Publishing ethics
These policies apply to every journal and book published under the Translitera Press imprint. They follow the principles of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and every editor working with us agrees to them.
Editorial responsibilities
Editors decide what to publish on scholarly grounds alone. They keep submissions confidential, avoid handling work by close colleagues or co-authors, and do not use unpublished material for their own research.
Authorship and contributorship
Authorship requires a substantial contribution to the conception, execution or interpretation of the work, plus approval of the submitted version. Everyone who qualifies must be listed, and changes to the author list after submission require written agreement from all authors.
Originality and plagiarism
Submissions must be original. All manuscripts are screened for textual similarity. Reusing your own published text without citation is treated as seriously as reusing text written by someone else.
Conflicts of interest
Authors, editors and reviewers declare financial, institutional and personal interests that could be seen to influence the work. Declared interests do not prevent publication; undeclared ones do.
Use of generative AI
AI tools cannot be authors. Authors who use them for drafting, translation, coding or analysis must say where and how, and remain fully responsible for accuracy, originality and citation.
Data, sources and reproducibility
Where a study rests on corpora, transcriptions, survey data or fieldwork, authors state how the data were collected and where they can be consulted, subject to consent and copyright.
Human participants and consent
Research involving human participants requires appropriate ethical approval and informed consent, including consent to publish identifiable speech samples or recordings.
Handling allegations of misconduct
We investigate credible allegations regardless of when the work was published. Authors are given the chance to respond before any action, and institutions are contacted where an investigation requires it.
Corrections, retractions and expressions of concern
Honest errors are corrected. Work that is unreliable, plagiarised or unethically obtained is retracted with a public notice that explains why. Retracted articles stay online, clearly marked.
Appeals and complaints
Appeals against editorial decisions go first to the handling editor, then to the editor-in-chief. Complaints about the press itself, or about how an editor acted, go to the director at the address on the contact page.
Reporting a concern
If you believe something we have published breaches these policies, write to us with the details. Reports are treated confidentially and are not shared with the authors before we have assessed them.