All parties involved in the process of preparing materials for publication in the journal - authors, expert commission, reviewers, editorial board members - should follow the following requirements for publication ethics.

The Editor-in-Chief may consult with members of the editorial board and reviewers when making a decision, who shall be guided by the following rules:

• do not disclose information about the submitted manuscript to anyone except the author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial consultants and, if necessary, the publisher;
• do not discriminate in the evaluation of the authors' submissions;
• not to disclose without necessity information about the materials accepted from authors, except authors, reviewers;
• take reasonable measures to identify and prevent the publication of articles in which the research has been improperly conducted, discourage such violations or knowingly permit such violations;
• consider facts or allegations of improper research behaviour;
• be prepared to publish corrections, clarifications, rebuttals and apologies where necessary.

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

• to work in full compliance with current legal requirements regarding libel, copyright, legality and plagiarism;
• to provide reliable results of the work done on the original study and an objective discussion of its significance;
• contain enough content to ensure that the work is reviewed. False or deliberate misconceptions may result in the rejection of a material or the refutation of a published article;
• it is not allowed to submit a manuscript to another publication at the same time. The author must not submit an article that has been previously published in other publications to the journal;
• to guarantee the full originality of the submitted material. In the case of using works or statements by other authors, the corresponding bibliographic references or excerpts are provided;
• do not allow plagiarism in any forms. The article must have at least 80% text uniqueness for publication;
• The article should have at least 80% uniqueness of the text for publication. The second time the article gets the necessary indicator, the article is sent to the editorial board for consideration. An article that does not meet the relevant requirements, the originality of which is twice checked, is not accepted for publication;
• The article is not considered a plagiarism provided the author(s) refer to their own research work and the level of quotation of their scientific work does not exceed 20%;
• To follow the rules of autocitation (self-citation), namely, if the elements of the material were previously published in another article, including in the journal «Philological Sciences Journal», the author must refer to the earlier work. Authors are advised to follow a self-citation rate of 0-10%;
• To disclose in their works information about funding, as well as the presence of interests of third parties, which may be perceived as having influenced the results or interpretation of their manuscript;
• Informing the responsible editors in the scientific directions of the journal about a material error or inaccuracy in the work and providing constant contact with the editors of the journal to delete or correct the article.