The reviewer is committed to sending his/her agreement to review a paper within 5 working days from the date of receiving the paper.

The reviewer is committed to reviewing the paper assigned within three weeks from the date of his/her acceptance to review it. 

The reviewer must observe academic integrity in reviewing papers, without bias based on any account.

The reviewer should not accept to review any paper if it is not within the scope of his/her specialty or if he/she lacks wide relevant experience of it.  

Papers must be confidentially reviewed, and the reviewer may not disclose or discuss them with anyone else without permission from the Editor-in-Chief.

The reviewer is committed to reviewing papers meticulously according to the review form approved by the Editorial Board.

The reviewer’s comments are to be addressed to papers, not researchers. 

The researcher is committed to abiding by the standards, guidelines, and rules of publishing set by the Editorial Board as well as the standards of research and academic publishing.

The researcher is committed to observing the requirements of academic integrity and respecting the rights of intellectual property.

If there is more than one researcher, the main researcher is committed to obtaining the agreement of the other researcher/s to have their paper published in EJLT. He/she is also committed to clarifying what each researcher participated with in conducting the research (if any) and/or writing the paper.

The researcher may not submit a paper if it was previously published somewhere else wholly or partially.

The researcher may not submit a paper considered by EJLT’s reviewers to anywhere else.