Editorial Policy

The journal Živi jezici is published once a year by the Association for Foreign Languages and Literatures of Serbia and the Faculty of Philology of the University of Belgrade.

The journal publishes original scientific research, review articles, reviews, chronicles, reports, and bibliographies in applied linguistics, (foreign) language learning and teaching, linguistics, cultural and literary studies.

Already published papers or works submitted to publication elsewhere are not accepted for consideration. If the paper was presented at a scientific event (under the same or similar title), this information should be acknowledged in a footnote.

Živi jezici is an Open Access journal.

The journal does not charge any fees at submission, reviewing, and production stages.

PEER REVIEW

The submitted manuscripts are subject to a peer review process. The purpose of peer review is to assist the Editor in making editorial decisions and through the editorial communication with the author it may also assist the author in improving the manuscript.

All papers submitted for publication to Živi jezici undergo double-blind peer review, which means that the identity of the authors is unknown to the reviewers and identity of reviewers is not known to the authors, before, during and after the peer review procedure.

Each submission is reviewed by two competent reviewers. If necessary, when the decisions of the two reviewers are not the same (accept/reject), the Еditor-in-Chief may assign the paper to additional reviewers. Reviewers are expected to provide their reports within a month. Reviewers do not receive honoraria for peer review.

The choice of reviewers is at the Editor’s discretion. The reviewers must be knowledgeable about the subject area of the manuscript and preferably not be affiliated with the same institution as the authors. Persons who have recent joint publications with the authors are not eligible to be reviewers. The Editor-in-Chief shall ensure that the author’s personal data (especially the name and affiliation) will be removed from the manuscript before sending it to reviewers and shall take all reasonable measures to ensure that the authors remain anonymous to the reviewers until the end of the peer review procedure.

Each selected reviewer is provided with a form that contains a series of questions indicating which aspects should be covered in order to make the decision to publish or to reject the manuscript. In the final section of the form, the reviewers are expected to provide a general evaluation of the manuscript. If the reviewer suggests that the paper should be rejected or requests a revision, then the recommendation should be explained in detail. If the reviewer has already assessed the manuscript positively in the answers to the questions in the form, it is not necessary to repeat the assessment in the final evaluation.

During the review process, the Editor may require authors to provide additional information (including raw data) if that is necessary for the evaluation of the manuscript’s scholarly merit. These materials shall be kept confidential and must not be used for personal gain.

The Editorial Staff shall ensure reasonable quality control for the reviews. With respect to reviewers whose reviews are convincingly questioned by authors, special attention will be paid to ensure that the reviews are objective and that they follow high academic standards. When there is any doubt regarding the objectivity of the reviews or quality of the review, additional reviewers will be assigned.

The author is obliged to change the paper in accordance with the possible suggestions of the reviewers, as well as to correct the text itself if required to do so. The author must inform the Editorial Board about all the changes he/she has made by marking the places that have been changed.

OPEN ACCESS POLICY

Živi jezici is an Open Access Journal. All articles can be downloaded free of charge from the journal’s websitehttps://zivijezici.fil.bg.ac.rs. The online version of the journal is published simultaneously with the print version. All articles are Open Access under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Digital copies of the journal are archived in the Digital Repository of the National Library of Serbia.

LICENSING AND COPYRIGHT TERMS

Authors retain copyright of the published papers and grant to the publisher the right to publish the article, to be cited as its original publisher in case of reuse, and to distribute it in all forms and media. Articles will be distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-SA 4.0). This license allows commercial and non-commercial distribution use of the article, if the name of the author is properly acknowledged and if the article remains unchanged. In further use of the article, full bibliographic information of the original article published in the journal must be provided (author, article title, journal title, volume, issue and pagination), and an HTML link must be made to the article's DOI.

Authors may enter the separate, additional contractual arrangements for non-exclusive distribution of the journal published paper (e.g., post it to an institutional repository or publish it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in the journal Živi jezici.

SELF-ARCHIVING POLICY

The  journal Živi jezici allows authors to deposit Publisher’s PDF in an institutional repository and non-commercial subject-based repositories or to publish it on Author's personal website (including social networking sites, such as ResearchGate, Academia.edu, etc.) and/or departmental website, at any time after publication. Full bibliographic information (author, article title, journal title, volume, issue and pagination) about the original publication must be provided and an HTML link must be made to the article's DOI.

DISCLAIMER

The views expressed in the published works do not express the views of the Editor and Editorial Board. The authors take legal and moral responsibility for the ideas expressed in the articles. Publisher shall have no liability in the event of issuance of any claims for damages