Publication of monographs

The Revista de Investigación Lingüística may publish monographs, whose articles address a specific topic under the coordination of one or more specialists. Regarding evaluation, the articles in the monograph are subject to the same level of rigour as any other article published in the journal.

Researchers interested in coordinating a monograph should send their proposal to the editorial team, including a brief presentation of the monograph (between 800 and 1,200 words: specific topic addressed and its relevance, specific objectives, timing of its publication, etc.) and the expected number of authors, indicating whether the participation of specific researchers is planned (brief CV of each of them and summary of their article) or whether the monograph is open to the research community.

The editorial team reviews the proposal and makes a decision based on its scientific interest. If the proposal is accepted, the following distribution of duties between the coordinator(s) and the editorial team applies:

Duties of the coordinator(s):

- Establish a deadline for the reception of original papers.

- Ensure that the scientific quality of the papers meets the academic standards of the journal before they are sent to the editors for evaluation.

- Ensure that the author provides the editos with whichever additional documents are required (e.g. ethics committee reports, statistical data reports) when submitting their work.

- Verify the thematic coherence of the papers in relation to the monograph.

- Confirm that the papers follow RIL's formatting standards.

- Inform the authors how to submit their papers to RIL using the OJS platform.

- Prepare an introduction to the monograph once the evaluation process for the corresponding papers has been completed.

Duties of the editorial team:

- Ensure that the manuscripts considered are free of plagiarism or any other type of fraud.

- Submit the papers for evaluation under the same review conditions and with the same level of scientific rigour as the rest of the papers received: double-blind peer review.

- Based on the evaluations received, accept the paper, reject it or request that modifications (minor or substantial) be made.