Romanica Silesiana adheres to the ethical principles based on the Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors, (Committee on Publication Ethics, 2011) Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors.pdf (publicationethics.org)

Responsibilities of Authors

• Manuscripts submitted to the Journal are original works containing concepts created by Authors and based on Authors' own original scientific research.

• The data presented by Authors are reliable and verifiable.

• Authors provide a full list of source materials and critical works on the basis of which the submitted text was created.

• Authors are not allowed to include false information or distort statements of other Authors.

• The data presented in the text is objective, unbiased, not marked by emotions or personal prejudices of the Authors.

• The data presented in the text is based on a solid methodological foundation. Fair description of research procedures must be provided.

• If requested, raw data must be presented for the assessment to the Editorial Team supported by an expert in the field in which the submitted manuscript belongs. If necessary, Authors will be ready to make these data public (unless such a disclosure violates the law, or the Author's individual intellectual property rights, or jeopardizes the security of confidential data).

• Plagiarism is not acceptable. All citations as well as references to concepts of other researchers [including students], and to published and unpublished works must be documented in a signal phrase or in a footnote and included in the bibliography.

• Authors, Editors of Romanica Silesiana and Members of the Academic Council cooperating with the Journal consider intellectual property violation the most serious crime in the sphere of academic research. In connection with the above, Authors must make their best efforts to ensure that the submitted texts meet the requirements of reliability and honesty.

• Content that has already been published should not be submitted to Romanica Silesiana.

• Previously published materials may be submitted only at the request of Editors, if they believe republishing is important for the content of a given Journal issue.

• Simultaneous submission of the manuscript to several Journals is not tolerated.

• Sending a manuscript to Romanica Silesiana, Authors retain the rights to their material.

• If a work is recommended for publication by Reviewers and approved by Editors, Authors will retain the rights to the published material, while granting the right to use the material to third parties in accordance with the terms of the Creative Creative Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0).

• Authors or co-Authors are only those individuals who significantly contributed to the concepts presented in the manuscript and/or who conducted the research. Authors or co-Authors of the text are all individuals who had substantial share in the creation of the text, regardless of their Academic status: university teachers, but also doctoral students, students, assistants, etc.

• The authorial list must not include those who did not contribute to the conception or research.

• Authors are obliged to disclose to the Editorial Team any conflicts of interests, especially financial ones, or other significant factors that could influence the research results or data interpretation.

• Authors are obliged to inform Editors about serious errors which Peer Reviewers and Editors of the volume failed to notice. In such case an errata will be added to the volume.

Responsibilities of Peer Reviewers

• Peer Reviewers will provide the Editorial Team with information which will enable Editors to make an informed decision about publication of a submitted material.

• The Peer Reviewer will send guidelines which Authors should follow to make corrections, so that their text meets the academic standards. If a manuscript is rejected, The Peer Reviewer is obliged to provide Authors with guidelines enabling them to write an article of academic quality in the future.

• The Peer Reviewer is obliged to provide an evaluation of a text within a required deadline or inform Editors about the reasons preventing timely submission of the review.

• When evaluating a submitted material, the Peer Reviewer must be impartial; arguments must not be ad-hominem.

• The Peer Reviewer's comments must be clear and unambiguous.

• The Peer Reviewer will disclose the conflict of interest to Editors, in case it happens. Peer Reviewer will not evaluate a submitted material if any conflict of interest should arise; he or she will inform Editors of this fact.

• The submitted materials should be treated as confidential by The Peer Reveiwer.

• Should he or she detect plagiarism, The Peer Reviewer is obliged to notify Editors of this fact. The Peer Reviewer will also report insufficient identification of sources.

Responsibilities of the Editors

• The prerequisite for the publication of the submitted materials is the opinion of the Peer Reviewer [a text may be published unchanged or, after Author's amendments, as suggested by the Peer Reviewer]. Nevertheless, it is the Editorial Team who take the final decision concerning selection of the materials.

• Selection of manuscripts by Editors is justified only by texts' academic value, their linguistic correctness, originality of research and relevance to the leading theme of a planned volume; the decision which materials should be published is not determined by gender, worldview, religion, citizenship, ethnicity of their Authors.

• Editors do not disclose the names of Peer Reviewers to third parties.

• Until a text is published Editors shall not disclose any data regarding its contents to anyone except members of the Editorial Team, Academic Council and individuals involved in the publishing process.

• Editors or anyone who has access to a manuscript prior to its publication is not allowed to use the unpublished original material for their own research purposes without the written consent of the Authors.

The above principles are based on the following code: Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2011, March 7). Code of Conduct and Best-Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors.pdf (publicationethics.org)