编辑政策
宗旨及范围
The journal provides an international source of peer-reviewed information on scholarly communication at large, with language- and education-related issues in closeup covering niches and issues such as academic and scholarly writing, writing for publishing, science editing, canonical patterns and non-standard irregularities of scholarly and academic texts, English as an Additional Language (EAL), English as lingua franca and multilingualism, literacy brokerage, journal writing conventions, structural and thesis-driven aspects of scholarly writing, research readability, self-awareness of writing confidence, publishing norms, fostering academic writing skills, writing-enriched university curricula, moves and steps theory and practice in scholarly writing, rhetoric schemas.
同⾏评审过程
Basic principles to which peer reviewers should adhere are described in COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers (see the link).
The complete review process is expected to take two to three months but can take longer depending on the number of papers currently in review. Authors can expect to hear from the Journal Editor or Editorial Team member within three weeks of submission of your manuscript.
Step 1
The automated submission section is available on the JLE site (please follow the link). To submit a completed manuscript you need to register, log in, go to your account, and upload the manuscript.
Once a manuscript is submitted for publication, the manuscript is checked by the Journal’s Editorial Team to ensure that it is suitable to go through the normal peer review process. Once this is done, the manuscript is sent to an appropriate Editor based on the subject of the manuscript and the availability of the Editors. All manuscripts shall be handled by an Editor who does not have any potential conflict of interest with any of the manuscript’s authors. When members of the Editorial Board or Team make a submission, it is directed to reviewers outside the journal for double blind reviewing in order to avoid any conflict of interest.
Step 2
If the Editor finds that the submitted manuscript is of sufficient quality and falls within the scope of the JLE, the manuscript should be assigned for review to two or three external Reviewers considered to have the expertise in the subject area of the manuscript for a careful dispassionate review.
If the manuscript does not meet the journal's requirements, the editor conducting the initial screening has the right to make a decision to reject the manuscript without sending it for peer review (desk reject). The author will receive an explanation of the reasons for the rejection, such as issues with the structuring of the manuscript, the functionality of its structural components, the quality of style and presentation, doubts about the validity of the results due to the lack of justification in the research design, and others.
The identity of the authors and their institutional affiliations will be concealed from the Reviewers. They will review the paper for: content; relevance; timeliness; and value to the readership.
Step 3
When all Reviewers have submitted their reports, the manuscript can be adjudged by the Editor into one of four categories:
- accepted for publication;
- accepted with minor modifications (The manuscript requires some revisions before it can be accepted);
- accepted with major modifications (The Journal is interested, but the manuscript is not acceptable in its current form and needs to be revised to be considered for publication);
- willing rejection (The manuscript is not suitable for publication unless the authors conduct further research or collect additional data);
- not accepted (Publication is declined and the reviewers’ comments are provided to the authors).
The results of the review will be communicated to the Editor for onward transmission to the authors. The editorial workflow gives the Editors the authority to reject any manuscript because of inappropriateness of its subject, lack of quality, or incorrectness of its results. The Editor cannot assign himself/herself as an external Reviewer of the manuscript. This is to ensure a high-quality, fair, and unbiased peer-review process of every manuscript submitted to the Journal, since any manuscript must be recommended by one or more (usually two or more) external Reviewers along with the Editor in charge of the manuscript in order for it to be accepted for publication in the Journal."
Step 4
If required, authors are to modify the manuscript in light of the Reviewers' comments and suggestions and resubmit the manuscript within two weeks.
Step 5
When the manuscript is finally accepted for publication, the Editor will schedule the publication and inform the authors of the particular number and volume of the Journal in which the article will be published.
The Editor-in-Chief reviews the final submission and may raise further questions. The Editor-in-Chief is the only person who can officially accept a paper. The Editor’s formal acceptance sends an article into manuscript editing (for copyediting) and production.
出版周期
The journal is published quarterly. Some issues of the journal may be thematic. Thematic issues are published within the stated periodicity and are not considered special or additional issues.
开放式获取政策
The Journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. There is no embargo on the Journal’s publications. Submission and acceptance dates, along with publication dates, are made available on the journal’s website and in PDF format for each article. Articles published in the Journal are made freely available to readers immediately upon publication. Our open access policy has been developed in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative (BOAI) definition, which permits any user to read, download, copy, distribute, print, search, or link to the full texts of the articles published in the journal, crawl them for indexing, pass them as data to software, or use them for any other lawful purpose, without financial, legal, or technical barriers other than those inseparable from having access to the Internet itself.
For more information please read the BOAI statement http://www.budapestopenaccessinitiative.org/read