Authorship Criteria

The Journal of Language and Pragmatics Studies (JLPS) recognizes authorship as an important academic responsibility that reflects meaningful contributions to the conception, development, execution, analysis, and presentation of scholarly research. All individuals listed as authors of a manuscript must have made substantial intellectual contributions to the research and must be able to take responsibility for the accuracy, integrity, and originality of their work.

To ensure transparency, accountability, and ethical research practices, JLPS encourages authors to follow internationally recognized principles of authorship and publication ethics. Authorship should be based on actual scholarly contributions rather than professional position, seniority, institutional affiliation, or personal relationships.

1. Eligibility for Authorship

Individuals may be listed as authors if they have made substantial contributions to one or more of the following aspects of the research:

Research conception and design: Developing the research idea, formulating research questions, establishing research objectives, or designing the research methodology relevant to language, linguistics, pragmatics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, and related fields.

Data collection and investigation: Conducting fieldwork, surveys, interviews, observations, experiments, corpus compilation, linguistic data collection, discourse analysis, or other systematic research activities.

Data analysis and interpretation: Analyzing research data, interpreting findings, applying appropriate linguistic, pragmatic, qualitative, quantitative, or mixed-methods approaches, or developing theoretical explanations.

Manuscript preparation: Drafting the manuscript or critically revising it to improve its intellectual content, scholarly quality, analytical rigor, and clarity.

Final approval: Reviewing and approving the final version of the manuscript before submission or publication.

Accountability: Agreeing to take responsibility for one's own contributions and to cooperate in resolving questions concerning the accuracy, integrity, originality, or ethical conduct of the research.

All listed authors should satisfy the applicable authorship requirements and be able to identify their individual contributions to the manuscript.

2. Responsibilities of Authors

Authors are responsible for ensuring that their manuscripts represent original and properly conducted research. They must provide accurate information, acknowledge the contributions of others, cite relevant sources appropriately, and avoid plagiarism, data fabrication, data falsification, and other forms of research misconduct.

Authors conducting research involving language use, human communication, interviews, recordings, online interactions, or other forms of linguistic and pragmatic data must observe applicable ethical standards, including informed consent, participant confidentiality, data protection, and appropriate anonymization where necessary.

Authors must also ensure that the manuscript has not been published previously and is not simultaneously under consideration by another journal, except where an explicitly permitted publication arrangement applies. Any necessary ethical approval, informed consent, funding information, conflicts of interest, and relevant data availability statements should be disclosed in accordance with JLPS policies and the nature of the research.

Each author should review the manuscript carefully before submission and confirm that the work complies with applicable ethical standards, research regulations, and the journal's author guidelines.

3. Order of Authorship

The order of authors should be determined collectively by the authors before manuscript submission, based on their relative contributions to the research and manuscript preparation. The corresponding author is responsible for communicating with the editorial office on behalf of the author group and ensuring that all authors have reviewed and approved the submitted manuscript.

JLPS encourages authors to discuss authorship roles and responsibilities at the beginning of their collaboration to minimize misunderstandings and prevent disputes. Any changes to the author list, including additions, removals, or changes in author order after submission, must be justified and approved by all affected authors, subject to editorial review and the journal's publication policies.

4. Corresponding Author Responsibilities

The corresponding author serves as the primary contact between the author group and JLPS throughout the submission, peer review, revision, and publication processes. The corresponding author must ensure that all co-authors have approved the manuscript and agreed to its submission to JLPS.

The corresponding author is also responsible for providing complete and accurate submission information, responding to editorial and reviewer comments in consultation with co-authors, communicating publication decisions to the author group, and ensuring that all required declarations and supporting documents are submitted.

5. Contributors Who Do Not Qualify for Authorship

Individuals who provide limited or technical assistance but do not meet the applicable authorship criteria should not automatically be listed as authors. Examples may include individuals who provide administrative support, routine data collection assistance, transcription, translation, language editing, proofreading, technical assistance with corpus preparation, or general supervision without making a substantial intellectual contribution to the research.

Such contributions should be appropriately acknowledged in the manuscript, with the permission of the individuals concerned. Acknowledgment should not replace authorship when a contributor has made qualifying intellectual contributions and meets the applicable authorship requirements.

6. Changes in Authorship

Any proposed change in authorship after manuscript submission must be communicated to the JLPS editorial office with a clear explanation of the reason for the change. Written agreement from all existing authors and any individuals being added or removed may be required before the change is considered.

The editorial team reserves the right to review authorship changes in accordance with the journal's policies and publication ethics standards. Disputes concerning authorship should be addressed transparently by the individuals involved and, where necessary, referred to their affiliated institutions for resolution.

7. Authorship Ethics and Academic Integrity

JLPS does not accept guest authorship, gift authorship, honorary authorship, or ghost authorship. Individuals should not be included as authors solely because of their academic position, institutional authority, financial support, or supervisory role. Similarly, individuals who have made substantial qualifying contributions should not be excluded from authorship without appropriate justification.

All authors are expected to uphold the principles of honesty, transparency, fairness, and accountability throughout the research and publication process. Suspected violations of authorship standards may be investigated by the editorial team in accordance with the journal's publication ethics policies.

8. Use of Artificial Intelligence in Manuscript Preparation

Artificial intelligence (AI) tools may be used to assist with activities such as language improvement, grammar checking, formatting, transcription support, preliminary data organization, or other permitted research-related tasks, provided that their use complies with JLPS policies and applicable ethical standards.

AI tools cannot be listed as authors because they cannot assume responsibility for the accuracy, originality, integrity, and ethical conduct of scholarly work.

Authors remain fully responsible for verifying all information, references, analyses, interpretations, and conclusions contained in their manuscripts. Any use of AI that materially contributes to manuscript preparation, research analysis, translation, transcription, or content generation should be disclosed when required by the journal's AI policy.

Authors must ensure that AI-assisted work does not introduce fabricated references, inaccurate linguistic data, misleading interpretations, plagiarism, or violations of confidentiality. When research involves human participants, unpublished manuscripts, sensitive language data, or confidential research materials, authors must also ensure that the use of AI tools does not compromise participant privacy, data security, or research ethics.

9. Editorial Review and Compliance

The editorial team of JLPS may request clarification regarding authorship, individual contributions, ethical declarations, research integrity, or the originality of a submitted manuscript whenever necessary. Manuscripts that do not comply with the journal's authorship criteria or ethical requirements may be returned for clarification, held during an investigation, or rejected in accordance with the journal's policies.

By submitting a manuscript to JLPS, authors confirm that the information concerning authorship is accurate, that all listed authors meet the applicable criteria, and that all authors have approved the final manuscript and agreed to its submission.

The journal seeks to maintain a transparent, responsible, and ethically sound publication process that protects the integrity of scholarly communication and promotes the responsible dissemination of research in language studies, pragmatics, linguistics, discourse analysis, applied linguistics, and related disciplines.

Through these authorship criteria, the Journal of Language and Pragmatics Studies (JLPS) aims to promote responsible scholarly collaboration, recognize legitimate intellectual contributions, and uphold high standards of academic integrity in language and pragmatics research and related fields.