All parties involved in the process of preparing materials for publication in the Philological Sciences Journal: authors, expert committee, reviewers, members of the editorial board must follow the publication ethics requirements described below.

When making a decision, the editor-in-chief may consult with members of the editorial board and reviewers, who are guided by the following rules:

• do not disclose information about the submitted manuscript to anyone other than the author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial consultants and, if necessary, the publisher.
• do not allow discrimination when evaluating materials submitted by authors;
• do not unnecessarily disclose information about materials accepted from authors, with the exception of authors and reviewers;
• take reasonable measures to identify and prevent the publication of articles in which research misconduct has occurred, and not encourage such violations or knowingly allow such violations;
• consider facts or allegations of inappropriate research conduct;
• be ready to publish corrections, clarifications, refutations and apologies when necessary.

In the publishing process, authors are guided by the following rules:

• work in full compliance with current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright, legality and plagiarism;
• provide reliable results of the work done on original research and an objective discussion of its significance.
• contain sufficient content to warrant review of the work. False or intentional errors of judgment may cause material to be rejected or a published article to be retracted;
• submitting a manuscript simultaneously to another publication is considered immoral and inappropriate. The author should not submit to the journal an article previously published in other publications;
• guarantee the complete originality of the presented material. In case of use of works or statements of other authors, relevant bibliographical references or excerpts should be provided;
• do not allow plagiarism in any form. The article must have at least 80% uniqueness of the text for publication.
• If the originality of the article is below 80%, the work will be returned to the author for correction and adjustment. If the article, after a secondary check, reaches the required anti-plagiarism indicator, it is sent for consideration by the editorial board. An article that does not meet the relevant requirements, the originality of which is double-checked, will not be accepted for publication.
• An article is not considered plagiarism provided that the author(s) refer to their own research work and the citation level of their scientific work does not exceed 20%.
• follow the rules of autocitation (self-citation), namely: if elements of the material were previously published in another article, including in the Philological Sciences Journal, the author must refer to the earlier work. Authors are advised to maintain a self-citation rate of 0–10%.
• disclose funding information in their work, as well as the presence of interests of third parties that may be perceived as influencing the results or interpretation of their manuscript.
• informing the responsible editors in the scientific areas of the journal about a significant error or inaccuracy in the work and ensuring constant contact with the editors of the journal to remove or correct the article.