FOR AUTHORS

 

PEER REVIEW PROCESS
GHOSTWRITING
COPYRIGHT
AUTHOR GUIDELINES
AUTHOR’S DECLARATION

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PEER REVIEW PROCESS

  • All the submitted texts are initially reviewed by the editorial board, and subsequently by two external reviewers in an anonymous manner (doubleblind peer review). The review shall take a written form and include an unambiguous concluding remark accepting the article for publishing or rejecting it.
  • The final decision on accepting the text for printing is taken on the basis of the collected reviews by a scientific editor. The Author is entitled to take a stance on the remarks included in the reviews within two weeks of receiving them. Exceeding the time limit or taking no stance is perceived as resignation from text publication.
  • The names of the external reviewers for particular texts are not disclosed. However, once a year the journal presents a public list of the collaborating reviewers.
  • If the reviewer identifies that a conflict of interest occurs between them and the author (direct personal relationship, professional subordination or relationships resulting from a direct scientific collaboration within two years before the year when the review was prepared), the reviewer notifies the editorial board about that fact.
  • The impartiality of the decisions taken by the editorial board and the reviewers also concerns the articles written by the members of the editorial board and the advisory board.
  • The editors and reviewers shall observe the confidentiality rule, which obliges the members of the editorial board, the advisory board and the reviewers to keep secret all the information concerning the assessment of the text the disclosure of which would harm the Author.

 GHOSTWRITING

We share the opinion of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education that “The readers should be sure that the authors present the results of their work in a transparent, diligent and honest manner, regardless if they are the direct authors of the work or they were aided by a specialized entity (a natural or a legal person). The ethical stance of the scientist and the highest editorial standards shall be evidenced by making the information on the entities involved in creating the publication (their informative, material, financial contribution, etc.) public. This indicates not only decency but also social responsibility”. Accordingly, we undertake measures aimed at preventing scientific misconduct described as ghostwriting and guest authorship. “Ghostwriting occurs when someone contributed considerably to creating the publication but their contribution as one of the authors was not disclosed nor their name was mentioned in the acknowledgements included in the publication. Guest authorship (honorary authorship) occurs when the contribution of the particular author is scant or there was no contribution from them, but despite this the person is mentioned as an author/coauthor of the publication”. For that reason:

  • we ask you to disclose the author / authors (including their affiliation) of the concepts, assumptions, methods, etc. employed while preparing the publication, including their contribution to the publication, if it is not the author / authors submitting the manuscript;
  • we also ask you to include the information concerning the publication financing sources, the contribution of research institutions, scientific associations and other entities, i.e. the “financial disclosure”;
  • we inform that we will disclose all the manifestations of scientific misconduct
    and all the instances of breaching the principles of the scientific ethics.

 COPYRIGHT

  • The journal is issued under the CC BY-NC-ND licence. Some copyrights are reserved for the author. It is allowed to use the publication under the terms of this licence – providing that the following licence notice is included and the author is indicated as the text copyright owner. The provisions of the licence could be found at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en
  • If the text includes citations from a work regulated by the author copyright or the translation of such work, the author of the text is obliged to obtain a consent to reprint them.
  • The author submitting the manuscript bears the main responsibility.

 AUTHOR GUIDELINES

In order to standardize the layout of the texts published in Applied Linguistics Papers and to facilitate the editing process we would like to ask all the Authors to follow the guidelines specified in the document [format]. Due to technical reasons, not taking the guidelines into account may delay or prevent submitting the publication to print. We would like to ask all the Authors to submit their texts with the author’s declaration and metadata. The articles submitted without an abstract, keywords, author’s declaration and metadata will not be taken into account.

 AUTHOR’S DECLARATION

The Authors state in the declaration on the originality of the article and the transfer of copyright that:

  1. the text has not been previously published (either in whole or in part) and it is an original scientific work;
  2. the text has not been submitted for publication to another publisher;
  3. they are the holders of the copyright on the basis of the Act of February 4, 1994 on Copyright and Related Rights, as regards the text, tables, illustrative material (photographs, schemes, graphs) included in the publication;
  4. they transfer to the University of Warsaw an exclusive right to publish and distribute the work mentioned in the form of electronic publication on the journal’s website for open access under a CC BY-NC-ND license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.en), as well as via journal reference databases, shall the work be accepted for publication;
  5. they give consent to place the synopsis, abstract and key words in English in scientific journal indexing databases;
  6. they give consent for their personal data to be processed by Applied Linguistics Papers exclusively for the purposes of publishing the text;
  7. they have read and they accept the publication regulations specified by the Editorial Board of Applied Linguistics Papers, which are available on the journal’s website;
  8. the publisher has the right to make necessary changes to the article in order to maintain the editorial standards;
  9. there are no occurrences of ghostwriting and guest authorship nor any similar phenomena concerning the article within the meaning specified by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education recommendations concerning the protection against the practices of ghostwriting and guest authorship.

The authors also specify in the declaration their percentage contribution to the article.