About the Journal

 

PUBLICATION ETHICS

 

Cross-Media Languages. Applied Research, Digital Tools and Methodologies is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal that follows the guidelines developed by the Commitee of Publication Ethics (COPE) to ensure an ethic approach to the publication of scientific papers. All parties involved – GENERAL EDITOR, EDITORIAL BOARD, REFEREES, AUTHORS – must therefore know and agree on the following ethic principles.

 

EDITORIAL BOARD PRACTICE GUIDELINES

Publication decisions
The members of the Editorial Board are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. They may confer with the referees and/or the editors of the monographic issues in making such decision.

The General Editor is responsible for deciding which of the approved articles should be published.

Fair play       
The General Editor and the Editorial Board will evaluate manuscripts without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the authors.

Confidentiality 
The General Editors, the Editorial Board, and any member of the staff will not disclose any information about any of the submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, or other editorial advisers.

Disclosure and conflicts of interest 
Unpublished materials included in a submitted manuscript will not be used by any member of the staff in their own research without the express written consent of the author.

 

Reviewers Practice Guidelines

Reviewers’ Contribution to Editorial Decisions 
Double-blind peer reviewers assist the Editorial Board in making editorial decisions and may also assist the authors in improving their manuscript through editorial communications.

Promptness

Any selected referee who feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript or is unable to complete the review in the specified period of time should notify the Editorial Board and decline the review process.

Confidentiality

Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to or discussed with others except as authorized by the Editorial Board.

 

Standards of Objectivity

Reviews should be conducted objectively. There shall be no personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments.

 

Acknowledgment of Sources

Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Reviewers should also call the Editorial Board’s attention to any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper of which they have personal knowledge.

 

Conflict of Interest

Reviewers should disclose any potential competing interests before agreeing to review a submission and should therefore not consider manuscripts which may cause conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions related to the articles.

 

Authors Practice Guidelines

Data Access and Retention

If deemed appropriate by the Editorial Board, authors should provide the raw data in connection with a paper and should be prepared to provide public access to such, if practicable, and should be prepared to retain such data for a reasonable time after publication.

Originality and Plagiarism   
Authors ensure that their work is entirely original, and that third parties’ work and/or words have been appropriately acknowledged, cited, or quoted.

Redundant and Concurrent Publication

An author should not publish manuscripts describing essentially the same research in more than one journal or publication. Similarly, concurrently submitting the same manuscript to more than one journal constitutes unethical publishing behaviour and is therefore unacceptable.

 

Acknowledgement of Sources and Permissions for the Reproduction of Copyrighted Material

Proper acknowledgment of the work of others must always be given. Authors should also obtain all relevant permissions for the reproduction of images, tables, and other material already published elsewhere, in compliance with copyright law provisions.

Authorship of the Article     
All people who have considerably contributed to the conception, design, execution, or interpretation of the submitted material should be listed as co-authors. The corresponding author should ensure that all co-authors are mentioned as such, and that they have seen and approved the final version of the article and have agreed to its submission for publication. 

Errors in published works    
If authors discover significant errors and/or inaccuracies in their published work, they should immediately notify the Editorial Board and cooperate with them to correct the paper.

 

Reading Committee

The names of the scholars who have collaborated as anonymous referees in the evaluation of the papers received will be published, with their explicit consent, in an alphabetical list that will be compiled starting from the third year of the journal’s existence.