Foreign Literature Literature (FLS) is committed to upholding ethical standards for the high quality of its publications. Conformance to the standards of ethical professional conduct is therefore expected of all parties involved.
Authors’ Responsibilities:
1. Authors must ensure that the submitted article is their original work, which has not been
previously published;
2. Authors must ensure that the submitted article is not simultaneously under consideration for publication elsewhere;
3. Authors must state that all data in their article are authentic and accurate;
4. Authors should deliver the revised version(s) of their article according to the reviewers’ recommendations.
Reviewers’ Responsibilities:
1. Reviewers should treat all manuscripts received for reviewing as confidential documents;
2. Reviewers should identify relevant published work that has not been documented by the authors;
3. Reviewers should conduct their review objectively and present their observations clearly with supporting details, so that authors can use them to improve their article;
4. Reviewers should inform the editors of any substantial similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any other published article;
5. Reviewers should not consider manuscripts in which they have conflicts of interest that may result from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors, companies, or institutions related to the articles.
Editors’ Responsibilities
1. Editors decide which of the articles submitted to the journal should be published;
2. Editors are responsible for the contents and overall quality of the publications;
3. Editors should evaluate manuscripts exclusively based on their academic merit;
4. Editors should make editorial decisions and publish articles based on the assistance and recommendations from peer reviewers;
5. Editors should maintain a clear understanding of a research work’s sources of funding;
6. Editor must not use the information from an unpublished manuscript for their own research without the express written consent of the author.
Editorial Department of Foreign Literature Studies
March 1, 2021