2.1. Original content/requirement of originality

2.2. Open Access Policy

2.3. Section Policies

2.4. Copyright Notice

2.5. Peer Review Process

2.6. Editorial aperture

2.7. Digital Preservation

2.8. Content Dissemintation Policy

2.9. Ethical Rules and Best practices guidelines

2.10. Archiving

2.11. Anti-plagiarism

2.12. Interoperability Protocols

2.13. Privacy Statement

2.14. Gender equality practices

2.15. Adhesion to Dora

2.16. Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Manuscript Preparation

2.1 Original content/requirement of originality

The articles sent for evaluation must be original, not have been previously published, in whole or in part, either in other journals or in any media, nor accepted for publication, nor be in the process of evaluation in other media. diffusion. In the event that an article submitted for evaluation is not original, the Linguo Didactica journal reserves the right not to accept more articles by these authors for evaluation.

2.2 Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content, based on the principle that providing the public with free access to research supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

In this sense, the terms of the license under which the contents of the Linguo Didactica journal are distributed and found in: Creative attribution license Commons BY 4.0

By submitting a proposal, the author agrees to the following terms:

  • The author retains the authorship rights, granting the journal the right of first publication of the work.
  • The texts will be disseminated with the Creative attribution license Commons 4.0. BY that allows you to share, copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as adapt, remix, transform and build on the material for any purpose, including commercially.

The journal provides free and immediate access to its contents based on the principle that it will allow free access to research results that will impact greater exchange of knowledge at a global level. Therefore, it does not charge fees for access to its articles, nor for the submission of works or the publication of articles.

As a fundamental practice within the Open Access movement, each published issue is deposited in the  Arias Montano Repository, to guarantee free access, increase the visibility of the research and preserve the documents long-term.

2.3 Section Policies

Editorial

Brief introduction to the corresponding issue of the journal by the editors

Editors

  • Beatriz Peña-Acuña
  • Rafael Crismán- Pérez

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All works sent to the Editorial Office of the Linguo Didactica journal for the articles section will be notified of their receipt within a period of 15 days.

The texts sent to the Articles section will have a double evaluation:

-           Internal or preliminary evaluation , in which the Editorial Board will check, first, that the rules of style are respected; second, it will determine if your content fits into the thematic line of the journal; third, it will give an opinion on the suitability, innovation, depth and rigor of the content; fourth, it will be verified that it is original research; fifth, it will be verified that the methodological design, the sample and the tools applied are rigorous to provide significant, valid and reliable results. At this time, the author will be suggested if they should make any changes before starting the external evaluation phase.

-           Authors also be informed if the article is directly rejected for any of these reasons or for several: if the article do not comply with the style rules; if it does not fit with the line of the journal, if it is not 90% original research, ruling out the references, if it does not meet the rigorous requirements of the treatment of content, if it does not achieve a certain level of depth in the subject being addressed, if the research methodology and applied tools are defective from the start or because it is a deficient sample. Once this proposal has been rejected, it cannot be modified and sent back to this same journal. In addition, the author who submits an article that is rejected in the internal evaluation cannot resubmit another proposal until one year after the email sent. The term given to the Editorial Board will be 15 days.

-           External evaluation or peer review (double-blind system): once it is established in the internal or preliminary evaluation that the content of the manuscript meets the formal and thematic requirements, it will be sent to a minimum of two evaluators, who, following the specifications in the Guide for Evaluators, they will carefully evaluate the text and issue a report by filling in the Evaluation Form. In case of conflicting opinions and/or if it is considered appropriate, a third opinion will be requested. The term given for this evaluation to the external reviewers will be 30 days.

The author will have 15 days to send the revised text with the modifications of the text in blue, the deleted text in strikethrough. Likewise, they will provide a separate file, attached, with text in response to the recommendations of each of the reviewers, that is, with the justification for the improvement of these changes for the reviewers. This will happen in each of the evaluation phases, in case the opinions so require.

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2.4 Copyright

Authors retain copyright to their work and grant the journal Linguo Didactica the right of first publication. Articles published in Linguo Didactica are distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (CC BY 4.0), which permits sharing, copying, redistribution, adaptation, transformation, and the creation of derivative works for any purpose, including commercial, provided that proper attribution is given to the author and the original publication in the journal.Authors may freely disseminate and reuse the published version of their work in institutional repositories, personal websites, academic networks, or other media, always indicating the complete reference to the original publication in Linguo Didactica.Submitting a manuscript implies that, while the article is under editorial review, the author agrees not to submit the same work simultaneously to other publications. In the event of rejection, the authors retain all rights to the manuscript.

2.5 Peer Review Process

The arbitration system of the Linguo Didactica scientific journal uses external evaluators from the university that publishes it, with the category of Ph. D., guaranteeing anonymity between authors-evaluators. At least 50% of the reviewers are outside the Editorial Board and the journal's publishing entity. At the end of every two years, the list of evaluators will be published.

The selection of evaluators will be the responsibility of the editorial board, who will consider their academic and scientific merits and professional experience, including specialists of both national and international origin. Our database of reviewers is constantly being updated. Reviewers may include members of the Advisory Board.

Regarding the instructions to the evaluators, it is worth mentioning that Linguo Didactica will publish an instruction guide for the authors. In this guide will appear, among other aspects:

- Certify that the manuscripts present an understandable, objective and balanced overview of their respective subject, without bias of any kind.

- Ensure that writings with scientific rigor are easy to understand, with narrative agility and with academic language.

- Confirm that there is an internal content connection so that the variables and objectives presented are structured and results are presented in this regard.

- Supervise and suggest content so that updated, scientifically available and verifiable information is offered.

- Examine that the discussion provides information and positions itself in the debate on this topic.

- Study that the discussions, conclusions or arguments derived from the investigation are intelligible, innovative, relevant and with contributions to the discipline.

 
TEMPLATE FOR PERFORMING THE EVALUATION
The evaluation indicators and the boxes that each reviewer should fill in are indicated in the template below. The reviewer first download the document and save it to the computer. After completing the evaluation in the document, he or she saves the changes and upload it to the journal's platform in the "Discussion" section, copying the editor.
 
Article templates. The MS Word template containing the descriptive evaluation of the reviewers is here.

2.6 Open editorial

4.1.      Editorial opening

At least one third of the Editorial Board or the Editorial Board or Advisory board must be outside the publishing entity of the Linguo Didactica journal.

4.2.      Internationalization of the Advisory board

At least 10% of the Advisory Committee will be from other countries

4.3.      External authors

At least 50% of the authors of each issue of the Linguo Didactica journal must be outside the publishing entity, that is, its Editorial Board, Editorial Committee and Scientific Board.

4.4.      Internationalization of authors

At least 10% of the components of the authors of the total articles of the year must belong to foreign institutions.

2.7 Digital Preservation

The Editorial of the University of Huelva, editor of Linguo Didactica journal, uses digital preservation methods and ensures the intellectual content of electronic archival documents for long periods of time, maintaining their attributes such as integrity, authenticity, inalterability, originality, reliability and accessibility.

  • Preservation procedures

    Linguo Didactica. in compliance with the Preservation Policies, is governed by the following implemented procedures:

    • Storing digital resources with the utmost care.
    • Evaluations on the use of preservation strategies such as data rejuvenation, data consistency checks, migration, emulation, preservation technology, and digital archaeology.
    • The encapsulation of the information to be preserved together with descriptive metadata.
    • Self-documentation, understanding and encoding the information preserved without reference to external documentation.
    • Self-sufficiency minimizing dependencies on systems, data or documentation.
    • And the documentation of the type of content, with a view to a future user to find or implement software that allows viewing the preserved information.

    Linguo Didactica follows a policy that is based on storing information in formats that are widely used today, which increases the probability that when a format becomes obsolete there will still be programs for its conversion (XML, HTML and PDF are examples of these formats).

    Linguo Didactica is part of the Public network Knowledge projects Private LOCKSS Network (PKP-PLN), which generates a decentralized file system, distributed among collaborating libraries, in order to create permanent archives of the journal for the preservation of the original content and its restoration if necessary.

    Editorial manifesto of the Linguo Didactic journal .

    Linguo Didactica allows the deposit of the final version of the articles published in the Arias Montano Repository.

2.8 Content Dissemination Policy

The journal aims to maximize the visibility, accessibility, and impact of its published scientific works.

To this end, it carries out the following dissemination activities:

  1. Publication of all content in open access through the journal's OJS platform.
  2. Dissemination of new issues through institutional communication channels and social media associated with the journal and/or the publishing entity.
  3. Promotion of content through indexing services, directories, bibliographic databases, and national and international repositories in which the journal is included.
  4. Assignment and maintenance of persistent identifiers (DOIs) to facilitate the location, citation, and tracking of articles.
  5. Exposure of standardized and interoperable metadata to facilitate content retrieval by search engines, aggregators, and scientific information services.
  6. Preservation and permanent accessibility of published content in accordance with the journal's archiving and digital preservation policies.

The journal will periodically review its dissemination mechanisms to improve the visibility and impact of published works.

2.9 Ethical Rules and Best practices guidelines

Linguo Didactica as a journal of excellence adheres to the code of ethics of the Publication Ethics Committee (COPE), aimed at editors, reviewers and authors.

Committee on Publication Ethics:

http://publicationethics.org/resources/code-conduct

Author commitments:

  • Originality and plagiarism: the authors of manuscripts sent to Linguo Didactica assure that the work is original, that it does not contain parts of other authors or other fragments of works already published by the authors. In addition, they confirm the rigor and veracity of the data, that is, that the empirical data has not been altered to verify hypotheses.
  • Multiple and/or repetitive publications: the author must not publish articles in which the same results are repeated in more than one scientific journal. The simultaneous proposal of the same contribution to multiple scientific journals is considered ethically incorrect and reprehensible.
  • List of sources: the author must always provide the correct indication of the sources and contributions mentioned in the article.
  • Authorship: Regarding the authorship of the manuscript, the authors guarantee the inclusion of all those people who have made a significant scientific and intellectual contribution both in the conceptualization and planning of the work, as well as in the interpretation of the results and in the writing of the manuscript. same. At the same time, the authors have been ranked according to their level of responsibility and involvement.
  • Access and retention: If deemed appropriate by editors, authors of articles should also make the sources or data on which the research is based available, which may be retained for a reasonable period of time after publication and possibly made accessible.
  • Conflict of interest and disclosure: all authors are required to explicitly declare that there are no conflicts of interest that may have influenced the results obtained or the proposed interpretations. The authors must also indicate any financing from agencies and/or projects with which the research has been financed, the results of which are published in the article submitted for evaluation.
  • Errors in published articles: when an author identifies an important error or inaccuracy in his article, he must immediately inform the editors of the journal and provide them with all the necessary information to publish the pertinent corrections at the bottom of the same article.
  • Responsibility: all authors equally accept responsibility for what is written in the article. Before submitting their article for evaluation, the authors must have carried out a review of the most current and relevant scientific literature on the subject analyzed, bearing in mind the different currents of knowledge in a plural form.

Reviewer Commitments:

  • Contribution to the editorial decision: peer review is a procedure that helps editors to make decisions about the proposed articles and also allows the author to improve the contribution submitted for publication. The reviewers assume the commitment to carry out a critical, honest, constructive and unbiased review, both of the scientific quality and the literary quality of the writing in the field of their knowledge and skills.
  • Respect of the times: the reviewer who does not feel competent in the subject to be reviewed or who cannot finish the evaluation in the scheduled time will notify the editors immediately. The reviewers undertake to evaluate the works in the shortest time possible to respect the delivery deadlines, since in Linguo Didactica the limits of custody of pending manuscripts are limited and inflexible out of respect for the authors and their works.
  • Confidentiality: each assigned manuscript must be considered confidential. Therefore, these texts should not be discussed with other people without the express consent of the publishers.
  • Objectivity: the peer review will be carried out objectively. No personal judgment of the authors of contributions is considered appropriate. Reviewers are required to give sufficient reasons for their ratings. The reviewers will submit a full critical report with appropriate references according to the review protocol of Linguo Didactica and public regulations for reviewers, especially if the work is proposed to be rejected. They are required to advise editors if substantial parts of the work have already been published or are under review in another journal.
  • Text display: the reviewers undertake to accurately indicate the bibliographic references of fundamental works possibly forgotten by the author. The reviewer should also inform the editors of any similarities or overlaps of the manuscript with other published works.
  • Conflict of Interest and Disclosure: Confidential information or information obtained during the peer review process should be considered confidential and may not be used for personal purposes. Reviewers should not agree to review a manuscript if conflicts of interest exist. This occurs when the person who performs the evaluation has maintained a current or past relationship with any institutions or persons related to the manuscript.

Publisher Commitments:

  • Publication decision: the editors will guarantee the selection of the most qualified reviewers to issue a critical and expert assessment of the work, with the least possible bias. Linguo Didactica chooses to select between 2 reviewers for each work in order to guarantee greater objectivity in the review process.
  • Honesty: the editors evaluate the articles submitted for publication only on the basis of the scientific merit of the contents, without discrimination of race, gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnic origin, nationality, political opinion of the authors.
  • Confidentiality: Editors and Working Group members agree not to disclose information regarding articles submitted for publication to anyone other than authors, reviewers, and editors. The editors and the Editorial Board commit to the confidentiality of the manuscripts, their authors and reviewers, so that anonymity preserves the intellectual integrity of the entire process.
  • Conflict of Interest and Disclosure: The editors undertake not to use the content of articles submitted for publication in their research without the written consent of the author.

Respect for deadlines: The editors are ultimately responsible for ensuring compliance with the timeframes established for the review and publication of accepted papers, in order to guarantee the prompt dissemination of results. The initial editorial decision (whether to proceed to review or to decline) will be communicated within a maximum of 15 days from the receipt of the manuscript on the OJS platform.

The full editorial process — which includes peer review, revisions, editing, and preparation of the volume — takes place between June and December, in accordance with the publication schedule. Likewise, accepted papers will not remain unpublished beyond the time required for their proper editing in the corresponding issue.

In the event that a June volume is explicitly announced, the full editorial process — including peer review, revisions, editing, and preparation of the volume — will take place between December and May.

2.10 Archiving

This journal uses the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among collaborating libraries, allowing them to create permanent archives of the journal for conservation and restoration purposes.

2.11 Plagiarism detection and use of AI

The Linguo Didactica journal will review the articles with an anti- plagiarism program to check and detect the originality of the articles sent in the initial phase or internal review of at least 90% without considering the references. This is a condition to proceed to the second phase of external review, confirmation of originality. First, it will be verified that they have not been published previously, totally or in part by the authors. Second, that complete parts of other authors are taken literally or similarly, or the sources are not cited adequately.

In addition, Linguo Didactica recommends that the authors previously review the article on their own in this regard. For this, this journal makes available to the evaluators of scientific articles proposed for publication, the following systems for the detection of plagiarism of the articles under review:

  • Copyscape – Finds online copies of a web page based on the URL.
  • Plagium : Search for documents that are the same or similar to the text entered.
  • PlagScan : you can upload files or enter text directly. Returns results sorted by preference.
  • the Plagiarism Checker : Shows the web pages where the entered text is located.
  • double Checker - Compares entered text with documents on the web.
  • ArticleCheker - Compares text and web pages on Google and Yahoo search engines.
  • TinEye - reverse image search engine.
  • Viper – Allows you to compare documents with others on the web and with your own documents.
  • Antiplagiarist : Allows you to check if there are copied text fragments in a document.

2.12 Interoperability Protocols

Linguo Didactica provides an interface OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative – Protocol for metadata Harvesting) that allows other portals and information services to access the metadata of the published content.

Specifications:

OAI-PMH Protocol Version 2.0

Dublin Core Metadata

Route for the harvesters: http://www.uhu.es/publicaciones/ojs/index.php/LINGUO/oai

2.13 Privacy Statement

The names and email addresses entered in this journal will be used exclusively for the purposes stated in it and will not be provided to third parties or used for other purposes.

2.14 Gender equality practices

Linguo Didactica is in tune with gender policies that lead to real equality in our society between women and men.This assertion is in harmony with the custody of human dignity. It will be ensured that participation in the processes is balanced regarding women and men. The use of inclusive language in scientific articles that takes into account the presence and situation of women in society is recommended and that it is in accordance with the principle of equality between the sexes. 

2.15 Adhesion to Dora

"Linguo didáctica" journal adheres to the San Francisco Declaration on the evaluation of research, DORA
 

2.16 Guidelines on the Use of Artificial Intelligence in Manuscript Preparation

Authors are required to disclose any use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) tools during the preparation of their manuscript at the time of submission. This guideline pertains exclusively to the writing phase of the manuscript and does not extend to the use of AI for data analysis or interpretation within the research process.

AI-based technologies, including generative tools, may be employed strictly for enhancing the clarity, structure, or language quality of the manuscript. 

The use of standard utilities designed for grammar correction, spell-checking, or citation formatting does not require formal declaration. If no advanced AI tools were used during the writing process, no statement is necessary.

All AI-generated content must be reviewed critically by the author(s), as such tools may produce output that is inaccurate, incomplete, or biased despite sounding authoritative. Human oversight is essential, and authors retain full accountability for the integrity and accuracy of the submitted work.

It is strictly prohibited to attribute authorship or co-authorship to AI tools or systems. Authorship implies intellectual contribution and accountability—roles that can only be fulfilled by human individuals.

This process must be conducted tranparently in Acknowledgement section. This section must be included after the reference list and will be published as part of the final article.