Responsibilities of the Authors

1. The authors or collaborators must guarantee the reliability of the data provided in their submission.
2. The authors must guarantee the originality of the submitted manuscripts. Acta Philologicadoes not accept previously published works or works submitted and/or considered for publication elsewhere. The statement of originality  must be submitted in electronic form.
3. In the case of multiple authorship, the authors are obliged to disclose the information on the contribution of all persons involved, indicating their names, surnames, affiliations and email addresses. The primary responsibility lies with the author who submits the manuscript or the first named author. For articles written by multiple Authors, the contribution statement must be submitted in electronic form.
4. To avoid practices such as ghostwriting and guest writing, Acta Philologicareserves the right to request a clarification, when it is deemed necessary, about the individual contribution of each one of the co-authors, the participation of each of the co-authors in the preparation of the article or in its critical review, and the participation of each of the co-authors in the preparation of the final version of the text, once it has been accepted by the Editorial Board.
5. Acta Philologicarejects any kind of plagiarism, be it partial or total. The authors must ensure the correct indication of the sources as stated in the For Authors section.
6. The authors are obliged to submit their paper written with attention to linguistic correctness and to avoid fundamental errors, both in terms of content and references.
7. It is the sole responsibility of the authors to submit their papers in the format required by the journal (For Authors). The journal reserves the right to reject submissions exclusively for not conforming with the indicated stylesheet.
8. The authors are encouraged to include figures, tables, or other materials. The authors should properly reference the reproduced material by citing the original publication. The authors are required to obtain the permission to publish such material and indicate it with the statement “reproduced by permission of [entity or author’s name]”. The author is in charge of additional fees for obtaining such permissions.

Responsibilities of the Editorial Board

1. The Editorial Board have the obligation to ensure the quality of the published manuscripts, to apply objective criteria to all publications and to exclude any type of discrimination based on race, gender, sexual orientation, age, ethnicity or religious beliefs.
2. The Editorial Board is not allowed to disclose any information about the submitted manuscripts to any person other than the author and the reviewers. The reviewers will not learn the identity of the author.
3. The Editorial Board must ensure the anonymity of the reviewers.
4. The Editorial Board is prohibited from using unpublished material for personal, group or institutional benefit without due consent and express acceptance of the Authors.
5. The Editorial Board is obliged to report the results of the peer reviews in a timely manner.
6. The Editorial Board is responsible for the final decisions as to which of the submitted articles are to be published. Should the need arise, the Editorial Board may consult the decision with the reviewers, and/or the members of the Editorial Advisory Board.

Responsibilities of the Reviewers

1. The reviewers are obliged to treat the entrusted manuscripts as confidential. During the review process, they are not allowed to comment on or discuss the content of the received manuscripts with third parties.
2. The reviewers provide the Editorial Board with support in the decision-making process and can also support the authors in improving the work. However, the Editorial Board is not obliged to implement all the suggestions.
3. The reviewers are obliged to submit their reviews in a timely manner.
4. Reviews should be objective and offer an accurate, justifiable and unbiased report, supported with appropriate arguments and free from any personal criticism.
5. The reviewers are obliged to report conflicts of interest. Reviews will be disqualified upon suspicion of a conflict of interest.
6. The reviewers are prohibited from using for personal gain the content of the manuscripts during the review, selection and publication process.

Creative Commons License

Acta Philologica publishes manuscripts under the Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 4.0 license. The authors are free to share (copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format) and adapt (remix, transform and build upon the material) as long as they follow the license terms indicated below:

Attribution — The authors must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes have been made. This may be done in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses them or their use.

Non Commercial — The authors may not use the material for commercial purposes.

Share Alike — If the authors remix, transform, or build upon the material, they must distribute their contributions under the same license as the original.

The copyright note is as follows: © Copyright by Wydział Neofilologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego

Open Access Policy

Acta Philologica provides immediate open access to all its content in accordance with the principle that freely available research increases and accelerates the global development of science and the exchange of knowledge. The editors encourage the authors to post articles published in the journal (after receiving the final version from the publisher) in open repositories; these posts need to include a link to the text on the journal’s website and the DOI number of the article.

The journal does not charge the authors for accepting and publishing their texts.

Publication Ethics

1. Any identification of malpractice should be reported to the Editorial Board. Misconduct and unethical behavior include but are not limited to: plagiarism, research falsification, ghostwriting and guest authorship.
2. The person reporting unethical conduct must offer sufficient information and evidence to initiate an investigation.
3. The Editorial Board is responsible for choosing the appropriate manner of investigating any allegations of unethical behavior and may consult the Editorial Advisory Board or the reviewer/s.
4. The evidence of misconduct should be gathered in a manner that avoids the proliferation of accusations.
5. When identifying traces of misconduct, the Editorial Board is obliged to take action varying  from writing a letter of explanation to the author and rejecting the publication of the article (minor misconduct), to informing the author’s employer about the case and imposing a formal embargo on contributions from said individual for a specified period (serious misconduct). The authors are allowed to respond to any charge of misconduct.