The ethical policy of Linguistic Research in the Holy Quran is based on the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE) guidelines and complies with International Committee of Linguistic Research in the Holy Quran Editorial Board codes of conduct. Readers, authors, reviewers and editors should follow these ethical policies once working with NRGS. The ethical policy of NRGS is liable to determine which of the typical research papers or articles submitted to the journal should be published in the concerned issue. For information on this matter in publishing and ethical guidelines please visit http://publicationethics.org

Duties and Responsibilities of Publishers

(http://publicationethics.org/files/Code%20of%20conduct%20for%20publishers%20FINAL_1_0.pdf)

1. NRGS is committing to ensure that editorial decisions on manuscript submissions are the final.
2. NRGS is promising to ensure that the decision on manuscript submissions is only made based on professional judgment and will not be affected by any commercial interests.
3. NRGS is committing to maintain the integrity of academic and research records.
4. NRGS is monitoring the ethics by Editor-in-Chief, Associate Editors, Editorial Board Members, Reviewers, Authors, and Readers.
5. NRGS is always checking the plagiarism and fraudulent data issues involving in the submitted manuscript.
6. NRGS is always willing to publish corrections, clarifications and retractions involving its publications as and when needed.

Duties and Responsibilities of Editors

(http://publicationethics.org/files/Code_of_conduct_for_journal_editors_Mar11.pdf)

1. The Editors of the journal should have the full authority to reject/accept a manuscript.
2. The Editors of the journal should maintain the confidentiality of submitted manuscripts under review or until they are published.
3. The Editor-in-Chief should take a decision on submitted manuscripts, whether to be published or not with other editors and reviewers
4. The Editors of the journal should preserve the anonymity of reviewers.
5. The Editors of the journal should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.
6. The Editors of the journal should maintain academic integrity and strive to meet the needs of readers and authors.
7. The Editors of the journal should be willing to investigate plagiarism and fraudulent data issues and willing to publish corrections, clarifications, retractions, and apologies when needed.
8. The Editors of the journal should have the limit themselves only to the intellectual content.
9. The Editors of the journal must not disclose any information about submitted manuscripts to anyone other than the corresponding author, reviewers, potential reviewers, other editorial advisers, and the publisher, as appropriate.
10. Unpublished materials disclosed in a submitted paper will not be used by the editor or the members of the editorial board for their own research purposes without the author's explicit written consent.

Duties and Responsibilities of Reviewers

(http://publicationethics.org/files/u7140/Peer%20review%20guidelines.pdf)

1. The Reviewers should maintain the confidentiality of manuscripts, which they are invited to review.
2. The Reviewers should provide comments in time that will help editors to make decision on the submitted manuscript to be published or not.
3. The Reviewers are bound to treat the manuscript received for peer reviewing as confidential, and must not use the information obtained through peer review for personal advantage. 
4. The Reviewers comments against each invited manuscript should be technical, professional and objective.
5. The Reviewers should not review the manuscripts in which they have found conflicts of interest with any of the authors, companies, or institutions.
6. The Reviewers should disclose and try to avoid any conflict of interest.

Duties and Responsibilities of Authors

(http://publicationethics.org/files/International%20standards_authors_for%20website_11_Nov_2011.pdf)

1. Manuscripts must be submitted with the understanding that they have not been published elsewhere (except in the form of an abstract or as part of a published lecture, review, or thesis) and are not currently under consideration by another journal published by or any other publisher.
2. The submitting (corresponding) author is responsible for ensuring that the manuscript article's publication has been approved by all the other coauthors.
3. In order to sustain the peer review system, authors have an obligation to participate in peer review process to evaluate manuscripts from others. 
4. It is also the authors' responsibility to ensure that the manuscripts emanating from a particular institution are submitted with the approval of the necessary institution.
5. It is a condition for submission of a manuscript that the authors permit editing of the paper for readability.
6. Authors are requested to clearly identify who provided financial support for the conduct of research and/or preparation of the manuscript and briefly describe the role of the funder/sponsor in any part of the work.
7. A copy right release and conflict of interest disclosure form must be signed by the corresponding author in case of multiple authorships, prior to the acceptation of the manuscript, by all authors, for publication to be legally responsible towards the Journal ethics and privacy policy.
8. All authors have agreed to allow the corresponding author to serve as the primary correspondent with the editorial office, to review the edited manuscript and proof.
9. When author(s) discovers a significant error or inaccuracy in his/her own published work, it is the author’s obligation to promptly notify the journal editor or publisher to retract or correct the manuscript. 
10. All authors must know that that the submitted manuscripts under review or published with NRGS are subject to screening using Plagiarism Prevention Software. Plagiarism is a serious violation of publication ethics. 
11. All authors must ensure that all authors have read the submission final checklist before being submitted to the NRGS