Publication ethics

The Revista de Estudios Latinos (RELat) fulfils the Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing, stated by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), and directed to Journal Editors (Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors) and Journal Publishers (Code of Conduct for Journals Publishers).

These Principles concern every phase and actor in the editing and publishing processes.

Editorial Board:

The Editorial Board, the authors and the referees take on an ethical commitment in order to fulfil the Principles of Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. The Editorial Board ensures the objectiveness, confidentiality, transparency and respect for the rights and the integrity of all the researchers and processes involved in the Journal; it also guarantees the credit worthiness of the double-blind review process. The Editorial Board will also ensure the quality and the originality of the research articles accepted for publication; the scientific contents of the published articles will be respected and protected. The Editorial Board is committed to send an anonymized version of every submitted article to, at least, two external referees, who are experts in the field. The editorial board will send the author a report justifying the acceptance or rejection of the manuscript; it will include the scientific reasons relevant to the final decision. The editorial board will also mediate in case of conflict of interests.

Authors:

When submitting a research paper to RELat, the authors accept the Ethical Principles of the Journal, which are stated in the Document entitled “Declaration of authorship and Editorial Agreement”. This Document should be fulfilled, signed and sent together with the research article. The authors commit themselves to adapt the manuscript to the “Guidelines for the submission and assessment of manuscripts”. 

External referees:

The external referees who will evaluate anonymously the submitted papers commit themselves to present a technical, scientific, unbiased report according to an assessment report form provided by the Journal. The external referees must be aware of the terms and conditions of the Journal, as well as of “Guidelines for the submission and assessment of manuscripts”; they are committed to respect confidentiality during the whole review process. 

Any submission which does not fulfils this publication ethics statement will be refused.