• The ethical policy of the Journal of Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts is based on the guidelines of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) and complies with the behavioral codes of the International Committee of Journals.
• Readers, authors, reviewers and editors should adhere to these ethical policies in collaboration with this journal.
• In this journal, any kind of plagiarism is unethical and unacceptable.

For more information on this topic in publication and ethical guidelines, please visit https://publicationethics.org.

Publisher Responsibilities

• The publisher is committed to ensuring that the decisions of the editor and the editorial board on all articles are final and that these decisions are made only based on professional judgment and are not influenced by any commercial interests.
• The publisher is committed to always monitoring and controlling the adherence to ethical principles by the editor, editors, editorial board members, reviewers, authors and readers of the journal.
• The publisher is committed to always publishing and announcing corrections, transparency principles, and retraction of published articles if necessary.

Editor-in-Chief and Editorial Team Responsibilities

• The editor and the editorial team should have full authority to reject/accept articles.
• The editor and the editorial team make the final decision on accepting or rejecting articles based on the opinions of the reviewers and the members of the editorial board.
• The editor should keep the confidentiality of the submitted articles under review until they are published.
• The editor should respect the confidentiality and anonymity of the reviewers’ information.
• The editor should try to prevent any conflict of interest and disclose it if it exists.
• The editor should always investigate issues related to plagiarism and fabricated data and take action to publish corrections, transparency, retraction and apology if necessary.
• According to the review policy of the Journal of Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts (Double-Blind), the anonymity of the reviewers and authors should be maintained.
• The editor should never disclose the information and content of the articles to anyone other than the original author, reviewers and other editors of the editorial board if needed.

Reviewer Responsibilities

• The confidentiality of the information of the article should be observed in all areas and the process of reviewing the article should be done anonymously.
• Reviewers should judge the articles in a timely manner and assist the editorial team in making decisions about accepting or rejecting the article.
• Reviewers’ suggestions on published articles should be presented in the form of a review form and in the comments section for the author and editor.
• Reviewers should refrain from judging articles with conflicting interests and report any conflicts of interest as soon as possible.
• Reviewers’ judgments on the quality and content of the articles should be based on specialized and objective opinions.

Author Writing Standards and Responsibilities

Authorship Criteria
Any author whose name is registered in the article must have done one or more of the following:
• Designing the research, collecting or analyzing and interpreting the data.
• Writing the article or reviewing it fundamentally and comprehensively.
• Final approval for publishing the article.
• Generally, have an acceptable share and participation in the design and writing of the article so that they can accept public responsibility for the appropriate parts of the content.


Responsibilities and Commitments of Authors
• Observing the basic principles of writing and research in article writing is necessary and articles should be written and arranged according to the journal’s format.
• Before submitting the article, all authors should read the author’s guide and the terms and conditions of submitting the article in this journal.
• The corresponding author must confirm and submit the consent and awareness of other authors of the article in this journal through the author’s commitment form.
• All authors whose names are mentioned in the article and in the commitment letter must have acceptable participation in writing and editing the article.
• Acknowledgments and organizational affiliations of the authors should be mentioned in the article and any conflicts of interest between the authors or organizations should be mentioned.
• Authors should clearly report the research sponsor (if any).
• Authors are obliged to inform the editor as soon as possible if they see a mistake or error in their published article, so that the article can be corrected or invalidated.
• All authors should be aware that the articles submitted to this journal are checked by plagiarism detection software to prevent scientific misconduct.
• Authors should properly and appropriately cite and reference all the sources and references that they have used directly or indirectly.
• At the time of submitting the article, during the review process and preparation for publication, the corresponding author of the article is responsible for communicating with the journal and the journal staff and should ensure that all the administrative requirements of the journal are met; also during the review process, the relevant author should quickly answer the questions of the editor and the executive manager and cooperate with the journal after publication if necessary.


Change in Author Information
• After accepting the article and at the stage of publication, adding a new author’s name or changing the responsibility of the authors is not allowed. Also, if an author wants to be removed from the list of authors, they must send a letter signed by the author and other authors indicating their willingness to be removed from the list of authors.
• Any change in the order of the authors requires a letter signed by all the authors indicating their agreement.

Transparency Principles

Appropriate Research Design

Good research should have a logical order and an appropriate research design and observe the ethical criteria of research. Conducting research with lower standards may amount to research misconduct. Authors are responsible for the entire scientific content and the accuracy of the bibliographic information.

Data Analysis

Data should be properly analyzed, inappropriate analysis is not necessarily a misconduct but falsification and manipulation of data is a wrong behavior.

Access to Data

Data used to support the findings of the study should be available upon request from the relevant author.

Studies Related to Humans and Animals

All articles that report the results of experimental research related to human subjects should contain a statement that confirms informed consent from each subject or their guardian. All animal or human studies should be used after approval of the experimental protocol by the local ethics committee.

Conflict of Interest

o Conflict of interest may not always be obvious and may affect the judgment of the author, reviewers and editors.
o These cases have sometimes been described as cases that when revealed later, mislead or deceive the reasonable reader.
o Examples of conflict of interest may be personal, commercial, political, academic or financial. "Financial" interests may include employment, research funding, stock or share ownership, payment for lectures or travel, consulting and company support for employees.
o Submitting a conflict of interest form is mandatory in this journal and authors should mention any conflicts of interest between authors or organizations in the conflict of interest form. (See the journal forms menu)

Peer Review Process

o This journal uses double-blind peer review, meaning that both the reviewer's identity for the author and the author's identity for the reviewers are anonymous.
o To facilitate this, authors should ensure that their articles are prepared in such a way that their identity is not revealed.
o Authors have the right to contact the editor if they do not want their article to be reviewed by a specific reviewer due to a possible conflict of interest.

Archiving Policy

o The archiving policy of the Journal of Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts expresses the journal's strategy and policy towards archiving and filing versions of articles by authors in spaces such as personal and organizational web pages and various subject repositories.
o Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts is published under an open access license (Open Access) and accordingly articles can be made available immediately according to the specific license of the journal (CC-BY 4.0). If an author has published an article under an open access license, the author is authorized by this journal to share the published version instead of the accepted handwritten versions at the time of publication.
o Authors can also use the abstract and citation information (such as title, author name, publication date) of their article in any place and at any time, including social media such as LinkedIn, Facebook, blogs and Twitter, provided that, if possible, a link to the article is added. Preferably, the link should include the digital object identifier (DOI) that is found in the citation information for the article online. The accepted version may be placed on: the author's personal website and/or repository or archive of the author's company/institution.
Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts is now officially archived in the following databases:
o National Library and Archives of Iran (NLAI)
o Islamic World Science Citation Database (ISC)
o Magiran Country Journal Database

Publication Schedule

Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts is published monthly and publishes twelve issues a year. All published articles will be available on the journal's dedicated website from the beginning to the present.

Privacy and Confidentiality

o Confidentiality should be observed in all processes of reviewing the article and by all roles.
o All articles should be reviewed with confidentiality.
o Reviewers also have the right to privacy, which the editor should respect. If there is a suspicion of dishonesty or fraud in the article, confidentiality may be violated, but otherwise it should be observed.
o In addition to authors and reviewers, editors are prohibited from disclosing information related to articles (including receipt, content, status in the review process, reviewer criticism, or final fate).
o Editors should explain to reviewers that the articles submitted for review are the private property and assets of the authors and reviewers and editorial staff should respect the rights of the authors by refraining from public discussion or appropriation of the authors’ works before publishing the article.
o Reviewers are not allowed to make a copy of the article for themselves and are not allowed to share it with others unless the secretary or editor allows them.
o Also, without the permission of the reviewer, author and editor, review and review comments should not be published publicly.

Owner and Publisher

Omid Majd Publications

Printing (Publishing) Right and Publication License

The Journal of Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts provides free and immediate access to its content. All articles in this journal are published under the International Creative Commons Attribution License 4.0 International (CC-BY 4.0) which allows use, sharing, adaptation, distribution, and reproduction in any medium or format as long as the original author (s) and source are properly cited. Under the open access license, authors retain the right to print for the content of their articles, but allow others to download, reuse, reprint, modify, distribute and/or copy the content (as long as the original authors and source are properly cited and referenced to the original source).
In this journal, authors retain all rights (including printing rights) unlimitedly.

Advertising

The Journal of Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts has no advertising.

Correction or Retraction of Articles

To maintain the integrity of the scientific and academic records, sometimes the journal may be forced to publish a correction or retraction of an article published in the journal. According to the agreed norms of the academic community, this is usually done by publishing an “Erratum” or “Retraction” and without making changes to the original article and only by publishing a new article that has a highlight of Erratum or Retraction. The original article remains in the public domain and should usually be indexed in the next Erratum or Retraction. In exceptional cases where the contents of the article are not correctable, we may have to remove the contents from our website and archive sites. It may be necessary for the original author (s) to comment on the published article, make minor corrections to the published articles. It will only be acceptable if the corrections do not affect the results or conclusion of the article.
• Erratum
Changes in published articles that affect the meaning and outcome of the article, but do not invalidate the whole article, may be corrected by the editor or editors, by publishing an Erratum (correction) indexed and related to the original article. Changes in the authorship of published articles are corrected by Erratum.
• Retraction
If the scientific information in an article is significantly endangered in rare cases, it may be appropriate to retract the published articles. In these cases, the journal’s decisions should be in accordance with the COPE retraction guidelines. Retracted articles are indexed and referenced to the original article.

Identifying and Addressing Research Misconduct

In the Journal of Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose Texts, the editor takes actions to identify and prevent the publication of articles that have research misconduct.
These actions include:
• Informing the editorial office of the journal by providing copies of the relevant materials and a draft letter to the relevant author requesting an explanation from the author.
• If the author's explanation is unacceptable and it appears that serious misconduct has occurred, the matter will be discussed in the editorial board and the editorial board will decide whether the misconduct is serious enough to warrant a ban on future submissions.
• If the misconduct is of a lesser severity, the editor will send a warning letter to the author and remind the author of the journal's publication policies. If the article has been published, the editor may ask the author to publish an apology in the journal to correct the record.
• In the follow-up actions, any work by the author or authors responsible for the misconduct under review will be rejected immediately.
• Authors are banned from membership in the journal's editorial board and service as a reviewer for the journal. The journal reserves the right to take further actions.
• In cases of serious fraud that leads to the retraction of the article, a retraction notice will be published in the journal and linked to the article online. The online version will also be marked with the date of retraction.

Handling Author Complaints

Potential Research Misconduct

All the cases presented in this section are examples of research misconduct and will be dealt with by the Journal of Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose.
• Data fabrication and falsification
Data fabrication means that the researcher has conducted the experiment, but has manipulated, changed, or deleted the data or the results and findings of the research.

• Redundant publication
Redundant publication occurs when two or more articles, without proper cross-referencing, share essentially the same hypotheses, data, discussion points, and conclusions.

• Citation manipulation
Citation manipulation is the inclusion of excessive citations in a submitted manuscript that do not contribute to the scientific content of the article and are solely for increasing the citation of an author or articles published in a specific journal. This is a type of scientific misconduct.

• Simultaneous submission
Simultaneous submission occurs when a copy (or significant parts of a copy) of a manuscript is submitted to a journal that is already under review by another journal.

• Salami slicing
Salami slicing involves the inappropriate splitting of the results of a study into several articles, often resulting from the desire to fill out an academic resume.

• Inappropriate authorship or attribution
All listed authors must have a significant scientific contribution to the research in the manuscript and must endorse all its claims. The role of all those who have had a significant scientific contribution to the preparation and writing of the article, including students and laboratory technicians, should be acknowledged.

• Plagiarism
o Plagiarism is the intentional use of other people’s ideas or other original material as if they were one’s own.
o Copying even one sentence from someone else’s manuscript or even one of your own that has previously been published, without proper citation, is considered plagiarism by this journal.
o Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics and all articles under review or published are checked for plagiarism using the Samim Noor software.
o Authors are expected to check their articles for plagiarism before submitting them.
o If plagiarism is detected during the review process, the article will be rejected.
o If plagiarism is detected after publication, we (the journal) reserve the right to correct or retract the article if necessary.
o We reserve the right to inform the authors’ institutions about plagiarism that has been revealed before or after publication.

Guidelines and Ethical Instructions of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)

The Journal of Stylistics and Analysis of Persian Poetry and Prose is committed to follow and apply the guidelines and flowcharts of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) in the review and publication process and its issues.
For more information, please visit this page:
(https://publicationethics.org/resources/flowcharts-new/translations).
Codes of conduct and best practice guidelines for journal editors of the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE)
(https://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf),
(https://publicationethics.org/files/2008%20Code%20of%20Conduct.pdf)
The scientific and ethical responsibility of everything published in the journal rests with the editor. This means that the editor must always consider the following:
• Striving to meet the needs of readers and authors;
• Striving to continuously improve the journal.
• Adopting procedures and processes to ensure the quality of the materials published.
• Maintaining freedom of expression;
• Maintaining the integrity of the scientific record in the journal.
• Preventing the contamination of intellectual and ethical standards by commercial interests.
• Being always ready to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions and apologies when needed.
The best practice for editors includes the following:
• Actively seeking the opinions of authors, readers, reviewers and editorial board members on how to improve the journal’s processes
• Encouraging and being aware of the latest methods and research related to peer review and re-evaluating the journal’s processes in light of new findings.
• Supporting the design of schemes to reduce misconduct in research and publication
• Supporting innovation in informing and educating researchers about publication ethics.
• Evaluating the effects of the journal’s policies on the behavior of authors and reviewers and revising the policies, if necessary, to encourage responsible behavior and prevent misconduct.