Publication Ethics Statement

Living in Languages is committed to responsible editorial practice and to the publication of original scholarship, translation, criticism, and creative work. The following principles govern the responsibilities of editors, reviewers, and authors throughout the submission, review, and publication process.

Editorial Responsibilities

Editors evaluate submissions on their intellectual and creative merit and their relevance to the journal’s scope, without discrimination based on an author’s identity or institutional affiliation.
Editorial decisions consider originality, rigor, clarity, and the relationship between a work’s aims, methods, and form.
Editors and editorial staff treat submitted manuscripts and accompanying materials as confidential and share them only as necessary for editorial evaluation, peer review, and publication.
Editors must not use unpublished material from a submission in their own work without the author’s written consent.
Editors must disclose conflicts of interest and withdraw from editorial decisions when a relationship or competing interest could compromise impartiality.

Peer Review Responsibilities

The journal’s current review model and the history of its editorial review process are described in the Peer Review and Editorial Review policy .

Under the journal’s current double-blind peer-review process, authors’ identities are withheld from reviewers, and reviewers’ identities are withheld from authors. The editorial team manages the anonymization of manuscripts and reviewer reports.
Reviewers are expected to provide fair, constructive, and timely assessments attentive to a submission’s aims, form, methodology, and disciplinary context.
Reviewers must maintain the confidentiality of submissions and must not use unpublished material without the author’s written consent.
Reviewers must disclose potential conflicts of interest and decline or withdraw from a review when those conflicts could compromise impartiality.
Reviewers should alert the editors to suspected plagiarism, substantial unattributed overlap, fabrication, falsification, or other ethical concerns discovered during review.

Author Responsibilities

Authors are responsible for the originality, accuracy, and integrity of their work. Sources, quotations, translations, and other contributions must be acknowledged accurately. Plagiarism, fabrication, and falsification are not permitted.
Authorship and translation credits must accurately reflect responsibility for the work. Other substantive contributions should be appropriately acknowledged.
All listed co-authors must approve the submission and the final version accepted for publication.
Authors must disclose financial support and any professional, personal, or financial relationships that could reasonably be understood to affect the work or its presentation.
Authors are responsible for identifying material requiring permission and for securing any necessary permissions before publication.
Authors who discover a significant error or omission in a published work should promptly notify the editorial team so that an appropriate correction or other notice can be considered.

Conflicts of Interest

Editors, reviewers, and authors must disclose professional, personal, financial, or other relationships that could reasonably affect the evaluation, editorial handling, or presentation of a submission.
Editors with a conflict of interest must withdraw from decisions concerning the affected submission.
Reviewers who believe they cannot provide an impartial assessment should decline or withdraw from the review.

Use of Materials and Permissions

The submitting author must own the copyright to the submitted work or be authorized by the copyright holder to submit it.
Authors are responsible for identifying third-party material, acknowledging its source, and obtaining permission where required. This includes copyrighted text, images, audiovisual material, and material reproduced or translated within a submission.
The journal may request documentation of permissions before publication.

Corrections and Retractions

The editorial team will assess reported errors, questions of attribution, and other ethical concerns affecting published work.
When appropriate, the journal may issue a correction, clarification, editorial notice, or retraction in order to maintain the accuracy and integrity of the scholarly record.
Such notices will clearly identify the affected publication and describe the nature of the change.
When a published record requires amendment, the journal will coordinate updates across its publication platforms and the University at Albany Scholars Archive, subject to applicable repository procedures.

Open Access, Copyright, and Licensing

Living in Languages is an open-access journal and does not charge readers for access or authors for submission or publication. Copyright, licensing, author-retention, and reuse terms are governed by the journal’s Copyright and Licensing policy .

Questions and Ethical Concerns

Questions about publication ethics, or concerns regarding a submitted or published work, may be directed to the editorial team through the editorial contact form .

Reports will be reviewed by the editorial team and handled as confidentially as circumstances permit. Where a concern involves an editor directly, that editor should not participate in the evaluation or resolution of the matter.

Submission eligibility, manuscript requirements, copyright and licensing, open-access terms, peer-review procedures, and digital preservation are addressed separately in the journal’s Policies and Guidelines .