Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México is an open-access electronic peer-reviewed journal, published twice yearly (January-June and July-December). Its aim is to disseminate current linguistic research about any language and from different theoretical approaches. We thus seek for the papers published to advance our understanding of natural languages, either from a theoretical or from a purely descriptive point of view. Our target audience are researchers, professors and students specialized in linguistics.
Ethical Guidelines
Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México has two boards that contribute to maintain and improve the quality of our journal: the Advisory Board and the Editorial Board.
The Advisory Board fulfills the consulting needs of the journal. It is constituted by 17 internationally renowned scholars in several subdisciplines of linguistics. One of the main duties of its members is to advise the Editors and the Editorial Board about suitable reviewers for the contributions and, if needed, to review manuscripts in their research area.
- Ethical obligations of the Editors and the Editorial Board:
- The Editors and Editorial Board will consider all manuscripts offered for publication, judging only on their academic and scientific merits.
- The responsibility for acceptance or rejection of a manuscript rests on the Editors and Editorial Board, who will support its decision on anonymous peer-reviews of the manuscript.
- In the case of contradictory reviews, the Editors and Editorial Board will send the manuscript to a third review.
- The Editors and Editorial Board will uphold the principle of double-blind peer-review at all times, and they will not disclose the identities of the reviewers assigned to a specific paper unless the reviewer directly requests so.
- The Editors and Editorial Board can reject manuscripts if they are considered inappropriate for the journal, that is, if their content is not related to the disciplines of main concern of Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México.
- Ethical obligations of the authors
- Authors should follow the ‘Guidelines for Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México’.
- Authors should only present manuscripts that are the result of original research. Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México will not accept submissions that have already been published.
- Authors should not submit the same manuscript for publication simultaneously to another journal.
- Authors should identify the sources used for their research through proper citation and the adequate listing of references.
- Authors warrant that the paper is their original work, that it does not infringe any rights of others.
- Authors should present their research results and state the relevance of their work as clearly as possible.
- Authors’ manuscripts will not be sent to the reviewers until they fulfill all of the requirements established in ‘Guidelines for Cuadernos de Lingüística de El Colegio de México’.
- Ethical obligations of the reviewers
- Reviewers must make an objective analysis of the manuscripts accepted for review.
- A reviewer who feels inadequately qualified to judge the research reported in a manuscript should return the text to the Editors in less than ten days.
- Reviewers should treat a manuscript as a confidential document.
- Reviewers should write their evaluation in no more than 45 days.
- Reviewers should explain and support their decision adequately based on their knowledge of the subject.
- Reviewers should not use or disclose unpublished information, arguments or interpretations contained in a manuscript under consideration, except with the consent of the author.
- Reviewers should explain their judgments so the Editors, the Editorial Board and the author understand the analytical bases of their comments.
