Editorial policy
Duties and Rights of the Editor
- conducts, in cooperation with the Executive Secretary, an initial technical screening to ensure that the article formatting complies with the Guidelines for Authors and the Article Template, and to determine whether the article may be forwarded for peer review;
- appoints reviewers for articles that have successfully passed the initial technical screening for compliance with technical requirements and plagiarism checking;
- based on the reviewers’ reports, the editorial board makes the final decision on the acceptance or rejection of the submitted material.
In making decisions, the Editor-in-Chief is guided exclusively by scholarly considerations and compliance with publishing standards. Decisions of the Editor-in-Chief and the editorial board must not depend on the author’s or authors’ gender, nationality, religious beliefs, or any other personal characteristics.
Duties and Rights of Reviewers
Each manuscript submitted for peer review is treated as a confidential document. Reviewers must not use any materials contained in the submitted manuscript in their own publications. Reviewers may share the manuscript with third parties only with the permission of the Editor-in-Chief.
In accordance with the journal’s peer review policy, a double-blind peer review procedure is applied. The object of review must be the results of the research conducted, not the author or the group of authors. The expert assessment must not depend on the author’s or authors’ gender, nationality, religious beliefs, or any other personal characteristics.
A reviewer must decline to review a manuscript and notify the editorial office if they are not a specialist in the subject matter of the manuscript or if a conflict of interest is identified.
For Authors
The journal accepts articles with no more than three authors. Submission of an article to the editorial office and acceptance of the public offer signify that publication of the submitted article in “Til žäne ädebiet: teoriyȃsy men täžìribesì” / “Тіл және әдебиет: теориясы мен тәжірибесі” / “Язык и литература: теория и практика” / “Language and Literature: Theory and Practice” does not infringe upon the copyright of any third party. The author(s) grant the founder of the journal a non-exclusive license, for an unlimited period, to use the scholarly article by making full-text online versions of journal issues available on the journal’s website.
The author(s) bear full responsibility for any unlawful use of intellectual property, copyrighted materials, or AI (artificial intelligence) in the scholarly article, in accordance with the current legislation of the Republic of Kazakhstan.
The author(s) consent to the publishers of the journal conducting plagiarism checks of the submitted work.
Authors must comply with research ethics as set out in the Model Rules of Scientific Ethics of the Republic of Kazakhstan (https://adilet.zan.kz/rus/docs/V2400035392) and with publication ethics as defined in the COPE Principles (Committee on Publication Ethics). The editorial office does not engage in discussions with authors regarding article formatting, the content of the article, or decisions on publication.
Procedure for Article Evaluation
Articles submitted to the editorial office are subject, at the first stage, to mandatory initial technical screening to verify compliance of the article formatting with the requirements set out in the Guidelines for Authors (https://yazlit.ppu.edu.kz/index.php/new/guidelines-for-authors) and the Article Template available on the journal’s website. If the article formatting does not comply with the journal’s requirements, the article is rejected. Compliance of the article with the journal’s technical requirements is the responsibility of the author(s). The editorial office provides information on the required standards and an article template and conducts technical screening only at the first stage of article evaluation. If the author(s) fail to pass the initial technical screening three times, the article is rejected definitively and is not accepted for resubmission to the journal.
At the second stage, articles are also subject to mandatory plagiarism screening using antiplagiat.com (https://antiplagiat.com/); the originality rate of an article must be at least 75%.
After successfully passing the initial technical screening and plagiarism check, articles are forwarded for anonymous double-blind peer review.
The procedure for passing the stages of article evaluation is transparent. Authors may monitor the progress of the review process through their personal account on the journal’s website and use it to communicate with the editorial office. Authors are required to respond in a timely manner and within the established deadlines to editorial requests and comments related to technical screening, as well as to reviewers’ comments, which are communicated via the author’s personal account. If an author fails to respond to editorial requests through the personal account within one month, the editorial office reserves the right to reject the article definitively, without the possibility of resubmission to the journal. The speed of acceptance of an article for publication depends on the timeliness of the authors’ responses to editorial and reviewers’ comments and on the time required by the author(s) to revise the article.
Peer Review Procedure
Articles submitted to the editorial office undergo a double-blind peer review procedure. The peer review process is confidential for both reviewers and authors. The author(s) are informed of the review results through their personal account on the journal’s website. Articles that receive positive reviews are submitted to the journal’s editorial board for discussion. Articles that receive negative reviews are not accepted for reconsideration. If a reviewer indicates the need for revisions, the author must revise the article and submit the updated version to the editorial office within the timeframe specified by the editorial office. Revised versions of articles and the author’s response to the reviewer must be submitted to the editorial office via the author’s personal account on the website within the deadlines established by the editorial office.
Submission of materials to the editorial office signifies the author’s full consent to the publication of their article in the journal.
Open Access Policy
The journal “Til žäne ädebiet: teoriyȃsy men täžìribesì” / “Тіл және әдебиет: теориясы мен тәжірибесі” / “Язык и литература: теория и практика” / “Language and Literature: Theory and Practice” is an open access journal, meaning that all of its content is freely and openly available to any user, whether an individual or an organization, under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0).
Readers are permitted to read, download, distribute, copy, print, and link to the full texts of all published articles, or to use them for any other lawful purposes, without prior permission from the publisher or the author. The author(s) grant the journal’s publisher a royalty-free right to publish the article and to make it publicly available on the Internet. The editors adhere to these principles in accordance with the requirements of the Budapest Open Access Initiative (2002).
