3L: Language, Linguistics, Literature® Ethics Statement
The following guidelines are in accordance to (Committee on Publication Ethics) COPE’s guidelines.
Editor Responsibilities
- Editors are accountable and should take responsibility for everything they publish
Editor should:
- make fair and unbiased decisions independent from commercial consideration and ensure a fair and appropriate peer review process
- adopt editorial policies that encourage maximum transparency and complete, honest reporting
- guard the integrity of the published record by issuing corrections and retractions when needed and pursuing suspected or alleged research and publication misconduct
- pursue reviewer and editorial misconduct
- critically assess the ethical conduct of studies in humans and animals
- have appropriate policies in place for handling editorial conflicts of interest
- Peer reviewers and authors should be told what is expected of them
Author Responsibilities
- The research being reported should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and should comply with all relevant legislation.
Authors should:
- present their results clearly, honestly, and without fabrication, falsification or inappropriate data manipulation
- strive to describe their methods clearly and unambiguously so that their findings can be confirmed by others
- adhere to publication requirements that submitted work is original, is not plagiarised, and has not been published elsewhere
- take collective responsibility for submitted and published work
- The authorship of research publications should accurately reflect individuals’ contributions to the work and its reporting
- Funding sources and relevant conflicts of interest should be disclosed
References:
1. Kleinert S. & Wager E. (2011). Responsible research publication: international standards for editors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 51 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 317-28). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7)
2. Wager E. & Kleinert S. (2011). Responsible research publication: international standards for authors. A position statement developed at the 2nd World Conference on Research Integrity, Singapore, July 22-24, 2010. Chapter 50 in: Mayer T & Steneck N (eds) Promoting Research Integrity in a Global Environment. Imperial College Press / World Scientific Publishing, Singapore (pp 309-16). (ISBN 978-981-4340-97-7)