PUBLISHING POLICY

Definition

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua (BAPL) is a biannual publication of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua (APL) that accepts and encourages the publication of articles, notes, and reviews, especially on literature, linguistics, and philology.

Mission

The mission of the BAPL is to generate quality content that encourages research, the publication of results and the dissemination of knowledge in the field of literary, linguistic, and philological studies at the national and international level. To this end, it promotes immediate open access to information and easy navigation for the advancement of humanistic knowledge.

Aim, approach, and scope

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is a publication which aims to promote and disseminate works resulting from academic-scientific research in linguistics, philology, and literature, as well as from their interrelation with other disciplines of the humanities, such as history and philosophy, and education. Its efforts foster the development of a virtual community that builds links between authors, editors, and readers. The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua provides historical access to the content. The editorial criterion guiding the publication is the knowledge acquired through research on linguistic and literary topics.

The journal focuses on theoretical and applied research on thematic areas of linguistics, philology, and literature. It also accepts interdisciplinary articles whose topics are related to language, orality, writing, reading, languages, speakers, and the linguistic sign. The BAPL publishes works on history of literature, historical linguistics, philosophy of language, intercultural education, language acquisition, discourse analysis, and migration linguistics. The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua only publishes original texts written in Spanish. The Boletín values critical inquiries. Researchers can investigate national, regional, international, synchronic, or diachronic topics written and submitted in Spanish. Its peer review process is anonymous with specialists from the international linguistic community. The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua supports the San Francisco Declaration on Research Assessment (DORA).

The Boletín is a biannual journal published by the Academia Peruana de la Lengua and is distributed in both printed and digital format. The Boletín is published in annual volumes from January to June (first issue) and from July to December (second issue). The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua has been published on a regular basis. The Boletín's publications are kept in its files. They are published after being revised and accepted by the authors. The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua can be accessed through the Open Journal System (OJS), available at http://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/home. The journal publishes at least 8 articles, 1 note, 1 review per research issue per year. The annual publication number is approximately a total of 20 articles, 2 notes, 2 reviews. The editorial team decides to exceed this amount. The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua offers a continuous generation of content.

Importance and socio-cultural relevance of the Boletín

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua has been committed to society and the academic community since 1967. For more than 50 years, it has been dedicated to promoting research and discussions in the fields of literature, linguistics, philology, and others related to orality, writing and intercultural bilingual education, by means of articles, notes, and reviews, which promote social and humanistic development. The target audience of the Boletín are researchers, specialists, professors, undergraduate and graduate students, and people linked to the university environment.

Historical review of the journal

  • Brief History

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua (abbreviated for operational purposes as BAPL) was first published in 1967. It was initially managed by Aurelio Miró Quesada. It is currently managed by Marco Martos Carrera. Since 2020, the journal has also become a digital publication.

  • Extended history

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua was published in print format for the first time in 1967 and has been systematically published up to the present time. It was published in that year under the promotion and direction of Aurelio Miró Quesada for the eightieth anniversary of the Academia Peruana de la Lengua. Since then, the Boletín has been consecutively published in the next eight administrations (under the editors Aurelio Miró Quesada Sosa, José Jiménez Borja, Augusto Tamayo Vargas, Estuardo Núñez Hague, Luis Jaime Cisneros Vizquerra, Marco G. Martos Carrera, Ricardo Silva-Santisteban Ubillús, and Marco G. Martos Carrera in his second administration and Eduardo Hopkins Rodríguez in management from 2022). At the beginning it started as an annual Boletín and then became a regular biannual Boletín. Since then, it has been published in two periods: January to June and July to December. From 2020 on, the Bulletin has also become a digital magazine. To the ISSN of its printed format: 0567-6002, the ISSN in online version was added: 2708-2644. For operational purposes, the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is abbreviated with the acronym BAPL. Since its inception, the Boletín has encouraged the participation of authors without distinction of class, gender, or color. It has joined the UN initiative that promotes the millennium goals in relation to education and development, specifically goals two, three and eight.

The initial purpose of the Boletín was to regularly publish a space to present the Corporation's work. The Boletín has as its predecessor the Annals that were under the direction of Francisco García Calderón and Secretary Luis Benjamín Cisneros. The cover of the 1887 brochure reads: "Anales de la Academia Correspondiente de la Real Española en el Perú. Lima: Imp. de Torres Aguirre, Mercaderes, 150". The Annals were published only once. Later, in 1917, with the encouragement of Ricardo Palma and under the direction of Javier Prado y Ugarteche, academic Enrique Castro y Oyanguren was designated to prepare the first Boletín, which recorded the academic speeches, notes and agreements. The cover of the Boletín was entitled: "Boletín de la Academia Peruana correspondiente de la Real Española de la Lengua. Volume I - Book 1. Lima: State Printing House, Nuñez, 206, 1918, 202 pages". The Boletín was interrupted for a few years, until it began to be published systematically in 1967. Among the works published were the lexicographical cards. In the following years, research works in literature, philology and linguistics were published more frequently. In 2018, three types of contributions for the digital Boletín were established to organize the different manuscripts: articles, notes, and reviews. The speeches of incorporations are included in the issues where the incorporation of an academic occurs. At commemorative events, the BAPL also includes obituaries. In recent years, the Boletín has also allowed the publication of illustrations or photographs in those articles where they are required. In 2023, under the direction of Eduardo Hopkins Rodríguez, the position of General Editor was established, appointing Dr. Antonio González Montes to this role. The Boletín is an academic journal that promotes research of experts in the fields of literature, linguistics, and philology.

Reception of collaborations and original topics

Manuscripts should meet the highest standards of scholarly excellence, develop theoretical knowledge, deal with current and cutting-edge issues, contribute to or stimulate current debates in the field, while offering new and original interpretations on issues within the approach and scope of the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua. Authors are expected to demonstrate accuracy in data collection and analysis; report interesting results, discussions, and findings; show great depth of analysis; and write with sophistication, precision, and conciseness, avoiding biased or prejudiced language. Calls for academic articles are published in the announcements and social networks section of the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua.

External evaluators

The arbitration system uses external evaluators for the qualification of the articles and the evaluation of their possible publication using the double-blind procedure. 

The arbitration system and the peer review process

All texts submitted to the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua undergo a double-blind peer review process (reviewers do not know the identity of the authors and vice-versa), which preserves the anonymity of the authors and reviewers in the review process. The policy for providing opinions takes an average of 2 to 6 months, except for incidents. Evaluators receive the request for evaluation with a suggested time frame and their commitment is requested to avoid delays. The deadline for scientific evaluation of the articles at this stage includes time for scientific review, correction of observations and final acceptance. In case of any questions, authors may write to boletin@apl.org.pe

The contributions (articles) submitted go through a two-stage evaluation process:

  1. First stage: Each proposal to contribute to the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is submitted to a first review by the editorial team for a general evaluation of the subject matter and the formal adjustment to the editorial norms. This first stage evaluates the formal and thematic content and is in charge of a member of the Editorial Committee. The area editors will contact the author at the email address registered on the platform. Within a maximum period of 30 days from the reception of each article, the author will receive a notification of their reception, which indicates whether the manuscript is preliminarily accepted or rejected for evaluation by the peer reviewers. Manuscripts considered unpublishable ( out of the scope of the journal, with serious methodological flaws, etc.) will be rejected and sent back to the authors. In this regard, it is advisable to read Codína's article: "How to respond to the peer review of a scientific article". Manuscripts that meet the characteristics of the Boletín will continue the editorial process. Editors may invite the authors to reference research published in the Boletín as part of the manuscript. Authors are encouraged to review the publication history, as well as the journals indexed in Scielo, Dialnet, Wos or other reliable platforms. Works with minimal formal aspects to be improved are sent back to the author for corrections to be made before the beginning of the second stage within 10 to 15 days. In case the manuscript is rejected, the Editorial Committee will formally or thematically reject the article with no option to send it back. Articles previously published in other spaces will be totally excluded.    
  2. Second stage: The author's proposal to the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is subject to a second review by the editorial team for blind peer review. This second stage focuses on content aspects, for which a double-blind peer review is used. All information linking the submitted file to the author's name or identity is deleted to guarantee the anonymity of the evaluation. The proposal is submitted to two experts in the field, usually external to the publishing institution, except on occasions when the arbitration is carried out by experts belonging to the Boletín's advisory committees. The editors invite national, regional, or international peer reviewers. In all cases, the editorial team of the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is not involved in the preparation of the peer reviewers' opinions. If no response is received from the reviewers, an invitation to another reviewer will be sent within one month. When both recommendations are favorable, the author is notified, a new formal review is made and sent to the layout area, which is in charge of making the article ready for publication. Reviewers may suggest possible ways to improve the manuscript following the identical format of the BAPL. In case of disparity in the opinions, the text is sent to a third reviewer, whose recommendation defines the rejection or acceptance of the article. All accepted proposals are subjected to a final evaluation by the editorial committee, whose decision is final, and are registered in the following format. The final decision is not subject to appeal. Authors resubmit their observations corrected in a format provided by the editorial team so that the publication process may continue.

The article has the following peer reviewer evaluation system:

  • Accepted without modifications.
  • Accepted with slight modifications.
  • Accepted with important modifications; therefore, it requires a second evaluation.
  • Not accepted.

Works evaluated and requiring modifications (either minor or major) should be returned within a maximum of 15 days (two to three weeks). All authors shall receive the scientific evaluation reports (anonymously) so that they can make the pertinent improvements or replications. Authors send back their work showing the changes in red and a table where they solve the comments and suggestions of the editors (they point out what was observed and their solution).

The authors of accepted articles, before the final edition, shall receive by email (1) the manuscript in Word format with the correction of style (writing and APA format) and, after approval, (2) the printing proofs for its correction in PDF format. In both cases, a maximum period of 5 days is given for approval or corrections. No corrections can be made to the content of the original manuscript that has already been evaluated, except for minor corrections for justification.

Accepted manuscripts will NOT be automatically published in the next issue, since the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua publishes the articles in order of acceptance, with the exception of those that have been selected for publication in a special issue.

  • Editor-author interactions: Acknowledgement of receipt of the text, presentation of a letter of originality of the text and commitment to the code of ethics; acceptance for review submission; results of the double evaluation; publication announcement. Authors submitting their research to the BAPL must have their Orcid
  • Editor-reviewer interactions: Request for review with suggested deadline; acknowledgement of receipt of review acceptance; submission of review forms; acknowledgement of receipt of evaluation; if the editorial decision involves major modifications, resubmission of the rectified text to the same reviewer and request for a second report; submission of a thank acknowledgement for the evaluation. Reviewers should preferably have their Orcid

Stylistic proofreaders

Manuscripts will be sent to proofreaders so that they can adapt them in structure and form to the journal's guidelines and make them more visible in the indexing systems. In this process, proofreaders can make changes to improve the clarity and conciseness of ideas, unify terms and formats, and improve style. Once the authors receive their papers with the suggested changes, it is expected that they will accept the suggestions and expand or clarify the requested information in the clearest and quickest way possible. Authors who do not agree with the changes will have the opportunity to discuss them with the journal editor. In any case, they are expected to return the manuscript within two weeks. However, the changes will be subject to further review by the editors to achieve an acceptable version of the manuscript. If the corrections are not received within the indicated deadline, the paper may be published in a subsequent issue, different from the one previously agreed.

Publication

Research works are listed with dates of receipt, approval, and publication of originals.

Post-Publication

Once the article has been published, it is suggested that the authors take several steps to ensure its dissemination through the media and that their research work reaches a wide audience. Some recommendations are the following: upload your article to ResearchGate. Net, Academic.edu or others.

  • Self-archiving: The author may share, disseminate, and distribute his/her research published in the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua through the different media available on the web (e.g., academic social networks, repositories, portals, etc.).

Open access policy

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua provides open access to its content under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license. It is based on the principle of offering the public free access to research because it contributes to a greater global exchange of knowledge. This journal does not and will not charge any subscription fees to its readers or to authors for submitting, processing, or publishing their papers. Manuscripts are available for consultation free of charge from the first issue of the journal. The copyright of a scholarly work grants rights of use to others through open licensing. In this way, it allows immediate free access to the research work and allows any user to read, download, copy, distribute and print. It also makes it possible to search or link to the full text of the papers, track them for indexing, transfer them as data to software, or use them for any other legal purpose. It is not acceptable to require users to register to read content. The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is a non-profit project.

No APC

In line with the Budapest Open Access Initiative, the Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua advocates the belief that scientific and scholarly knowledge should be made available to the public. In accordance with this principle, the BAPL supports the policy of NO APC's (No Article Processing Charges) which gives free access to its academic research publications. This is a good editorial practice that is also promoted by organizations such as DOAJ for scientific journals. BAPL does not charge authors any submission or manuscript submission fees, nor does it charge fees for publication of articles.

Conflict of interest

The Editorial Board, authors and reviewers declare to respect the ethical principles of research and to be free of any conflict of interest. Authors will provide the financing information related to their research work if applicable. The authors indicate the contribution of each author (full names) in the submitted work.

Ethical commitment

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua adheres to international standards and codes of ethics established by the Committee on Publication Ethics (Code of Conduct and Best Practices Guidelines for Journals Editors, COPE). It also recommends the "SciELO Guidelines on Best Practices for Strengthening Ethics in Scientific Publishing". It also subscribes to an ethical commitment of all the actors involved in the management and publication of the papers: Editorial Board, authors and reviewers of the manuscripts received.

a. About the Editorial Team

The Editorial Team ensures the scientific quality of the contents published in the journal. It has a Scientific Council that actively endorses it. This responsibility implies observing the following principles:

  • Impartiality: The Editorial Team must be impartial when handling the works proposed for publication and must respect the intellectual independence of the authors.
  • Confidentiality: The Editorial Team is obliged to keep the texts submitted and their content confidential until they have been accepted for publication. Only then can their title and authorship be disclosed.
  • Review of works: The Editorial Team assures that the published research works have been assessed by two specialists in the field, and that the review process has been fair and impartial. The Boletín uses the double-blind procedure (anonymity of authors and reviewers). When one of the two evaluations is negative, a third report will be requested.
  • Acceptance or rejection of manuscripts: The Editorial Team decides to accept or reject an article for publication on the basis of the reports received about it and the agreement with the purposes of the Boletín. A form, which is available to the authors, contains the opinion on the quality of the works in terms of relevance, originality, and clarity of exposition. Lack of the required level of quality, lack of adequacy to the scientific objectives of the journal, lack of originality, or detection of plagiarism, are considered inappropriate for the journal.
  • Authorship Guidelines: The Editorial Team ensures that the rules for authorship and presentation of originals are public and are included in the Guidelines for Authors of the manuscript and digital editions.
  • Conflict of interest: It is recommended that the Editorial Team should refrain from participating by submitting papers to the Boletín.
  1. About the authorship of articles
  • Publication rules: Texts submitted for publication must be the result of original and unpublished research. They must include the data obtained and used, as well as an objective discussion of the results. The origin of the ideas presented must be properly stated. Follow the specific rules found in the guidelines for authors. Authors should make sure to reference the academic sources cited in the work. Authors should not submit to the journal originals proposed for consideration in another journal, nor shall they submit such original to another journal until they receive notification of its rejection or voluntarily withdraw it.
  • Authorship of the work: Whoever appears as responsible for the article before the journal ( author of correspondence), in the case of multiple authorship, must guarantee the recognition of those who have contributed significantly to the conception, planning, design, execution, data collection, interpretation and discussion of the results of the research work.
  • Terms of authorship: Authors who publish in this journal agree to publish under a Creative Commons Works published in the Boletín may subsequently be copied, used, disseminated, broadcast, transmitted, exhibited, etc. Authors may separately enter into additional agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the version of the work published in the journal (e.g., placing it in an institutional repository or publishing it in a book), with an acknowledgement of its initial publication in this journal.
  • Conflicts of interest: The existence of any commercial, financial, or personal ties that may affect the results and findings of a research work should be stated in a declaration accompanying the text of the article. All sources of funding granted for the study must be mentioned, and these will be made public in the manuscript.
  1. About the evaluators of the research works

The people involved in the evaluation, expert peers in each area of communication, play an essential role in the process that guarantees the quality of the publication. They assist the journal's board in making editorial decisions and help to improve the articles.

  • Confidentiality: Whoever evaluates must consider the work to be reviewed as a confidential document until its publication, both during and after the review process.
  • Objectivity: The reviewer must judge objectively the quality of the complete work: the scientific nature of the research, the relevance of the problem, the scope of the literature review, the hypothesis of the study, the methodology, the in-depth analysis, the quality of the findings, the clarity of the structure and organization of the text. Evaluators use an evaluation form. Criticism must be sustained and constructive, respecting the intellectual independence of the author in an appropriate tone. Additional comments may be made to the Editor on the overall view of the work and its relevance, if necessary.
  • Acknowledgement of sources of information: The evaluation should check the citation of relevant works already published on the subject. To this end, it will review the bibliography included in the text, recommending the inclusion of relevant works not cited.
  • Conflict of interest: The evaluator must refuse to review a work when he/she has a professional or personal relationship with any of the people involved in its authorship which may affect his/her judgment on the work.

Similarity detection (possible plagiarism)

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua uses specialized software to detect plagiarism. Texts received will be reviewed before being sent for editorial and academic review. In case of detection of text similarity, resulting in possible plagiarism, the Editorial Team will communicate with the author to show the result of coincidences with the respective academic sources, and he/she will be asked for his/her comments before defining that it is a plagiarism behavior and, consequently, not editable. The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua does not make the decision on the count given, but by a decision of the editor who evaluates the presentation of the data, the author's voice, the dialogue with the information, the compliance with textual quotations. In case of detection of plagiarism, duplicity or falsehood in personal information or content in their article, authors are obliged to withdraw their article.

Percentage of rejection

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua describes the acceptance or rejection rate of proposals submitted to its editorial staff. The Boletín has a rejection rate of over 80% of articles per issue.

vol. 63 No. 63, vol. 64 No. 64, 2018 = 90%.

Vol. 65 No. 65, Vol. 66 No. 66, 2019 = 80%.

vol. 67 No. 67, vol. 68 No. 68, 2020 = 90%

 

Interoperability protocols

The journal has incorporated the interoperability protocol OAI-PMH (Open Archives Initiative Protocol for Metadata Harvesting), for this purpose, you can access the URL: http://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/oai.

Policies for digital preservation

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua uses the digital preservation system (https://portal.issn.org/resource/ISSN/2708-2644) of LOCKSS (http://www.lockss.org/), from Stanford University. This offers digital preservation services, in open source, with the aim of providing and permanently preserving access to the digital content generated through our publication. In addition, it allows secure sharing of digital content among participating libraries. This information is detailed in a tab of the Boletín: http://revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/boletinapl/preservacion.

Languages

The text is written in Spanish. In the case of articles, abstracts and keywords are written in Spanish and English, additionally in French. The translated text must be of professional quality. Foreign words in the paper should be highlighted in italics.

Metrics

See profile in Google Scholars.

Frequency

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is published twice a year: from January to June (first issue) and from July to December (second issue).

Publication in advance

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is in the process of implementing an option for early publications. Manuscripts may be available before publication with their DOI, but they will appear without final pagination. Authors whose manuscripts are eligible for this option will be contacted by the editorial assistant. This option is under proposal.

Information Services

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua is indexed in the databases SciELO, Scopus, DOAJ, Latindex catálogo 2.0, Latindex, ERIHPLUS, La Referencia, Alicia, Miar, Road, Crossref, LatinRev and Redib. In addition, its citations appear in Google Scholars.

Sources of financing for the journal

The Peruvian Ministry of Education provides support for the publication of the Bulletin of the Peruvian Academy of Language, within the framework of Decree Law No. 17768 of August 12, 1969.

Efficient navigability

The Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua allows access to the platform in a maximum of three clicks.

Copyrigth 

©The authors. Authorship of the manuscript gives recognition and academic credit to the author(s) and implies full responsibility for the published content. The manuscript accurately reports the specific contributions of each of the authors. The journal recommends the CRediT (Contributor Roles Taxonomy) authorship statement. All authors are equally responsible for the manuscript regardless of the contribution and the registration system, all authors are equally responsible for the article.