefs, Editorial Board members, reviewers, and authors to ensure the publication process runs smoothly and publications are always with scholarly merit.
6. Be responsible for production work, including proofreading, typesetting, formatting, and online publication, etc.
7. Develop and maintain cooperation with other conference organizers or partners.
8. Monitor journal website and conduct data analysis on journal performance regularly

F: Duties / Responsibilities of Authors
1. Ensure the submitted manuscripts are the original work of authors and not plagiarism. A zero tolerance approach will be taken to plagiarized manuscripts.
2. Ensure the submitted manuscripts are previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere.
3. Ensure the authorship of a manuscript is limited to authors who have made significant contributions.
4. Properly and accurately acknowledge the work of others.
5. Disclose any financial or other substantive conflict of interest that might influence the results or interpretation of their manuscripts and acknowledge individuals or organizations that have provided financial support for research.
6. May need to provide the raw data in connection with manuscripts for editorial review, and should prepare to provide public access to such data if possible.
7. Inform the Journal Office in a timely manner, when serious data errors are found in published papers. When necessary, cooperate with the Journal Office to issue a statement of Correction or Retraction.
8. Ensure that the research, involving human body, animal, or plant experiments, has been performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki and approved by an appropriate ethics committee.
2. Privacy Statement
At Advances in Pharmacology and Pharmacy, we are committed to protecting the privacy of our authors, reviewers, editorial board members and readers. The names and email addresses entered in our journals sites will be exclusively used for the stated purposes of the journals and will not be made available for any other purpose or to any other parties.
3. Confidentiality
Editors, authors, and reviewers are required to keep confidential all details of the editorial and peer review process on submitted manuscripts. If a reviewer needs to seek advice from colleagues during the review process, the reviewer must consult with the managing editor and must ensure that confidentiality is maintained and that the names of any such colleagues are provided to the journal with the final peer review report. Regardless of whether a submission is finally published, correspondence with the journal, reviewers' reports and other confidential material must not be published, disclosed or publicised without prior written consent.
4. License and Permission
Under the premise of legal publishing, the corresponding author is required to grant an exclusive license to 51视频 on behalf of all authors.
Once the submitted paper is accepted for publication, authors will be invited to fill in an electronic copyright transfer form. If the form hasn鈥檛 been received along with the final revised manuscript, the publication of your manuscript may be postponed.
Manuscripts submitted for publication must be original, previously unpublished, and not under consideration for publication elsewhere. If previously published materials written by others have to be used, the copyright-owner鈥檚 permission must be obtained prior to submission. The author takes the responsibility for checking whether material submitted is subject to copyright or ownership rights. To avoid delay in publication, it would be better for authors to start obtaining all the permissions as early as possible. If in any doubt about the copyright , apply for permission. 51视频 cannot publish material from other publications without permission. If any unpermitted material used in the article is found, the article will be rejected or removed from our website, even if it has already been published.
5. Artificial Intelligence (AI)
This journal does not accept any submissions generated with AI or AI-assisted technologies, nor can AI or AI-assisted technologies be credited or cited as an author. Images generated or modified by AI tools or large-scale generative models are not permitted. Authors who use AI-assisted technologies in their research studies are required to disclose and provide details on how AI was used for tasks as well as the name and version of the AI tool used. Editors may decline to move forward with manuscripts if AI is used inappropriately. Authors are fully responsible for the content of their paper, even the parts produced by AI tools. To maintain the confidentiality of the manuscripts, reviewers should not use AI technologies when generating or writing reviews.
6. Authorship and Contributorship
A: Authorship
Authorship of a manuscript should be limited to authors who have made significant contributions.
ICMJE recommends that authorship be based on the following four criteria.
1. Substantial contributions to the conception or design of the work; or the acquisition, analysis, or interpretation of data for the work;
2. Drafting the work or revising it critically for important intellectual content;
3. Final approval of the version to be published;
4. Agreement to be accountable for all aspects of the work in ensuring that questions related to the accuracy or integrity of any part of the work are appropriately investigated and resolved.

B: Changes in Authorship
Authors should decide upon the correct name and order of authors before submitting their manuscripts to the journal. Any addition, deletion or rearrangement of author names in the authorship list should be made only before the manuscript has been accepted and only approved by the journal editor. Following the COPE guidelines, the corresponding author should explain the reason for changing authorship to journal editor first. Then, request to change authorship will be carefully reviewed by the journal editor and Editorial Board members. The authorship can only be changed with the Publisher's consent

C: Contributorship
This journal adheres to COPE and ICMJE Recommendations regarding authorship and contributorship. To ensuring transparency, a contributorship statement may be requested, specifying each author's specific contributions. For the contributors who indirectly involved with the research (e.g., technical support; loans of experimental facilities; comments or suggestions during the creation of the manuscript), we encourage authors to list them in an Acknowledgments section in their publication with permission.
7. Conflict of Interest
All participants in the peer review and publication process鈥攁uthors, reviewers, editorial board members and editors of journals鈥攎ust consider their conflicts of interest when fulfilling their roles in the peer review and publication process and must disclose all potential conflicts of interest.
For the authors, when submitting their manuscripts to the journal, full disclosure of the conflict of interest is required.
For the reviewers/editorial board members, they should decline to review a manuscript if they have a potential conflict of interest.
For the editors, they must have no personal, professional, or financial relationship with any of the authors.
8. Plagiarism Policy
Plagiarism, an action of taking other people's language, thoughts, ideas, or expressions as one's own original work is considered academic dishonesty and a violation of journalistic ethics. Reusing portions of one's own published or copyrighted work in their new publications is self-plagiarism. A breach of copyright law or punishment by legal action may be involved in plagiarism.
All manuscripts submitted to our journals will be screened by a plagiarism detection software. Plagiarism tools, such as CrossCheck/iThenticate, Turnitin etc. can be used for plagiarism detection.
To avoid plagiarism, authors confirm that:
1. I/We understand plagiarism is against the professional ethics;
2. Quoted verbatim texts are marked clearly with quotation marks;
3. Quotation sources are referenced clearly both in the text and in the Reference section;
4. Citing the source of equations, figures or tables properly with the permission from the original author or copyright holder;
5. Avoid self-plagiarism; do not copy portions of one's own published or copyrighted work without proper citation;
6. No copyrighted materials are used in the manuscript without permission;
7. The manuscript is free from plagiarism and has not been published previously;
8. I/We will take full responsibility for the opinion expressed in the paper and settling in all disputes arising from using any copyrighted materials in the manuscript without proper permission.
The author will be required to clarify regarding the plagiarized manuscript within one week if it is found to be suspected of plagiarism during any stages even after publication. Without a reasonable and timely explanation, the manuscript will be automatically rejected or removed from the system and any manuscripts submitted by the same author will not be accepted.
9. Fabrication and Falsification of Data
Data fabrication refers to the making up of research data or results.
Data falsification refers to the manipulating or changing of research data, materials, processes and results, or omission of data or results so that the research is not accurately presented.
Following the COPE guidelines, in case of Data fabrication/Data falsification, the Publisher will refer the case to the author's institution (or employer or other regulatory body) and request an investigation. If Data fabrication/Data falsification is found, the editor will reject the manuscript, ban the author from submitting manuscripts to this journal, and inform the author's institution (or employer or other regulatory body).
10. Citation Manipulation
Authors should only cite relevant sources in their manuscripts and any unethical citation practices should be avoid.
11. Concurrent Submissions
Authors are limited to having two manuscripts under review at any point in time, so that sufficient diversity within the authorship of the journal can be ensured. If an author already has two manuscripts under review in the journal, they will need to wait until the review process of at least one of these manuscripts is complete before submitting another manuscript for consideration.
12. Duplicate submission
Duplicate submission refers to authors's practice of submitting the same or similar manuscripts to more than one journal for consideration, which is regarded as misconduct. These submissions can be nearly simultaneous or years later and there are no substantial differences between them.
13. Redundant publication
Redundant publication is generally considered unethical and usually occurs when multiple papers share the same text, data or results which refers to the situation that a paper is split into several parts and submitted to two or more journals; or are written without proper cross-referencing, permission or justification.
14. Allegations of Misconduct
Any allegations of research or publication misconduct will be investigated thoroughly, confidentially in accordance with the recommendations and core practices of COPE.
15. Human and Animal Rights
This journal requires authors to comply with the ethical standards when publishing research involving human and animal subjects. Authors should provide evidence that research has adhered to national standards for research practices:
1. For studies involving human subjects, informed consent must be obtained from each participant and a statement that informed consent has been obtained should be included in the submitted manuscript.
2. For studies involving human subjects, their materials or medical records, the manuscript must include a statement in the Methods section confirming that the study has received approval from an institutional review board/ ethics committee. This should also be stated if approval was deemed unnecessary by the institutional review board/ ethics committee.
3. Research must be in accordance with the principles of the Declaration of Helsinki, and a statement confirming this adherence should be included in the manuscript. Explanations from authors are needed for any doubts raised regarding the adherence of the declaration.
4. For clinical trials, a statement regarding the trial's registration, together with information on how the registration details can be accessed must included in the Methods section of the manuscript.
5. Studies involving animals must obtain approval from the relevant Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC) or governmental authorities, and a statement of approval should be included in the submitted manuscript. Experimental animals must be handled in accordance with the authors's institutional guidelines.