About the Journal

Focus and Scope

RÆL-REVISTæLECTRÓNICA DE LINGÜÍSTICA APLICADA is an annual scientific e-journal published by the Spanish Association of Applied Linguistics (AESLA). Proposals must cover at least one of the following areas: Language Acquisition, Language Teaching, Language for Academic and Professional Purposes, Psycholinguistics, Neurolinguistics and Clinical linguistics, Sociolinguistics, Pragmatics and Discourse Analysis, Computational Linguistics, Corpus Linguistics and Natural Language Processing, Lexicology and Lexicography and Translation and Interpretation Studies.

In order to be eligible for peer-reviewing, the Editorial team will supervise the scope, the scientific rigour and quality of the proposals before initiating a double-blind peer-review, which will be carried out by members of the Board of Referees and by selected experts.

The acceptance of an article will always be provisional until the editing process has been completed. The Editorial team can modify the resolution at any stage of the editorial process, provided a reasoned allegation.

Peer Review Process

Double-blind peer review

All proposals will undergo a strict peer-review process as follows: Upon receiving a proposal, the Editorial team will supervise the scope, the scientific rigour, the originality (slicing, plagiarism or fraud), as well as the formatting and style of the article or review. Then, a confirmation e-mail will be extended to the author. If the proposal does not meet these criteria, it will be automatically rejected by the Editorial team. If the proposal meets these criteria, the Editorial team will initiate a double-blind peer review, which is usually completed within 45 days. The Editorial team shall deliver a blind copy of the proposal to two members of the Board of Referees. In case of significant discrepancies, a third reviewer selected by the Editorial team might also assess the proposal.

The acceptance of the proposal will always be provisional until the editing process has been completed. The Editorial team can modify the resolution at any stage of the editorial process, provided a reasoned allegation. After notifying the resolution to the author (with two detailed reports), and in case of receiving recommendations for the publication of the proposal, authors must submit appropriate amendments to their proposal for its final acceptance.

 

Peer reviewers will refrain from looking at the manuscript in case the request might interfere with any kind of competing interests or bias. If peer reviewers identify competing interests or any possible bias that might prevent them from providing a fair review, they will automatically notify the editor and a different reviewer will be appointed.

The assessment reports can be:

- Rejected proposal: The proposal does not meet the scientific rigour, originality, style and formatting of the journal. The proposal cannot be published.

- Accepted proposal: The proposal meets the scientific rigour, originality, style and formatting of the journal. The proposal can be published.

- Provisional acceptance of the proposal: The proposal partially meets the scientific rigour, originality, style and formatting of the journal, with minor comments and suggestions to be addressed. Authors will submit their response within 10 working days and editors will supervise these changes in collaboration with the peer reviewers.

Peer reviewers and expertise

The Editorial team selects peer reviewers taking into account their expertise and previous experience, editors will appoint reviewers according to the scope of the content in a manuscript to ensure the best review possible. Authors can suggest the name of three scholars who might be willing to assess their proposal, but the Editorial team will always reserve decision on this suggestion, which will not be necessarily notified to the authors.

Peer reviewers will objective and constructive in their reviews, providing feedback that will help the authors to improve their manuscript, but always respecting the intellectual independence of the author.

Peer review form

COPE STATEMENT

This journal and its editorial team subscribe the "CODE OF CONDUCT AND BEST PRACTICE GUIDELINES FOR JOURNAL EDITORS" (Publicationethics.org) approved by the COPE Council on 7th March 2011 and published on March 2011 (COPE Committee on Publication Ethics). Any specific discrepancy not directly solved or specified in the journal's reglament will be arbritrated following COPE guidelines.

Open Access Policy

Open Access Repository Mandates and Policies
This journal is committed to open access on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

Copyright and licensing

The articles and reviews published in this journal are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Attribution – Non-commercial (CC BY-¬NC). Under this license the user can copy, distribute and publicly display the work and can create derivative works as long as these new creations acknowledge the authorship of the original work and are not used commercially.

The authors retain all copyright and publication rights without restriction.

APCs

The journal does not have either article submission charges or article processing charges (APCs). 

Archiving Policy

Our preservation policy includes the following measures:

Website archiving

All of our electronic content (website, manuscripts, etc.) is stored on three different sources. Content on one server is online and accessible to the readers. The copy of the same content is kept as a backup on another private source. A third copy is stored in Dialnet Plus (https://dialnet.unirioja.es/) In case of failure of one server, any one of the other sources can be made online and website expected to be accessible within less than 36-48 hours.

Abstracting/Indexing services

Our journal’s Abstracting/Indexing services store many essential information about the articles.

Self-archiving

Authors may archive the final published version of their articles in personal or institutional repositories immediately after publication.

Discontinued or ceased journal

If, due to some rare, unfortunate circumstances, we are forced to stop publishing the journal, the manuscripts published in the journal will be kept online and accessible to the readers for at least 10 more years via LOCKSS (Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe) and CLOCKSS (Controlled Lots of Copies Keep Stuff Safe).