Originality and Plagiarism

1. Originality and Plagiarism

Authors commit to ensuring that the work submitted to the journal is original and unpublished.

• Original: A manuscript is considered original when it is the product of the authors' own authorship, not significantly derived from their own or others' previous works; it presents an idea not previously conceived.

• Unpublished: A manuscript is considered unpublished when its content has not been formally published nor is it under simultaneous evaluation in another journal or book. However, the journal will consider as unpublished those works derived from academic theses, preprint repositories, or preliminary versions of conference papers, provided they represent a substantial analytical evolution of the original text and the authors explicitly declare their origin (including links or DOIs) at the time of submission to ensure total editorial transparency.

Verbum et Lingua categorically rejects unacceptable behavior and publication misconduct, whether voluntary or involuntary. These include:

• Plagiarism: The appropriation of another person's work or ideas without giving them appropriate credit.

• Self-plagiarism: Presenting one's own previous work as new or original products.

• Duplicate publication: Simultaneous submission of the same work to two different journals or editorial outlets.

• Partial publication (Salami slicing): The fragmentation of a single research study into multiple publications.

• Falsification or fabrication of data.

Similarity Detection: We use iThenticate to analyze textual matches. In compliance with COPE, we do not establish a rigid similarity percentage for acceptance. Instead, the Editorial Committee qualitatively evaluates each report to distinguish between legitimate matches (citations, bibliography, standardized terminology) and plagiarism. Any misappropriation will result in the immediate rejection of the manuscript.

All sources of information must be cited. Authors must include the corresponding references when self-citing (a maximum of three self-citations in total across all authors) from previously published texts, on the condition that they are relevant to generating new contributions to the field of knowledge and not for recycling ideas from previous works.

A study (one's own or another's) must not be repeated, in whole or in part, using the same data, hypotheses, points of discussion, and conclusions. The recycling of previous work to present it as a new proposal must be avoided. Authors have the responsibility to disclose any related manuscript, whether published or unpublished, even if it is in a different language.

Authors must respect intellectual property and give appropriate credit to the work of others, indicating the source of all information that originates from third parties (whether published or not).

 

2. Authorship

The manuscript must be written with accuracy and objectivity, based on the truthfulness of the information and data contained within. All collaborators must have participated in the conception of the manuscript.

A limit of four co-authors is recommended. The number of co-authors cannot be modified once the work has been submitted to the platform.

To promote good editorial practices, two articles under the same authorship will not be published in the journal's current call for papers, nor will any author be featured in consecutive issues of Verbum et Lingua. It will be necessary to wait for a reception period of one issue before a new publication by the same author can be considered.

 

3. Validity and Reliability

Authors must address the observations and requests made by the reviewers for the modification of their articles. Objections to the reviewers' indications must be answered in a timely, clear, and justified manner.

If an author detects an error in their article, they must immediately inform the journal editor for its rectification.

The work must not have been influenced by any personal, commercial, religious, political, academic, or financial interest. Authors must explicitly declare any funding received for the conducting of the research article.