Peer Review Process
The Journal will first screen to ensure manuscripts fall within the journal's scope and that they follow the Author’s Guidelines before sent for peer review. Contributors are expected to submit their work in the structure and style of urbane, academic-quality English. The contributors' style of expression must serve to articulate the complex ideas and concepts being brandished, conveying explicit, coherent, unambiguous meaning to scholarly readers. Moreover, manuscripts must have a formal tenor and quality, employing the third-person rather than first-person standpoint (when feasible) while placing emphasis on the research problem being analyzed and not on unsubstantiated subjective impressions regarding the issue.
Contributors whose command of English is not at the level outlined above are responsible for having their manuscript corrected by a native-level, English-speaking academic prior to submitting their paper for publication. These standards are non-negotiable and strictly enforced by the editor of the Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies (JALS).
Peer review process
The Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies (JALS) practices double-blind peer review. The review process is as follows:
- Submissions check, (the Publications Office makes sure that all information needed for processing the submission further was provided; that the submission complies with the Author Guidelines; and that the content is relevant to the journal).
- Plagiarism screening with Turnitin software.
- Submission is forwarded to the Editor who checks the work meets basic journal criteria; the article is anonymized, and invitations are sent to reviewers to review the manuscript.
- Primary checking of an anonymous submission, involving an assessment of its suitability for publication (based on the quality of language, compatibility with the aims & scope of the JALS, evidence of research, and sufficiency of references to the international literature), performed by two reviewers independent of the journal.
- Notification of the author(s) of the outcome of the review via a reviewing sheet(s) made available to the author(s). Reviewer comments must be objective and provided with the aim of helping authors improve their articles. If the submission is found suitable, the author(s) are invited to make any necessary changes and return the article to the editor.
- Proofreading and checking whether the reworked article is written in compliance with the reviewer's comments and the Author’s Guidelines.
- Final plagiarism screening with Turnitin.
Members of the Journal of Arts and Linguistics Studies (JALS) Editorial Board are experts in diverse fields within the scope of the journal. There are 8 scholars from 5 countries on the journal’s editorial board. The Editor takes steps to always ensure that all manuscripts are completely anonymized.
