- Focus and Scope
- Section Policies
- Peer Review Process
- Publication Frequency
- Open Access Policy
- Archiving
- Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
- Abstracting and Indexing
- Open Access Statement
- Submissions
- Terms of Acceptance
- Roles of the Advisory Board
Focus and Scope
Scripta Manent, Journal of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers, is a peer-reviewed open access journal designed primarily as a resource for LSP (Languages for Specific Purposes) teachers and researchers. It is committed to contributing to the professional development of its readers around the world by publishing manuscripts that strive to bridge theory and practice in the LSP teaching profession.
Authors are encouraged to submit manuscripts on applied and theoretical research in LSP, including:
- genre-based research,
- multimodal texts,
- lexicology and lexicography,
- translation studies,
- intercultural studies,
- language policy,
- teaching/learning,
- curriculum and syllabus design,
- teaching and learning materials design,
- language teaching methodology,
- assessment and evaluation,
- teacher roles and education,
- information-communication technologies,
- etc.
Reviews of scholarly books and research monographs on LSP, and reviews of local LSP coursebooks are also welcome.
Section Policies
Keynote speeches
 Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Research articles
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Teaching reports
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Book reviews
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
 Peer Reviewed |
Slovene abstracts
| Open Submissions |
Indexed |
Peer Reviewed |
Peer Review Process
All submitted manuscripts will be subject to a double-blind review process.
Step 1: The Editor-in-Chief acknowledges the receipt of the manuscript within a week of receipt. Each manuscript is first screened by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors to determine their appropriateness to proceed to a full peer review. Manuscripts that do not comply with the Scripta Manent scope, evidence possible duplication of content, or do not meet other requirements of Scripta Manent will be declined without a peer review.
Step 2: All submitted manuscripts that meet the requirements for publication defined in Step 1 are assigned to an Associate Editor, and sent out for double blind review to two reviewers who are specialists in the field. Scripta Manent possesses its own reviewers’ database. However, potential reviewers may be suggested by the authors. In case the applied research methodology reaches beyond the commonly applied research methods in LSP research, a methodological reviewer may be used. The reviewers are provided with assessment instructions and a manuscript review form. The quality of reviewers’ reports is carefully controlled by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors. The reviewers are asked to complete the review process within six weeks.
If the manuscript is sent back to the author for revision and subsequent resubmission, the Associate Editor forwards the reviews to the author and provides further comments, if necessary, about what areas of the manuscript need revision. The revised and resubmitted manuscript is sent back to the reviewers for re-assessment. If there is no consensus between the reviewers on the quality of the submitted manuscript, the evaluation of a third reviewer may be sought.
The final decision to accept or reject the manuscript is based on the reviews and made by the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editors, normally within ten weeks from the manuscript receipt date.
A proof of the final version of the manuscript is sent to the author for revision.
Publication Frequency
Scripta Manent is published twice a year.
Open Access Policy
Scripta Manent is an open access journal of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
There is no Article Processing Fee charged to authors.
All articles are immediately available on the journal website once published.
Open access means that all content is freely available without charge to the readers. Readers are allowed to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative's (BOAI) definition of open access.
The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license permits readers/users also to extract, reuse, adapt (e.g. translate), archive, mine, include in a collective work (e.g. an anthology), and distribute an article on condition they credit the author(s) appropriately, do not modify the article in such a way as to damage the author's honour or reputation, use the articles for non-commercial purposes only, and license their new adaptations or creations under identical terms (CC BY-NC-SA).
Under the terms of this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright of their articles. They will, however, assign to Scripta Manent the permanent right to electronically distribute their manuscript. After it has appeared in Scripta Manent, they may republish their articles as long as they clearly acknowledge Scripta Manent as the place of the original publication.
The detailed legal code for CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 can be found at:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.
There is no Article Processing Charge (APC) for authors.
All articles are immediately available on the Scripta Manent website once published.
Scripta Manent is published by the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Archiving
Scripta Manent utilizes the LOCKSS system to create a distributed archiving system among participating libraries and permits those libraries to create permanent archives of the journal for purposes of preservation and restoration.
Publication Ethics and Publication Malpractice Statement
The Editorial Team of Scripta Manent adheres to principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing as defined by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), the Directory of Open Access Journals, the Open Access Scholarly Publishers Association, and the World Association of Medical Editors. The Code of Conduct and Best Practice Guidelines for Journal Editors is available at http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors.pdf.
Authors are thus expected to be aware of, and comply with, best practice in publication ethics especially with regard to authorship (avoid ghost authorship, dual submission, plagiarism, manipulation of figures, and competing interests).
The reviewers and the Editorial Team are required to treat manuscripts fairly and in confidence, and to declare any competing interests.
The Editorial Team thus strives to ensure that research published in Scripta Manent is as free from bias as possible. As transparency of competing interests allows readers to better evaluate the possibility of bias, the Editorial Team must take all competing interests into account during the review process as well as ensure that any relevant ones are declared in the published article. Therefore, Scripta Manent has the following requirements:
- Authors must declare all relevant competing interests for consideration during the review process.
- The Editorial Team and reviewers must declare their own competing interests and, if necessary, disqualify themselves from involvement in the assessment of a manuscript.
- In cases of suspected misconduct, the COPE flowcharts will be followed.
- Any concerns about publication malpractice should be addressed to the Editor-in-Chief.
Abstracting and Indexing
- DOAJ – Directory of Open Access Journals,
- LLBA – Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts,
- ERIH – The European Reference Index for the Humanities (2011, NAT),
- MLA – Modern Language Association, and
- ANVUR - Classificazione delle riviste
- FASCIA A - "Area 10; SSD 10/M1" (German Language, Literature and Culture)": https://www.anvur.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Elenco-riviste-classeA_Area10_22082023.pdf
- Riviste scientifiche - "Area 10": https://www.anvur.it/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Elenco-riviste-scie_Area10_22082023.pdf
Open Access Statement
Scripta Manent is an open access journal of the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0).
Open access means that all content is freely available without charge to the readers. Readers are allowed to read, download, copy, print, search, or link to the full articles in this journal without asking prior permission from the publisher or the author. This is in accordance with the Budapest Open Access Initiative's (BOAI) definition of open access.
The Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 license permits readers/users also to extract, reuse, adapt (e.g. translate), archive, mine, include in a collective work (e.g. an anthology), and distribute an article on condition they credit the author(s) appropriately, do not modify the article in such a way as to damage the author's honour or reputation, use the articles for non-commercial purposes only, and license their new adaptations or creations under identical terms (CC BY-NC-SA).
Under the terms of this license, authors retain ownership of the copyright of their articles. They will, however, assign to Scripta Manent the permanent right to electronically distribute their manuscript. After it has appeared in Scripta Manent, they may republish their articles as long as they clearly acknowledge Scripta Manent as the place of the original publication.
The detailed legal code for CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 can be found at:
http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/legalcode.
There is no Article Processing Charge (APC) for authors.
All articles are immediately available on the Scripta Manent website once published.
Scripta Manent is published by the Slovene Association of LSP Teachers, Aškerčeva 2, 1000 Ljubljana, Slovenia.
Submissions
All manuscripts should be submitted to scripta.manent.sdutsj@gmail.com.
Submissions can be written in English, German, Italian, French, Spanish or Slovene ‒ preferably in the language that the manuscript focuses on.
Manuscripts should be sent as an attachment in .docx, .odt, or .rtf format. The name of the file should be bearing the first words of the manuscript title (e.g., BusinessReports.rtf).
The e-mail should indicate:
- the name and surname of the author (where ambiguous, e.g. a double name, please indicate the surname by writing it in capitals),
- affiliation,
- postal and e-mail addresses,
- telephone number, and
- the title of the manuscript.
If there are more authors, these details have to be provided for each author while the name of the corresponding author has to be clearly indicated. Contact details must be kept up to date by the corresponding author.
The authors should remove all identifying features from the manuscript and make sure that no author's identification appears in the manuscript, in-text references, or reference list.
All manuscripts should be proofread by a competent language editor. Spelling should be either British or American English but used consistently throughout the manuscript.
All manuscripts should be referenced using the APA 7.0 Style.
The layout of the text should be kept as simple as possible. A single standard font (e.g. Times New Roman, size 12) should be used. Footnotes rather than endnotes should be used. The manuscript should be single-spaced. Italics rather than underlining should be used for emphasis. Illustrations, figures, and tables should be placed within the text at the appropriate points.
Terms of Acceptance
Scripta Manent does not accept submissions of previously published articles or manuscripts that are being considered for publication elsewhere.
All keynote speeches, research articles, LSP teaching notes, and book reviews published in Scripta Manent are licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0. Authors retain ownership of the copyright of their articles. They will, however, assign to Scripta Manent the permanent right to electronically distribute their manuscript. (Please check the details in the Copyright section.)
The cost of all fees payable for permission to use copyright material shall be borne by the author.
In addition to being accountable for the manuscript, authors are also responsible for disclosing all financial and personal relationships that might bias or be seen to bias their work.
The Editorial Team reserve the right to make editorial changes in any manuscript accepted for publication for the sake of style or clarity.
Roles of the Advisory Board
New members are appointed by the Editorial Advisory Board when the Editor-in-Chief, the Associate Editors, and the current Editorial Advisory Board members approve a nomination.
The eligibility criteria for appointment include the following:
- scholarly expertise and sound ethical standards in an area not overrepresented on the existing Editorial Advisory Board,
- having published at least one manuscript in Scripta Manent or having served as a guest editor for at least one issue of Scripta Manent, and having published at least two or more manuscripts in other journals covering LSP.
Continued membership of the Editorial Advisory Board is reviewed every three years by the Editor-in-Chief and discussed at the annual meeting of the Editorial Advisory Board.
The functions and duties of the Editorial Advisory Board members include:
- acting as ambassadors for Scripta Manent, supporting, and promoting the journal,
- seeking authors and actively encouraging their submissions,
- reviewing submissions to the journal and providing second opinions on manuscripts when needed,
- accepting occasional commissions to take on the responsibilities of Guest Editor,
- identifying suitable reviewers and suitably qualified Editorial Advisory Board members who can actively contribute to the development and good management of the journal,
- maintaining objectivity, transparency, and ethical standards in Scripta Manent,
- attending and contributing to Editorial Advisory Board meetings.
Associate Editors and Editorial Advisory Board members are welcome to submit manuscripts to Scripta Manent. The review of their manuscripts will not be handled by the submitting Associate Editor or Editorial Advisory Board member. The review process will be supervised by a different Associate Editor or Editorial Advisory Board member and every step will be taken to minimize possible bias. The Editorial Team will ensure that the editorial decision to publish or reject a manuscript will be based on editorial and scientific factors only.
Editorial Advisory Board members can occasionally serve as Guest Editors and oversee the publication process of individual issues of Scripta Manent. These issues of the journal may also focus on a particular topic relevant for LSP.
Responsibilities of Guest Editors involve:
- soliciting manuscripts from potential authors,
- monitoring the review process,
- following standard publication practices in Scripta Manent,
- adhering to principles of transparency and best practice in scholarly publishing,
- communicating with the authors and reviewers,
- keeping the Editor-in-Chief up to date of the review processes,
- writing the Editorial.
The Guest Editor works closely with the Editor-in-Chief. In the review process, each will assign one suitable reviewer to the manuscript. The final decision to publish or decline a manuscript is made jointly by the Guest Editor and the Editorial Team.