Publication ethics and publication malpractice statement

Editors’ responsibilities

Publication decisions

The editor is responsible for deciding which of the papers submitted to the journal will be published. The editor will evaluate manuscripts without regard to the authors’ race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy. The decision will be based on the paper’s validity, importance, originality and clarity, as well as its relevance to the journal’s scope. Legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism are also central.

Confidentiality

The editor and the editorial staff must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author’s explicit written consent.

Complaints

The Rivista will carefully consider any allegations of misconduct and in such cases follows the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines. To submit a complaint, please contact the publisher at snek@lingbuzz.org.

Reviewers’ responsibilities

The peer-reviewing process assists the editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions and may also serve the author in improving the paper. Referees should thus express their views clearly with supporting arguments, and be conducted objectively. Personal criticism of the author is inappropriate.

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the research reported in a manuscript or knows that its prompt review will be impossible should notify the editor and withdraw from the review process.

Confidentiality

Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be disclosed to or discussed with others except as authorized by the editor. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage.

Reviewers should not consider 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 associated with the papers.

Acknowledgement of sources

Reviewers should identify cases in which relevant published work referred to in the paper has not been cited in the reference section. They should point out whether observations or arguments derived from other publications are accompanied by the respective source. Reviewers will notify the editor of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

Authors’ duties

Authors must submit only original work. The work and/or words of others must be appropriately cited or quoted, publications that have been influential in determining the nature of the reported work should also be cited.

Submitting the same (or a highly similar) paper to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behavior and is unacceptable. Similarly, fraudulent or knowingly inaccurate statements constitute unethical behavior and are unacceptable. Similarly

Data access and retention

The data underlying the analysis should be presented accurately and clearly enough to permit others to replicate the work. Authors can be asked to provide the raw data of their study for editorial review and should be prepared to make the data publicly available if possible. Ideally, authors should ensure accessibility of such data to other competent professionals for at least ten years after publication (preferably via an institutional or subject-based data repository or other data center), provided that the confidentiality of the participants can be protected and legal rights concerning proprietary data do not preclude their release.

In case of publication the authors permit the use of their work under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/), which allows anyone to copy, redistribute and transmit the work as well as to adapt the work and to make commercial use of it as long as the adaptation or copy uses the same license as the original, and appropriate credit is given to the prior author(s).

Authorship of the paper

Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the reported study. All those who have made significant contributions should be listed as co-authors.

The corresponding author ensures that all contributing co-authors and no uninvolved persons are included in the author list. The corresponding author will also verify that all co-authors have approved the final version of the paper and have agreed to its submission for publication.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest

All authors must include a statement disclosing any financial or other substantive conflicts of interest that may be construed to influence the results or interpretation of their manuscript. All sources of financial support for the project should be disclosed.

Fundamental errors in published works

When an author discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in their own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher and to cooperate with the editor to retract or correct the paper.