Editorial policies

All our books have to appear in a series. We do not accept out-of-series books.

All our books receive two peer reviews. Peer reviews are anonymous, unless reviewers choose to open them.

We allow for different forms of optional open peer review: reviewers can disclose their identity, and they can also make their review available together with the published book. This helps recognize the work which has gone into the review. Reviewers have to explicitly state that they want their review to go public; if no such statement is made, the review remains closed.

All our books are published under the CC-BY license. In exceptional cases, we have published books under the CC-BY-SA and the CC-BY-ND license.

Our authors retain their copyright. We encourage the publication of preprints and postprints on author or university websites, repositories, or elsewhere. We appreciate links to the original publication.

The mission of Language Science Press is built on core academic values such as integrity and originality of thought. Authors can use AI only for assistance, but not for content creation. Permitted forms of assistance comprise finding formulations and reformulations, language checks, translation aid, code and format creation (e.g. transformation of written bibliographies to BibTeX) and the like. The use as an assistance system, however, requires that the necessary thorough checks and/or revisions are performed afterwards. Any use of AI tools must be disclosed in the acknowledgment section. Authors must include a brief description of how it was used and cite the AI tool and version used.

Reviewers are encouraged to report any suspicion of excessive use of AI. Excessive and/or undisclosed use of AI can lead to rejection and to a ban from publishing with Language Science Press.

Reviewers cannot use AI in order to summarize texts under review. Reviewers cannot use AI to evaluate texts. Reviewers cannot use AI to draft or create reviews.