Statement of Publication Ethics

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement

The ethics statements of The Annals of the University of Bucharest, Foreign Languages and Literatures follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE).

Editorial team’s responsibilities  

The editorial team will see to it that the journal and its web site have high ethical and professional standards.

Neither the journal nor its editorial team or board discriminate on the basis of age, gender, race, nationality, religion, career status or sexual orientation. The members of the editorial team ensure that any submitted manuscript is fairly and exclusively evaluated with respect to its scientific quality and academic integrity. Any information in relation to a submitted manuscript must be kept confidential to anyone but the reviewers and the (corresponding) author.

The editor-in-chief is responsible for the final decision with respect to the publication of a submitted manuscript.

Authors and authors’ responsibilities

Before submission, authors are required to check if their study meets the profile of the journal, has not been previously published or is being under evaluation with another journal. In case a paper has several authors, the corresponding author must ensure that the authors’ list is correct and all authors must have agreed to authorship. The list must not include authors who did not contribute significantly to the study. Should such a situation arise, it will be treated as misconduct. Addition or removal of authors during the publication process are allowed only on the basis of justifiable explanation.

During the review process and, after acceptance, the publication process, the corresponding author must pass on all information received from the editorial staff to the other authors.

The use of previous work, personal or of others, must be cited and appropriately quoted.  If the study involved human subjects, the author(s) must have obtained an informed consent from participants or, in the case of children, from their parents/legal guardians. This should be stated within the article. The names of participants should be kept anonymous. When special approval was required, in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki, the number of the approval and the name of the committee that granted the approval should also be mentioned within the article.

The author(s) should acknowledge any funding source or administrative support, data collection, etc.

Parallel manuscript submission to more than one journal is unacceptable.

Manuscript submission 

The Annals of the University of Bucharest, Foreign Languages and Literatures accepts papers review articles and book reviews in the domain of philology, provided they contain work which has not been previously published. Unpublished work that has been loaded on the authors’ webpage or on academic sites, such as researchgate or academia.edu, is accepted. Members of the editorial board and of the editorial team may submit papers to the journal. If they do, they will not be involved in the evaluation and reviewing process.

 

The editor-in-chief evaluates if a submitted manuscript meets the profile of the journal and whether it has been previously published. In case the manuscript is evaluated as unsuitable for the journal, the author is informed within two weeks. If it has not been previously published and is considered suitable for the profile of the journal, it is checked for plagiarism with Turnitin.

Publication ethics 

Research integrity is of utmost importance. The journal takes all measures against publication malpractice and reserves the right to reject any manuscript where misconduct (plagiarism, self-plagiarism, data fabrication, experimental error, citation manipulation, copyright infringement) has been identified. Articles submitted to The Annals of the University of Bucharest, Foreign Languages and Literatures are screened for plagiarism with Turnitin. The editors, authors and reviewers follow the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) (http://publicationethics.org/) in dealing with any allegation of research misconduct relating to a submitted manuscript. When misconduct has been proven, a member of the editorial team will inform the institution of the author.

The authors of rejected manuscripts are offered the opportunity to respond, following COPE. They are required to first address a member of the editorial team. If the situation is not satisfactorily dealt with, the authors can address the publisher.

 Authors and reviewers must declare any competing interests.