Anglistica AION: an interdisciplinary journal (ISSN 2035-8504) is committed to upholding the highest standards of publication ethics and encourages editors and reviewers to follow the COPE Code of Conduct for Journal Editors and the COPE Ethical Guidelines for Peer Reviewers in regard to authorship, article submissions, conflicts of interest, editing and peer-reviewing, and ethical research.

Responsibilities of the editor and the editorial board
The members of the editorial board participate in the meetings convened by the editor, assist her/him in establishing and implementing the journal’s editorial line as well as in all the scientific and organisational activities necessary for the regularity of publication of the journal’s issues. The editor and editorial board are responsible for archiving peer reviews. Together they collaborate with the guest editors of thematic issues to identify external referees for the peer reviewing process. Members who unjustifiably do not participate in editorial board activities may be removed from their position.
The editor and the editorial board must not disclose any information about a submitted manuscript to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate. They ensure that the guest editors of thematic issues comply with confidentiality requirements.

Peer-review policy
Anglistica AION employs a double-blind peer-review process. Manuscripts are reviewed by two independent anonymous experts in the relevant area. The reviewers provide a scientific assessment and a recommendation. The identities of the reviewers and authors are concealed from one another. The guest editors and editor, with the assistance of the editorial board, consider the manuscript and the reviewers’ comments before making a final decision regarding its acceptance, acceptance with revisions, or rejection. All submissions must be treated with respect and confidentiality by the editor, editorial board, advisory board, editors of thematic issues and peer reviewers. It is the responsibility of the editor, with the assistance of the editorial board and guided by their policies, to ensure that only bona fide reviewers are proposed. Upon receipt of reviews, if they concur in recommending publication, even with amendments, they are sent to the authors for a final revision of the contribution. In the event of a disagreement between the two reviews, a third reviewer is consulted. Once the process is complete, a final decision is made by the relevant parties and communicated to the author. The editor, the members of the editorial board and of the advisory board, and the guest editors may submit their own contributions for publication, which will undergo the same double blind peer review process as external submissions.

Authorship and submission
Anglistica AION is firmly committed to the protection and defence of authors’ works and their reputation. It is therefore a requirement that all articles include a clear and truthful attribution of authorship. It is the responsibility of the author(s) to ensure that all authors are duly acknowledged and that the author list accurately reflects the individual contributions made. Anglistica AION evaluates submissions on the understanding that they are the original work of the author(s) in question. It is expected that all references made in a manuscript or article to the work or ideas of another person are properly attributed. Furthermore, authors are required to obtain all necessary permissions prior to publication. The use of text, data, figures, or images without appropriate attribution or permission is considered plagiarism, as is the rephrasing of text, concepts, and ideas.
The submission of an article implies that the work has not been previously published and is not currently under consideration for publication elsewhere. Furthermore, it is understood that the publication of the article is approved by all authors and, where applicable, by the responsible authorities where the work was carried out. In the event that the article is accepted for publication, it will not be published elsewhere in the same form, including in electronic format, without the written consent of Anglistica AION.
It is unacceptable to engage in practices that are contrary to scientific integrity, including plagiarism, reproducing previously published material without proper acknowledgement or falsifying data. If submitted papers are found to contain false or fabricated data, they will not be published. Articles may be subjected to originality or duplicate checking software after as well as before publication. In the event of plagiarism being identified after publication (even if brought to the attention of the journal by external parties), the article is withdrawn and replaced with a note explaining the reason for removal. If an author, reviewer or guest editor is found to violate any of the aforementioned principles or other legal requirements in force, no further contributions from them to Anglistica AION will be accepted.
Upon written consent from the copyright holders, it is our occasional practice to publish translations of essays, either from English into Italian or into English for works originally published in languages other than English.

Open Debate and Amendments
The journal allows for the publicity of debate subsequent to publication. This may be achieved, for instance, through the publication of reply notes or letters to the editor or response articles.
In the event that an author identifies an error in his/her own published article, they are encouraged to notify the editor and/or the editorial board, who together will decide on the publication of a correction note on the journal website.

Conflict of interest
Anglistica AION is committed to transparency in areas of potential conflict of interest. A conflict of interest exists when an author’s personal interests might be perceived as compromising the objectivity of her/his research. Guest Editors of thematic issues are required to recuse themselves from individual manuscripts if they have a potential conflict of interest resulting from competitive, collaborative, or other relationships or connections with any of the authors or possibly institutions connected to the papers. Furthermore, they are obliged to avoid creating potential conflicts of interest, for example through the assignment of peer reviewers. In the event that a reviewer declares potential conflict of interest, it is required that alternative reviewers be selected.

Ethical research and use of inclusive language
As a journal based at the Department of Literary, Linguistic and Comparative Studies at the University of Naples L’Orientale, Anglistica AION is committed to upholding the highest standards of research through its publishing activities. It is of the utmost importance that the research published by this journal be conducted in a fair and ethical manner. Manuscripts are evaluated for their intellectual content without regard to race, gender, sexual orientation, religious belief, ethnic origin, citizenship, or political philosophy of the author(s). The content of all submitted materials should not make any assumption about the beliefs or commitments of any reader; it should contain nothing which might imply that one individual is superior to another on the grounds of age, gender, race, ethnicity, culture, sexual orientation, disability or health condition. It should use inclusive language throughout, acknowledging diversity, conveying respect to all people, while being sensitive to differences and promoting equal opportunities. It is the responsibility of authors to ensure that their writing is free from bias, stereotypes, slang, references to dominant culture and/or cultural assumptions. These guidelines are meant as a point of reference to help identify appropriate language but are by no means exhaustive or definitive.

Copyright
In the form of publication in the journal’s issue, copyright rests with Anglistica AION, University of Naples L’Orientale. Upon acceptance of an article or other material, authors are required to sign a liberatoria or publishing agreement, which outlines the terms and conditions of publication. The authors thereby grant Anglistica AION the right to publish their work in an issue of the journal; they also agree that the journal may license national and international databases to disseminate its content in text, image, other electronic format or such other formats or on such other media as may now exist or hereafter be discovered, which may be done through the re-licensing or sale of information products using the media of CD-ROM, tape, online hosts, internet services and other electronic or optical media or formats now known or hereafter discovered. By granting permission to publish in Anglistica AION the authors also agree that the University of Naples L’Orientale may earn royalties from the publication and non-exclusive right to reproduction of their work. For personal or academic purposes, users may access, download, copy, and link to full texts of articles free of charge and without obtaining prior permission from the publisher or the author(s) on condition that the original link to the online edition is provided. Self-archiving is also permitted. Authors are allowed to deposit the published PDF version of their articles in academic and/or institutional repositories. They can re-publish their work, prior written consent from the editor and/or the publisher, and on condition that the original link to the online edition of Anglistica AION is provided.