Statement of Publication Ethics
Editorial Board
Southern Semiotic Review is a peer-reviewed journal. The editorial board is comprised by scholars with expertise in the field. Full names and affiliations are available on this site. All board members are committed to ethical standards of research publication.
Author Responsibilities
There is no fee for publication in this journal. Voluntary donations can be made to defray costs – but only upon publication. Donation will in no way influence publication. Authors must agree to peer review, based on advice from expert reviewers in the field. Any financial or other support should be listed. Reported research should have been conducted in an ethical and responsible manner and follow relevant legislation. Research should be sound and carefully executed.
New findings should be presented in the context of previous research. The work of others should be fairly represented.
Work should not be submitted concurrently to more than one publication unless the editors have agreed to co-publication. If articles are co-published or reprinted this fact will be made clear to readers.
Publication ethics
The editor will seek to ensure no misconduct is involved in published papers.
A critical part of the author’s responsibilities concerns the awareness of plagiarism and other forms of misconduct in academic publications.
Papers found with misconduct will not be published, and will be corrected or withdrawn after publication when needed, and clarification and corrections can be published.
Copyright and access
Applicable copyright laws and conventions should be followed. Fair use provisions can be observed where applicable for academic writing. Copyright material (e.g. tables, figures or extensive quotations) should be reproduced only with acknowledgement. Relevant previous work and publications, both by other researchers and the authors’ own, should be properly acknowledged and referenced. The primary literature should be cited where possible.
Data, text, figures or ideas originated by other researchers should be properly acknowledged and should not be presented as if they were the authors’ own. Original wording taken directly from publications by other researchers should appear in quotation marks with the appropriate citations.
This journal is provided to readers on open access, without pay per view.
A Creative Commons licence (the Creative Commons License Attribution – Non-commercial – ShareAlike 4.0 International) applies.
This journal seeks global, in perpetuity and without cost licence to publish a paper, but copyright remains with the author.
Appropriate Authorship and Acknowledgement
All authors should agree to be listed and should approve the submitted and accepted versions of the publication. Any change to the author list should be approved by all authors including any who have been removed from the list. The corresponding author should act as a point of contact between the editor and the other authors and should keep co-authors informed and involve them in major decisions about the publication (e.g., responding to reviewers’ comments).
Authors should not use acknowledgements misleadingly to imply a contribution or endorsement by individuals who have not, in fact, been involved with the work or given an endorsement.
Duties of Reviewers
Peer reviewers assist the chief editor and the editorial board in making editorial decisions while editorial communications with the author may also assist the author in improving the paper. Any reviewer who feels unqualified to review the assigned manuscript or unable to provide a prompt review should notify the editor and excuse himself/herself from the review process. Manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents. They must not be shown to, or discussed with, others except as authorized by the chief editor.
Reviews should be conducted objectively. There shall be no personal criticism of the author. Reviewers should express their views clearly with supporting arguments. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been cited by the authors. Reviewers should decline from reviewing manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors.
Duties of Editors
The chief editor of the journal is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published. The chief editor may be guided by the journal’s editorial and advisory boards. The chief editor may confer with other editors or reviewers in making this decision. Manuscripts shall be evaluated solely on their intellectual merit. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted manuscript must not be used by anyone who has a view of the manuscript while handling it in his or her own research without the express written consent of the author.
Archiving
The journal is backed up on daily basis. In the event it is no longer published an archival edition of the site will be kept active for at least two years after last published issue, and all authors will be informed of the closure.
Ownership and management
This journal is published as an independent scholarship project. It is managed by the Editors, and owned by the Editor in Chief. Contact can be made at southernsemioticreview@gmail.com, or by mail at 1 Southview Avenue, Stanwell Tops NSW Australia 2508, or by phone +61425257984.
Publishing schedule
This journal is published twice a year. Print publication is possible in part or whole on an occasional basis.
The preceding comments are an accurate summary of current practices of this journal. The editor acknowledges assistance in making these from COPE’s Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors. URL: http://publicationethics.org/files/u2/Best_Practice.pdf