CLLS treats each submission as a unique academic work. To ensure and maintain journal's high quality, CLLS sends each submission to two experts in the field for thorough evaluation; the article is assessed anonymously, without any reference to the identity of the author or reviewer (double blind peer-review). Prior to this, however, each article should pass a stage called first-screening, done by the editor-in-chief. Should any article fail to pass this stage, the article will be returned to the author (rejected and archived) with a short note explaining the reason for rejection.

What follows is a general trajectory of the review process:

1. Submission: After successful submission of each article via the journal portal, the authors will receive a unique tracking ID via email.
2. First-screening:
   1. Each submission will be checked for technical and formatting correctness by the editorial team.
   2. The editor-in-chief will evaluate the content of each submission, assessing the anonymity, scholarly quality, novelty, theoretical innovativeness of each submission.
   3. Contentually fit submissions will be assigned to two expert reviewers; the rest will be desk-reject with an evaluation note to authors.
3. Double-blind review: Two experts will be selected from the journal's international pool of reviewers, inviting them to conduct a thorough evaluation of the submitted work. The identity of reviewers and authors will remain completely hidden from each other even after the rejection/publication of the submission. Reviewers must express any conflict of interest before accepting to review any submission.
4. Editorial decision: Editorial board will issue a formal decision within 3 months of receiving the submissions, based on evaluation forms, and reviewers' thorough and detailed comments. Authors will be notified of the decision via email, which may be:

• • Accept as is (no changes);
  • Accept: Minor revision;
  • Accept: Major revision;
  • Reject.

NOTE:

• In special cases, a submitted work will be sent to the third reviewer for evaluation.
• CLLS does not offer Fast-Track review.
• All reviewed submissions and concomitant evaluations are treated as confidential academic material, and will remain so even after the publication of the article.
• A pre-print draft of the essay will be published online, appearing in the "Articles in Press" section, with a unique DOI.