Declaration of Ethics

ETHICS AND GOOD PRACTICES

Lejana. Revista Crítica de Narrativa Breve undertakes to ensure ethics and quality of the published articles, having as a reference the Code of conduct and good practice for publishers of scientific journals, which defines the Comité de Ética de Publicaciones (COPE) and the CSE's White Paper on Promoting Integrity in Scientific Journal Publications.

Lejana. Revista Crítica de Narrativa Breve undertakes to publish adjustments, clarification, retractions and apologies when needed. In pursuance of this good practice, the arbitration system used to select articles and the assessment criteria applied by external evaluators (both anonymous and peer ones) are published. These will guarantee the confidentiality of the evaluation process at any time: the anonymity of evaluators and authors, the evaluated content, the reasoned report issued by evaluators and any other communication realized by the Editorial and Scientific committees. In the same way, confidentiality will be maintained towards potential clarifications, claims or complaints wished to be sent by an author to the journal’s committees or to the article’s evaluators.      

Our journal declares its commitment to respecting and ensuring the integrity of the already published papers; it will therefore be particularly severe with plagiarism, and texts identified as such will be removed from the magazine or will not be published. In such cases, the magazine will act as quickly as possible. By accepting the terms and the agreements expressed by our magazine, authors must ensure that their articles and the resultant material are original and do not infringe third part copyrights.

 

REVIEW PROCEDURE

Articles submitted to the journal must be original, unpublished in any other journal, digital platform or paper. In order to guarantee the scientific quality of the articles, manuscripts go through a double-blind peer review procedure, being each manuscript evaluated by two specialists of the study object. In the review procedure one of the most important criteria is the originality and relevance of the scientific results. Information and messages between authors and reviewers are conveyed by the editors. Reviews are never made public.

Lejana. Revista Crítica de Narrativa Breve does not necessarily share the opinion expressed in the published articles. The only responsible are the authors.

 

AUTHOR'S RIGHTS

The copyright of articles published in the journal remains with the author. The journal has the right of first publication. The published work is licensed under Creative Commons License “Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International" (CC BY-NC 4.0). This means that copying, redistribution, remixing, transformation and building upon the published work is allowed for any purpose except commercial purposes as long as proper credit is given to the author, a link to the license is provided, and any changes made to the original work are indicated.

 

AUTHORS’ RESPONSABILITIES

  • only submit articles based on their own research in accordance, refraining from any form of plagiarism; in case of plagiarism, manuscripts must be automatically rejected;
  • refer properly to other contributors involved in the research;
  • submit original articles, unpublished in any other journal, digital platform or on paper;
  • do not submit the same manuscript to any other medium while it is under review at the journal;
  • manuscripts must not rephrase or resume in detail results previously published by the same author, and if there is a partial overlap, must refer properly to earlier publications (avoid autoplagiarism);
  • handle the work of fellow scholars in a fair and professional manner avoiding any kind of personal comments or offensive language;
  • authors are responsible for the authenticity and accuracy of data used in their research;
  • communicate financial (or any other kind of) support behind their results (scholarships, research group memberships etc.);
  • cooperate with editors and accept that their manuscript undergoes a double-blind peer review and other editing procedures of the journal;
  • inform the editors about any conflict of interest that might affect the fair and anonymous reviewing process in any way;
  • report any mistake or shortcoming if discovered in their article during the preparations or after publication, enabling editors to publish corrections or retract the article.

 

EDITORS’ RESPONSABILITES

  • editors are responsible for adherence to ethical norms, guaranteeing the exclusion of personal, financial, and other non-professional interests from the procedures applied;
  • ensure that manuscripts are evaluated on a fair, professional and equal basis regardless of the race, religion, nationality, gender, seniority, or institutional affiliation of the author(s);
  • clearly define and publish the criteria of evaluation and the procedures applied by the journal;
  • are responsible for the quality of the review process, ensuring that submitted manuscripts are judged by qualified reviewers in a double-blind peer review process,
  • are solely responsible for the acceptance or rejection of a manuscript;
  • are responsible for ensuring that no conflict of interest affects any procedure of the journal, especially the reviewing process;
  • guarantee the anonymity of authors and reviewers at all times;
  • publish corrections or, if necessary, consider retracting an article (especially in cases where authorship is dubious, or plagiarism is revealed);
  • document, investigate and clarify any complaint or controversial situation and ensure that all parties’ views are fairly represented.

REVIEWERS’ RESPONSABILITIES

  • reviewers are responsible for accepting the request for review only if they possess the required skills and knowledge for properly and objectively judging the manuscript;
  • communicate to the editor if they are aware of any violation of norms or conflict of interest that would affect the objective and anonymous review process;
  • prepare their evaluation by agreed deadlines and in a clear and professional format adhering to the procedures of the journal, justifying each element of the evaluation;
  • prepare an evaluation that contains only professional opinions, and no personal comments, or humiliating or offensive language;
  • pay special attention to any lack of proper referencing in the manuscript;
  • handle the manuscript received for review in strict confidentiality.

NO PUBLISHING FEES

All the editing process is absolutely free of charges for authors. In coherence to a publication politics based on the principles of justice and equity, Lejana. Revista Crítica de Narrativa Breve does not charge article processing charges (APCs) nor article submission charges. Articles are accessed free of charges, immediately after their publication.