Editorial policy

Euskera ikerketa aldizkaria is the official publication of Euskaltzaindia and has been published since 1920. It accepts original research papers, book reviews and similar pieces in the fields in which the Academy of the Basque Language works. Issues are published in the year referred to in the issue number of the journal. For publication of research papers in its different subject areas the Editorial Committee will request the opinion of two reviewers, ensuring anonymity by using the double-blind PEER REVIEW system. Work submitted must be original, new and unpublished, preferably research studies and papers, though those devoted to publishing documents, reports on the journal's subject areas or miscellanies also have a place. The Editorial Committee of Euskera ikerketa aldizkaria is also open to submission of book reviews (recensions) and bibliographical essays. Work submitted for publication follows a selection process governed by strict quality criteria, carried out by specialist reviewers external to the journal, ensuring the anonymity of both reviewers and authors.

With regard to originality and presentation, the following aspects should be taken into account:

  • Entirely original, valuable confirmation, repetition of known results.
  • Currency and novelty. Relevance in the twin aspects of usefulness (applicability of the results to solving specific problems) and significance (advancing academic knowledge).
  • Academic reliability and validity, i.e. proven methodological quality.
  • Presentations. Well written (clear, brief and precise), well organised (logically coherent) and good presentation of material.
  • The submission of manuscripts for publication in the journal implies agreement to all the specified conditions of the publication process at Euskera ikerketa aldizkaria. The Editorial Committee takes no responsibility for the results, statements, opinions and points of view sustained by the authors in their different forms and formats of appearance in the journal.

The following points will also be taken into account:

  • Authorship, contributions and acknowledgements. The authors must have taken sufficient part in the work, take responsibility for at least one of the parts that make it up, identify those responsible for each of the other parts and have confidence in the ability and integrity of their co-authors.
  • Collaborators who have contributed in some way to preparing the manuscript, but whose collaboration does not justify authorship, may appear in the Acknowledgements section.
  • All natural or legal persons mentioned in this section must be aware of and consent to this mention; dealing with this is the responsibility of the authors.
  • Copyright. Euskera ikerketa aldizkaria adheres to the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC-BY-NC) licence, which means authors maintain their rights of authorship and do not allow commercial use of the original work or of any work derived from it, distribution of which must be under the same licence as the original work, referring to its authorship and to the journal, which must always be cited, allowing its dissemination through open access systems and the use of the content by the international academic community and the rest of society.
  • Conflict of interest. The authors must declare any possible conflicts of interest, whether professional, financial or of any other kind, that could influence the content of the work. Should the manuscript or part of its content have been published previously in any medium, the Editorial Committee of the journal must be informed of this and supplied with a copy of the said publication.
  • Funding. In the event that the work was partially or fully funded by any public or private institution, this must be stated both in the covering letter and in the text of the manuscript.
  • Permission to reproduce published material. The authors are responsible for obtaining all necessary permission to reproduce any material protected by copyright or similar.