Language Value is a publication of the Department of English Studies at Universitat Jaume I in Castellón (Spain) that deals with the use of the English language in different contexts and situations following applied linguistics guidelines and a discourse analysis approach. Language Value is an academic publication that seeks to promote the dissemination of texts of high academic level and scientific rigor.

Language Value journal has been published with an annual monograph since its origin in 2009.

The guidelines of the magazine are inspired by the ethical bases of the Committee on Publications Ethics (COPE)

For further information visit: Committee on Publications Ethics.

The journal has reviewers of a high academic level both national and international. The objective is to ensure that every author who submits a proposal will be evaluated by criteria of academic quality.

Language Value and its team promotes an honest, transparent and truthful investigation, and rejects any practice of plagiarism, self-plagiarism, falsification and fraudulent use of data. It also assumes responsibility and commitment in each of the processes, from the reception of the text to its final publication with a blind peer review. Upon receiving every manuscript, the anti plagiarism Oxsico software will be run to guarantee text authenticity.

Authors and reviewers who want to participate in Language Value should read and know the specific ethical codes according to her/his role (author, reviewer, editor).

Ethics policy and good practices:

Authors' duties:

• Originality and plagiarism: The authors of the manuscripts sent to Language Value guarantee that the submitted work is original and that the manuscripts themselves neither contain extracts from other authors, nor contain other fragments from written works that were previously published (by the same authors). Furthermore, the authors confirm the veracity of the data, namely that the empirical data have not been altered to verify hypotheses.
• Multiple Publications and /or repetitive: Authors should not publish articles that repeat the same search results in more than a scientific journal. The simultaneous proposal of the same contribution to multiple scientific journals is to be considered ethically improper and reprehensible.
• List of sources: Authors should always provide the correct indication of the sources and contributions mentioned in the article.
• Authorship: The author should guarantee the inclusion of those individuals who have made a scientifically significant and intellectual contribution to the conceptualization and planning of the work, and have also made a contribution to the interpretation of the results and the writing of the article. In the same line, authors have to be hierarchically organized in accordance to their level of responsibility and their respective roles.
• Access and Retention: If the editors consider it, the authors should make available also the sources or the data on which research is based, so that they can be kept for a reasonable period of time after the publication and possibly make it accessible.
• Conflict of interest and disclosure: All authors are required to declare explicitly that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results obtained or the interpretations proposed. Authors must also indicate any research funding agencies and / or the project from which arise the article.
• Errors in published articles: When an author in her/his article identifies a significant error or inaccuracy, it shall promptly inform the magazine editors and provide them with all the information required to list the relevant corrections on the bottom of the article itself.
• Responsibility: All the authors accept responsibility for what they have written. The authors commit that they have revised the most up-to-date and relevant materials about the subject matter.

• Ethics Policy for Authors

Reviewers' duties:

• Contribution to the editorial decision: Peer review is a procedure that helps editors to make decisions on the proposed articles and also allows the author to improve the contribution submitted for publication. The reviewers are committed to performing a critical, honest, constructive, and unbiased review of both the scientific and the literary quality of the written work, i.e. based on their individual skills and knowledge.
• Respect of timing: The referee who does not feel adequate to the task proposed or who are not able to finish the evaluation of a contribution in due time is required to promptly notify the coordinators. The reviewers are committed to evaluating the works in the minimum possible time so as to respect the stated deadlines.
• Confidentiality: Each assigned reading manuscript should be considered as confidential. Therefore, these texts should not be discussed with other people without the explicit permission of the editors.
• Objectivity: The peer-review must be conducted in an objective manner. Any personal judgment about the authors’ contributions is considered inappropriate. The referees are required to give adequate reasons for their judgments. The reviewers will submit a complete and critical report. They are obliged, moreover, to advise the editors whether substantial sections of the work have been previously published, or if they are being revised by another publication.
• Text display: The referees should indicate the major bibliographical references possibly neglected by the author. The referee must also report to the editors any similarities or overlaps between the text received and other works known to her/him.
• Conflict of interest and disclosure: Confidential information or information obtained during the peer-review process must be considered confidential and may not be used for personal purposes. The referee will only accept the review of an article if there is no conflict of interest of any source.

• Ethics Policy for Reviewers

Editors' duties:

• Decisions on publication: The editors ensure the selection of the most qualified reviewers and scientifically specialists to issue an expert and critical appreciation of the manuscript, with the least possible level of bias.
• Honesty: The editors evaluate the articles submitted for publication only on the basis of the scientific merit of the content, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, nationality, political opinion of the authors.
• Confidentiality: The editors and members of the working group cannot distribute information relating to the articles submitted for publication to other people other than the author, the referees and the editor. Editors and the Editorial Board are committed to maintaining the confidentiality of the manuscripts, their authors and their reviewers, in such a way that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the whole process.
• Conflict of interest and disclosure: The editors cannot reproduce and use the research information included in the articles submitted for publication without the written consent of the author.
• Respect of timing: The editors are responsible for compliance with the time limits for reviews and publication of accepted papers, to ensure rapid dissemination of its results. They reliably undertake to comply with the published deadlines (up to 30 days in accepting/rejecting from the receipt of the manuscript in the review platform) and maximum of 150 days from the beginning of the process of scientific review by experts. Also, manuscripts will not remain accepted in endless waiting lists without being published in the following issue.

• Ethics Policy for Editors