PUBLICATION NAME

The JALA is the Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology, and publishes significant work on Asian Linguistic Anthropology, within the GLOCAL, The Global Council on Anthropological Linguistics, at SOAS, University of London.

https://glocal.soas.ac.uk 

EDITOR ROLES

• Predicated on suggestions by both the review report and the Editorial Board, the Editor-in-Chief can accept, reject, or request modifications to any manuscript.
• The Editor can reject work without review if the Editor deems the quality insufficient or inappropriate for the JALA required standards, or if the content violates ethical requirements, such as plagiarism, fraud, conflicts of interest, bias, or slander.
• The Editor ensures that manuscripts are reviewed for their intellectual content without regard to sex, gender, race, religion, citizenship, ethnicity, and so forth, of authors.
• Editors’ decisions to accept or reject a paper for publication should be based only on the paper’s importance, originality, and clarity, and the study’s relevance to the remit of the journal.
• All original studies should be peer-reviewed before publication, taking into full account possible bias due to related or conflicting interests. 
• The Editor ensures that information regarding manuscripts is kept confidential.
• The Editor will not use submitted manuscripts for the benefit of the Editor without author-written consent.
• Studies that challenge previous work published in the journal should be given an especially sympathetic hearing.
• Studies reporting negative results should not be excluded.
• Work must consider and balance the interests of many constituents, including readers, authors, staff, owners, Editorial Board members, advertisers and the media.
• When a published paper is subsequently found to contain major flaws, editors must accept responsibility for correcting the record prominently and promptly.

AUTHOR RESPONSIBILITIES

• Authors must ensure that all manuscripts submitted comprise entirely original work.
• Authors must account for their original research, and must objectively discuss its significance. Similarly, all authors must take responsibility for content.
• Authors will not submit the same manuscript, or will not publish identically on the same research data, to more than one issue.
• Authors will acknowledge all sources used and will cite all appropriate publications.
• Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the study, either as the main author, or as co-author.
• All (co)authors will have seen and agreed to the submitted version of the manuscript.
• Authors should be prepared to provide raw data relevant and related to their manuscript for editorial review, and must retain such data for a period of (at least) five years after the publication.
• Authors must clearly disclose sources of financial support.
• If authors discover a significant inaccuracy in the manuscript, the authors must immediately act to remedy this through discussions with the Editor(s).
• Authorship should balance intellectual contributions to the design, analysis and development of the study against the data and data collection.
• Authors should carefully scrutinize the JALA policy prior to developing any written contribution.
• Authors must be aware that The JALA does not and will not charge fees for any publication. Authors are advised to discuss editing requirements with any third parties. At times, and when clearly announced, the JALA does offer free editing, to selected authors, and will not at any time require remuneration for such work.
• All manuscript processing and/or publishing of materials in the JALA shall be clearly announced prior to the acceptance of any papers.
• Should Authors wish to be included in peer review processes, then the JALA accepts proposals for such voluntary review work.

PLAGIARISM

The JALA defines plagiarism as producing work by oneself that derives, past a fundamental unrecognizable unit, from the work of others, whom the author of the plagiarized work neglects or refuses to acknowledge as rightful owners of the original work, and hence without due, legal, and ethical acknowledgement.

The JALA will not under any circumstances accept nor tolerate any form of plagiarism, and will similarly not tolerate any collaborators engaging in such practice. The JALA adheres to principles, throughout these guidelines, that stipulate originality and rigor in research and publishing in Linguistic (and Cultural) Anthropology

By submitting work to the JALA publications for consideration, all authors immediately transfer all authority to the JALA to practice jurisdiction over rightful ownership of this work, and as such, authors allow the JALA to exercise policy to act against plagiarism.

Authors of these plagiarized works will immediately be contacted to either promptly alter their submissions and any related work, or will be removed from the JALA publications at once. Significantly, any libel material and legal repercussions of plagiarism will not be the responsibility of the JALA in any part or in full, and hence the authors of the work submitted to the JALA will be fully responsible for these actions.

The JALA holds in very high regard those parties who act against plagiarism, irrespective of the quality of the submitted work, and hence those who continuously seek to develop the standard of their original work. The JALA will work to assist those who attempt to raise the quality of their work through originality

We expect our readers, reviewers and editors to raise any suspicions of plagiarism, either by contacting the relevant editor or by emailing info@jala.glocal-journals.link.

PEER REVIEW PROCESS

The Peer Review Process at the JALA not only aims to maintain a high standard of work submitted to and published by the JALA, but also to assist the JALA to continuously seek ways in which to raise this standard, as a process of affirmative action research. The JALA defines peer-review as the garnering of critical input on work submitted.

• All the JALA publications are subjected to peer-review.
• For the JALA Peer Review Policy, access the following link: https://jala.glocal-journals.link/peer-review-policy/
• The JALA organizes the peer-review procedure to ensure that multiple reviewers blind-review the submission, and in this way, the JALA Editors maximize the objectivity of the review process. All the JALA reviews should support their recommendations with concrete arguments.
• The JALA Editors attempt to most effectively ensure that there is no conflict of interest between the reviewers and the authors.
• Reviewers should maintain full confidentiality with work reviewed.
• Manuscript reviewers ensure that authors acknowledge all data sources.
• Any similarity or overlap between the manuscript and other publications will be immediately brought to the attention of the Editor.
• The JALA seeks to increasingly strengthen its peer-review practices, and to limit unethical practices, thus avoiding any biased review and selection practices.
• The JALA encourages all authors and editors to comply with strict peer-review requirements, as stipulated in these guidelines and in COPE’s Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers, or in the Association of American University Press’ Best Practices for Peer Review more appropriate.

PUBLICATION ETHICS

• The JALA will ensure that its Editors identify and avoid publishing papers that exhibit scholarly misconduct.
• In the event that the JALA is made aware of any such misconduct, the JALA will immediately act to remedy such misconduct, either through discussion with Editors or Authors, and hence requesting alterations, or by removing the manuscripts from the submission procedure or publication.
• The JALA has guidelines available that stipulate the retracting or altering of submissions in the event of misconduct.
• At times of such misconduct, or at times when alterations are required after the publishing of papers, the JALA practices, distributes explanations, apologies, and the most serious of cases, retracts the papers.

COPYRIGHT AND ACCESS

• All submissions to the JALA shall be copyright-owned by the JALA.
• All publishing and access to the JALA is free, as a free to publish and free to access journal.
• All papers are available only on the JALA page, yet readers may download the papers at no cost.
• The JALA, as does the GLOCAL, endorses a free to publish system, at all times.

ARCHIVING

The JALA publications will be archived indefinitely, as an open access journal. The JALA platform will be available indefinitely, with plans to strengthen its attention to both quality and purpose. Here, the proceedings will thus be available to a general audience indefinitely. The JALA is thus fully free to publish and to access, download, and distribute, pending all necessary copyright, as stipulated throughout the publication.

OWNERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

The JALA, the Journal of Asian Linguistic Anthropology, is owned by the GLOCAL, the Global Council on Anthropological Linguistics, as a unit at SOAS, University of London. As such, the JALA publishing facility is situated within SOAS.

PUBLISHING SCHEDULE

The JALA publishes its issues every three months as a quarterly journal in Asian Linguistic Anthropology, Sociolinguistics, and Language and Society. Papers accepted are usually organized approximately six months prior to their publication date.

AUTHOR AND READER FEES

The GLOCAL JALA, as with all other journals, is strictly free for authors and readers. Here, the GLOCAL JALA, as with all other GLOCAL journals, is open access to all readers, and does not, has not, and will not at any time request nor allow the payment of any monies for publishing.

The Journal does not charge fees for processing, and asks that the text is at a certain quality in order to reduce burden on the Journal and reviewers. Should the text require significant and unmanageable editing, the Journal will suggest to author to employ an independent editor and advisor, after which, the text can be resubmitted.

STANDARDS

The JALA and its published content always maintain high ethical and professional standards and endorse these throughout its networks.

CONFLICT OF INTEREST

1. Introduction: The JALA Conflict of interests policy below describes actions that can and would advisably be taken. The policy advises on the effective pathways through which to address conflicts or potential conflicts between the individuals and their interests and organisations and their interests. Editors, authors, peer reviewers, and other stakeholders are required to disclose any interests or histories that may influence the objective or transparent presentation or review of their work. These interests may include financial, personal, political, religious, professional, publishing, and so forth interests. Authors and other stakeholders should not allow other policies that prevent the authors with conflicts of interest from publishing or from fully publishing to obscure these other details and agreements. Here, transparency is crucial to all agreements with the JALA, and the GLOCAL in full.
2. Disclosure of Interests: Those who participate in decisions concerning publication (the members of the Editorial Board, reviewers, editors, and so forth) must disclose all relevant interests. The JALA will include this information on its portals and in communication with authors, editors, and reviewers, in order to maintain transparency through and beyond the publishing process. This information will be updated periodically as necessary. All articles published in the JALA should include, by authors a Conflict of Interest Statement.
3. Authorship: Contributors are advised to ensure that they reference and resolve any issues with potential conflicts of interest prior to submitting manuscripts to the JALA. Each author and co-author must ensure that they have no conflict of interest with any party with vested interest in the manuscript and any other contributed work, in full or in part, such as financial, political, or other interest. Authors are, by the JALA policy, required to announce any funding relevant to the research and publication, and to describe the contents and label of that funding, though this announcement within the body of the manuscript many be no more than two sentences. Furthermore, all authors must not maintain any proprietary or vested connection with that which is presented within the submitted work. Here, authors must produce a short disclosure statement and should include this in the manuscript. The statement should present no conflicts of interest between the current work and other parties. However, should any conflict of interest arise post-publication, authors must immediately upon learning of this conflict resolve any issues, such as through amendments to the manuscript. Here, all collaborating parties with access to the resolution of the conflict must contribute to the resolution.
4. Editorial Board and stakeholders: Upon engaging with the manuscript, all relevant parties must specify an approximate completion date for all respective responsibilities, and are also advised to consult on the lifespan of statements of conflict of interest. As above, editors should include any conflicts of interest with other stakeholders, not least of whom are the authors, co authors, and editors, as well as the Editor in Chief, though all editing and peer review processes must maintain appropriate anonymity. Upon being commissioned by the Editor in Chief, the editors should provide a written statement to the EIC of the fact that there are no conflicts of interest, though the EIC does request this at the onset of the engagement. Here, the agreement system includes questions that seek to elicit from the editors and other parties, information pertaining to potential conflicts of interest, as well as a request for the stakeholders to recuse themselves should any such conflicts of interest be unavoidable in the editing or reviewing process. The peer review process is anonymous, and hence all processes are channelled through the Editor in Chief or anyone appointed by the EIC to channel communication that is fully confidential and anonymous, in order to ensure that all reviews entail objective editorial judgments. It follows that the Editor in Chief, or any member of the Editorial Board, who would otherwise have agency in deciding on the outcome of any submitted manuscripts, are unable to do so with regards to their own submissions. All stakeholders, including the editorial board, should fully contribute to the maintenance of the anonymity of both author and reviewers, and should refrain from appropriating manuscript materials or ideas prior to its publication. Should a conflict of interest arise prior to publication, Editorial Board members, editors, the EIC or other stakeholders, this information must be provided to the EIC and a conflict of interest statement must be published in the manuscript.
5. Reviewers: The reviewers of all manuscripts during the peer review process at the JALA must at all times adhere to the principles set our by COPE. Should any such conflict of interest arise, the Reviewers will have been informed that they must contact the Editor in Chief, and to speak with the EIC in privacy to disclose such information, following which, the EIC shall act accordingly. Such a conflict of interest may include a personal relationship, a business relationship, or a connection within which personal author details may be divulged directly between the author and the reviewer.
6. Financial interests: The publication of the manuscript must not be connected to any employment, grants, patents, sponsorship, investment, material contributions, and so forth. Here, the reviewers, the journal, and other stakeholders, must not place themselves in a position where they will benefit from the publishing of the manuscript, or where they will lose through the rejection of the manuscript.
7. Relationships or competitions: Contributors of manuscripts must inform the EIC as to any memberships, relationships, competitions, and so forth that may impact the success of their submissions.
8. Political or religious beliefs: The reviewers and editors, as well as the EIC must be mindful of any political or religious incompatibility between the manuscript submission content and the beliefs of the stakeholder. Should any such tensions arise, the stakeholder must contact the EIC and discuss this, or would be in a position to reject any involvement in the editing, review, and decision making processes.
9. Institutional affiliations: Any stakeholder in the review and publication process as a whole must not have any institutional affiliation that will influence the review of the process. Should the reviewer, editor, or any other party become aware of any influence to the review process of the manuscript, then the relevant party must make this known to the EIC immediately, following which, the EIC will amend the review process accordingly.
10. Declaration and Disclosure: The JALA editors must develop awareness and must scrutinize any submission in order to avoid all conflicts of interest. In the event of any such potential conflict of interest, this must be provided to the JALA in writing and discussed with the EIC, who will then move to review and revise the review personnel.