Ethics Statement

The Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna defends, demands and guarantees ethical behavior throughout all the stages of elaboration and publication of each issue, and it is especially attentive to detect and avoid plagiarism. Any unethical action is strictly forbidden. The journal rejects racist or sexist statements, or any content that violates the fundamental rights of individuals. Our code is based on the European Code of Conduct for Research Integrity of the ALLEA (2017).

Likewise, the journal recommends both the use of inclusive language and good practices conducive to non discrimination on the basis of gender in research source data

Authorship

Authors must ensure that they have written original works. When they use material that is not their own, the sources must be properly cited and have the corresponding reproduction permissions.

The practice of submitting the same paper or describing basically the same research in other journals should be avoided. Submission of the same manuscript to more than one journal is unethical behavior and will result in rejection of the paper.

The Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna assumes that the author who appears expressly as such at the head of the submitted manuscript is intellectually responsible for his/her contribution and agrees to be available to collaborate with the editorial team at all times throughout the evaluation and publication process. The same applies when there are multiple authors. In this case, the journal understands that each author’s participation is ample enough so they can assume public responsibility for the content of the paper, and that their contribution has been essential in terms of: the conception and design of the research; the collection of data or their analysis and interpretation; the writing of the article or the critical review of a substantial part of its intellectual content; and the approval of the final version to be published. All these requirements must be met simultaneously.

Prior to submitting the article all authors should agree on the order in which their names will be listed in the manuscript.

Mere participation in fund raising, data collection, or general supervision of the research group does not justify authorship. Contributors other than the authors should be cited in the acknowledgements section.

When an author detects a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, he/she should promptly notify the journal's editorial team or the Publications Service of the University of La Laguna, and cooperate with them to correct the document.

Reviewing

The reviewers of the Revista de Filología de la Universidad de La Laguna assist the editorial team in making the decision to publish a submitted manuscript.

Reviewers are obliged to treat the manuscripts as confidential documents, and should not use the information they include for personal advantage. Likewise, they should not evaluate manuscripts in which they have a conflict of interest, whether it is with any of the authors or with institutions related to the document.

Reviews should be carried out objectively. Personal criticism of authors is inappropriate. Reviewers should express their views clearly, with supporting arguments, and they should draw attention to any relevant publication on the subject that has not been cited by the author.

Any reviewer or reader can and should notify the editorial team of any substantial similarity or overlap between the manuscript and any other publications of which he or she is aware.

Manuscripts should always be evaluated on the basis of their intellectual content, regardless of the race, gender, sexual orientation, religious beliefs, ethnicity, nationality, or political philosophy of the authors.

Editorial Team

The Steering Committee and the Editorial Board are responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal are accepted and finally published. The Editorial Team may consult with other editors or reviewers on this decision.

The Steering Committee and the Editorial Board should not disclose information about any submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, other editorial advisors, or the section editor, when approppriate.

When an attempt at plagiarism is detected, the submitted manuscript will be rejected.

Unpublished materials contained in a submitted manuscript may not be used by any member of the editorial staff for his or her own research without the express written consent of the author.

The Steering Committee and the Editorial Board will ensure that all research papers submitted are subject to a review process by at least two external reviewers, national or international, experts in the subject matter of the contribution.

The reviewer will consider whether it is a contribution of interest and its methodology is adequate, if it is well structured, if it is supported by relevant bibliographical references, as well as whether it makes an adequate use of language, especially inclusive language. Duly justified observations and comments that may be of interest for the improvement of the paper should be included.

Rejected articles will not be reassessed.

The acceptance of a contribution is constrained by respect of the legal requirements in force regarding defamation, copyright and plagiarism.