PRINCIPLES OF PUBLICATION ETHICS

The ethical principles applicable to the editors, authors and reviewers of the journal "Wortfolge / Szyk Słów" have been developed based on the recommendations of COPE (Committee on Publication Ethics) included in the Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. All texts submitted for publication are verified for compliance with the principles of ethics, reliability, value and scientific usefulness.

Author's Responsibilities and Obligations

1. Authors shall submit only their own original texts for publication. In the event that they use statements, research results or data developed by other authors, they must annotate the borrowed fragments with a footnote and / or place them in the form of a quotation. Plagiarism or falsification of data is unacceptable.
2. An author who submits a text for publication is required to indicate the contribution of Individuals to the creation of the text. Authorship should be limited only to those who actually significantly contributed to the creation of the text (concept development, research implementation and interpretation of results). All those who have made a significant contribution to the preparation of the text should be mentioned by the author submitting the text for publication as co-authors. Cases of ghostwriting (omitting a person who contributes significantly to the creation of a text as its co-author) and guest authorship (providing a person whose participation in the creation of the text is negligible or did not occur at all as his co-author) constitute a manifestation of scientific misconduct and are considered unethical and unacceptable.
3. The author is obliged to provide a reliable and credible description of scientific research and objective interpretation of the results. The author must also always provide relevant literature on the subject that he used to write the text.
4. The author is obliged to disclose all sources of financing and support related to the preparation of the text.
5. The author should not publish texts describing the same research in more than one journal, monograph or collective work. Submitting the same text for publication in several places is unethical and not allowed.
6. The author is required to include in the text the correct indication at each stage of the editorial activity, including amendments suggested in external reviews.
7. The author is obliged to correct the text in accordance with the guidelines of the Editorial Board's within the deadline specified by the Editorial Board.
8. If the author finds significant errors or inaccuracies in his own text, he is obliged to immediately notify the Editor in order to withdraw it or publish the appropriate errata.

Editor’s Responsibilities and Obligations

2. The Editorial Board is responsible for decisions which of the submitted texts should be published or rejected, as well as for all content published in the magazine. The sole criteria for the selection of the text shall include: the submission’s relevance to the field of study, the submission's originality, the submission’s relevance to the scope of the journal, the clarity of the argument, observance of all legal requirements regarding libel, copyright infringement, and plagiarism.                                  
3. The submitted texts are evaluated in an impartial and objective manner. The editors shall not consider the authors' race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy as pertinent to the selection of the text for publication.
4. The Editorial Board respects the confidentiality principle, i.e. it does not disclose to third parties any information about the submitted texts. The exceptions are: corresponding Author/s, peer reviewers, members of the editorial team, the publisher, copyeditors, proofreaders, typesetters involved in the production of the journal as appropriate.
5. The Editorial Board may not use the content of unpublished texts or their fragments in their own research without the express written consent of the Author.
6. The Editorial Board prevents conflicts of interest and strives to ensure fair and substantive review.
7. To ensure the author's anonymity at the stage of developing external reviews, the Editorial Board removes from the text any data that may reveal his identity.
8. To ensure the anonymity of peer reviewers, the Editorial Board removes their data from the review form.
9. The Editorial Board, observing the principles of scientific honesty and integrity, strives to eliminate plagiarism, guest authorship and ghostwriting.
10. In the event of deficiencies in the field of due diligence and honesty, the editors are required to disclose them and inform relevant entities (institutions employing authors, scientific societies, etc.) to take appropriate action in accordance with the applicable law.

Reviewer's responsibilities

1. The peer reviewer shall provide the Editorial Board with information that will allow them to make an informed decision concerning the acceptance or rejection of the considered material; the reviewer's suggestions are also intended to help the author improve the scientific quality of his text.
2. Each scientific article submitted for publication is reviewed by two independant external reviewers. The double-blind procedure ensures that the author and the reviewers do not know their identities.
3. The reviewer is required to perform a review within the set time. In the absence of time or appropriate qualifications, the reviewer is obliged to immediately notify the Editorial Office that he is not able to meet the deadline or prepare the review. In this case, the Editorial Board appoints another reviewer.
4. The peer reviewer shall treat received documents as confidential. They may not be discussed and consulted with third parties.
5. The reviewer is obliged to objectively assess the submissions in accordance with ethical standards, by using relevant scientific arguments. The personal criticism of the author of the submitted text is inappropriate.
6. The reviewer may not use the reviewed works for his own scientific activities. The peer reviewer shall disclose to the Editor any conflict of interest.
7. The reviewer is obliged to identify insufficient identification of sources or potential (auto)plagiarism, ghostwriting and guest authorship and indicate the fragment / fragments of the text which raise doubts.