Our journal is committed to maintaining the highest publication ethics and aims to follow best practices in all respects.
　

1. Editorial Board

Our journal has a widely represented editorial board whose members are recognized experts in the field. The full names and affiliations of the members are provided on our journal’s website.
Contact information of the editorial office is also provided on our journal’s website.
　

2. Authors and Authors responsibilities

- The fees or charges that are required for manuscript processing and/or publishing materials in the journal are clearly stated in the “Author Guide” before authors begin preparing their manuscript for submission.
- Authors are obliged to participate in peer review process.
- All authors have significantly contributed to the research.
- All authors are obliged to provide retractions or corrections of mistakes.
- References should be listed; financial support or funding sources should be disclosed.
- Authors are forbidden to publish the same research in more than one journal.

3.Peer-review process

- All of the journal’s content should be subjected to peer review.
- Peer review is defined as obtaining advice on individual manuscripts from reviewers expert in the field.
- It has been clearly described on our journal’s website.
- Judgments should be objective.
- Reviewers should have no conflict of interest.
- Reviewers should point out relevant published work which is not yet cited.
- Reviewed articles should be treated confidentially.

4. Publication ethics

- The publisher and editors shall take reasonable steps to identify and prevent the publication of papers where research misconduct has occurred.
- In no case shall the journal or the editors encourage such misconduct, or knowingly allow such misconduct to take place.
- In the event that the publisher or editors are made aware of any allegation of research misconduct the publisher or editors shall deal with allegations appropriately.

The journal has guidelines for retracting or correcting articles (see below).
- The publisher and editors should always be willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.

Guidelines for Retracting or Correcting Articles
We closely follow COPE retraction guidelines.
Editors should consider retracting a publication if:
they have clear evidence that the findings are unreliable, either as a result of misconduct or honest error;
the findings have previously been published elsewhere without proper crossreferencing, permission or justification;
it constitutes plagiarism;
it reports unethical research;

Editors should consider issuing a correction if:
a small portion of an otherwise reliable publication proves to be misleading;
the author / contributor list is incorrect

5. Copyright and Access

- Copyright and licensing information is clearly described on the journal’s website.
- The way(s) in which the journal and individual articles are available to readers and whether there are associated subscriptions, or pay-per-view fees are also stated.
　

6. Archiving

A journal’s plan for electronic backup and preservation of access to the journal content in the event a journal is no longer published is clearly indicated:
Our journal is archived in CNKI of China; all the contents can still be accessed even if the journal is no longer published.
The full text of the journal is also available at EBSCO (database: Education Source). We are also planning to archive all the published articles in Index Copernicus of Poland.

7. Ownership and management
- Information about the ownership and/or management of the journal is clearly indicated on the journal’s website.
- The publisher shall not use organizational names that would mislead potential authors and editors about the nature of the journal’s owner.

8. Website

Our journal’s website, including the text that it contains, demonstrates that care has been taken to ensure high ethical and professional standards.

9. Publishing schedule

Our journal is published monthly (with 12 issues a year), which is clearly indicated on the journal’s website.

10. Name of journal
The journal name (Theory and Practice in Language Studies, started in 2011) is unique and is not one that is easily confused with another journal or that might mislead potential authors and readers about the journal’s origin or association with other journals

References
　

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement Requirements
https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/word_doc/0018/116082/pems_june15.docx

COPE Council, OASPA, DOAJ, and WAME. Principles of Transparency and Best Practice in Scholarly Publishing. Version 3 January 2018. https://doi.org/10.24318/cope.2019.1.12

The Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE). (2009). Retraction Guidelines. 

https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction-guidelines.pdf