Ethical norms and obligations of the authors

The ethics followed by the journal CONTRASTIVE LINGUISTICS are based on the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) https://publicationethics.org/. These ethical norms for publication aim to introduce and apply the best practices on the standards of ethical behavior during all stages of the publishing process of manuscripts submitted to the journal. They set out standards of expected ethical behavior for all parties involved in the act of publishing the journal Contrastive Linguistics: the author, the editorial board, the peer reviewers and the publisher. All the procedures involved in the publication of the journal are compliant with current data protection legislation.

 

Ethical norms and obligations of the authors

All manuscripts submitted for publication in the journal of Contrastive Linguistics must be original written works. This means not only that they are of the author(s) with no plagiarism, but that they have not been published in other paper or online based books, journals, anthologies, etc. sources.

Only manuscripts of co-authors are accepted, each of whom has a significant contribution to the development of the research presented in the text.

If the manuscript submitted for publication is co-authored, each author must ensure that there is agreement among the co-authors on the final revision of the manuscript and that all co-authors agree to the manuscript being published.

The author(s) warrants that their texts are original, the citations are adequate and all sources and/or quotations of other authors are properly indicated and referenced. Plagiarism, which is considered by the Editorial Board to be unethical and unacceptable behavior, is inadmissible. In cases of plagiarism, the Editorial Board may refuse publication, request editing of the text with the removal of plagiarism cases, or take other legally permitted measures.

The authors are responsible for the reliability and authenticity of all the data used in the text. The editorial board is not responsible for any of this.

Authors are obliged to inform the Editorial Board in the event of a conflict of interest, including financial or of a different kind, that may affect the manuscript evaluation and publication process.

Submitted manuscripts must contain accurate presentation of analyses and results, logical, consistent and sufficient argumentation of hypotheses and expressed opinions. They should provide sufficient references and details in their manuscripts so that they can be used for citation or development by other authors. Inaccurate or fraudulent statements are considered unethical behavior by the journal and are not acceptable.

Authors are obliged to respond to anonymous reviews and to react to all requests on the part of the Editorial Board for providing data, clarifications of the text or copyright agreements.

Authors should consider the reviewers' comments and recommendations and improve their text and then re-upload it on the Scholar One platform.

If authors find any errors or inaccuracies in their text submitted to the journal, they must immediately notify the Editorial Board and correct the errors or inaccuracies and may withdraw their manuscript at their discretion. If a third-party notices (an) error/s in the text, it can notify the Editorial Board, who will inform the author(s) and they will immediately correct the error(s) or inaccuracies.

Authors may be asked to provide the Editorial Board with additional primary data for their research and should be prepared to make this data public and available.

Authors must ensure access to the data of their research to other scientists after the publication of the work in the journal Contrastive Linguistics, with the mandatory observance of copyrights.

Authors should indicate how their research was funded if they received financial support for it.

The author(s) sign a declaration of consent for online publication of their text on the website of the journal Contrastive Linguistics.

The co-authors sign a declaration that they all agree to the publication of the final version of the text after the corrections and revisions made after the anonymous reviews.

The author(s) must familiarize themselves with the procedure for publication and reviewing, available on the journal's website, prior to their initial submission of a manuscript to be considered for publication.

By uploading the edited and corrected text of the manuscript after the anonymous reviews, the authors declare no conflict of interest. The author(s) sign(s) a declaration of no conflict of interest.

Author(s) must have an ORCID ID or Web of Science Researcher ID. If they do not have them, they should create such identification numbers and provide them as part of their business card at the end of their manuscript.