Authors’ Responsibilities
Authors submit works that are completely their original work and cannot submit work that has been considered for publication elsewhere. Authors observe the article submitting guidelines that are available on the proceedings’s homepage. Authors are obliged to make sure that their text is accurately proofread prior to submission.  Authors are obliged to provide references to all of the sources used in the article. Authors should provide all sources of data used in the research. Plagiarism in all its forms is unethical and it is unacceptable. Authorship should be limited to those who have made a significant contribution to the elaboration of the article. Authors should provide revised version of their article according to the Reviewers’ recommendations. Corrected page proofs must be returned within two weeks.

Reviewer’s Responsibilities
All submissions are double-blind peer reviewed. Any manuscript received for reviewing must be treated as confidential document. Reviews should be conducted objectively. The Reviewer determines whether references for all of the used sources have been provided in the article. If the Reviewer is not sure of his/her competence in reviewing articles, he/she informs the Editor so that another Reviewer can be appointed. Reviewer assists the Editor-in-Chief – Reviewers must report to the Editor-in-Chief on any substantial similarity between the manuscript under consideration and any other published paper. Privileged information or ideas obtained through peer review must be kept confidential and not used for personal advantage. 

Editor’s Responsibilities
The Editorial Board comprises recognized experts in the field. The Editor-in-Chief is responsible for deciding which of the articles submitted to the proceedings should be published based on the conclusion made by Reviewers Any manuscripts received for review must be treated as confidential documents (they must not be shown to or discussed with others except as Authorized by the Editor). The Editor-in-Chief should publish only peer reviewed accepted articles – the Editor ensures that articles are reviewed anonymously and objectively, and that the decision to publish an article is made solely on the basis of the article’s content. If peer review comprises two diametrically opposite views, the Editor-in-Chief involves another Reviewer.

Peer-review Process
All submissions in Onomastic Investigations are thoroughly peer reviewed.
Authors submit their papers to Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia via e-mail onomastikaspetijumi@gmail.com. Articles are then directed to the Editor-in-Chief who make a preliminary assessment of whether the paper is suitable for the proceedings and is relevant to the proceedings’ policy for publishing such papers. If the manuscript does not fulfil criteria or guidelines of Onomastic Investigations, it is rejected immediately. If the manuscript is acceptable, the Editor-in-Chief will send it out for the review to a minimum two Reviewers. Peer review is by invitation only and Reviewers must be the experts in their field who are qualified to provide an informed and impartial review of the field of an article (Reviewer should be published at least three publications in the field). Reviewers review the manuscript by filling the review form of Onomastic Investigations. Based on this review, the Editor-in-Chief decides whether to accept the manuscript without further revisions, request further revision, or reject the article. If the decision is for further revision, the Author will be given sufficient time to review comments and revise their manuscript. The revised manuscript will be re-evaluated by the Editor-in-Chief who will make the final decision.

Publishing Ethics
The technical and scientific quality of submitted manuscript is first assessed by the editor-in-chief and editors’ assistant. All submitted papers are subject to strict blind peer review process by at least two national and international Reviewers. The Editor, Authors, and Reviewers of the proceedings Onomastic Investigations have to follow the standards ensuring compliance with publishing ethics – the responsibility of the proceedings’ Editorial board is to prevent violations of publishing ethics. The Editors screen all papers for plagiarism. It is important to avoid data fabrication (researcher did not actually do the study, but made up data) and data falsification (researcher did the experiment but then changed some of the data), plagiarism (copying ideas or text without proper citation), multiple submissions (submission of the same manuscript to more than one proceedings), redundant publications (publishing very similar manuscripts based on the same experiment).
The rejected articles are not being resent for reviewing. The guidelines for the Editor, Authors and Reviewers of the proceedings are based on COPE’s Code of Conduct for Journal Editors.

Copyright and Access
The copyright and intellectual property on the original content of all scientific publications in Onomastic Investigations remain with the Authors, but Onomastic Investigations has a license to publish and distribute the work in paper form and annotations in open access. The Authors, through granting the Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia the right to publish the work, accept the terms and conditions which allows the Institute to reproduce, distribute, publicly perform, create adaptations, if stated by the Author. If the Authors intend to reproduce their article in other publications or for any other purpose and by any means, they must obtain the written Authorization of the Editorial board.
All articles of Onomastic Investigations are made freely and permanently accessible in printed copies (contents and abstracts of the articles are made freely and permanently accessible online immediately upon publication in the proceedings website Onomastikas pētījumi). Full text of the articles can be obtained on request by e-mail (onomastikaspetijumi@gmail.com).

Archiving
Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia has an archiving agreement with the University of Latvia for long-time preservation of the electronic content of Onomastic Investigations. Copies of every volume of Onomastic Investigations are sent to the Authors, National Library of Latvia, Library of the University of Latvia.

Ownership and Management
Onomastic Investigations is owned, published, and managed by the Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia.

The Web Site
Web site of  Onomastikas pētījumi is made as a part of the webpage of the Latvian Language Institute of the University of Latvia.

Name of the proceedings
The proceedings name Onomastic Investigations (in Latvian – “Onomastikas pētījumi”) is derived from the name of the conference,  is unique and shows the main scope of the proceedings’ content.