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. Conflicts of interest for authors
A conflict of interest, also known as competing interest, occurs when any direct or indirect interests, whether financial or non-financial, might interfere with the objective integrity of the research. Disclosure of interests will help readers and reviewers/editors make a sound judgement.

Authors are required to disclose any direct or indirect interests which are relevant to their submission. Any financial interests should be disclosed under the heading “Acknowledgments” (e.g. This work was supported by… Grant number… ). Any non-financial interests should be disclosed under the heading “Declaration of Conflicts of Interest” (e.g. *** is a member of the ***committee).

If there are no conflicts of interest, authors should provide a statement (The author/s has/have no conflicts of interest to declare which are relevant to this article) when submitting their article. However, in such a case, this statement will not appear in the published version of the article.

4. 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.

5. 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

6. 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.
　

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. Website

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

10. Publishing schedule

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

11. 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

12. AI Polices
For authors
Without doubt, the use of artificial intelligence (AI) tools (e.g. ChatGPT and DeepSeek) or Large Language Models (LLM) is growing rapidly. Researchers may use AI in reviewing the literature, collecting the data, generating figures/charts, or translating a text. However, the use of AI must be disclosed (which AI tool was used and how it was used) in the methodology section of the paper to ensure transparency. Researchers may also use AI to check basic language elements (grammar/spelling/punctuation). In such a case, the use of AI does not need to be disclosed.
We believe that it is unacceptable and unethical for authors to use AI to write a scholar paper. Authors are responsible for the content of their paper. And AI tools can not be listed as an author (or co-author) of a paper.

For reviewers and editors
Reviewers or editors must not use AI tools to review a paper and generate a referee report. And at Academy Publication, no AI tools are used in the editorial process at present.
　

References
　

Elsevier. (2025). Generative AI policies for journals.
https://www.elsevier.com/about/policies-and-standards/generative-ai-policies-for-journals
(accessed November 17, 2025)

Publication Ethics and Malpractice Statement Requirements
https://www.elsevier.com/__data/assets/word_doc/0018/116082/pems_june15.docx (accessed September 17, 2020)

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 (accessed September 16, 2020)

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

https://publicationethics.org/files/retraction-guidelines.pdf (accessed September 16, 2020)