About the Journal

Focus and Scope

The main focus of the Journal of Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (JoNPIT) is to promote empirical research and provide a platform for original and innovative studies on Non-Professional Interpreting and Translation (NPIT) practices.

The journal embraces a multidisciplinary approach and aims to highlight the variety of factors that underpin the diverse activities related to NPIT and their impact on society.    

Disciplines targeted include, but are not limited to, language and cultural mediation, translation and interpreting studies, audiovisual translation, sociolinguistics, bilingualism, migration and childhood studies, sociology, psychology, education, intercultural studies, global media studies, tourism and business.

JoNPIT will provide an interdisciplinary forum for the exchange of both scientific data and good practice between researchers, humanitarian associations, NGOs working in community settings such as schools, hospitals, and refugee centres.

The journal will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in a variety of fields and disciplines, and we encourage submissions on a wide range of topics within the scope of the journal. 

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following: 

  • Natural/native interpreting and/or translation   
  • Ad hoc interpreting and/or translation
  • Adult/child language brokering 
  • Family interpreting 
  • Literacy brokering 
  • Brokering by children of deaf adults 
  • Non-professional religious interpreting and/or translation 
  • Non-professional interpreting and/or translation in the media (fansubbing, fandubbing, fanfiction, news, talk-shows, the web, videogames, localisation, crowdsourcing, etc.) 
  • Non-professional interpreting and/or translation in the field of: 
    • Asylum seeking 
    • Community and social care 
    • Education
    • Health care 
    • Justice and police 
    • NGOs, voluntary and activist settings
    • War and conflict areas
  • Interdisciplinary and/or mixed methods approaches to the study of non-professional linguistic and cultural mediation
  • Information Technology and Machine Translation
  • Ethical issues in interpreting and/or translation and child language brokering 

Contributors are reminded that submissions should be written in good academic English and follow the style guide of the journal.

Section Policies

Articles

Submissions welcome / Peer Reviewed

JoNPIT publishes original work that has not previously been published, including original research papers and books. Authors are expected to engage with previous publications which might open up new avenues and directions of research.

Reviews

Submissions welcome / Not Peer Reviewed

JoNPIT publishes original work that has not previously been published, including review papers and book reviews. In addition to providing an accurate description of the contents of the paper or book, a review should be a reasoned attempt to assess its relative value and scope in relation to similar works in the field. Objectivity on the part of the reviewer is essential.

Peer Review Process

Contributions should not be under review elsewhere, nor should they be available on any website or social network, including platforms such as academia.edu and researchgate.net. Each contribution will first be reviewed by the journal editors for overall relevance to the journal. If the contribution is approved by the editors, a plagiarism check is carried out using iThenticate. The contribution is then peer-reviewed in a double-blind process by two scholars working in the relevant field(s), who are not affiliated with the same institution as the author(s), nor are they members of the journal's Scientific Committee and Editorial Board.

Reviews are instead refereed by one of the journal editors, while the review process of guest-edited issues rests with their respective editor(s), who commit to have all contributions double-blind refereed. the editorial board supervises the review process of guest-edited issues. Referee reports and revisions/comments are sent by the editorial board (or the guest editors) to the respective authors, who are responsible for revising their contribution accordingly. The review process may have one the following outcomes:

The review process may have one the following outcomes:

  1. The contribution is rejected. The reasons for rejection should be specified in writing and sent to the author(s).

  2. The contribution is accepted with revisions, in which case the author(s) will be able to resubmit a revised version based on the reviewers’/editors’ suggestions.

  3. The contribution is accepted and, after notifying the author(s), published.

A final round of editing is provided by the editorial assistants. JoNPIT keeps a record of article referees and can provide it upon a motivated request by evaluation committees.

Publication Frequency

2 issues per year.

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

It releases its articles under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

This license allows anyone to download, reuse, re-print, modify, distribute and/or copy the contributions. The works must be properly attributed to its author(s). It is not necessary to ask further permissions both to author(s) or journal board, although you are kindly requested to inform the journal for every reuse of the papers.

Authors who publish in this journal maintain the copyrights.

Authors are welcome to post pre-submission versions, the original submitted version of the manuscript (preprint) and the final draft post-refereeing (postprint) on a personal website, a collaborative wiki, departmental website, social media websites, institutional repository or non-commercial subject-based repositories.
Self-archiving can happen only upon the acceptance of the submission.

Publication Fees

The journal has neither article processing charges nor submission processing fees.

Ethics

JoNPIT adopts the AlmaDL Journals code of ethics.

The code of ethics is drafted in compliance with the Guidelines drawn up by the Committee on Publication Ethics (COPE), in particular the COPE Core Practices and its principles of transparency and best practice in scientific publications.

All parties involved in the editorial process, editorial staff members, authors, reviewers must know and apply the ethical principles of that document.

Data Policy

When relevant, authors are encouraged to follow Open Science and FAIR principles by publishing the research data associated to their articles in trusted data repositories, according to the international best practices and data management guidelines.

Detailed information is reported in the AlmaDL Journals Data Policy.

Authors who are affiliated to the University of Bologna can publish their data in AMSActa, the institutional research data repository.

Archiving Policy

As part of AlmaDL Journals, the Journal adopts a strategy to ensure long term preservation of the published content. Please see the archiving policy of the publishing service AlmaDL Journals.

Publisher

University of Bologna
Alma Diamond open scholarly communication

Via Zamboni 33,
40126 - Bologna (Italy)

Ownership

Department of Interpreting and Translation – DIT
Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna

Corso della Repubblica, 136
47121 - Forlì (Italy)